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SUMMARY:Applications of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry in southern Africa
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Stephan Woodborne ()\nThe AMS facility at iThemba LA
 BS is the only one of its kind on the African continent. It operates with 
 NRF support to achieve a threefold mandate: to provide a technology platfo
 rm for users\, to train future science leaders\, and to do research. In me
 eting this mandate the AMS facility operates in a partnership with the use
 r base in the provision of know-how to run analyses on science agendas set
  by the users\, and in leading in-house research that accommodates academi
 c partners and post-graduate student training. While the AMS facility is f
 ramed securely in the particle physics domain\, the greatest impact is fou
 nd in applied disciplines. The greatest demand is from the traditional her
 itage market\, and the “recent archaeology” of southern Africa is almo
 st entirely dependent on AMS radiocarbon dating to provide a chronological
  framework. Other important applications include testing climate change fo
 recasts\, dating groundwater recharge\, assessing global phenomenon such a
 s magnetic field fluctuations over the last 50 000 years\, and assessing t
 he mechanisms of coastal erosion. The essence of the AMS program is to use
  particle physics for the benefit of the people of South Africa\, and Afri
 ca\, and this depends on attracting innovative young scientists into the f
 ield.\n\nhttps://indico.tlabs.ac.za/event/139/contributions/3841/
LOCATION:NRF-iThemba LABS\, Old Faure Road\, Cape Town Auditorium
URL:https://indico.tlabs.ac.za/event/139/contributions/3841/
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