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Workshop on Transport Properties in the Earth's Core

Date
October 15, 2013 - October 18, 2013
Time
09:00
Room

Wakakusano yado Maruei, Kawaguchiko

Workshop on Transport Properties in the Earth's Core
15-18 October 2013
In Wakakusano yado Maruei, Kawaguchiko

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Title Presenter
15 Oct
9:00 Shuttle Bus Departure from Narita Airport Hotel
11:00 Shuttle Bus Departure from Tokyo Institute of Technology
14:00 Arrival and Check-In at Kawaguchiko Hotel
lunch
15:30 Preliminary Remarks, Opening of the Workshop
15:45 Measurements of transport properties in a diamond-anvil cell Kei Hirose
16:45 coffee/tea break
17:00 TBA Bruce Buffett
18:00 Dinner
16 Oct
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Resistivity saturation and the high thermal conductivity of Earth's core Hitoshi Gomi
9:30 Resistivity saturation in epsilon-Fe under Earth's core conditions Kenji Ohta
10:00 coffee/tea break and discussion
10:30 Laboratory studies of the thermal conductivity of deep Earth materials Alex Goncharov
11:00 High-pressure, high-temperature thermal conductivity of perovskite measured in the laser-heated diamond anvil cell Emma Rainey
11:30 Discussion
12:00 Lunch
14:00 First principles calculations and the Earth's core Dario Alfé
14:30 Transport properties of the Earth's core from first principles simulation Monica Pozzo
15:00 coffee/tea break and discussion
15:30 Fe-Si system: a potential major component of the Earth's core Razvan Caracas
16:00 Anharmonic effects under pressure Matthieu Verstaete
16:30 coffee/tea break and discussion
17:00 Diffusion and deformation in iron-nickel alloys Wendy Panero
17:30 Anomalous behavior of iron near its melting temperature John Brodholt
18:00 Dinner
20:00 Poster Session
17 Oct
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Implications of a high and depth-dependent thermal conductivity for stratification of the inner core Stéphane Labrosse
9:30 Implications for Earth's core dynamics with a stably stratified region below the CMB Takashi Nakagawa
10:00 coffee/tea break and discussion
10:30 Numerical model for stratification due to light elements from the CMB in a rotating spherical shell Hiroaki Matsui
11:00 Stratification in the core and implications for core-mantle heat flux David Gubbins
11:30 Discussion
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Lava Cave Excursion
16:00 Stable regions in Earth's outer core Christopher Davies
16:30 Seismic studies on the bottom and top of the Earth's outer core Satoru Tanaka
17:00 Thermophysical and transport properties of core liquids and their relevance to stratification George Helffrich
17:30 coffee/tea break and discussion Open Discussion
18:00 Dinner
20:00 Poster Session
18 Oct
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 TBA Marine Lasbleis
9:30 TBA JJ Dong
10:00 coffee/tea break and discussion
10:30 Implications of high core conductivity for mantle thermo-chemical evolution Paul Tackley
11:00 Summary Discussion, Closing Remarks
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Depart for Mt Fuji
17:00 Shuttle Arrives at Tokyo Tech
19:00 Shuttle Arrives at Narita Airport Hotel

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 (JAMSTEC)
Kenji Ohta (Osaka University)
Wendy Panero (Ohio State University)
Monica Pozzo (University College, London)
Paul Tackley (ETH-Zürich)
Satoru Tanaka (JAMSTEC)
Shigehiko Tateno (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Matthieu Verstraete (Universite de Liège)
David Yuen (University of Minnesota)