webinar
Universe Webinar | Probing Structure, Morphology and Dynamics of Galaxies
18 November 2021
15:00 (CET)
Online
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Marc S. Seigar
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA;
Marc Seigar is Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Toledo. Before arriving in Toledo, he served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, Associate Dean of Science and Engineering and Head of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and before that a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Arkansas. He holds a PhD in Astrophysics from the Liverpool Astrophysics Research Institute and a BSc in Physics from Imperial College London.
Webinar Content
On Thursday 18 November 2021, MDPI and the Journal Universe organized the 4th webinar entitled “Probing Structure, Morphology and Dynamics of Galaxies”.
The introduction was held by the Chair of the webinar, Prof. Dr. Marc S. Seigar. He is Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Toledo in the United States.
The first speaker to kick off this webinar was Prof. Dr. Francesco Shankar from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. He talked about dissecting the formation of bulges and spheroids with state-of-the-art semi-empirical models. Francesco is leading a massive outreach/public engagement project named Astera (Astera - A Cosmological Visualizer (soton.ac.uk)), an interactive, fully immersive 3D realization of the Universe.
The second and final presentation with the title "The Morphology and Dynamics of Star-Forming Galaxies Across the Last 13 Billion Years" was held by Dr. David Sobral from the Physics Department in Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. The research David does advances our understanding of how galaxies like our own formed and evolved from the primitive Universe till today, including their sizes, morphologies and dynamics.
The presentations were followed by a Q&A and a discussion, moderated by the Chair. The webinar was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found here on Sciforum website. In order to stay updated on the next webinars on Universe, be sure to sign up for our newsletter by clicking on “Subscribe” at the top of the page.
Relevant SI
Probing Structure, Morphology and Dynamics of Galaxies
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Marc S. Seigar
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2022