Each year, the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy jointly organize the Van Winter Memorial Lecture, which brings in distinguished speakers to give lectures on matters of common interest to mathematicians and physicists.

Erin Peters is a graduate student in the Chemistry Department, president of the Chemistry Graduate Student Association at UK, and graduate research assistant to Steven Yates. In this interview, Peters talks about her research at UK’s particle accelerator.

This podcast was produced by Stephen Gordinier.

Steven Yates is an Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor who works in the departments of both Chemistry and Physics and Astronomy.

In this interview, Yates discusses his recent collaboration with the iThemba Laboratory, a nuclear particle accelerator facility in Cape Town, South Africa.