2014 CIG Mantle and Lithospheric Dynamics Workshop, Joint with the Canadian Geophysical Union

Banff Park Lodge Resort Hotel and Conference Center  

Agenda

Sunday, May 4  
4:00p     Registration
6:30p     Plenary Session
8:30p     Ice Breaker 

Monday, May 5
AM          
8:15        Welcome
8:30        Twenty years: Looking Back and Looking Forward, Louis Moresi [pdf]
9:15        Scientific Drivers for High-Resolution Non-Newtonian Subduction Modeling, Margarete Jadamec [pdf]
10:00      Break
10:30      Poster Pop-ups – Computational Modeling
11:15      Mantle Convection Simulation in ASPECT, Timo Heister [pdf]

noon       Lunch

PM       
1:30        Recent Advances in Modelling Thermo-chemically Coupled Magma Dynamics in a Visco-elasto-plastic Rock Matrix, Tobias Keller [pdf]
2:15        Future Directions (discussion)
3:00        Break
3:30        General Poster Session

7:30        ASPECT Tutorial

Tuesday, May 6
AM       
8:30        Differentiation Processes in the Early Earth and Their Impact on the Evolution of Mantle Convection, Ulrich Hansen [pdf]
9:15        Convection Modeling Versus Thermal History Energy Balance, Scott King [pdf]
10:00      Break
10:30      Poster Pop-ups – Mantle Convection
11:15      Controls on Long-wavelength Mantle Structure and Plate Motions and Their Implications for Evolution of the Earth’s 
                 Mantle Structure Since the Early Paleozoic, Shijie Zhong [pdf]

noon        Lunch

PM       
1:30        Paleozoic Plate Motion History and the Longevity of Deep Mantle Heterogeneities, Abigail Aller [pdf] 45Mb
2:15        Future Directions (discussion)
3:00        Break
3:30        Poster Session

Evening   CGU Banquet

Wednesday, May 7
AM        
8:30        The Roles of Magmatism, Fault Strength and Crustal Flow in Lithospheric Extension, Roger Buck [pdf]
9:15        Continental Subduction and (ultra)High-pressure Rock Exhumation: Contrasting Numerical Models Based
                  on the Alps and Caledonides, Jared Butler [pdf]
10:00      Break
10:30      Poster Pop-ups – Lithospheric Evolution
11:15      Implication of Flow in the Lower Crust on Strain Localization Across Time and Length Scales, Laetitia Le Pourhiet [pdf] 66Mb

noon       Lunch

PM       
1:30        3-D Geodynamic Models of the India-Eurasia Collision Zone: Investigating the Role of Lithospheric Strength
                  Variation, Lucy Flesch
2:15        Future Directions  (discussion)
3:00        Break
3:30        Poster Session