ETH Zürich Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
seminars
seminars
Typically on Wednesdays, 12:00-13:00 (variations might occur).
Location (usually): NO F39 (ETH Zentrum Earth Sciences, NO Building, F-floor)
Autumn semester 2022/2023
Friday 07-October
PhD defense: Anna Gulcher
ETHZ
Wednesday 12-October 12:00-13:00
Dr. Derek Neuharth
ETHZ
Evolution of divergent and strike-slip boundaries in response to surface processes
Wednesday 19-October 12:00-13:00
Professor Sierd A.P.L. Cloetingh
Utrecht University
From the Deep Earth to the surface: thermo-mechanical controls on lithosphere tectonics
Wednesday 26-October 12:00-13:00
Professor Thibault Duretz
Frankfurt University
Frictional plasticity and mechanical anisotropy in geodynamic models
Wednesday 2-November 12:00-13:00
Sidney Beeler
ETHZ
2D Multi Physics Solvers for Geodynamics in Julia using Pseudo Transient Relaxation
Wednesday 16-November 12:00-13:00
Julian Rogger
ETHZ
Plant dispersal and adaptation shape post-degassing climate evolution
Friday 23-November 11:00-14:00
PhD defense: Mingqi Liu
Friday 25-November
Professor Dmitry Garagash
TBA
Dalhousie University
Wednesday 30-November 12:00-13:00
Dr. Diogo Lourenco
TBA
ETHZ
Wednesday 07-December 12:00-13:00
Dr. Luca Dal Zilio
Source-physics of fluid-induced earthquakes
ETHZ
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Previous seminars:
Wednesday 28-September 12:00-13:00
Ting-Ying (Rosen) Yu
Georgia Institute of Technology
The origin of asymmetrical coronae on Venus: insights from topography data and 3D themomechanical modelling
Tuesday 13-September 12:00-13:00
Professor Claudio Faccenna
GFZ Potsdam, Uni Roma TRE, Austin University
Orogeny, mantle dynamics and super continental cycle: Holmes (1931) revisited
Wednesday 15-August 12:00-13:00
Ana Gomez
ETHZ
Subduction dynamics and melt induced weakening control on upper plate deformation: inferences from 2D and 3D modelling
Wednesday 8-June 12:00-13:00
Professor Manuele Faccenda
University of Padova
Mantle dynamics and structure from coupled geodynamic and seismological modelling
Wednesday 1-June 12:00-13:00
Oliver Shah
University of Zurich
A new era for the exploration of Venus
Wednesday 11-May 12:00-13:00
Sandrine Ritter
ETHZ
Reconstructing the initiation of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana subduction zone - a numerical approach
Wednesday 4-May 12:00-13:00
Dr. Andrea Giuliani
ETHZ
Perturbation of the deep-Earth carbon cycle in response
to the Cambrian Explosion
Wednesday 27-April 12:00-13:00
Prof. Julia Ribeiro
Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry
Cycling water throughout the lifetime of a subduction zone
Wednesday 20-April 12:00-13:00
No seminar
Wednesday 13-April 12:00-13:00
Dr. Jonas Ruh
ETHZ
WEAKENING EFFECT OF GRAIN-SIZE REDUCTION IN CRUSTAL AND MANTLE LITHOSPHERIC SHEAR ZONES
Wednesday 06-April 12:00-13:00
Dr. Attila Balazs
ETHZ
Continental and oceanic transform faults or
continents within oceanic transform faults?
Wednesday 30-March 12:00-13:00
Fakhri Bintang
Glasgow University
Numerical modelling of melting and magmatic differentiation in planetesimals
Wednesday 23-March 12:00-13:00
Professor Saskia Goes
Imperial College London
Project VoiLA: Volatile Recycling in the Lesser Antilles Arc
Wednesday 16-March 12:00-13:00
Professor Yury Podladchikov
University of Lausanne
Reactions and phase transitions in geodynamics
Wednesday 09-March 12:00-13:00
Professor Christian Verard
University of Geneva
From plate tectonics to palæogeography: The Panalesis model
Wednesday 02-March 12:00-13:00
Professor Mark Harrison
University of California, Los Angeles
When did Earth become habitable?
Wednesday 23-February 12:00-13:00
Professor João C. Duarte
University of Lisbon
Some new results on subduction initiation and implications for the Atlantic Ocean
Wednesday 16-February 12:00-13:00
Dr. Albert de Montserrat Navarro
ETHZ
Fabric and extrinsic viscous anisotropy evolution of two-phase aggregates and upscaling to global mantle convection
Wednesday 8-December 12:00-13:00
Dr. Benjamin Mills
University of Leeds
Modelling Earth's chemical and climate evolution over deep time
Wednesday 1-December 12:00-13:00
Kar Wai Cheng
ETHZ
Impact-induced Martian Crustal Dichotomy and its Subsequent Evolution.
