<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear all:<br><br><div>This is the second announcement and notification that <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><b>registration is</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><b>now open</b></span> for the<br><br><b>2008 Workshop for Advancing Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection <br>and Lithospheric Dynamics</b></div><div><br><b>July 9-11, 2008, at UC Davis (Davis, California)</b><br><br>Building on the success of the 2005 Boulder workshop, this meeting has<br>a broadened scope and brings together the mantle convection and<br>lithospheric dynamics (aka long-term deformation) communities. <br><br>The goal is to discuss scientific advances and, importantly, technical<br>and scientific issues related to the quantitative modeling of the<br>dynamic evolution of the mantle-lithosphere system.<br><br>We have an exciting program with a great cast of already confirmed<br>speakers which you can peruse, along with logistics details, at <br><br><a href="http://www.geodynamics.org/cig/workinggroups/mc/workshops/litho2008/">http://www.geodynamics.org/cig/workinggroups/mc/workshops/litho2008/</a><br><br>The meeting is geared toward grad students and senior researchers<br>alike. We expect plenty of time for formal and informal discussions<br>about the nitty gritty aspects of numerical modeling and high<br>performance computing that will help empower the community to jointly<br>push things forward. <br><br>Davis is located close to Sacramento and Oakland airports and Napa as<br>well as Sonoma Valley. Thanks to generous funding from CIG and pending<br>funding from NSF, we hope to be able to support the attendance of<br>students and post-docs.<br><br>Registration is now open.</div><div><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Your hosts<br><br>Magali I. Billen (UC Davis)<br>Scott King (Virginia Tech.)<br>Jolante van Wijk (LANL)<br>Thorsten Becker (USC)</div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>---------------------------------------------</div><div>Assistant Professor</div><div>U.C. Davis, Geology</div><div>(530) 754-5696</div><div><a href="mailto:billen@geology.ucdavis.edu">billen@geology.ucdavis.edu</a></div><div>----------------------------------------------</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>