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Current cosmology provides the initial and boundary conditions to understand the formation and evolution of objects across the whole structure hierarchy. I will describe a model for the coevolution of black holes, galaxies and dark matter halos in the current cosmology provides the initial and boundary conditions to understand the formation and evolution of objects across the whole structure hierarchy. I will describe a model for the coevolution of black holes, galaxies and dark matter halos in the ΛCDM cosmology.The cosmological context of the model not only allows us to make interpretations about galaxies and black holes in individual snapshots, but also allows us to link objects to their progenitors and descendants.Results related to recent JWST observations are described.

BIO

Prof. Houjun Mo got his PhD at Munich University in 1991, worked as postdoctoral research fellow at Cambridge University (1991-1994) and Princeton University (1994-1995), worked as scientific staff at Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (1995-2003). Prof. Mo joined University of Massachusetts since 2003 and became a full professor since 2008.

Prof. Mo's research has been focused on galaxy formation, large-scale structure of the universe, and cosmology. He constructs models for the formation of disk galaxies, the formation and structure of dark matter halos, the connection between galaxies and dark matter halos, the structure of gaseous halos, and physical processes related to galaxy formation and evolution. He uses galaxies and galaxy systems from observations and from simulations to understand the properties of dark matter halos and the distribution of dark matter in the Universe, as well as to reconstruct the current and initial density fields for the local Universe. He has coauthored a textbook on `Galaxy formation and evolution' which was published by Cambridge University Press.

Host: Yi Mao