Day 1 - October, 11th 2010

big picture

• 08:45 to 09:00 - Welcome
• 09:00 to 09:45 - Jeannot Trampert
  
  Chemical heterogeneity in the mantle: Joint evidence from seismology and mineral physics
• 09:45 to 10:30 - Guust Nolet
  
  High-resolution tomography: the implications for geodynamics
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:45 - Claudia Stein
  
  Generation and Evolution of Plumes in Mantle-Relevant Scenarios
• 11:45 to 12:30 - Saskia Goes
  
  Radial seismic models for the mantle, biases by 3-D structure
• 12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch Break
• 14:00 to 14:45 - Bernhard Schuberth
  
  The Seismic Signature of Strong Thermal Heterogeneity in the Lowermost Mantle
• 14:45 to 15:30 - Eiji Ohtani
  
  Composition, physical properties and thermal state of the core
• 15:30 to 16:00 - Coffee Break
• 16:00 to 16:45 - Rhodri Davies
  
  Thermo-Chemical Mantle Convection: Implications for the Seismic Signature of Earth's Mantle and Plume Excess Temperatures
• 16:45 to 18:00 - Discussion

Day 2 - October, 12th 2010

material properties

• 09:00 to 09:45 - Paul Tackley
  
  On the importance of self-consistently calculated mineral physics for understanding mantle dynamics and seismic structure
• 09:45 to 10:30 - Lapo Boschi
  
  Vertical coherency of heterogeneity in the Earth's mantle constrained from a comprehensive set of global seismic data
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:45 - Renata Wentzcovitch
  
  Spin crossover systems in the deep mantle
• 11:45 to 12:30 - Fabio Cammarano
  
  Spin transition and seismic observables.
• 12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch Break
• 14:00 to 14:45 - Razvan Caracas
  
  Fe-bearing perovskite and post-perovskite: phase stability, spin transitions, and the consequences for the lower mantle
• 14:45 to 15:30 - Sang-Heon Dan Shim
  
  Perovskite to Post-Perovskite Boundary in Pyrolitic, Harzburgitic, and Basaltic Compositions
• 15:30 to 16:00 - Coffee Break
• 16:00 to 16:45 - Mainak Mookherjee
  
  Energetics, Structure and Elasticity of Subducted Materials
• 16:45 to 18:00 - Discussion

Day 3 - October, 13th 2010

subduction dynamics

• 09:00 to 09:45 - Yoshio Fukao
  
  Stagnant slabs in the mantle
• 09:45 to 10:30 - taras Gerya
  
  Subdution modelling: questions and answers
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:45 - Razvan Caracas
  
  Mineral physics in the subduction zone
• 11:45 to 12:30 - Victor Vinograd
  
  Thermodynamics of rutile-based solid solutions from defect-defect interactions
• 12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch Break
• 14:00 to 16:00 - Poster Session
• 19:30 to 22:00 - Dinner

Day 4 - October, 14th 2010

transport properties

• 09:00 to 09:45 - Alessandro Forte
  
  Joint seismic-geodynamic-mineral physical constraints on thermochemical structure, composition and dynamics of Earth's deep mantle
• 09:45 to 10:30 - Patrick Cordier
  
  An overview of High PT plasticity of minerals
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:45 - john Brodholt
  
  Diffusion in mantle minerals from first principles: implications for viscosity, structure and dynamics of the Earth’s lower mantle.
• 11:45 to 12:30 - hana Cizkova
  
  PPV transport properties: dynamic considerations
• 12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch Break
• 14:00 to 14:45 - Stephen Stackhouse
  
  Constraints on the thermal conductivity of the lower mantle from mineral physics
• 14:45 to 15:30 - Nico de Koker
  
  Melts in the Deep Mantle: Insights from First Principles Molecular Dynamics
• 15:30 to 16:00 - Coffee Break
• 16:00 to 16:45 - Lars Stixrude
  
  Molten Earth: Magma in Earth's Deep Interior
• 16:45 to 18:00 - Discussion