Interviews with researchers at the IAU symposium 379
The IAU Symposium 379 "Dynamical Masses of Local Group Galaxies" was organized by AIP members and took place in Potsdam in March 2023. During that time, the PhD students Jamie K. Kanehisa and Mariana P. Júlio from the "Dwarf galaxies and the Galactic Halo" section at AIP recorded a series of interviews with researchers attending that conference. The final cuts of the videos were now published on AIP's YouTube channel. The full playlist with all videos from this series is available here: IAUS Interview series - YouTube playlist.
Episode 1: The smallest galaxies in the Universe
Interview with Dr. Michelle Collins, University of Surrey (UK)
- What are dwarf galaxies?
- How were they discovered?
- How do dwarfs evolve?
- What can they tell us?
- What data to we have?
Episode 2: Measuring the motion of galaxies
Interview with Dr. Tony Sohn, STSci (USA)
- What are proper motions?
- What can proper motions tell us?
- How do we improve our measurements?
- JWST and the future
Episode 3: The mysteries of dark matter
Interview with Dr. Pengfei Li, AIP (Germany), and Dr. Yanbin Yang, Paris Observatory (France)
- Why do we need dark matter?
- What properties does dark matter have?
- How does dark matter drive galaxy formation?
- The future of dark matter
Episode 4: Simulating the entire Universe
Interview with Dr. Nicolas Garavito-Camargo, Flatiron Institute (USA) and Yuka Kaneda, University of Tsukuba (Japan)
- Why do we need cosmological simulations?
- What about all the visible matter?
- What can we learn from simulations?
- What are the remaining challenges?
- What have we learned so far?
Episode 5: Satellite Planes
Interview with Dr. Marcel Pawlowski, AIP (Germany), and Nick Heesters, EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland)
- What are satellite planes?
- What observational evidence do have?
- Do we see planes further out?
- How can we explain satellite planes?
Episode 6: Modified Gravity
Interview with Dr. Federico Lelli, INAF (Italy), and Elena Asensio, University of Bonn (Germany)
- What is MOND?
- Why is MOND studied?
- How can MOND explain the local universe?
- What is the future of MOND?