L. Kewley Colloquium: A new vision for the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

I will present the latest discoveries and developments at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA). Our discoveries cover solar astrophysics, star formation and evolution, galaxy formation & evolution, extrasolar planets, black holes, and cosmology. I will describe the latest ground and space-based technological developments at the CfA, including new space satellites, and compelling new instrumentation for current and future ground-based telescopes in the optical, infrared, IR, and X-rays, as well as for earth observation. Towards the end of the presentation, I will present some of the latest work of my research group on galaxy evolution. I will show how cosmological simulations, photoionization models and ultra-high spatial resolution observations together can provide new probes of the power sources in galaxies, as well as the star formation and merger histories of galaxies.