Event

In the first part of the talk, I will discuss how the new generation of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations can revolutionize our understanding of the origin of galaxy morphologies. In particular, I will present a Lagrangian approach to thinking about galactic angular momentum content and on-going work illuminating relations between galaxy and dark matter halo spins. I will then switch gears and present recent work aiming to quantify chaotic aspects of galaxy evolution using controlled numerical experiments with cosmological simulations. I will discuss their implications for reproducibility as well as for our understanding of galaxy scaling relations.