[Astro] [CAPT] Seminar 4/6/25: Dr. Francesca Frankoudi

[Jesse Golden-Marx]

Hi Everyone,
      We just wanted to remind you about today's seminar in A113 with Dr. Francesca Frankoudi (Durham).  See you all then!

Kind regards,
Jesse and Luke
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From: Jesse Golden-Marx (staff)
Sent: Monday, June 2, 2025 8:17 AM
To: capt at nottingham.ac.uk <capt at nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: Seminar 4/6/25: Dr. Francesca Frankoudi

Hi Everyone,
      We just wanted to share the information for this week's seminar with Dr. Francesca Frankoudi (Durham).  Francesca will be arriving around 13:30-14:00, so unfortunately, there will not be lunch with the speaker this week.  Also, please note that this seminar is in A113, not C4.  The schedule of events is as follows:

~13:30 - 14:00 -- Arrival
15:00 - 15:30 -- Meeting with the postgraduate students
15:45 - 16:45 seminar
16:45 — Wine and Cheese (in CAPT lobby).

If you are interested in chatting with Francesca before the seminar, please let us know.

The title and abstract for Francesca's seminar is given below.  See you all on Wednesday.

Cheers,
Jesse and Luke


The formation, evolution, and dark matter content of barred galaxies in LCDM



The advent of high resolution hydrodynamical cosmological simulations allows us to now study the internal dynamics of barred spiral galaxies -- such as our own Milky Way -- within the full ΛCDM cosmological context. I will present what we have learnt about the formation and evolution of barred galaxies by comparing cosmological simulations to observations of both the Milky Way and nearby spiral galaxies. In particular, I will address the "When?" and the "How?" of bar formation in ΛCDM, and discuss what this implies about our own Galaxy's formation history, as well as why some galaxies form bars and others don't. I will discuss how barred galaxies evolve throughout cosmic history, as well as the connection between bars and their host dark matter halos, which can help shed light on both the amount and the nature of dark matter.



Jesse Golden-Marx, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate

Centre for Astronomy & Particle Theory
School of Physics & Astronomy
University of Nottingham
University Park, Nottingham, UK
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