EPM Group Seminars

Location: ETH Zentrum, NO F39,  15.45-16.45 on date mentioned (unless stated otherwise).

 

 

 

To the new list of seminars



Autumn 2009

 

 

 

 

Date

Topic

Speaker

Affiliation

 

 

 

 

Thurs 17th December

No Seminar - AGU

 

 

Thurs 3rd December

Paper discussion

Andy/Jakub/Michalis

 

Thurs 19th November

Using rock magnetic techniques in material science

Ann Hirt

EPM Group
ETHZ

Thurs 5th November

Paper Discussion

Andrey/Alexey/Jessica

 

Thurs 29th October

A time-dependent model of the Earth's magnetic field and its temporal change for the period 1957 to 2007

Ingo Wardinski

GFZ
Potsdam

Thurs 22nd October

3-D Imaging of the mid-mantle conductivity based on inversion of ground-based C-responses

Alexey Semenov

EPM Group
ETHZ

Thurs 15th October

Continuous Geomagnetic Field Models for 0-3ka and the influence of Data Types and Selection Criteria

Fabio Donadini

EPM group

ETH Zurich

Thurs 8th October

EPR/FMR spectroscopy:a different look at magnetite particles

Andreas Gehring


EPM Group

ETH Zurich

Thurs 1st October

Paper Discussion

Chris/Alexei/Sanja

 

Thurs 24th September

Magnetic spherical Couette flow

Xing Wei


EPM Group

ETH Zurich

Fri 18th September (at 14.00)

Estimation of the magnetotelluric transfer function under the influence of the Sq current system in mid latitudes

Friedrich Maier


Student from Uni. Goettingen

Fri 18th September (at 14.30)

Modeling of the Geomagnetic Field at the Core Surface from Historical Data - The U.S. Maury Collection

Bryan Grob


MSc Student, ETHZ

Thurs 10th September

Using submarine cables as a sensor for the Earth's electric field

Hisashi Utada

 

Univ. Tokyo

Thurs 3rd September

Paper Discussion

Phil/Reto/Hakon

 

Thurs 13th August

Variational data assimilation and quasi-geostrophic models of core SV

Elisabeth Canet

LGIT, Grenoble

 

Spring 2009

 

 

 

 

Thurs 25th June

SWARM science meeting

 

 

Thurs 11th June

Bistability and hysteresis of dipolar dynamos generated by turbulent convection in rotating spherical shells.

Radostin Simitev

 

Dept. Math., Univ. Glasgow

Thurs 4th June

Paper discussion

Philippe/Amir/Andreas

 

EPM Group, ETHZ

Thurs 14th May

Visit to Grenoble DTS experiment

 

 

Thurs 7th May

Seismological constraints on the core

James Wookey

 

Dept. Earth Sciences, Univ. Bristol

Thurs 30th April

Structure formation in rapidly rotating turbulence

Peter Davidson


Univ. Cambridge

Thurs 23rd April

On mantle heterogeneity and anisotropy as mapped by inversion of global surface wave data

Amir Khan

Univ. Copenhagen

Thurs 16th April

Magnetic Storm video

 

 

Thurs 9th April

Paper discussion

Xing/Jakub/Bjarne

 

EPM Group, ETHZ

Thurs 2nd April

Focus Terra opening day

 

 

Thurs 26th March

Waves and torsional oscillations in Earth's core: A review

Chris Finlay

 

EPM Group, ETHZ

Thurs 19th March

Imaging Earth's crustal magnetic field

Reto Stockmann

 

EPM Group, ETHZ

Thurs 12th March

Provenance study of deeply buried Jurassic sandstones: a combined geochemical, spectroscopic and magnetic approach

Hakon Fischer

 

EPM Group, ETHZ

Thurs 5th March

Paper discussion

Kuan/Alexey/Vahid

 

EPM Group, ETHZ

Thurs 26th Feb

Swiss-Russian EM Seminar

 

 

Thurs 19th Feb

Progress on modelling the geodynamo: Tailored Taylor states

Phil Livermore

IGPP, Scripps Institute of Oceanography

Thurs 12th Feb

Towards 3-D inversion of global ground-based induction data.

Alexey Semenov

 

EPM Group, ETHZ

Thurs 5th Feb

Paper Discussion

Chris/Alexei/Ann

 

EPM Group ETHZ

Thurs 29th Jan

Maxwell stresses on the inner core

Philippe Marti

 

EPM Group, ETHZ

Thurs 22nd Jan

Looking into D'' from CHAMP's perspective

Jakub Velimsky

 

EPM Group, ETHZ

Thurs 15th Jan

Ensemble core flow inversion

Nicolas Gillet

 

Univ. Grenoble

Thurs 8th Jan

Convection in a rapidly rotating spherical shell with an imposed laterally varying thermal boundary condition

Chris Davies

 

Univ. Leeds

 

 

Autumn 2008

 

 

 

Thurs 11th Dec

A magnetometer station on Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Anomaly: Motivation, concept and first results

Juergen Matzka

 

Danish Meteorological Institute

Thurs 4th Dec

Elastic properties of synthetic calcite-muscovite aggregates

Bjarne Almqvist

 

EPM Group, ETHZ

Thurs 27th Nov

No seminar

 

 

Thurs 20th Nov

No seminar, move to ETH Zentrum

 

 

Thurs 13th Nov

Can the thermal stability of maghemite be used as proxy for climate reconstruction?

