Cosmic Furnaces and the Origin of the Elements

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Cosmic Furnaces and the Origin of the Elements
Christian Iliadis, Professor and Chair of Physics and Astronomy

Humans consist mainly of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and calcium. But where exactly were these elements created? And where did all the other elements come from? Christian Iliadis, winner of the 2014 Board of Governors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching, will bring us the story of element synthesis which involves the work of 12 Nobel laureates and will take us from astronomical objects (stars) to unimaginably small particles (atomic nuclei), from nuclear fusion to neutrinos to the weird world of quantum mechanics.

During the presentation Professor Iliadis will hand out a prize to the person in the audience who can tell him which physics effect is crucial for all three phenomena shown below.

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