Program
The themes of the AMD Symposium will center on: (1) Earthquakes and Natural Seismic Sources; (2) Seismic Tomography; (3) Dynamics and Composition of the Mantle; (4) Seismology of the Earth's Core; (5) Dynamics and Composition of the Earth's Core; and (6) Community Facilities and Resources.Invited Speakers
Posters
Schedule
| Day 1: Saturday June 4, 2011 | ||
| Breakfast/Registration | 8:00 - 8:45 | Welcome | 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 | 9:00 - 10:00 | 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 |
Discussion | 10:00 - 10:20 | Roberta Rudnick, University of Maryland | Coffee Break & Posters | 10:20 - 11:00 | Morning Session 2 | 11:00 - 12:00 | 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 |
Discussion | 12:00 - 12:15 | Rachel Abercrombie, Boston University | Group photo | 12:15 - 12:30 | Lunch | 12:30 - 13:45 | Afternoon Session 1 | 14:00 - 15:05 | 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 |
Discussion | 15:05 - 15:25 | Don Anderson, California Institute of Technology | Coffee Break & Posters | 15:25 - 16:15 | Afternoon Session 2 | 16:15 - 17:35 |
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 |
Discussion | 17:35 - 18:00 | Freeman Gilbert, SIO, U.C. San Diego | Reception & Dinner | 18:30 - 21:00 | Day 2: Sunday June 5, 2011 | Breakfast | 8:00 - 8:50 | Morning Session 1 | 8:50 - 9:50 | 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 |
Discussion | 9:50 - 10:05 | Brad Hager, MIT | Coffee Break & Posters | 10:05 - 10:45 | Morning Session 2 | 10:45 - 11:45 | 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 |
Discussion | 11:45 - 12:00 | Bill McDonough, University of Maryland | Closing Remarks | 12:00 - 12:30 | Adam M. Dziewonski, Harvard University | Closing Remarks | 12:30 - 12:40 | Göran Ekström, Symposium Organizer | Lunch | 12:40 - 13:45 |
Locations
NW Prefunction Area: Breakfast / Registration / Coffee Break & PostersNW B-103: Science Sessions / Discussion Sessions
Loeb House: Dinner
