Looking for
Precious Metals
at the End of
Galactic Rainbows

Dr Trystyn Berg and a piece of a Very Large Telescope

Featured Speaker Trystyn Berg, University of Victoria

Summary

For chemists, the periodic table is a great way to organize the properties of the building blocks of materials. But for astronomers, the periodic table can be used to decipher how stars and galaxies have changed with cosmic time. In this talk I will share how astronomers go about understanding what our Universe is made of to answer questions like 'What do the first stars look like?' or 'What is dark matter and dark energy?'.

BIO

Dr. Trystyn Berg is a Plaskett fellow at the National Research Council of Canada in Victoria, BC and is an expert in galaxy evolution. After obtaining his PhD in 2018 from the Univesity of Victoria, Dr. Berg was a fellow at the European Southern Observatory in Chile. Beyond astronomy, Dr. Berg is curling enthusiast and enjoys hiking and kayaking around Vancouver Island.