Topic: A Universe of Dusty Galaxies
Abstract: The most incredible bursts of star formation in galaxies occur during the Universe’s infancy, and are enshrouded in cocoons of giant clouds of obscuring dust. Understanding the nature of this dust-obscured star formation over cosmic history is a decades-old problem, now being revolutionized observationally by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and James Webb Space Telescope facilities, which can peer to the birth of some of the first massive galaxies in the Universe. I will describe the history of our understanding of dust-obscured star formation in the early Universe, as well as the current state-of-the-art of massive supercomputer simulations of cosmological galaxy evolution that attempt to build a concordance model of the evolution of massive starbursting galaxies across cosmic time.
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