Departmental Seminars, Earth Science and Engineering,
Autumn 2011 & Spring 2012
Departmental Seminars
Earth Science and Engineering
Unless otherwise stated, seminars take place in the Royal School of Mines Building, Prince Consort Road, Room G41, on Thursdays, 1 - 2 pm.
Tea and coffee are provided at lunchtime seminars. Late seminars are followed by a reception.
Autumn 2011
| Date | Room | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05 Oct 4:30pm | G41 | Jan Cilliers (Imperial College London) | Fine Foams & Fabulous Froths: Measurement, Modelling and Optimisation for Better Flotation |
| 13 Oct 1:00pm | G41 | POSTPONED Georgina Mace (Imperial College London) | Climate geo-engineering – what would it do to biodiversity and ecosystems? |
| 20 Oct 1:00pm | G41 | Richard Pancost (University of Bristol) | The response of climate and biogeochemical cycles to past global warming: An organic geochemical perspective |
| 27 Oct 1:00pm | G41 | Francis Albarède (Ecole Normale Supérieure (LST)) | Origin of water in the Earth and other planets |
| 03 Nov 5:00pm | G41 | Jon Blundy (University of Bristol) | Chemical recycling in subduction zones |
| 10 Nov 1:00pm | G41 | Mark Wieczorek (IPGP) | Lunar Magnetism: A by-product of basin forming impacts? |
| 17 Nov 1:00pm | G41 | Lisa McNeill (NOC, Southampton) | Structure and seismogenic behavior of the Sumatran subduction zone |
| 24 Nov 1:00pm | G41 | Bruce Levell (Shell) | Current Exploration challenges and technologies to overcome them |
| 01 Dec 1:00pm | G41 | Duncan Wingham (UCL) | A tale of two poles |
| 08 Dec 5:00pm | G41 | Simon Kohn (University of Bristol) | A journey to the lower mantle and back. What diamonds and their inclusions can tell us about the fate of subducted slabs. |
| Huxley Lecture 15 Dec 5:15pm | 1.31 | Stephen Sparks (University of Bristol) | Volcanoes and their Impact on Society |
Spring 2012
| Date | Room | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Jan 1:00pm | G41 | Paul Bown (University College London) | Tanzania Drilling Project - 120 million years of exceptional fossil and palaeoclimate record |
| 26 Jan 1:00pm | G41 | Cinzia Farnetani (IPGP) | Hotspots: a window into the earth's mantle |
| 02 Feb 1:00pm | G41 | Paul Wignall (University of Leeds) | Permian mass extinctions: death by fire |
| 09 Feb 1:00pm | G41 | Patience Cowie (University of Bergen) | Slip rate variations on normal faults: observations, explanations and implications |
| 16 Feb 5:00pm | G41 | Conall Mac Niocaill (University of Oxford) | The Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth: defrosting some of the myths |
| 23 Feb 1:00pm | G41 | Georgina Mace (Imperial College London | Climate geo-engineering – what would it do to biodiversity and ecosystems? |
| 01 Mar 1:00pm | G41 | John-Paul Latham (Imperial College London) | Coastal Structures - How Shape and Size Matters |
| 08 Mar 1:00pm | G41 | Jonathan Bull (NOC, Southampton) | Diffuse plate boundaries in the Indian Ocean and implications for the Indian Monsoon and Tibetan uplift |
| 15 Mar 5:00pm | G41 | David Hodell (University of Cambridge) | Palaeoclimate of Lowland Central America during the Last Glacial Period |
| 22 Mar 1:00pm | G41 | Fausto Ferraccioli(British Antarctic Survey) | Interior East Antarctica unveiled from aerogeophysical exploration |
For further details contact Tina van de Flierdt: tina.vandeflierdt@imperial.ac.uk
