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Abstract:  Galaxies are complicated beasts - many physical processes operate simultaneously, and over a huge range of scales in space and time.  As a result, accurately modeling the formation and evolution of galaxies over the lifetime of the universe presents tremendous technical challenges.  In this talk I will describe some of the important unanswered questions about galaxy formation, discuss in general terms how we simulate the formation of galaxies on a computer, and present simulations (and accompanying published results) that the Enzo collaboration has recently done on the Blue Waters supercomputer.



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