Alex Halliday, a professor of geochemistry at Oxford University, will give a talk titled "Terrestrial core formation and the origin of the Moon" at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, 4 May 2016, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series.
Halliday received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Newcastle in 1977. He uses isotope geochemistry to understand the origins of planets and the present day natural behaviour of the Earth by utilising mass spectrometry to measure small natural variations in atomic abundance.
Coffee, tea, and a continental breakfast will be served before the lecture at 10:30 a.m.