The realism of hydrodynamical simulations of the formation and evolution of galaxies has improved considerably in recent years. I will try to give some insight...
Spectral Energy Distributions of Single Stellar Populations in the Infrared range
The present work shows the Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) in the near-infrared using the IRTF stellar library obtained using the models based on the...
Spirals and rings: how do they form? What are their structure and properties?
I will propose a new theory to explain the formation and properties of rings and spirals in barred galaxies, focusing on a comparison of theoretical results to...
This lecture will address recent progress in modeling the emergence of cosmic structure at high redshifts. Also new insights gained from numerical simulations...
ΛCDM-based numerical simulations predict a scenario consistent with observational evidence in Milky Way-like halos. However, less clear is the role of low-mass...
Star formation and molecular hydrogen in dwarf galaxies
We study the connection of star formation to atomic (HI) and molecular hydrogen (H2) in isolated, low metallicity dwarf galaxies with high-resolution SPH...
Star formation driven by cold-flow accretion in the local Universe
The direct accretion of pristine gas streams is predicted to be the main mode of galaxy disk growth in the early universe (cold-flows). We (think we) have...
Star formation modes and population gradients in simulated dwarf galaxies
Today we largely understand the large scale evolution of the Universe but we have only little knowledge of the small scale physics involved in forming and...
Star formation on kpc-scales from redshift 0.1 to 1.5
Morphologies of star-forming galaxies at z>1 are typically irregular containing a handful of dominant bright regions. Recent observational evidence suggest that...