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Wednesday, 4 October 2017, 13:30 in P8445B

Dr. Gwendolyn Eadie (University of Washington)

The Milky Way meets hierarchical Bayes
The Milky Way's fundamental properties, such as its total mass, are useful for placing our Galaxy in the context of other galaxies, and for testing cosmological theories about galaxy formation, evolution, and dark matter content. In this talk, I will present a hierarchical Bayesian method I have developed to measure the total mass and cumulative mass profile of the Milky Way. I will also discuss our most recent results, which include: (1) estimates for the Milky Way's mass when the method is applied to real globular cluster data, and (2) estimates for simulated Milky-Way type galaxies from the cosmological, hydrodynamical McMaster Unbiased Galaxy Simulations. I will summarize the implications of these results and how they are directing our future studies of the Milky Way.

Seminars in 2017:

2017-10-04 13:30 in P8445B - Gwendolyn Eadie (University of Washington): The Milky Way meets hierarchical Bayes

2018-01-16 13:00 in P8445B - Vitaly Vanchurin (University of Minnesota Duluth): General Relativity from non-equilibrium thermodynamics of quantum information

2018-01-24 14:30 in P8445B - Yuri V. Gusev (Lebedev Research Center in Physics, Moscow): Thermal radiation of finite size emitters

2018-01-31 14:30 in P9449 - Gabor Kunstatter (University of Winnipeg): Gradient Flow of Holographic Superconductors

2018-03-01 13:30 in P8445B - Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State): Search for intergalactic magnetic fields and implications

2018-03-09 14:30 in WMC3260 - Ken Clark (Queen's University): Dark matter: How to hunt for the unknown (CAP Lecture)

2018-03-15 13:30 in P8445B - Hideki Maeda (Hokkai-Gakuen University): Exact black hole formation from a conformally coupled scalar field in three dimensions

2018-03-16 14:30 in WMC3260 - Frans Pretorius (Princeton University): The dynamical, strong-field regime of General Relativity (physics colloquium)

2018-03-29 13:30 in P8445B - Michael Desrochers (UBC): Topological vacuum energy

2018-08-16 13:30 in P8445B - Shinji Mukohyama (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics): Minimalism in modified gravity

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Modified by Andrei Frolov <frolov@sfu.ca> on 2023-11-01

2017-10-04 13:30 in P8445B	- Gwendolyn Eadie (University of Washington): The Milky Way meets hierarchical Bayes
2018-01-16 13:00 in P8445B	- Vitaly Vanchurin (University of Minnesota Duluth): General Relativity from non-equilibrium thermodynamics of quantum information
2018-01-24 14:30 in P8445B	- Yuri V. Gusev (Lebedev Research Center in Physics, Moscow): Thermal radiation of finite size emitters
2018-01-31 14:30 in P9449	- Gabor Kunstatter (University of Winnipeg): Gradient Flow of Holographic Superconductors
2018-03-01 13:30 in P8445B	- Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State): Search for intergalactic magnetic fields and implications
2018-03-09 14:30 in WMC3260	- Ken Clark (Queen's University): Dark matter: How to hunt for the unknown (CAP Lecture)
2018-03-15 13:30 in P8445B	- Hideki Maeda (Hokkai-Gakuen University): Exact black hole formation from a conformally coupled scalar field in three dimensions
2018-03-16 14:30 in WMC3260	- Frans Pretorius (Princeton University): The dynamical, strong-field regime of General Relativity (physics colloquium)
2018-03-29 13:30 in P8445B	- Michael Desrochers (UBC): Topological vacuum energy
2018-08-16 13:30 in P8445B	- Shinji Mukohyama (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics): Minimalism in modified gravity