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  • Monday, 20 July 2009
    • 08:30 - 10:00 Registration and Administrative Formalities
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 08:30 Registration and Administrative Formalities 1h30'
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Opening Ceremony
      • 10:00 Opening Ceremony 30'
        Speaker: Prof. K. R. Sreenivasan, Director, Local Organizers (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:00 Seismic tomography and the dilemma of the Earth's heat budget
      • 11:00 Seismic tomography and the dilemma of the Earth's heat budget 1h0'
        Speaker: G. Nolet (University of Nice, Sophia Antipolis, France)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Simulating the thermal and chemical evolution and structure of Earth's mantle and core
      • 14:00 Simulating the thermal and chemical evolution and structure of Earth's mantle and core 1h0'
        Speaker: P. Tackley (Inst. of Geophysics, ETH Honggerberg, Switzerland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Computing deep Earth structure
      • 15:00 Computing deep Earth structure 1h0'
        Speaker: G. Steinle-Neumann (Universitat Bayreuth, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:30 - 17:30 Some recent advances in dynamo and geodynamo theory
      • 16:30 Some recent advances in dynamo and geodynamo theory 1h0'
        Speaker: P. Roberts (University of Caifornia, Los Angelos, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 17:30 - 19:00 POSTER SESSION
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 17:30 POSTER SESSION 1h30'
  • Tuesday, 21 July 2009
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Structure and Non-Linear Dynamics of the Earth
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:30 - 11:30 Seismic tomographic mapping of the Earth's mantle at the global and regional scales
      • 10:30 Seismic tomographic mapping of the Earth's mantle at the global and regional scales 1h0'
        Speaker: L. Boschi (Institute of Geophysics, ETH Honggerberg, Zurich, Switzerland)
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Molten Earth: Magma in the Deep Mantle
      • 11:30 Molten Earth: Magma in the Deep Mantle 1h0'
        Speaker: L. Stixrude (University College London, UK)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:30 Seismic structure of the Iceland hotspot: Main features and mysteries
      • 14:00 Seismic structure of the Iceland hotspot: Main features and mysteries 30'
        Speaker: I. B. Bjarnason (University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 14:30 - 15:00 Constraints on mantle flow in subduction systems as inferred from petrological features of magmas and mantle xenoliths
      • 14:30 Constraints on mantle flow in subduction systems as inferred from petrological features of magmas and mantle xenoliths 30'
        Speaker: M. Coltorti (University of Ferrara, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Regional Variations of 1-Hz Lg Coda Q and Intermediate-period Rayleigh-wave Attenuation across Continents
      • 15:00 Regional Variations of 1-Hz Lg Coda Q and Intermediate-period Rayleigh-wave Attenuation across Continents 30'
        Speaker: B. Mitchell (Saint Louis University, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:00 On Mantle Chemical and thermal heterogeneities as mapped by inversion of global surface wave data
      • 15:30 On Mantle Chemical and thermal heterogeneities as mapped by inversion of global surface wave data 30'
        Speaker: A. Khan (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Structure and elasticity of hydrous phase: lawsonite
      • 16:30 Structure and elasticity of hydrous phase: lawsonite 30'
        Speaker: G. Steinle-Neumann (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
    • 17:00 - 17:30 DFT study of antigorite up to 30 GPa: implications for water transport in subduction zones
      • 17:00 DFT study of antigorite up to 30 GPa: implications for water transport in subduction zones 30'
        Speaker: G. Capitani (Universita degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 17:30 - 18:00 Thermal Conductivity of MgO Periclase from Equilibrium First Principles Molecular Dynamics
      • 17:30 Thermal Conductivity of MgO Periclase from Equilibrium First Principles Molecular Dynamics 30'
        Speaker: N. de Koker (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 18:00 - 19:00 POSTER SESSION
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 18:00 POSTER SESSION 1h0'
    • 19:00 - 21:00 RECEPTION
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 19:00 RECEPTION 2h0'
  • Wednesday, 22 July 2009
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Earth's Core: Seismological Perspective
      • 09:00 Earth's Core: Seismological Perspective 1h0'
        Speaker: H. Tkalcic (The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:30 - 11:30 Iron Alloys at Extreme Conditions
      • 10:30 Iron Alloys at Extreme Conditions 1h0'
        Speaker: L. Dubrovinsky (Universitat Bayreuth, Germany)
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Geomagnetic reversals: implications for the core and beyond
      • 11:30 Geomagnetic reversals: implications for the core and beyond 1h0'
        Speaker: G. Sarson (University of Newcastle, UK)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Afternoon Trip to Grotta Gigante
      • 14:00 Afternoon Trip to Grotta Gigante 3h0'
  • Thursday, 23 July 2009
    • 09:00 - 10:00 New appraisals on the Earth's interior from relaxation normal modes and long-term rotation
      • 09:00 New appraisals on the Earth's interior from relaxation normal modes and long-term rotation 1h0'
        Speaker: R. Sabadini (Universita degli studi di Milano, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:30 - 11:30 Coupling between Earth's interior structure, mantle dynamics and surface deformation
      • 10:30 Coupling between Earth's interior structure, mantle dynamics and surface deformation 1h0'
        Speaker: C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (University College London, UK)
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Towards self consistent models of plate tectonics
      • 11:30 Towards self consistent models of plate tectonics 1h0'
        Speaker: S. Sobolev (Geoforschungzentrum Potsdam, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Deformation and anisotropy in the mantle
      • 14:00 Deformation and anisotropy in the mantle 1h0'
        Speaker: A. Tommasi (Universite Montpellier 2, France)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Elastic properties of Earth materials
      • 15:00 Elastic properties of Earth materials 1h0'
        Speaker: S. Speziale (Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:30 - 17:30 Relative strength of perovskite and post perovskite from experiment and theory
      • 16:30 Relative strength of perovskite and post perovskite from experiment and theory 1h0'
        Speaker: D. Dobson (University College London, UK)
    • 17:30 - 17:30 Evening Discussion Session
      • 17:30 Evening Discussion Session
  • Friday, 24 July 2009
    • 09:00 - 09:30 Investigating the driving mechanism of cratonic basins across the globe
      • 09:00 Investigating the driving mechanism of cratonic basins across the globe 30'
        Speaker: C. Braitemberg (Universite de Trieste, Italy)
    • 09:30 - 10:00 Testing geophysical hypotheses with global models of the coupled mantle-lithosphere system
      • 09:30 Testing geophysical hypotheses with global models of the coupled mantle-lithosphere system 30'
        Speaker: G. Iaffaldano (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:30 - 11:30 Von-Karman experimental dynamos
      • 10:30 Von-Karman experimental dynamos 1h0'
        Speaker: J-F. Pinton (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France)
    • 11:30 - 12:30 The dynamics of compositional plumes
      • 11:30 The dynamics of compositional plumes 1h0'
        Speaker: I. El Tayeb (Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 13:00 Discussion and concluding Remarks
      • 12:30 Discussion and concluding Remarks 30'
    • 13:00 - 14:30 FAREWELL RECEPTION
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 13:00 FAREWELL RECEPTION 1h30'