Tuesday 23-November 15:00-17:00
Luuk van Agtmaal
ETHZ
Research plan defense: Identifying the interactions between the lithosphere, land surface, atmosphere and biosphere: from geodynamic to biogeodynamic models of the Hengduan Mountains area
Friday 19-November 15:00-17:00
Julian Rogger
ETHZ
Research plan defense: The co-evolution of Earth's biosphere, atmosphere and topography over geological time
Wednesday 10-November 12:00-13:00
Rens Elbertsen
Utrecht University & ETHZ
Geoid and topography on Venus: Isostatic or dynamic?
Wednesday 3-November 12:00-13:00
Dr. Ying Qi Wong
ETHZ
Dynamics of two-phase porous, mushy and suspension flows in magmatic systems
Wednesday 27-October 16:00-18:00
Timothy Gray
ETHZ
Research plan defense: The Neoproterozoic transition to modern plate tectonics and complex life
Wednesday 20-October 12:00-13:00
Anna Gülcher
ETHZ
Geodynamic consequences of strain-weakening rheology in Earth’s lower mantle
Wednesday 13-October 12:00-13:00
Professor Serge Lallemand
University of Montpellier
What lessons about the conditions of subduction initiation can be drawn from Cenozoic examples?
Wednesday 06-October 16:00-17:00
Dr. Juliane Dannberg
University of Florida
Coupling of computational thermodynamics and fluid dynamics: Implications for partial melt at the core-mantle boundary and layering of convection
Wednesday 29-September 12:00-13:00
Fabian Kistler
ETHZ
Modelling subduction seismicity on super-Earths
Wednesday 22-September 15:00-16:00
Professor Peter van Keken
Carnegie Institution, USA
Hofmann and White [1982] revisited: geochemical and geophysical consequences of the long-term recycling of oceanic crust
Friday 17-September 15:00-17:00
Jun Yan
ETHZ
PhD defense: Mantle Convection Patterns and the Distribution of Chemical Heterogeneity in Global-scale Geodynamic Models: Predictions vs. Observations
Wednesday 8-September 12:00-13:00
Jiacheng Tian
ETHZ
The influence of a weak crust on Venus tectonics
Wednesday 30-June 12:00-13:00
Dr. Marcel Thielmann
University of Bayreuth
Contributions of Grain Damage, Thermal Weakening, and Necking to Slab Detachment
Wednesday 23-June 12:00-13:00
Jonas Mensch
ETHZ
Climate Effects on Biodiversity: Numerical Modeling
Wednesday 16-June 12:00-13:00
Tobias Meier
Universität Bern
Interior dynamics of tidally-locked super-Earths
Wednesday 09-June 12:00-13:00
Professor Lena Noack
Freie Universität Berlin
Using mantle convection simulations to predict redox-dependent volcanic outgassing rates on early Earth and rocky planets
Wednesday 02-June 12:00-13:00
Dr. Jonas Ruh
ETHZ
Importance of Self-Consistent Grain Size Evolution for Upper Mantle Dynamics
Wednesday 26-May 16:00-17:00
Professor Thorsten Becker
University of Texas at Austin
Deciphering the expressions of mantle convection on surface deformation
Wednesday 19-May 12:00-13:00
Professor Dave May
Scripps Institution, UC San Diego
Quantifying thermal variability in subduction zones via data-driven reduced-order modelling
Wednesday 12-May 12:00-13:00
Hannah Davies
Lisbon University
Is the Earth in a Global tidal maximum? Comparing coupled tidal tectonic modelling results from Earth's past, present, and future
Wednesday 05-May 17:00-18:00
Professor Dave Stegman
Scripps Institution, UC San Diego
A 4.5 billion year symphony of Earth's magnetic field generation
19-30-April
vEGU21 conference
no seminars
Friday 16-April 16:00-17:00
Thomas Schouten
Utrecht University and ETHZ
MSc thesis defense
On the coupling of tectonics and surface processes at a continental corner collision zone: a comparison with the eastern Himalayan syntaxis
Wednesday 7-April 12:00-13:00
Kristof Porkolab
Utrecht University
Extrusion of subducted crust explains the emplacement of far-travelled ophiolites
Wednesday 31-March 12:00-13:00
Dr. Tobias Keller
University of Glasgow
Numerical modelling of multi-phase reaction-transport processes in igneous systems
Wednesday 24-March 12:00-13:00
Dr. Matthew Agius
University of Rome III
Evidence for deep mantle upwelling beneath the equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Wednesday 17-March 12:00-13:00
Dr. Dan J. Bower
University of Bern
Retention of water in magma oceans
Wednesday 10-March 12:00-13:00
Dr. Meng Tian
University of Bern
Porous fluid convection during crustal compaction
Wednesday 3-March 12:00-13:00
Dr. Elenora van Rijsingen
Ecole Normale Superieure Paris
Seismotectonics of the Lesser Antilles subduction: linking short- and long-term observations
Wednesday 24-February 12:00-13:00
Dr. Agnes Kiraly
University of Oslo, CEED
Anisotropic viscosity in the asthenospheric mantle and its geodynamic implications
Wednesday 2021-17-February 12:00-13:00
Professor Alexander Webb
University of Hong Kong
Earth System development from the solid Earth to climate and evolution across the Himalaya
Wednesday 18-November 12:00-13:00
Dr. Allan Leal
ETHZ
Part 1: Reaktoro - an open-source C++/Python framework for modeling chemically reactive systems.
