The Impact of Dwarf-Dwarf Galaxy Tidal Interactions
Two competing effects appear to govern galaxy multiplicity (pairs orgroups) at low masses: while associations of low-mass haloes are naturally expected in a...
The Impact of, and Evidence for, Stellar Migration in Disk Galaxies
In recent years it has become clear that stars can migrate across large regions of the disk without increasing substantially the velocity dispersion. I review...
The importance of warm, AGN-driven outflows in rapidly evolving galaxies in the local universe
Although there is increasing speculation that the evolution of galaxy bulges may be regulated by AGN-induced outflows associated with the growth of the central...
The infinite symmetries of event horizons: the case of black holes embedded in strong magnetic fields
In this talk, I will review the recently discovered infinite-dimensional symmetries that emerge in the near horizon region of black hole horizons. I will...
The inner kiloparsec of NGC 1386 and NGC 1365: bipolar outflows, rotation and...an equatorial outflow!?
We used the GMOS integral field unit on the Gemini South telescope to investigate the kinematics of the circum-nuclear ionized gas in two active galaxies: NGC...
The integrated galactic IMF - from star clusters to galaxies
Over the past years observations of young and populous star clusters have shown that the stellar initial mass function (IMF) can be conveniently described by a...
The interplay between baryons and dark matter in galaxies
Tests of the concordance cold dark matter model on the scale of galaxies are so far inconclusive due to our poor understanding of the interplay between baryons...
The interplay between local and global properties in galaxies
We summarize here some of the results reviewed recently by Sanchez (2020) and Sanchez et al. (2021), comprising the advances in the comprehension of galaxies in...
The large scale inhomogeneity of the galaxy distribution
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is currently the largest spectroscopic survey of extragalactic objects and one of the most ambitious observational programs ever...