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Solid Earth Lunch Seminar (Mondays, noon, room 155 of Guyot Hall)

Spring 2002  Schedule

January 7 No seminar
January 14 Frederik Simons (MIT) - Structure and evolution of the Australian continent:  insights from seismic and mechanical heterogeneity and anisotropy
January 21 Journal Club
January 28 Reserved
February 4 Nico Coltice - "The Memory of the Earth's Mantle"
February 11  Thorsten Becker - Harvard - "Large scale lithospheric deformation as a constraint for mantle flow"
February 18 Tom Duffy - "Unanswered Questions in Mineral Physics"
February 25 Sean Shieh - "In-situ high pressure strength and elasticity of mantle silicates"
March 4 Dave Evans - Yale University - "Sorting through the geodynamic and paleoclimatic mayhem of the Neoproterozoic Era"
March 11  Maya El-Kibbi - UNC Chapel Hill - "Depiction of Subsurface Fracture Patterns and Densities at The Geysers, CA using Shear-wave Splitting"
March 18 Spring Recess - no seminar
March 25 Eyal Stanislavsky - Hopkins - "A hydromechanical model for fault valve behavior and earthquake recurrence in active thrust faults"
April 1 Rob Hargraves - ``My unsovled problems''
April 8 Gerd Steinle-Neumann, CIW, ""Elasticity of iron at high pressure and
Earth's inner core"
April 15  Journal Club
April 22 Adam Baig - "Traveltimes of waves in random media with implications for tomography"
April 29 Ying Zhou -"Surface sediment effects on teleseismic P wave amplitude"
May 6 Peter Reiners - Yale University
The conundrum of systematic mantle source changes with time in single basaltic eruptions
May 13 Journal Club
May 20 no seminar
May 27 no seminar - Memorial Day
May31 
(Friday!)
Roland Hellmann (Grenoble) - Solution-Reprecipitation Responsible for  Altered    Near-Surface Zones:  Evidence for pH-Invariant Feldspar Dissolution
June 3 no seminar - BB meeting