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Spring 2006

Visiting (Colloquium) Speakers

all talks begin at 4:15 p.m. in room 203
unless otherwise noted

 
when who what and where title of talk
Jan 26 Jill Pasteris Professor, Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Washington University "Bioapatite: Tiny mineral with a huge appetite"
Feb 2 Greg Hirth Associate Scientist, Geology and Geophysics Department, Woods Hole Oceanogrphic Institution "Strain localization and earthquakes in the oceanic lithosphere"
Feb 7
Tuesday
Steven Squyres Department of Astronomy, Cornell University "Recent science results from the Mars Exploration Rover project"
Feb 9 none    
Feb 16 Frank Stadermann Departmeny of Physics, Washington University "Presolar grains and the early Solar System"
Feb 23 Uwe Wiechert Senior Assistant, Institute of Isotope Geology and Mineral Resources, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
(ETH-Zentrum), Switzerland
"Non-chondritic magnesium and the origins of the terrestrial planets"
Mar 2 Tracy Rushmer Associate Professor, Department of Geology, University of Vermont "Fe-liquid segregation in deforming planetesimals: implications for chemical and physical differentiation processes in the early solar system"
Mar 9 Meenakshi Wadhwa Curator of Meteorites, Geology Department, The Field Museum, Chicago "Exploration of Moon, Mars and beyond: The perspective from short-lived isotopes"
Mar 16 none spring break & LPSC  
Mar 23      
Mar 30 Greg Erickson Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Vertebrate Paleobiology, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University "Building giants: Unlocking the mysteries of dinosaurian growth patterns"
Apr 6 Ricardo Amils Professor of Microbiology, Department of Molecular Biology, Autonomous University of Madrid  
Apr 13 James Papike
Research Professor and Director Emeritus, Institute of Meteoritics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico Larry A Haskin Memorial Colloquium: "Comparative planetary mineralogy: Implications of martian and terrestrial jarosite. A crystal chemical perspective"
Apr 20 Eric Sandvol Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia "The eastern Turkey seismic experiment: The study of a young continent-continent collision"
Apr 27 none    

Previous Semesters

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