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Bullard Seminars
The seminars take place every Wednesday at 4.30 during term time at
the Bullard Labs, University of Cambridge. Talks last about 45 minutes on average and cover the entire range
of geophysics. If you have any comments, or recommendations for future speakers, please
mail me.
Lent Term 1998
- 13 January
- Dr Paul Bishop (Glasgow)
- The evolution of passive continental margins: Lessons from
the long-term geomorphological history of SE Australia
- 20 January
- Dr Mark Taylor (Bullard)
- Upper plate stressing and seismicity in the subduction earthquake cycle
- 27 January
- Dr Andy Jackson (Leeds)
- Kelvin's Theorem in Magnetohydrodynamics, and its
Application to the Dynamics of the Earth's Core
- 3 February
- Prof Jean-Pierre Hansen (Chemistry, Cambridge)
- Metallic Hydrogen: theoretical speculations and astrophysical
applications
- 10 February
- Dr Chris Richardson (Bullard)
- Fusing compaction and thermodynamics
- 17 February
- Dr Alexei Poliakov (Montpellier)
- Faulting and Origin of Abyssal Hills in the Mid-Ocean Ridges
- 24 February
- Dr Chris Chapman (Schlumberger Research)
- An efficient method for calculating finite-difference seismograms
after model alterations
- 3 March
- Dr Sanjeev Gupta (Imperial)
- Fault growth controls on syn-rift sedimentation: Insights from the Miocene
Suez Rift
- 10 March
- Dr Kerry Gallagher (Imperial)
- Inverse basin modelling
- 17 March
- Prof Tony Watts (Oxford)
- Observations of flexure and the rheology of
the lithosphere
Michaelmas Term 1998
- 7 October
- Dr Penny Barton (Bullard)
- A new method for analysing wide-angle seismic data
- 14 October
- Dr Judith Bunbury (Cambridge)
- Investigating fault movements from volcanic events: implications for
fault development
- 21 October
- Dr Richard Holme (Edinburgh)
- Electromagnetic core-mantle coupling
- 28 October
- Dr Cindy Ebinger (Leeds)
- Cenozoic magmatism in Africa: one plume? Two plumes?
- 4 November
- Dr Roger Bilham (Colorado)
- Indo-Asian Collision - a Geodetic view of the Dark Side of the Himalaya
- 11 November
- Dr Peter van der Beek (t.b.c.) (Grenoble)
- Modelling the geomorphic evolution of
high-elevation rifted margins in S Africa and SE Australia
- 18 November
- Dr Moritz Fliedner (Bullard)
- FLARE: imaging through basalt continued - internal structure of basalt
flows
- 25 November
- Dr Satish Singh (Bullard)
- Hydrothermal circulation and melt-mush
segmentation within the magma chamber beneath EPR
- 2 December
- Prof George Helffrich (Bristol)
- Exploring the Earth with arrays of
100s of seismometers: Subduction zone temperatures and a lump in the lower
mantle
Easter Term 1998
- 22 April
- Dr Bryan Lovell (Bullard)
- Can we take the pulse of a plume by counting pulses of
sand deposition?
- 29 April
- Prof Pall Einarsson (Bullard)
- Seismic signatures of magma chambers: Case histories
from Torfajokull, Hromundartindur and Bardarbunga, Iceland
- 6 May
- Prof Douglas Gough(Astronomy, Cambridge)
- Seismology of the Sun
- 13 May
- Dr Nancye Dawers (Edinburgh)
- Spatial and Temporal Development of Normal Faults: Insights from Field
Studies and 3-D Seismic Investigations
- 27 May
- Dr Jon Blundy (Bristol)
- Trace element partitioning:a general model and its application to
mantle melting
- 3 June (to be confirmed)
- Prof John Platt (UCL)
- Petrological and geophysical constraints on the origin
of the Alboran Sea extensional basin (W. Mediterranean)
Lent Term 1998
- 21 Jan
- Dr Sally Gibson (Cambridge)
- The opening of the South Atlantic and melt generation
- 28 Jan
- Dr Steve Constable (Scripps)
- The Marine Magnetotelluric Method for Petroleum Exploration
- 4 Feb
- Dr Javier Escartin (Edinburgh)
- Mechanical properties and abundance of
serpentinized peridotites in the oceanic crust
- 11 Feb
- Dr Alan Roberts (Badley Earth Sciences)
- Extension and Subsidence at the Norwegian Atlantic margin: the
case for depth-dependent stretching
- 18 Feb
- Dr Jurgen Fruehn (Bullard)
- FLARE - Faroes Large Aperture Research Experiment - Imaging
through basalt
- 25 Feb
- Dr Ellen Stofan (UCL/JPL)
- Impact craters and the Venus stratigraphic record
- 4 March
- Dr Andrew Roberts (Southampton)
- t.b.a.
- 11 March
- Dr Peter Clarke (Oxford)
- Geodetic studies of active deformation in Greece
- 18 March
- Dr Karin Andreassen (Bullard)
- Natural gas hydrates from offshore
Norway, as inferred from seismic data
Michaelmas Term 1997
- 15 Oct
- Dr Peter Burgess (Liverpool)
- Roller coaster continents, subducting slabs and
the stratigraphic sequences of North America
- 22 Oct
- Prof Robert Hall (Royal Holloway)
- Cenozoic plate tectonics of SE Asia and the SW Pacific
- 29 Oct
- Dr Francis Nimmo (Bullard)
- Mechanical properties of the Venusian mantle
- 5 Nov
- Prof Derek York (Toronto)
- Dating of the Popigai impact event:
Eocene/Oligocene
boundary
- 12 Nov
- Dr Richard England (Bullard)
- Basement reactivation and basin development on the UK
continental shelf: a synthesis of observations from the BIRPS dataset
- 19 Nov
- Dr Joe Cartwright (Imperial)
- 3D seismic investigations of the relationships between
faulting and fluid flow in sedimentary basins
- 26 Nov
- Prof Grenville Turner(Manchester)
- In praise of idleness: RELAXing with meterorites from Mars
- 3 Dec
- Dr Simon Lamb(Oxford)
- Continental tectonics on the western margin of South America
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