11th International Workshop on Modeling
of Mantle Convection
and Lithospheric Dynamics
June 28 - July 3, 2009, Braunwald, Switzerland
On this page you can find information about the 11th Worksop on "Modeling of Mantle Convection & Lithospheric Dynamics":
- Workshop series: purpose & goals
- Braunwald 2009: week overview
- Braunwald 2009: full program (including access to pdf of keynote lectures)
Download the program book here (updated 26/06/2009).
Workshop series: purpose & goals
This workshop is the next in a series of successful workshops held in various locations throughout Europe approximately every 2 years, since 1989 (the three previous ones have been held in Carry-le-Rouet (2007), Erice (2005), Hruba Skala (2003)), and it is generally regarded as the main European conference in geodynamics. The main goals of this workshop are:
- to provide a forum for in-depth discussion on scientific and technical issues in geodynamic modelling, and integration with other related fields,
- to introduce students and postdocs to the breadth of current geodynamic research, in an informal setting
- to foster interdisciplinary and international collaboration.
The workshop has a five-day program with oral presentation provided solely by invited keynote speakers, and a possibility for poster presentations for all other participants. Two types of lectures are planned:
- talks on the state-of-the-art research in geodynamics and directly neighbouring research fields
- educational, tutorial-type talks to give scientific and technical background information for a specific research area.
Apart from lectures and poster sessions, hands-on mini workshops on numerical modelling, and break-out or discussion sessions on, for example, modelling benchmarks will be organized.
Braunwald 2009: overview
Week overview
- Sunday 28 June: Arrival, ice breaker, dinner
- Monday 29 June: Full day
- Tuesday 30 June: Full day
- Wednesday 1 July: Half day, afternoon geological excursion
- Thursday 2 July: Full day
- Friday 3 July: Half day, afternoon departure
Typical daily schedule
- 09:00 Keynote talk 1
- 10:00 Keynote talk 2
- 11:00 Break
- 11:30 Keynote talk 3
- 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Short (1 min, 1 slide) presentations of posters
- 14:45 Students' meeting with speakers
- 16:00 Poster session
- 18:30 Summary and discussion
- 19:00 Dinner
Braunwald 2009: full program (updated 26/06/2009)
Sunday 28 June
- Arrival
- 18:00 Ice breaker reception and dinner
Monday 29 June
- 09:00 Edi Kissling (ETH Zurich) - Tectonics and geodynamics of the Alps (download 13 MB pdf).
- 10:00 Guy Simpson (University of Geneva) - Mechanisms and effects of coupling between tectonics, climate and surface processes (download 5 MB pdf).
- 11:00 Break
- 11:30 Stefan Sobolev (GFZ Potsdam) - Three dimensional numerical modeling of lithospheric dynamics and transform fault tectonics (download 10 MB pdf).
- 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Short (1 min, 1 slide) presentations of posters
- 14:45 Students' meeting with speakers
- 18:30 Summary & discussion
- 19:00 Dinner
Tuesday 30 June
- 09:00 Magali Billen (UC Davis) - Subduction zone and slab processes (download 17 MB pdf).
- 10:00 Thorsten Becker (USC) - Past and present seafloor age distributions and the temporal evolution of plate tectonic heat transport (download 13 MB pdf).
- 11:00 Break
- 11:30 Lapo Boschi (ETH Zurich): The European upper mantle as seen from surface waves (download 15 MB pdf - movies available at website here).
- 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Short (1 min, 1 slide) presentations of posters
- 14:45 Students' meeting with speakers
- 18:30 Summary & discussion
- 19:00 Dinner
Wednesday 1 July
- 09:00 Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni (UC London): Dynamical origin and consequences of chemical heterogeneity in Earth's mantle (download 7 MB pdf).
- 10.00 John Hernlund (UC Berkeley) - Deep mantle seismic structure and dynamics (download 10 MB pdf).
- 11:00 Break
- 11:30 Marcin Dabrowski (Oslo) - Development of efficient numerical tools for geodynamic modelling (download 29 MB pdf).
- 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Students' meeting with speakers
- 15:00 Geological excursion or free time (see Practical informations for more details)
- 19:00 Dinner
Thursday 2 July
- 09:00 Doris Breuer (DLR, Berlin) - What do we know about the interior structure, dynamics and thermal evolution of terrestrial planets? 3 MB pdf).
- 10:00 Richard Katz (Oxford) - The dynamics of magma in a convecting mantle (download 17 MB pdf).
- 11:00 Break
- 11:30 Patrick Jenny (ETH Zurich) - Multi-scale modelling of multi-phase flow in porous media (download 11 MB pdf).
- 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Short (1 min, 1 slide) presentations of posters
- 14:45 Students' meeting with speakers
- 18:30 Summary & discussion
- 19:00 Dinner
Friday 3 July
- 09:00 Henri Samuel (University of Bayreuth) - The Dynamics and Consequences of Core Formation in Terrestrial Planets (download 18 MB pdf).
- 10:00 Stephane Labrosse (ENS Lyon) - Evolution of the basal magma ocean through Earth history (download 60 MB pdf).
- 11:00 Break
- 11:30 David May (ETH Zurich) - Preconditioning variable viscosity Stokes flow problems associated with a stabilised finite element discretisation (download 6 MB pdf).
- 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Students' meeting with speakers
- Departure
