Prof Karlheinz Langanke, Scientific Managing Director of the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt Germany will deliver a distinguished lecture on 'The universe in the lab: the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR)' on 22 September at ANSTO.
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The lecture will highlight recent developments and the current status of the facility, which is a world leading laboratory in accelerator-based research.
FAIR is well known for the discovery of several new super heavy elements and the development of a novel treatment of cancer by carbon ion beams.
FAIR will be an international accelerator complex allowing for unprecedented research into fundamental questions of atomic, hadron, nuclear and plasma physics as well as in related applied areas.
Their research is organized around four large experiment collaborations: APPA—performing investigations in atomic and plasma physics as well as in applied sciences like material research and biophysics; CBM—exploring the phase diagram of nuclear matter; NuSTAR—producing exotic nuclei with unusual proton-to-neutron ratios and determining their properties and PANDA—studying hadron structure and form factors via proton-antiproton annihilation.
The first experiments at FAIR are envisioned for 2018 to exploit newly developed detectors and the upgraded GSI accelerators.
Professor Langanke has an appointment at the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt. He earned his PhD at the Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany.
Before taking his current positions he held a chair for Theoretical Physics at Aarhus University in Denmark and has been a Senior Research Associate at Caltech and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Langanke is also NSCL Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University.
His research expertise is in nuclear structure and reaction theory as well as in nuclear astrophysics.
Lecturer: Prof Karlheinz Langanke, Scientific Managing Director of the
GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
Date: Thursday 22 September 2016 at 11am, morning tea from 10.30am
Location: AINSE Theatre at ANSTO
Cost: Free
Published: 07/09/2016