2012 Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics Workshop
Daily schedule:
| 6:45 | - | 8:00 | Breakfast at Segundo Dining Hall | |
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| 8:30 | - | 10:00 | Morning session I | |
| 10:00 | - | 11:00 | Long coffee break & posters | |
| 11:00 | - | 12:30 | Morning session II: 11-12:30 | |
| 12:30 | - | 1:30 | Lunch (Cafe open until 1:15pm) | |
| 1:30 | - | 3:00 | Afternoon session I | |
| 3:00 | - | 3:30 | Coffee break: 3-3:30 | |
| 3:30 | - | 5:00 | Afternoon session II: 3:30-5 | |
| 5:00 | - | 7:00 | Dinner | |
| 7:00 | - | 9:00 | Tutorials | |
| 9:00 | - | semi-organized beer hour (buy your own..) |
Location of Poster Sessions: First floor Thompson Lounge, behind staircase
Location of Talks: Thompson Main Lounge, First floor of dorm
Sunday July 29
| 3:00a | - | 11:00a | Arrival of participants for check in, CIG Registration - Segundo Conference Center | |
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| 5:00p | - | 7:00p | Ice breaker at Earth & Physical Sciences Building (2nd floor Atrium). Sponsored by your conveners and CIG. Guided escort leaves at 4:30 and 5:00pm from Thompson Hall |
Monday July 30. Overview, Technical Advances and Challenges, and Broad Goals.
Registration for late arrivals starts at 7:30 - Thompson Hall lobby
| 8:00 | Welcome (Peter van Keken and Louise Kellogg). | |
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| Introductions and overview of CIG (Louise Kellogg). | ||
| 8:30 | Session 1: Numerical methods (Peter van Keken) | |
| Keynote A. Wolfgang Bangerth: AMR, Deal.II, and ASPECT | ||
| Keynote B. Cian Wilson: Harnessing advanced computational libraries for coupled multi-physics | ||
| 10:00 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 | Session 2 : Solvers for Stokes' flow and complicated rheology (Scott King) | |
| Keynote A. David May: Robust and efficient Stokes' flow solver | ||
| Keynote B. Jed Brown: Stokes' flow solvers for complicated rheology | ||
| 12:00 | Discussions: AMR, directions of geodynamics software development and CIG. | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 | Session 3: Overview for breakout/tutorials. | |
| Tutorial period I: deal.ii and related methods (Wolfgang Bangerth) | ||
| 4:00 | Session 4: Long term tectonics computational needs (Jolante van Wijk) | |
| 7:00 | Tutorial period: Citcom (Shijie Zhong) |
Tuesday July 31. Advances in Computational Geodynamics
| 8:30 | Session 1: Large scale mantle dynamics and plate tectonics (Shijie Zhong) | |
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| Keynote A. Allen McNamara: Investigating the cause of LLSVPs and how mantle cooling promotes the stability of compositional reservoirs | ||
| Keynote B. Scott King: Geodynamic Perspectives on the Terrestrial Planets | ||
| 10:00 | Coffee and posters | |
| 11:00 | Session 2 (Marc Spiegelman) | |
| Keynote C. Julian Lowman: Mantle convection models featuring plates | ||
| One minute student/postdoc poster promos (all) | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 | Session 3: Regional scale mantle dynamics and surface observables (Roger Buck) | |
| Keynote A. Magali Billen: Revisiting geoid constraints on the viscosity structure of subduction zones | ||
| Keynote B. Clint Conrad: Horizontal Mantle Plumes and Shear-Driven Upwelling in the South Pacific | ||
| 3:00 | Coffee break and poster session | |
| 3:45 | Session 4 (Claire Currie) | |
| Keynote C. Lijun Liu: Geodynamic modeling with data assimilation: a comprehensive approach | ||
| 4:30 | Louis Moresi: Underworld | |
| 4:55 | Introductory discussion on mantle convection benchmarks (to spill over into dinner) | |
| 7:00 | Tutorial period: TerraFerma (Cian Wilson and Marc Spiegelman) |
Wednesday August 1. Lithosphere dynamics and upper mantle interactions
| 8:30 | Session 1: Interfacing the mantle and lithosphere; melting and faulting (Magali Billen) | |
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| Keynote A. Jolante van Wijk: Modeling lithosphere deformation with Gale. | ||
| Keynote B. Ikuko Wada: Mantle wedge dynamics: Slab-mantle coupling, grain size evolution, and fluid migration | ||
| 10:00 | CIG logistics (Louise Kellogg) | |
| 10:10 | Coffee Break & Posters | |
| 11:00 | Session 2 (Peter van Keken) | |
| Keynote C. Laurent Montesi: Melt extraction and focusing at mid-ocean ridges | ||
| Discussion: Future directions and 2014 workshop (Louise Kellogg/Peter van Keken) | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 | Session 3: Mountain building and rifting (Mousumi Roy) | |
| Keynote A. Eunseo Choi: Bounds on fault strength based on simulation of ‘rider block’ structures emerging from brittle lithosphere extension | ||
| Keynote B. Luc Lavier: DynEarthSol2D: An attempt to develop an efficient Elasto-Visco-Plastic (EVP) Long Term Tectonics Modeling (LTM) code | ||
| 3:00 | Coffee break and Poster Session II | |
| 3:45 | Tutorial Period IV: GALE (Walter Landry) |