Papers for Background Reading

Semi-analytic Modelling:

    "How to Plant a Merger Tree" (Somerville & Kolatt 1999)
   "Semi-analytic modelling of galaxy formation: the local Universe" (Somerville & Primack 1999)
   "The nature of high-redshift galaxies" (Somerville, Primack & Faber 2001)
    "Can Photoionization Squelching Resolve the Substructure Crisis?" (Somerville 2002)

Reionization and First Objects

    "Star Formation at the Twilight of the Dark Ages: Which Stars Reionized the Universe?" (Somerville & Livio 2003)
    "The Epoch of Reionization in Models with Reduced Small-Scale Power" (Somerville, Bullock & Livio 2003)

Hydrodynamic Simulations of Galaxy Mergers

    "Star Formation and Feedback in Simulations of Interacting Galaxies" (T.J. Cox, Phd Thesis)
    "The effects of feedback in simulations of disk-galaxy major mergers" (Cox, Jonsson, Primack & Somerville 2005, astro-ph/0503201)

Dust Modelling and Radiative Transfer

    "Simulations of Dust in Interacting Galaxies" (P. Jonsson, PhD Thesis)
    "Simulations of Dust in Interacting Galaxies I: Dust Attenuation" (Jonsson, Cox, Primack & Somerville 2005, astro-ph/0503135)