| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF THE CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY |
| Discussion Leader: Thorne Lay (University of California at Santa Cruz) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Kei Hirose (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
"Experimental perspectives of the lowermost mantle; phase transition and chemical reaction with the core" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Don Helmberger (California Institute of Technology) |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE CORE |
| Discussion Leader: Bruce Buffett (University of Chicago) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Miaki Ishii (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
"Seismological constraints on the inner core" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Jie Li (University of Illinois)
"Experimental constraints on the lighter element in the core" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Francis Nimmo (University of California at Los Angeles)
"Constraints on core and geodynamo evolution" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | GEOMAGNETIC FIELD AND THE GEODYNAMO |
| Discussion Leader: Cathy Constable (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Andrew Jackson (University of Leeds)
"Observational constraints on the geodynamo from decadal/centennial secular variation" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Johannes Wicht (University of Exeter)
"Geodynamo simulations, recent success, future prospects" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | TEMPERATURE AND COMPOSITION OF THE LOWER MANTLE |
| Discussion Leader: Guy Masters (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Guillaume Fiquet (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)
"Composition and dynamics of the Earth's lower mantle: new challenges for mineral physics" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Guust Nolet (Princeton University)
"What can seismic tomography tell us about plume fluxes?" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Paul Tackley (University of California at Los Angeles) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | THE TRANSITION ZONE |
| Discussion Leader: Barbara Romanowicz (University of California at Berkeley) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Adam Dziewonski (Harvard University)
"Global Tomography of the Transition Zone" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Daniel Frost (Universität Bayreuth)
"Experimental constraints on the depth and sharpness of seismic discontinuities in the transition zone" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PLATE TECTONICS AND DEEP MANTLE STRUCTURE |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Manga (University of California at Berkeley) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Adrian Lenardic (Rice University)
"Cooling the Earth" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | John Lassiter (University of Texas at Austin)
"Constraints on mantle mixing rates from evidence for ancient recycled lithosphere in mantle plumes" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Shijie Zhong (University of Colorado)
"Constraints on Thermochemical Convection of the Mantle from Upwelling-related Observations" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PLANETARY INTERIORS |
| Discussion Leader: Catherine Johnson (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Marc Parmentier (Brown University)
"The aftermath of magma ocean fractional solidification and the longterm evolution of planets" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Sabine Stanley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"What planetary magnetic fields can tell us about their interiors" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | EVOLUTION OF THE MANTLE |
| Discussion Leader: Erik Hauri (Carnegie Institution of Washington) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Al Hofmann (Max Planck Institut für Chemie)
"Smoke signals from the core? - The role of D'' in layered-mantle evolution" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Paul Asimow (California Institute of Technology)
"Melting of upper, middle, and lower mantle" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Don Porcelli (University of Oxford)
"Noble Gas Constraints on Mantle Structure and Evolution" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | UNRESOLVED PROBLEMS |
| Discussion Leader: Abby Kavner (University of California at Los Angeles) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Bernie Wood (Bristol University)
"A petrological view of the current challenges" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | David Stevenson (California Institute of Technology)
"Unresolved Problems: A Geophysical Perspective" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
