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OATS-DAUT SEMINAR
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Speaker:
Gianluigi Granato (INAF, OATS)
Title:
Ab-initio models of galaxy formation: are we kidding ourselves?
Date: Thursday, june 12th, 2008
Time: 12:00
Venue: Villa Bazzoni
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Abstract:
This seminar is actually a pretext to introduce myself before a "likof".
I will present some remarks on the ingredients and uncertainties in galaxy formation models, and remind the audience how poorly they performed in the last 10-15 years in anticipating new observations. Then I will describe the scenario of galaxy formation on which we have been and we are sworking, namely a two phase galaxy formation process as the main channel to originate the disk-spheroid dichotomy.
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