Andreas Gehring

 

EPM Group ETHZ

Thurs 6th Nov at 10.30am

Magnetic data inversion using iterative image deconvolution tools

Andrea Zunino

 

Applied Geophysics, Universita' degli Studi di Genova

Thurs 30th Oct

Fast Spherical Transforms

Kuan Li

 

EPM Group, ETHZ

Thurs 23rd Oct

On estimation of flow magnitudes in planetary cores from magnetic observations

Chris Finlay

 

EPM Group, ETHZ

Thurs 16th Oct

Mantle electrical conductivity estimates from geomagnetic jerk observations

Katia Pinheiro

 

EPM Group, ETHZ

Thurs 9th Oct

Cancelled

 

 

Thurs 2nd Oct

Geomagnetic data assimilation

Weija Kuang

 

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Thurs 25th Sept

Recent geomagnetic observatory installations and plans for new observatories

Alexei Kuvshinov

EPM Group, ETHZ

Thurs 18th Sept

Model of the geomagnetic field of the Balkan Peninsula

Sanja Panovska

Univ. Stip, Macedonia

Thurs 11th Sept

Applications of Paraview

Martha Evonuk

 

Univ. Bayreuth

Wed 10th Sept (10.30am)

Data visualization support for Geophysics

Jean Favre

 

CSCS

Tues 9th Sept

Accounting for magnetic diffusion in core flow inversions from geomagnetic secular variation

Hagay Amit

 

IPG, Paris

Thurs 21st Aug

Spatiospectral estimation on a sphere in geophysics and seismology

Frederik Simons

 

Princeton

 

Spring 2008

 

 

 

Thurs 26th June

Waves in spherical couette simulations

Erik Spence

EPM Group

ETH Zurich

Tues 24th June(10am)

Geomagnetic variation : from hourly to archeomagnetic data

Sebastien Allgeyer

IPG

Univ. Paris

Fri 6th June (10am)

A Toy Model of Geodynamo driven by Large Scale Helical Wave

Xing Wei

 

University of Cambridge

Thurs 29th May (4pm)

Numerical studies of turbulent dynamo action in a mechanically forced, bounded flow in spherical geometry

Klaus Reuter

Institut fur Plasmaphysik

(Max Planck, Munich)

Thurs 22nd May

Elliptical instability of a homogenous vortex: Nonlinear theory & Magnetic field effects

Wietz Herreman

IRPHE

Marsaille

Thurs 8th May

Combinatorial analysis of inversion algorithms

Klaus Mosegaard

Niels Bohr Institute

University of Copenhagen

Thurs 24th April

Reversing numerical dynamos driven by either differential or volumetric heating

Jon Rotvig

EPM Group

ETH Zurich

Fri 18th April

Sun, Sea and Spectral Methods

Phil Livermore

 

UCSD, Scripps

Thurs 10th April

Are the SNC meteorites really from Mars ? - A geophysical perspective

Amir Khan

EPM Group

ETH Zurich

Thurs 13th March

Numerical Investigation of a Simplified Geodynamo Model

Tom Lebrat

Nonlinear Physics Group

ENS, Paris

Thurs 6th March (at 4pm)

On the adjoint problem formulation in the EM induction modelling and elsewhere

Jakub Velimsky

EPM Group

ETH Zurich

Thurs 28th Feb (at 10.30am)

Paleomagnetic information from polar ice cores and tree rings

Juerg Beer

EAWAG

Thurs 21st Feb (at 4pm)

A tale of two Taylors

Andy Jackson and Erik Spence

EPM Group

ETH Zurich

Thurs 14th Feb

Understanding Backus Filter Theory

Katia Pinheiro

EPM Group

ETH Zurich

Thurs 7th Feb (at 2pm)

Thermal convection and vorticity generation in a fully convective density-stratified giant planet

Martha Evonuk

EPM Group

ETH Zurich

Thurs 31st Jan

Structural setting and magnetic fabrics of the Morcles Nappe

Bjarne Almqvist

EPM Group

ETH Zurich

Thurs 24th Jan 

(H3 at 2pm)

A new theory for infra-red spectroscopy: quantitative absorbance from unpolarised light

Malcolm Sambridge

Research School of Earth Sciences

Australian National University

 

 

Autumn 2007

 

 

 

 

Thurs 13th Dec

Reconstructing the response of an arctic glacier to changes in climate forcing

Oyvind Paasche

Visitor at ETH,

from Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research 

Norway

Thurs 6th Dec

Magnetic Fingerprint for Holocene Climate Change in a High Alpine Lake: an Example of Enviromagnetism

Ann Hirt

EPM group

ETH Zurich

Thurs 29th Nov

Towards the understanding of the magnetization of a hemo-ilmenite solid solution

Andreas Gehring

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 22nd Nov

Morphologies of conductive structures inside and around the Las Canadas caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands), using AMT

