This is an in-person event.

After a brief review of the revolution of the past decade in the scale and fidelity of cosmological simulations, Dr. Genel will discuss a new direction the field has taken in the past few years, where machine learning is opening new ways to extract cosmological information from the non-linear process of galaxy formation.

Dr. Genel & His Research
Dr. Shy Genel is an astrophysicist working in the field of computational galaxy formation and cosmology. He received his PhD in 2011 under the guidance of 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Prof. Reinhard Genzel at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, near Munich. Between 2011-2016 he completed post-doctoral fellowships at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and at Columbia University, and in 2016 he joined the newly-founded Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute (a division of the Simons Foundation), where he serves today as a Research Scientist.