SEDI 2024 | Great Barrington, MA | 23-28 June

Program

Maximum poster size is 92 cm wide by 100 cm tall.

Mornings
09:00 – 09:50 Keynote Presentation
09:50 – 10:15 Research Talk
10:15 – 10:40 Research Talk
10:40 – 11:40 Poster Viewing and Coffee Break
11:40 – 12:30 General Discussion

Afternoons
14:15 – 15:05 Keynote Presentation
15:05 – 15:30 Research Talk
15:30 – 15:55 Research Talk
15:55 – 16:55 Poster Viewing and refreshments
16:55 – 17:45 General Discussion

Lunch/ coffee break (1 morning + 1 afternoon) will be on site

June 23 – Sunday

14:00 – 21:00 Conference and on-campus housing check in*
*On-campus housing check in will be available at other times

June 24 – Monday

08:00 – 08:45 Conference check in
08:45 – 09:00 Opening

Session 1 – Upper Mantle: Structure and Chemistry

  • Overview: Magali Billen (UC Davis), An overview of upper mantle rheology and phase transitions in context of subduction dynamics and plate motions
  • Research talk 1: Tolulope Olguboji (Rochester), Seismological constraints on the nature and cause of upper mantle stratification
  • Research talk 2: Oli Shorttle (Cambridge), Monitoring Earth’s mantle with melts
  • Discussion leader 1: Andreas Stracke (Munster)
  • Discussion leader 2: Tine Thomas (Munster)

Session 2 – Lower Mantle and D”: Structure and Chemistry

  • Overview: Jie (Jackie) Li (Michigan), The role of iron in lower mantle heterogeneities
  • Research talk 1: Patrick Cordier (Lille), Deformation mechanisms in the deep mantle
  • Research talk 2: Xin Zhang (U. Science and Technology of China), Lowermost mantle vs. top of the outer core: a tale of seismological stories
  • Discussion leader 1: Stuart Russell (Munster)
  • Discussion leader 2: Yincai Zheng (Houston)

18:00 – 19:00 Conference ice breaker

June 25 – Tuesday

Session 3 – Mantle Dynamics and Earth Evolution

  • Overview: Maureen Long (Yale), New insights into deep mantle dynamics from seismic observations and other constraints
  • Research talk 1: Rita Parai (Wash U), Primordial and recycled noble gas signatures in modern mantle sources
  • Research talk 2: Tobias Keller (ETH), Magmatic processes in planetary bodies: a modelling perspective
  • Discussion leader 1: Carolina Lithgow-Bertollini (UCLA)
  • Discussion leader 2: Juliane Dannberg (Florida)

Session 4 – Geomagnetism, and Outer Core Structure and Chemistry

  • Overview: John Brodholt (UCL), The chemistry of the core-some steps forward and some standing still
  • Research talk 1: Roger Fu (Harvard), Paleomagnetic evidence for a reversing dynamo and active plate tectonics by 3.47 Ga
  • Research talk 2: Andreas Nilsson (Lund), Millennial scale variations in the geomagnetic field and the core surface flow
  • Discussion leader 1: Kenji Ohta (Tokyo Tech)
  • Discussion leader 2: Peter Driscoll (Carnegie)

18:00 – 19:00 SEDI Business Meeting (everyone is welcome)

June 26 – Wednesday

Session 5 – Outer Core Dynamics

  • Overview: Julien Aubert (IPGP), New core messages: dynamical interpretations of geomagnetic variations across timescales
  • Research talk 1: Celine Guervilly (Newcastle), Fingering convection in the stable layers of planetary cores
  • Research talk 2: Mathieu Bouffard (Nantes), Stratified layers in the outer core: a window into key processes of the formation and evolution of the Earth
  • Discussion leader 1: Binod Sreenivasan (Indian Inst. of Sci.)
  • Discussion leader 2: Jon Mound (Leeds)

Afternoon – Excursion (information on Excursion page, sign-up sheets on Google form on Excursion page)

18:00 – 22:00 Conference Dinner

June 27 – Thursday

Session 6 – Inner Core

  • Overview: Keith Koper/Guanning Pang (Utah), Recent seismic results on the fine scale structure of the inner core in space and time
  • Research talk 1 (Zatman lecture): Thanh-Son Pham (ANU), An estimate of absolute shear wave speed in the Earth’s inner core by the coda-correlation wavefield
  • Research talk 2: Daniele Antonangeli (Sorbonne), Sound velocities and thermoelastic properties of iron and iron alloys at Earth’s inner core conditions
  • Discussion leader 1: Chris Davies (Leeds)
  • Discussion leader 2: Arwen Deuss (Utrecht)

Session 7 – Boundary Layers (ICB, CMB, MTZ)

  • Overview: Rebecca Fischer (Harvard), Boundary layers and their implications for the deep Earth’s thermal structure, dynamics, and composition
  • Research talk 1: Sidao Ni/Yulin Chen (Chinese Acad. Sci.), Fine structure of boundaries of the Earth’s core
  • Research talk 2: Fred Wilson (Leeds), Evolution of the inner core boundary: nucleation and growth of the inner core
  • Discussion leader 1: Stephane Labrosse (ENS Lyon)
  • Discussion leader 2: George Helffrich (ELSI)

June 28 – Friday

Session 8 – Interiors of Other Planets and Moons

  • Overview: Attilio Rivoldini (Royal Obs. Belgium), Structure and evolution of large moons and small planets of the solar system
  • Research talk 1: Alex Evans (Brown), Fate and consequences of the lunar magma ocean
  • Research talk 2: Seth Jacobson (Michigan St), Accreting a heterogeneous mantle: water as a case study
  • Session leader 1: Mark Panning (JPL)
  • Session leader 2: Krista Soderlund (UT Austin)

12:30 End of Meeting