Scope and Program

• Saturday, 20. August:
Arrival all over afternoon, check in, Ice breaker in the evening



• Sunday, 21. August: Full day’s program
Global dynamics of the Earth and planets

09:00 Ulrich Christensen, 
Dynamos in the Earth and other planets ( pdf )

10:00 Paul Tackley,
Plate tectonics and thermo-chemical evolution of the mantle ( pdf )

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Mike Gurnis,
Sea level and basin subsidence from global dynamic earth models ( pdf )

12:00 Lunch

14:00 Short (1 Minute, 1 slide) presentation of posters

14:45 Meeting of students with day’s lecturers

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Poster session

18:30 General discussion



• Monday, 22. August: Full day’s program
Early Earth; Subduction initiation; Subduction through Earth history

09:00 Nick Arndt,
Komatiites and the Continental Lithospheric Mantle ( pdf )

10:00 Jeroen van Hunen,
The dynamics of subduction throughout the Earth's history ( pdf )

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Harro Schmeling,
Dynamics of melt segregation and extraction:
from plumes to continental rifting and mid-oceanic spreading ( pdf )

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Short (1 Minute, 1 slide) presentation of posters

14:45 Meeting of students with day’s lecturers

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Poster session

18:30 General discussion

19:00 Dinner



• Tuesday, 23. August:
Half day’s program (morning lectures, afternoon historical excursion)
Seismological and mineral-physics constrains; Links to climate

09:00 Christine Thomas,
Seismic Structures in Earth's mantle ( pdf )

10:00 Shun Karato,
Partial melting, water, rheological properties and the origin of the asthenosphere ( pdf )

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Andrey Ganopolski,
Climate change and geodynamics ( pdf )

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Excursion (bus): Chorin - monastery, Niederfinow - ship lifting monument

19:30 Special dinner after return in the “Botanikum”



• Wednesday, 24. August: Full day’s program
Lithospheric dynamics

09:00 Eugene Burov,
Models of collision and exhumation ( pdf )

10:00 Onno Oncken,
Mountain building at ocean-continent margins - the Andes case ( pdf )

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Ritske Huismans,
Forward Modeling of Rift and Passive Margin Formation
Implications for South, North, and Central Atlantic Margin ( pdf )

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Short (1 Minute, 1 slide) presentation of posters

14:45 Meeting of students with day’s lecturers

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Poster session

18:30 General discussion

19:00 Dinner



• Thursday, 25. August: Half day’s program (morning lectures, afternoon departure)
Melt migration and numerical techniques

09:00 Taras Gerya,
Initiation of subduction and oceanic spreading in nature and models ( pdf )

10:00 Laurent Montesi,
Melt Extraction at Mid-Ocean Ridges
A play in three acts ( pdf )

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Boris Kaus,
EGU keynote presentation
Numerical techniques for thermomechanical-fluid-flow modelling ( pdf )

12:30 Lunch

14:00  Check out and departure, shuttle service to train station