Lecturer: Prof. Marcella Carollo Affiliation: ETH, Zurich Abstract: I will summarize a number of results on the growth of mass and size of galaxies with time, and discuss a perspective that provides a unified answer to three major open questions in galaxy evolution, namely: (1) How do massive galaxies quench their star formation activity? (2) How do quenched galaxies grow their dense bulges? (3) What causes the observed growth with time of the average size of the quenched galaxy population? I will conclude with a look ahead on the MUSE Atlas of Disks (MAD), a just- started large program with the new MUSE IFU spectrograph on the ESO VLT. MAD anatomizes how gas and stars interact within nearby galaxies on the tens-to-hundreds pc scales over which star formation and stellar feedback take place, providing fundamental constraints on the physical state that characterises the active phase of galactic life on the star-forming Main Sequence in the local Universe. Additional details of the upcoming Astrophysics' seminars can be found on the following link. ‏האירוע הזה כולל שיחת וידאו ב-Google Hangouts. הצטרף: https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/mail.huji.ac.il/astrophysics?hceid=bWFpbC5odWppLmFjLmlsX2c0czhydDlpcmhwZzRvdGNybWIzZGFqcjdvQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20.nh80jevthj0jbu5ncnr8n4nkik&hs=121