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.Videos
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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 - 9:00 | Göran 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 - 10:20 | Roberta 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 - 12:15 | Rachel 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 - 12:40 | Adam 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 View Photos Download Photos (tar file ~13 MB) High-Resolution Group Photos (tar file ~26 MB) | ![]() | Oral Sessions 82 photos View Photos Download Photos (tar file ~170 MB) |
![]() | Poster Sessions 43 photos View Photos Download Photos (tar file ~12 MB) |
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Dinner at Loeb House 63 photos View Photos Download Photos (tar file ~16 MB) |