Nicolas Coppo

Group of Geomagnetism 

Univ. of Neuchatel

Thurs 8th Nov

Synchronized Post-Glacial Colonization of Magnetotactic Bacteria

Oyvind Paasche

Visitor at ETH,

from Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research 

Norway

Thurs 1st Nov

Boundary layer effects in magnetized Taylor-Couette flow

Mark Nornberg

MRI Experiment Group 

Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

Thurs 25th Oct

Waves in the presence of magnetic fields, rotation and convection

Chris Finlay

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 18th Oct

A Brief History of Liquid-Metal Dynamo Experiments

Erik Spence

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 11th Oct

Inversion of geophysical data for planetary composition and thermal state

Amir Khan

Visitor at ETH,

from Niels Bohr Insitute,

Univ. of Copenhagen

Thurs 4th Oct

The inner core: how old is it?

Andy Jackson, Paul Tackley and Jon Rotvig

EPM/GFD groups 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 27th Sept

Non-linear conjugate gradient electromagnetic inversion for the spherical Earth

Anna Kelbert

College of Ocean and Atmosphere Sciences

Oregon State University

Thurs 20th Sept

Open questions in global seismic tomography: mantle plumes, the Earth's core, and banana-doughnuts

Lapo Boschi

SEG group 

ETH Zurich

 

 

Spring 2007

 

 

 

 

 

Tues 26th June

Practise talks for IUGG/IAGA

Group members

EPM Group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 14th June (at 4 pm)

The difficulty of using spectral methods in full sphere calculations: what's the problem, and what to do about it

Phil Livermore

Fluids Dynamics Group 

Applied Maths, Univ of Leeds

Tues 5th June

Magnetization of solid solutions caused by interactions?

Andreas Gehring

EPM Group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 31st May (at 4pm)

Core flow inversion and intermediate length-scales of the core dynamics

Nicolas Gillet

Inst. Geophys. Tect 

Univ. Leeds

Thurs 10th May

Data analysis of geomagnetic jerks

Katia Jasbinchek

EPM Group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 3rd May

Quasi-1D focused inversion of spatially distributed suite of EM data

Oleg Pankratov

Inst. Terr. Mag. 

Moscow

Thurs 26th April

Magnetic polarity reversals

Bill Lowrie

EPM Group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 12th April

On induction effects of geomagnetic daily variations from EEJ and Sq sources at low and middle latitudes

Alexei Kuvshinov

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Mon 2nd April

Earth core evolution and the geodynamo (at Planet Z, Comparative Planetology workshop)

Jon Rotvig

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Mon 2nd April

Dynamics of Giant Gaseous Planets: Jupiter, Saturn and the Exoplanets (at Planet Z, Comparative Planetology workshop)

Martha Evonuk

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 3rd March

Archaeomagnetic jerks: Fact or fiction

Chris Finlay

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 22th Feb

Geomagnetic field models designed for retrieval of core velocities

Andy Jackson

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 15th Feb

Rock magnetic properties and the Paleomagnetic Record of early Holocene Lacustrine Sediments from Strawberry Creek, NW Ontario, Canada

Bjarne Almqvist

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Fri 9th Feb

Magnetic Interaction in Fine Particle Systems

Ann Hirt

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 25th Jan

Integral equation approach for 3D modeling of EM fields

Alexey Kuvshinov

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 18th Jan

The joy of spectra methods (but the sphere is a difficult object)

Andrew Jackson

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

 

 

Autumn 2006

 

 

 

 

 

Thurs 7th Dec

EPR spectroscopy as a tool to study natural magnetite

Hakon Fischer

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 30th Nov

An introduction to numerical simulations and its application to the Madison Dynamo Experiment

Erik Spence

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Mon 20th Nov

Mantle electrical conductivity and geomagnetic jerks

Katia Jasbinchek

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 9th Nov

Zonal flows in rapidly rotating convection

Jon Rotvig

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 2nd Nov

Low temperature magnetic properties of a natural hemo-ilmenite solid solution: an experimental approach

Andreas Gehring

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 26th Oct

Trans-dimensional inverse problems and the evidence

Andrew Jackson

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Fri 20th Oct

Modeling giant planets with stable layers and non-spherical geometry

Martha Evonuk

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Mon 2nd Oct

Consistent & Logical Data Analysis Part 2

Andrew Jackson

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Fri 29th Sept

Consistent & Logical Data Analysis Part 1

Andrew Jackson

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 28th Sept

Experimental and numerical studies of nonlinear (magneto)convection in a rapidly rotating spherical shell

Nicolas Gillet

Univ of Leeds, UK

Thurs 21th Sept

Measurement of diamagnetic fabrics in carbonate rocks

Volkmar Schmidt

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 14th Sept

Progress towards a new historical field model

Chris Finlay

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

Thurs 7th Sept

Constraints on the energy budget of the core from geomagnetism & geodesy

Andrew Jackson

EPM group 

ETH Zurich

 

 

 

 

Back to EPM home page

Maintained by cfinlay@erdw.ethz.ch