Part 2: On-demand machine learning algorithm for ultra-fast chemical equilibrium/kinetics calculations in reactive transport simulations.
Wednesday 11-November 12:00-13:00
Dr. Fred D. Richards
Imperial College London
Earth’s Dynamic Topography: Implications for Mantle Structure and Sea-Level Records
Wednesday 4-November 12:00-13:00
Dr. Armin Dielforder
Univeristy of Hannover
Megathrust shear force controls mountain height at convergent plate margins
Wednesday 28-October 12:00-13:00
Dominic Stemmler
ETHZ
Biogeodynamics, current state
and ideas
Wednesday 21-October 12:00-13:00
Professor Taras Gerya
ETHZ
Building cratonic keels in Precambrian plate tectonics
Wednesday 14-October 12:00-13:00
Dr. Svetlana Botsyun
Universität Tübingen
How State-of-the-Art Climate Models Can be Useful in Paleoelevation Reconstructions?
Wednesday 7-October 12:00-13:00
Dr. Valentina Magni
University of Oslo, CEED
Subduction and magmatism
Wednesday 30-September 12:00-13:00
Riccardo Reitano
Universita Roma Tre
Analogue and numerical models on the interaction between tectonics and surface processes
Wednesday 23-September 16:00-17:00
Professor Robert Stern
UT Dallas
Biogeodynamics
Wednesday 26-August 12:00-13:00
Patrick Bianchi
ETHZ
Numerical modelling of induced seismicity and faulting in visco-elasto-plastic rocks
Thursday 9-July 17:00-18:00
Anna Gülcher
ETHZ
Towards a recipe of the deep Earth: chemical and rheological heterogeneity in the lower mantle
Wednesday 24-June 12:00-13:00
Dr. Maxim D. Ballmer
Univ. College London
The role of reactive crystallization in the early Earth, and for terrestrial planet evolution
Wednesday 17-June 12:00-13:00
Dr. Nora Liptai
Geophysical Insitute, Sopron, Hungary
Water content in the lithospheric mantle and its effect on physical properties: Applications from the Carpathian-Pannonian region
Wednesday 10-June 12:00-13:00
Jun Yan
ETHZ
Seismic-geodynamic constraints on compositional heterogeneity near the mantle transition zone
Wednesday 27-May 12:00-13:00
Dr. Pietro Sternai
University of Milano-Bicocca
An integrated view of the surface-deep Earth processes coupling: pitfalls and goals
Wednesday 20-May 12:00-13:00
Mingqi Liu
ETHZ
Spatial and temporal distribution of detachment faults at mid-ocean ridge
Wednesday 13-May 12:00-13:00
Dr. Fabio Crameri
University of Oslo, CEED
A trans-disciplinary and community-driven database to unravel subduction zone initiation
Wednesday 22 & 29-April 12:00-13:00
"EGU" practice talks
Wednesday 06-May
no GFD seminar, EGU General Assembly, Vienna
Wednesday 15-April 12:00-13:00, NO F39
Dr. Attila Balázs
ETHZ
The links between deep Earth processes and sedimentary basin evolution: a modelling approach
Wednesday 08-April 12:00-13:00, NO F39
Philip Müller
ETHZ
Implementation of Inertia in a Thermomechanical Viscous Geodynamic Modelling Code
Cancelled
Wednesday 01-April 12:00-13:00, NO F39
Antoine Auzemery
Utrecht University
A comparison of different rheological models for subduction initiation at passive margins
Wednesday 25-March
no GFD seminar, Global Scale Seismic Imaging and Dynamics of the Earth's Mantle
26-27th March, Paris
Thursday 19-March 12:00-13:00, NO F39
Cancelled
Professor Michele Cooke
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The work budget of fault system evolution: Is the Earth Lazy?
Monday 09-March 15:30-16:30, NO D11
Rob Spaargaren
ETHZ
Terrestrial exoplanet compositions and the effects on interior-atmosphere interaction
Wednesday 04-March 12:00-13:00, NO F39
Professor Boris Kaus
Mainz University
Geodynamic inverse modelling to understand the mechanics of the lithosphere
Wednesday 26-February 12:00-13:00, NO F39
Dr. Bradley James Peters
ETHZ
Geodynamical consequences of emerging trends in short-lived radiogenic isotope data for terrestrial mantle-derived rocks
Wednesday 19-February 12:00-13:00, NO F39
Dr. Dániel Kiss
Mainz University, Université de Lausanne
Ductile strain localization by thermal softening, with applications from shear zones to subduction initiation
