Geosciences @ Princeton


Solid Earth Lunch Seminar
(Fridays, 12:00, room 220 of Guyot Hall)

 

Spring 2009 - Schedule

February 6

Princeton GEO/AOS Department retreat

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February 13

Jon Samuelson

Department of Geosciences
Penn State University
Host: Yajing Liu

Experimental analysis of dilatancy in simulated fault gouges Abstract

February 20

Garrett Leahy

Geology & Geophysics Department
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Host: Frederik Simons

Local Variability in the 410-km Mantle Discontinuity under a Hotspot Abstract

Short biography of speaker

February 27

Joshua Feinberg

Department of Geology and Geophysics
University of Minnesota
Host: Adam Maloof

Magnetic inclusions in silicate minerals: New Views into the Ancient Magnetic Field of the Earth and Solar System Abstract

Short biography of speaker

March 6

Victor Tsai

Earth & Planetary Sciences Department
Harvard University
Host: Jeroen Tromp

A Model for Turbulent Hydraulic Fracture and Application to Crack Propagation at Glacier Beds

Short biography of speaker

March 13

Kevin Lewis

Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
California Institute of Technology
Host: Frederik Simons

Cyclicity in the sedimentary rock record of Mars

March 20

Spring recess

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March 27

Stephane Rondenay

Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Frederik Simons

A seismological perspective of water distribution in subduction zones

April 3

Roger Buck

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
Host: Nadine McQuarrie

How global cooling and geothermal heating contribute to the transition from ~40 kyr to ~100 kyr cyles of ice ages

April 10

Easter break

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April 17

Natalia Dubrovinskaia

Institute of Mineralogy
Heidelberg University
Host: Tom Duffy

High Pressure Alloying: from Geosciences to Novel Materials

Short biography of speaker

April 24

Robert Downs

Department of Geosciences
University of Arizona
Host: Tom Duffy

Compression mechanisms in minerals

May 1

Susannah Dorfman

Department of Geosciences
Princeton University
Host: Tom Duffy

Super-earths and super-hard materials: Structure and compressibility of fluorides to 100+ GPa

Questions or comments? Contact Daniel Peter (dpeter@<add>), <add>=princeton.edu.

Directions to Princeton

Past Brown Bag seminar series:

Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
Fall 2002
Spring 2002


Updated 01/20/09