Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Seminars
Typically on Wednesdays, 12:00-13:00 (variations might occur).
Location (usually): NO F39 (ETH Zentrum Earth Sciences, NO Building, F-floor)
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Fall semester 2019
| Wednesday 11-December
No seminar AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, USA |
| Wednesday 4-December 12:00-13:00, NO F39 AGU Practice Talks |
| Wednesday 27-November 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Predicting quartz recrystallized grain size using the Wattmeter model Leif Tokle (Structural Geology and Tectonics, ETH Zurich) |
| Wednesday 20-November 15:00-16:00, NO F39 On plate tectonics and mantle flow (and vice-versa) Laurent Husson (ISTerre, Grenoble) |
| Wednesday 13-November 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Extreme plate tectonics: 2-D and 3-D numerical models of India-Asia collision zone Adina Pusok (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford) |
| Tuesday 5-November 16:00-17:00, NO F11 , Research Plan Defence Forming the Martian crustal dichotomy: Global thermochemical modelling after Mars' giant impact Kar Wai Cheng (GFD, ETH Zurich) |
| Wednesday 6-November 12:00-13:00, NO F39, Research Plan Defence Primordial and rheological heterogeneity in Earth’s lower mantle and implications for global-scale mantle dynamics Anna Guelcher (GFD, ETH Zurich) |
| Wednesday 30-October 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Effectively stressing stress in data and models of hydrocarbon wandering Ebbe Hartz (Aker BP, Norway) |
| Friday 25-October 12:00-13:00, NO C44, IfG Colloquium Convective patterns in a textured mantle Anne Davaille (Universite Paris Sud) |
| Wednesday 23-October 12:00-13:00, NO F39, Research Plan Defence Evolution of oceanic plates from spreading to subduction: 3D numerical modelling Mingqi Liu (GFD, ETH Zurich) |
| Wednesday 16-October 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Grain boundaries and lower Mantle rheology Jac Van Driel (UCL London) |
| Wednesday 9-October 12:00-13:00, NO F39 The Rheology of Flowing Basalt Arianna Soldati (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen) |
| Wednesday 2-October 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Plates strolling around the world. What controls their journey? Jessica Munch (GFD, ETH Zurich) |
| Wednesday 25-September 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Basic melting for geodynamicists: everything you wanted to know about melting in the Earth and you didn't dare to ask because you were afraid of the answer Antonio Manjon Cabeza Cordoba (GFD, ETH Zurich) |
| Wednesday 18-September 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Magmatism and crustal growth at Precambrian subduction and collision zones: insight from numerical modeling Alexei Perchuk (Lomonosov Moscow State University, visiting researcher at GFD, ETH Zurich) |
Spring semester 2019
| Wednesday 14-August 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Earth's discontinuous chemical layering inferred from the 660-km discontinuity roughness Sidao Ni (Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science) |
| Wednesday 17-July 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Plume-induced delamination, magmatism and deformation of continental crust - 3D thermomechanical modelling and implications for the Ivrea-Verbano Zone Julian Aebi (ETH Zurich) Time and space dependent magmatism in the mantle convection code StagYY Mara Arts (Utrecht University) |
| Tuesday 9-July 12:00-13:00, NO E51.1 Lower mantle structure and dynamics: constraints from observations and models Frederic Deschamps (Institute of Earth Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan) |
| Mechanical behaviour of rocks and lithosphere dynamics in convergence zones Solenn Hertgen (Geosciences Rennes, France) |
| Wednesday 12-June No seminar PACS CSCS conference at ETH Zurich |
| Tuesday 11-June 12:00-13:00, NO F39 ASPECT, an advanced, open-source parallel application code for mantle convection Timo Heister (University of Utah, USA) |
| Wednesday 5-June 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Slab bending rates and global patterns of intraslab seismicity Dan Sandiford (GFZ Potsdam, Germany) |
| Wednesday 29-May 12:00-13:00, NO F39 The geometrical pattern of brittle seismic and aseismic faults growing in the crust Simon Preuss (ETH Zürich) |
| Wednesday 22-May 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Modeling of thermochemical evolution of planetary objects after giant impacts Karwai Cheng (ETH Zurich, GFD) |
| Friday 17-May 12:00-13:00, NO C44, IfG colloquium Reconstructing the evolution of the protolunar disk from ab initio atomistic simulations Razvan Caracas (ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France) |
| Wednesday 15-May 12:00-13:00, NO F39 From magma oceans to solid mantle: insights from numerical simulations Daniela Bolrao (ETH Zürich, GFD) |
| Wednesday 8-May No seminar UK SEDI meeting Subitop meeting |
| Thursday 2-May 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Modeling the origins of silicic magma bodies in the crust in plume and arc environments Dylan Colon (University of Oregon) |
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| Friday 26-April 12:00-13:00, NO xx, IfG colloquium Recent development in the experimental study of plastic deformation of deep mantle minerals Shun-ichiro Karato (Yale University) |
| Wednesday 24-April 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Compositional heterogeneity in the Earth's mantle through time Paolo Sossi (ETH Zürich) |
| Wednesday 17-April 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Silicate magma properties in the deep Earth: Implications for the formation and evolution of the Earth’s mantle Sylvain Petitgirard (ETH Zürich) |
| Wednesday 10-April
No seminar EGU meeting in Vienna, Austria |
| Wednesday 3-April 12:00-13:00, NO F39 EGU Practice Talks |
| Wednesday 27-March 12:00-13:00, NO F39 How long does a plume head take to rise through the mantle? Bernhard Steinberger (GFZ Potsdam, Germany) |
| Wednesday 20-March 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Archean geodynamics: New implementations in the convection code StagYY (water saturation, melting, crusts production, trace elements) Antoine Rozel (ETH Zürich, ERDW) |
| Wednesday 13-March 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Effects of lower mantle viscosity structure and plate coupling on the slab stagnation and rollback Hana Čížková (Charles University, Prague) |
| Wednesday 6-March 12:00-13:00, NO F39 The ascent of thermochemical plumes through the mantle transition zone, and plume-lithosphere interaction Maxim Ballmer (UCL, Earth Sciences, London) |
| Wednesday 27-February 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Dynamics of the primitive mantle in interaction with magma oceans Adrien Morison (ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France) |
| Wednesday 13-February 12:00-13:00, NO F39 Subduction dynamics: linking regional and global perspectives Adam Holt (MIT, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA) |
| Tuesday 12-February 12:00-13:00, NO C44, joint w/SGT Precursory signatures, co-seismic impact, and post-seismic lessons from the Tohoku-oki M9 2011 event Thorsten Becker (The University of Texas at Austin) |