Archive

The oral sessions of the symposium are recorded on video by Harvard FAS IT staff, and are now available below. The symposium is also photographed by Katherine C. Cohen, and a selection of photographs can be viewed and downloaded.
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Videos

The files are in QuickTime movie format (.mov).
Day 1: Saturday June 4, 2011
Welcome
~7 minutes
~96 MB
8:45 - 9:00Göran Ekström, Symposium Organizer
Jeremy Bloxham, Dean of Science, Harvard University
John Shaw, Chair, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Morning Session 1
~1 hour 20 minutes
~990 MB
9:00 - 10:20Roberta Rudnick, University of Maryland
Discussion Leader
James L. Davis, LDEO-Columbia
Where is the Verge between Geodesy and Seismology?
Tom Jordan, SCEC/USC
Seismic Tomography and the Deep Structure of Continents
Cin-Ty Lee, Rice University
Continent Crust Formation and Destruction in Arcs - Implications for Differentiation of the Earth
Morning Session 2
~1 hour 15 minutes
~920 MB
11:00 - 12:15Rachel Abercrombie, Boston University
Discussion Leader
Hiroo Kanamori, California Institute of Technology
Seismology of Once-in-a-Lifetime Events
Göran Ekström, Columbia University
Detecting and Measuring Landslides with Seismology
Kristine M. Larson, University of Colorado
The Evolving Influence of GPS: From Plate Tectonics to Earthquakes to Water Cycle Studies
Afternoon Session 1
~1 hour 30 minutes
~1.0 GB
14:00 - 15:25 Don Anderson, California Institute of Technology
Discussion Leader
Jay Bass, COMPRES
Elasticity of Minerals at High Pressures and Some Thoughts on the Mantle
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, Harvard University
Evidence from Xenon Isotopes for Limited Mixing between MORB Sources and Plume Sources
Rob van der Hilst, MIT
Effects of (Regional?, Transient?) Boundary Layers - No Simple Plume beneath Hawaii
Afternoon Session 2
~1 hour 40 minutes
~1.2 GB
16:15 - 18:00 Freeman Gilbert, SIO, U.C. San Diego
Discussion Leader
Jeroen Tromp, Princeton University
Advances in Computational Seismology
Louise Kellogg, University of California, Davis
Scales of Mantle Heterogeneity
John Woodhouse, University of Oxford
Synthetic Seismograms and Spectra at Long Periods - A Matrix Approach
David Simpson, IRIS
Consortium Tales: Dancing with Wolves - Herding Cats - Dancing with the Stars
Day 2: Sunday June 5, 2011
Morning Session 1
~1 hour 20 minutes
~990 MB
8:50 - 10:05 Brad Hager, MIT
Discussion Leader
Jeremy Bloxham, Harvard University
Mapping Planetary Magnetic Fields: From Voyager to Juno
Guy Masters, IGPP/SIO
Inner Core Super-Rotation Revisited
Tom Duffy, Princeton University
Mineral Physics Interpretation of Mantle Seismic Structure from Top to Bottom
Morning Session 2
~1 hour 15 minutes
~930 MB
10:45 - 12:00 Bill McDonough, University of Maryland
Discussion Leader
Barbara Romanowicz, U.C. Berkeley
Thirty Years of Mantle Tomography: Old Challenges and New Opportunities
Jeff Gu, University of Alberta
Mantle Seismic Reflections and Their Implications for Subduction Dynamics
Alessandro Forte, University of Quebec at Montreal
Tomography-Based Convection Models Reveal the Importance of Deep-Seated Hot Thermal Upwellings in the Mantle
Closing Remarks
~40 minutes
~480 MB
12:00 - 12:40Adam M. Dziewonski, Harvard University
So, What is This Fellow Thinking 70 Years Later?
Göran Ekström, Symposium Organizer


Photos

All photos are in JPEG format.
General Photos

37 photos

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High-Resolution Group Photos (tar file ~26 MB)
Oral Sessions

82 photos

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Poster Sessions

43 photos

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Dinner at Loeb House

63 photos

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