Stéphane Courteau

Ascona/Terschelling Highlights
• Many new (and some old) results on disk galaxies
– The disk is the end product of the dissipation of most
of the baryons, and contains almost all of the baryonic
angular momentum
– Understanding its formation is the most important goal
of galaxy formation theory.
• Brief summary restricted to some highlights
– Structure and properties of extended stellar disks
– Thick disks (bulges, bars, peanuts) & streams
– Expanding horizons: panchromatic surveys
– CDM problems: bulge-less exponential disks,
solid-body rotation curves, …