General Information:

The Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) is pleased to announce a Workshop on Transport Properties in the Earth's Core to be held 15-18 October 2013 at Kawaguchiko Lake (at the foot of Mt. Fuji, a World Heritage Site). This workshop will be modeled on a previous workshop held in October 2008, on Transport Properties in the Earth's Lower Mantle.

Our motivation for hosting a workshop specifically on transport properties in the core stems primarily from recent upward revisions in estimates of core conductivity, which carries important implications for the dynamics and evolution of the deep Earth. The new conductivity estimates are derived from both numerical and experimental techniques, however, in detail there are still many differences between the findings of various groups. Our goal is to bring together key researchers to discuss both the differences in our results, and to consider together the robustness of upward revisions in core conductivity in the context of their implications for the dynamics of the core and evolution of the deep Earth system. We will compose a special volume following the workshop (likely for PEPI).

Venue:

Wakakusa no Yado Maruei, a hotel onsen located at Kawaguchiko Lake, at the foot of Mt. Fuji. See the following web page for more details:

http://www.japanican.com/hotels/ShisetsuDetail.aspx?st=4258004

Onsen hotel rooms will be shared, 4 people in each room. Food will be Japanese, vegetarian options are available upon request in advance. Please contact us if you have any particular rooming preferences.

October climate at Lake Kawaguchiko is moderately cool, with an average temperature near 12˚C, and typical high/low of 17˚C/7˚C. Elevation is 860 m, and rain falls in about a third of the days in October.

Registration fee:

JPY41,400, which includes accommodation, meals, and coffee at the venue, in addition to ground transportation to/from the airport hotel. Please consult with us if you plan to attend only a portion of the workshop.

NOTE: All attendees must pay this fee directly to the hotel upon arrival, as it is the payment for your room. The hotel accepts cash and credit card.

Presentation Titles/Abstracts:

We will contact you directly regarding presentations and scheduling. There will be a poster session on Thursday night, if you wish to bring a poster please contact us so that we can ensure there will be sufficient space.

Lodging and Transport to/from Narita Airport:

Our chartered bus to the meeting venue will start from, and return to, the Narita Excel Hotel Tokyu, next to Narita Airport. The bus will depart at 9:00AM, please arrive early to avoid delays. If you wish, we can reserve a hotel room at the Narita Excel Hotel Tokyu on the nights of the 14th and/or 18th of October, but you must RSVP in advance so that we can reserve a sufficient number of rooms. The cost is ~JPY9,000 per person per night, breakfast included. Please note: payment is to be made to ELSI staff by cash upon arrival of the workshop venue.

The shuttle bus will also stop near Tokyo Tech in each direction. The bus will depart at 11:00AM, please arrive before 10:45AM to avoid delays. The location of the stop is Building W9 on the Ookayama campus of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, click here for a map of the shuttle stop location.

Preliminary Schedule and Program (Please Note: Tentative Program Only):

Monday, October 14...
Recommended arrival date at Narita Airport. Please double check the arrival date, as you may cross the date line in transit.

Tuesday, October 15...
9AM: Shuttle Bus Departure from Narita Airport Hotel
11AM: Shuttle Bus Stop at Tokyo Institute of Technology
1PM: Arrival and Check-In at Kawaguchiko Hotel
3:30-6PM: Introductory Session (2 talks, 1 hour each)
3:30 Preliminary Remarks, Opening of the Workshop
3:45 Kei Hirose: Measurements of transport properties in a diamond-anvil cell
4:45 Coffee Break
5:00 Bruce Buffett: TBA
6PM: Dinner

