Talks

Cosmic Collisions and Dinosaurs: the Adventures of a Planetary Geologist
We will travel on board a virtual spacecraft t explore the solar System and Earth at a key point in time that changed life on our planet. We will see why cosmic collisions are and were a part of the formation of much that it surrounds. Dr. Ocampo was the first to identify via satellite images, the crater of doom which dramatically forever changed the biosphere on planet Earth.

A quasicrystal is an exotic state of matter with symmetries once thought to be impossible for matter. The concept was first introduced and the first examples were synthesized in the laboratory thirty years ago, but could Nature have beaten us to the punch? This talk will describe the search for the first natural quasicrystal, An adventure to the ends of the Earth and beyond and one of the wildest scientific stories you are ever likely to hear.