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Fall 2003

Visiting (Colloquium) Speakers

all talks begin at 4:15 p.m. in McDonnell Hall room 362
unless otherwise noted

  
when who what and where title of talk
Aug 28 Ray Arvidson James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Chairman, Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis “The 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Spirit and Opportunity”
Sep 4 Slava Solomatov Associate Professor, Department of Physics, New Mexico State University “Mantle Convection with Realistic Rheologies”
Sep 11      
Sep 18 Alan Whittington Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri – Columbia
 “Hot Rocks in High Places: Exhumation, Metamorphism and Melting in the Western Himalaya”
Sep 25 Anne Hofmeister Research Professor, Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Washington University “Implications of Variable Thermal Conductivity on the Internal Workings of the Earth”
Oct 2 Paul Hoffman Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University “Snowball Earth: Testing the Limits of Global Change”
Oct 9      
Oct 16 J. Dykstra Eusden, Jr. Assistant Professor, Geology Department, Bates College
 “Strain Partitioning and Structural Geology in the Presidential Range of New Hampshire”
Oct 23      
Oct 30 Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor “Earth under stress: Mantle Flow, Plate Dynamics, and Surface Deformation”
Nov 6      
Nov 13 Jeremy Bloxham Professor of Geophysics and Chair, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University Stephen Zatman Memorial Colloquium: “Waves in the Earth's Core”
Nov 20 Allen McNamara Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado “Dislocation Creep Induced Seismic Anisotropy Near the Core-Mantle Boundary”

Nov 24
(Monday) 		Frederik Simons Beck Postdoctoral Fellow, Council on Science and Technology; Hess Postdoctoral Fellow, Geosciences Department, Princeton University “Structure and Geodynamic Evolution of the Continental Lithosphere from Seismic and Gravitational Anomalies, and How Marine Data Collection Will Benefit Us All”
Nov 27 none Thanksgiving  
Dec 4 none?    
Dec 16
NOON, Cori Auditorium McDonnell Science
Building, Medical School		 Dianne Newman Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of
Geobiology and Environmental Science,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology		 “How Bacteria Make Magnetite”

To view the list from previous semesters, edit the URL in your browser window by adding, for example, _s01 or _f02 after the word colloquia  For example http://epsc.wustl.edu/admin/whatsnew/colloquia_f02.html will yield the schedule for the fall of 2002. 
Last revised:
29-Dec-2003 		 
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