Wednesday, October 16...
8AM: Breakfast
9AM-12PM: Oral session 1
9:00 Hitoshi Gomi: Resistivity saturation and the high thermal conductivity of Earth's core
9:30 Kenji Ohta: Resistivity saturation in epsilon-Fe under Earth's core conditions
10:00 Coffee & Discussion
10:30 Alex Goncharov: Laboratory studies of the thermal conductivity of deep Earth materials
11:00 Emma Rainey: High-pressure, high-temperature thermal conductivity of perovskite measured in the laser-heated diamond anvil cell
11:30 Discussion
12PM-2PM: Lunch break
2PM-6PM: Oral Session 2
2:00 Dario Alfé: First principles calculations and the Earth's core
2:30 Monica Pozzo: Transport properties of the Earth's core from first principles simulation
3:00 Coffee & Discussion
3:30 Razvan Caracas: Fe-Si system: a potential major component of the Earth's core
4:00 Matthieu Verstaete: Anharmonic effects under pressure
4:30 Coffee & Discussion
5:00 Wendy Panero: Diffusion and deformation in iron-nickel alloys
5:30 John Brodholt: Anomalous behavior of iron near its melting temperature
6PM: Dinner
8PM: Poster Session

Thursday, October 17...
8AM: Breakfast
9AM-12PM: Oral session 3
9:00 Stéphane Labrosse: Implications of a high and depth-dependent thermal conductivity for stratification of the inner core
9:30 Takashi Nakagawa: Implications for Earth's core dynamics with a stably stratified region below the CMB
10:00 Coffee & Discussion
10:30 Hiroaki Matsui: Numerical model for stratification due to light elements from the CMB in a rotating spherical shell
11:00 David Gubbins: Stratification in the core and implications for core-mantle heat flux
11:30 Discussion
12PM-4PM: Lunch
1PM-4PM: Lava Cave Excursion
4PM-6PM: Oral Session 4
4:00 Christopher Davies: Stable regions in Earth's outer core
4:30 Satoru Tanaka: Seismic studies on the bottom and top of the Earth's outer core
5:00 George Helffrich: Thermophysical and transport properties of core liquids and their relevance to stratification
5:30 Coffee & Discussion
6PM: Dinner
8PM: Poster Session

Friday, October 18...
8AM: Breakfast
9AM-12PM: Oral session 5
9:00 Marine Lasbleis: TBA
9:30 Taku Tsuchiya: CMB heat flow from lower mantle thermal conductivity
10:00 Coffee & Discussion
10:30 JJ Dong: TBA
11:00 Paul Tackley: Implications of high core conductivity for mantle thermo-chemical evolution
11:30 Summary Discussion, Closing Remarks
12PM: Lunch
1PM: Depart for Mt Fuji
5PM: Shuttle Arrives at Tokyo Tech
6PM: Shuttle Arrives at Narita Airport Hotel

Expected Participants:

Dario Alfé (University College, London)
John Brodholt (University College, London)
Bruce Buffett (University of California, Berkeley)
Razvan Caracas (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon)
Christopher Davies (Leeds University)
Haruhiko Dekura (Ehime University)
JJ Dong (Auburn University)
Hitoshi Gomi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Alex Goncharov (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
David Gubbins (Leeds University)
George Helffrich (Bristol University)
John Hernlund (Earth-Life Science Institute)
Kei Hirose (Earth-Life Science Institute)
Hiroki Ichikawa (Earth-Life Science Institute)
Saori Imada (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Chie Kato (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Tetsuya Komabayashi (The University of Edinburgh)
Stéphane Labrosse (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon)
Marine Lasbleis (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon)
Hiroaki Matsui (University of California, Davis)
Takashi Nakagawa (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)
Kenji Ohta (Osaka University)
Wendy Panero (Ohio State University)
Monica Pozzo (University College, London)
Emma Rainey via Skype* (University of California, Los Angeles)
Paul Tackley (ETH-Zürich)
Satoru Tanaka (JAMSTEC)
Shigehiko Tateno (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Matthieu Verstraete (Universite de Liège)
Renata Wentzcovitch (University of Minnesota)
David Yuen (University of Minnesota)

*Emma Rainey has a newborn baby, and cannot travel to the meeting, instead she will give a talk via Skype.