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Recent cosmological measurements combined with simulations of
the growth of cosmic structure now explain an impressive array of
astrophysical phenomena on large scales and at high redshift. By contrast,
there has been little progress toward under standing galactic structure
and evolution in the "era of precision cosmology". In this talk, I will
focus on key differences between the observed properties of spiral
galaxies and predictions from the standard galaxy formation framework, and
I'll present some promising new avenues for tackling these problems
through detailed kinematical studies of nearby systems.
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