Sunday, June 28
Session 1 (7:35 - 9:30 PM): Mapping the Upper Mantle, Lithosphere, and Crust
- Discussion Leader: Barbara Romanowicz, University of California, Berkeley
- Walter Mooney, USGS - The Earth's Crust and Uppermost Mantle: A Synthesis of Global Seismic Profiling
- Goran Ekstrom, Harvard University - Mapping the lithosphere and upper mantle with surface waves: Lateral structure and anisotropy
Monday, June 29
Session 2 (9:00 AM - 12:30 PM): Magmatism and the Upper Mantle
- Discussion Leader: Alan Zindler, Florida State University
- Paul Asimow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Petrological and thermodynamic constraints on melt production and migration at mid-ocean ridges
- Donald W. Forsyth, Brown University - Mantle flow and melt distribution beneath a mid-ocean ridge: constraints from the MELT Experiment
- Marc Spiegelman, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Chemistry in motion: geochemical consequences of coupled melt and mantle dynamics
Session 3 (7:30 - 9:30 PM): Poster and video overview
- Discussion Leader: Mary R. Reid, University of California, Los Angeles
Tuesday, June 30
Session 4 (9:00 AM - 12:30 PM): Long term tectonic cycles
- Discussion Leader: Don Anderson, Caltech
- Ian W.D. Dalziel, University of Texas at Austin - Supercontinents: is there a cyclicity, and are there geologic clues to mechanism(s) of assembly and fragmentation?
- Francis Albarede, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon - The geochemical evolution of the mantle and the origins of continental crust
- Geoffrey F. Davies, Australian National University - Thermal evolution of the mantle and the changing tectonic state of the Earth: Insight from dynamic models
Session 5 (7:30 - 9:30 PM): The Continental Lithosphere and Tectosphere
- Discussion Leader: W. Richard Peltier, University of Toronto
- Roberta Rudnick, Harvard University - Composition and Evolution of the Continents
- Paul Silver, Carnegie Institution of Washington - The continental lithosphere: characterizing its structure, mode of deformation, and interaction with the mantle flow field
Wednesday, July 1
Session 6 (9:00 AM - 12:30 PM): Rheology and Deformation of the Lithosphere and Upper Mantle
- Discussion Leader: Jerry X. Mitrovica, University of Toronto
- Mark Simons, Caltech - Spatial variations in crustal and mantle rheology
- Greg Hirth, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Experimental Constraints on the Rheology of the Upper Mantle
- Mary Lou Zoback, USGS - Lithospheric Bouyancy and Geodynarnics
Session 7 (7:30 - 9:30 PM): Poster and video overview
- Discussion Leader: Adrian Lenardic, University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, July 2
Session 8 (9:00 AM - 12:30 PM): Plate Tectonics and Mantle Convection
- Discussion Leader: Richard J. O'Connell, Harvard University
- David Bercovici, University of Hawaii - The generation of plate tectonics from mantle convection
- Joann Stock, Caltech - Plate kinematics from small to large scale, and implications for mantle convection
- Paul Tackley, University of California, Los Angeles - Towards a self-consistent incorporation of plate tectonics in mantle convection models
Session 9 (7:30 - 9:30 PM): Unresolved Problems and Future Directions
- Discussion Leaders: E. Marc Parmentier, Brown University
- Thomas H. Jordon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- John M. Eiler, California Institute of Technology
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