Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

 Seminar Series 2015 

Typically on Wednesdays, 12:00-13:00 (variations may occur).    
Location: NO F 39 (ETH Zentrum Earth Sciences, NO Building, F-floor).


Additional seminars that might be of interest:

Institute of Geophysics Colloquium
Earth and Planetary Magnetism Seminar Series
Computational Seismology Seminar Series
Structural Geology Seminar Series
Additional D-ERDW Events and Colloquia


Schedule FS 2015
January 09
(Fri.)
14:15 - 14:45
NO C 44

PhD defence talk Jie Liao (ETH Zurich, GFD)
Continental rifting to seafloor spreading: Insights from 2D and 3D numerical modeling.

January 13 -
January 16

3rd ELSI International Symposium (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
January 17 Workshop on Dynamics of the Early Earth (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

February 06
(Fri.)
14:30 - 15:30
Sascha Schnepp (ETH Zürich, GFD)
Tutorial: Discontinous Galerkin discretization method: Why would I care about yet another discretization method?

February 10
(Tue.)
12:00 - 13:00

Boris Kaus (Universität Mainz)
Forward and inverse geodynamic modelling of lithospheric deformation.

February 13
(Fri.)
14:30 - 15:30
Dominic Charrier (TU Darmstadt / ETH Zürich)
A family of discontinuous Galerkin methods for studying elasticity and variable viscosity Stokes problems.

February 20
(Fri.)
14:30 - 15:30

Elena Sizova (Universität Graz)
Generation of felsic crust in the Archean: a geodynamic modeling perspective.

February 25
12:00 - 13:00
Cristina Malatesta (Università di Genova)
Simulating oblique intraoceanic subduction through 3D numerical models.

March 04
12:00 - 13:00
Paper discussion: Tectonics on Earth and Venus
Harris & Bédard, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 401, 327-356 (2014)

March 11
12:00 - 13:00

Philippe Yamato (Université de Rennes 1)
Mountain belts: Grains of sand in the gears of the convecting Earth
March 18
12:00 - 12:30

Marie Bocher (Université de Lyon 1)
A sequential data assimilation approach for the joint reconstruction of mantle convection and surface tectonics
March 18
12:30 - 13:00

Claire Mallard (Université de Lyon 1)
Using convection models to understand the origin of the distribution of plate size at the surface of the Earth
March 25
12:00 - 13:00

Adina Püsök (Universität Mainz)
Development of topography in 3D continental collision models
April 01
14:00 - 15:00

Paper discussion: Tectonic overpressure and underpressure in lithospheric tectonics and metamorphism
Gerya, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2015
April 08
12:00 - 13:00

Practice talks EGU
April 12 -  April 17

EGU 2015 (Vienna, Austria)
April 22
12:00 - 13:00

Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni (University College London)
Anatomy, Entrainment and Stretching in Mantle Plumes: An Experimental View
April 24
(Fri.)
15:00 - 16:00

Luc Lavier (University of Texas, Austin)
Possible transient creep events in a brittle-ductile continental crust: observations, experiments and potential models
April 29
12:00 - 13:00

Evangelos Moulas (ETH Zurich, IGP)
Pressure variations from petrology to geodynamic models
May 06
12:00 - 13:00

Paper discussion
tba.
May 13
12:00 - 13:00

Marine Collignon (ETH Zurich, SGT)
Postponed
May 20
12:00 - 13:00

Marine Collignon (ETH Zurich, SGT)
Interactions between surface processes and fold growth in fold and thrust belts: application to the Zagros Fold Belt
May 27
12:00 - 13:00

Laetitia Le Pourhiet (UPMC)
Earthquakes, a plastic static point of view



 
                                        

Contact Dave May for further information.