• Guy Leckenby, TRIUMF
    Coach House, Green College, UBC

    Monday, February 3, 8-9 pm
    in the series
    Green College Resident Members' Series
  •  
  • One of the goals of alchemy was transmutation of “base” metals, such as lead, into “noble” ones, such as gold. Whilst traditional recipes couldn’t do the trick, modern physicists do this on a regular basis. By smashing high energy particle beams into radioactive targets, researchers at TRIUMF and across the world are simulating nuclear reactions that happen throughout our universe. This talk attempts to present the origin of all the elements we see around us today, and to explain how physicists are decoding the workings of the galactic machinery that create them.

    Guy Leckenby is currently a Masters student at TRIUMF, Canada's particle accelerator centre located on the UBC campus. In 2017, he received a Bachelor of Philosophy (Science) with first-class Honours from the Australian National University in Canberra. Whilst based at TRIUMF, Guy is actually working on a collaboration developing a new detector to study highly charged beta-decay in the Experimental Storage Ring at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany. Studying such high charge state beta-decay will provide insight into the nuclear reactions constituting the astrophysical r-process, which responsible for creating most heavy elements.
    GreenCollege_plainlogo_caps.jpg
  •  
  •  
  • Unless otherwise noted, all of our lectures are free to attend and do not require registration.

 

When
February 3rd, 2020 from  8:00 PM to  9:00 PM
Location
Coach House
6201 Cecil Green Park Rd
Green College, UBC
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Canada
Custom Lecture Fields
Is this event a spotlight?
Speaker Series Green College Resident Members' Series
Short Title A Modern Alchemist: Nuclear Astrophysics
Speaker (new) Guy Leckenby, TRIUMF
Short Speaker Guy Leckenby
Speaker First Name
Speaker Last Name
Speaker Affiliation
Speaker Credentials
Speaker Image
Youtube URL
Podcast URL
Bio Field
Green College UBC Crest The official logo of the University of British Columbia. Urgent Message An exclamation mark in a speech bubble. Caret An arrowhead indicating direction. Arrow An arrow indicating direction. Arrow in Circle An arrow indicating direction. Arrow in Circle An arrow indicating direction. Caret A month-view page from a calendar. Chats Two speech clouds. Facebook The logo for the Facebook social media service. Information The letter 'i' in a circle. Instagram The logo for the Instagram social media service. Instagram An arrow exiting a rectangle. Linkedin The logo for the LinkedIn social media service. Location Pin A map location pin. Mail An envelope. Menu Three horizontal lines indicating a menu. Minus A minus sign. Telephone An antique telephone. Plus A plus symbol indicating more or the ability to add. Rss A symbol with radiating bars indicating an RSS feed. Search A magnifying glass. Twitter The logo for the Twitter social media service. Youtube The logo for the YouTube video sharing service.