Title: "Galaxy Structures Through Cosmic Time"

Abstract: Galaxy structures --- encompassing their distribution of mass and light as well as their internal kinematics --- reveal important clues about the pathways of galaxy growth and evolution. Studies of nearby galaxy structures go back nearly a century, to Hubble's "tuning-fork" classification in 1926. Over the past decade, deep photometric and spectroscopic surveys using HST, VLT/KMOS and SINFONI, Keck/MOSFIRE, IRAM/NOEMA, and ALMA (among others) have paved the way for detailed, population-wide studies of the structures and kinematics of thousands of galaxies out to the peak epoch of cosmic star formation (z~1-3). I will present kinematic constraints on galaxy-scale dark matter fractions and inner halo density profiles, and morphological constraints on the light versus mass sizes and 3D shapes. I will finish by discussing prospects for pushing measurements of galaxy structures to even earlier epochs with new facilities like JWST.

Astro Colloquium in Davey 538. 

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