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SUMMARY:Galaxy population synthesis modeling in the golden age of the Milk
 y Way &amp\; Local Group research - Stefano Pasetto\, Carnegie
DTSTART:20180919T121500Z
DTEND:20180919T124500Z
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CONTACT:Catrina Diener
DESCRIPTION:The building blocks of the known Universe are stars. To study 
 what governs the structure and evolution of our galaxy\, the Milky Way (MW
 )\, its companion Andromeda (M31)\, or the Local Group (LG) dwarf galaxies
  means to observe and understand the processes that govern the stellar bir
 th\, evolution\, death\, and motion over their evolutionary time-scales. T
 he process of collecting detailed data on our Galaxy represents the first 
 step in this work of archeological research and surveys such as Gaia\, SDS
 S\, APOGEE2\, RAVE as well as forthcoming missions and telescopes such as 
 SDSS-V\, LSST\, JWST\, GMT\, TMT will project us into a golden age of the 
 MW & LG research. Exploiting datasets of this scope is not merely a case o
 f applying the same tools that have been used historically: it demands the
  development of\, and experience with\, leading-edge multi-dimensional mac
 hine learning techniques for data mining.\n\nI will review the open questi
 ons in this research field and introduce my novel population synthesis mod
 el (and its related webpage www.GalMod.org) developed to face these new er
 a theoretical challenges.
LOCATION:Sackler Lecture Theatre\, IoA
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