CANCELED: Karlis Kaufmanis Lecture Series: Cosmic Gold: Neutron Star Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and the Origin of the Elements

The Kaufmanis Lecture has been CANCELED due to the weather. The lecture will be rescheduled for fall 2019. We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to seeing you in the fall. If you have questions, contact Andrea Stronghart at astrong@umn.edu or 612-624-7053.

The School of Physics and Astronomy Presents: Cosmic Gold: Neutron Star Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and the Origin of the Elements, KAUFMANIS PUBLIC LECTURE - Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics.

Dr. Eliot Quataert, UC Berkeley
Scientists have recently developed a new way to `see' the universe, using gravitational waves predicted by Einstein nearly a century ago. These waves can teach us about some of the most exotic objects known, including dead stars known as black holes and neutron stars. Remarkably, they have also helped solve a longstanding puzzle about where in the Universe some of the elements we know and love here on Earth are produced, including uranium, platinum, and even gold. Eliot Quataert will describe the exciting and remarkable new results coming out of our first steps into this new era.

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