Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium

Speaker Gabriella De Lucia
Title Hierarchical models of galaxy formation: recent successes and unsolved problems
Abstract In the past decades, different approaches have been developed in order to link the physical properties of galaxies to the dark matter haloes in which they reside. I will give a brief overview of methods, aims, and limits of these techniques, with particular emphasis on semi-analytic models of galaxy formation. For these models, I will also provide a brief summary of recent successes and open problems.