Background

The goal of this workshop is to explore the question of structure, composition, and evolution of Earth's interior in light of recent advances in experimental and observational data. The topics we plan addressing are the origin of the core and mantle, the evolution from the magma ocean to the solid mantle and then to the present Earth, its bulk composition, the extent and scale of its heterogeneities, and innovations in exploratory research. This workshop is co-sponsored by Earth-Life Science Institue and MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "Interaction and Coevolution of the Core and Mantle: Toward Integrated Deep Earth Science". We are planning to have ~35-40 talks and ~20-60 posters.

Venue

Dogo Prince Hotel (Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan)

The meeting will be hosted this autumn at a Japanese hot-spring resort (http://www.dogoprince.co.jp/) located in Matsuyama, on the island of Shikoku.
Access: http://earth.sci.ehime-u.ac.jp/~ichikawa/tmp/Dogo/access.pdf

There is shuttle bus (460 yen (Taxi: ~3000 yen)) from Matsuyama airport to Dogo onsen station (~500 m from Dogo prince hotel) (http://www.iyotetsu.co.jp/bus/global/en/).

The facility is a traditional inn with a hot spring that will facilitate interactions in the official sessions and spare unscheduled time. There will also be opportunity for short excursions to nearby touristical sights in Matsuyama.

Accomodation

~8500 yen per night in Dogo Prince Hotel (with breakfast, ~3 persons in one room) or booking a hotel room in Matsuyama on your own choice (for example, http://www.booking.com/ ).

Conference dinner

November 5th, ~6000 yen.

Deadlines

・Registration (September, 17th)
・Submission of abstract (18:00 (9:00 GMT)) at October, 20th)
Those who has ELSI ID (https://members.elsi.jp), Others (http://members.elsi.jp/signup/ehime-­‐ws-­‐2015?ml_lang=en)

If you are unable to upload your abstract, please send your abstract by email to ws@core-mantle.jp

Contact

Please feel free to contact us below if you have any questions:
ws@core-mantle.jp

Programme

http://core-mantle.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Programme.pdf

Abstracts

http://core-mantle.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Abstract.pdf

Invited speakers

Anat Shahar	Geophysical Lab., Carnegie Inst.　Washington
Dapeng Zhao	Tohoku Univ.
Daisuke Yamazaki	Okayama Univ.
John Brodholt	Univ. College London
Brian Kennett	Australian National Univ.
Steve Dye	Hawaii Pacific Univ.
Eiji Ohtani	Tohoku Univ.
Craig Bina	Northwestern Univ.
Stéphane Labrosse	ENS Lyon
Lauren Waszek	Univ. Cambridge
Ronald Cohen	Carnegie Inst. Washington
Guillaume Morard	Institut de Mineralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condenses

Science Organizing Committee

Scientific chair
George Helffrich	Earth Life Science Institute (Tokyo Tech.)
Tetsuo Irifune	Geodynamics Research Center (Ehime Univ.)
Organizers (GRC/ELSI)
Hiroki Ichikawa	Chair
Steeve Gréaux	Co-chair
Masayuki Nishi
Haruhiko Dekura
Vincenzo Stagno
Wei Du
Takehiro Kunimoto
Xiong Zhihua