Found 57 talks archived in The Galaxy

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3- From star clusters to external galaxies
- basic methods
- age and metallicity distribution functions for different stars,
including main sequence, red clump, RGB, AGB

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3- Galactic disk dynamics

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3- The thick disk in the context of other disk galaxies
- systematics of thick disks in other galaxies
- chemical, structural and dynamical properties of the Galactic thick disk
- ideas about how thick disks form

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3- Setting up equilibrium models
- choosing from a DF, Jeans equations and their limitations
- disk-bulge-halo models

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1- Astrometry and photometry
- Hipparcos, Gaia, full-sky and large-area photometric surveys
- fitting models to data
- algorithms and tools

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2- More on isochrones
- bolometric corrections and Teff-color relations
- populating isochrones, and the IMF
- simulating star clusters
- simulating apparent and detached binaries
- simulating interacting binaries

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2- Stellar orbits and dynamical models
- orbits in various potentials, Jeans Thm, DF models, Schwarzschild, M2M

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2- The thin disk.
- observational issues with the star formation history and the dynamical evolution of the thin disk.
- continuing gas accretion
- theoretical ideas about the formation and evolution of the thin disk.

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2- Poisson solvers
- trees
- fixed and adaptive grids
- parallelization

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1- Overview of the structure of our Galaxy in the context of other galaxies
- the basic components
- dark matter properties
- general ideas about galaxy assembly
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