Second VLab Workshop August 5-10, 2007
Minnesota Supercomputer Institute,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Monday (Aug 6)
Spin transition in the mantle
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Catherine McCammon
Intermediate spin ferrous iron in lower mantle perovskite
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Presentation
Jennifer Jackson
Determination of the hyperfine parameters of iron in aluminous (Mg,Fe)SiO
3 perovskite
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Presentation
Wolfgang Sturham
Phonon density of states at the spin crossover in (Fe
0.25Mg
0.75) O ferropericlase
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Afu Lin
Geophysical implications of the spin transition in the Earths lower mantle
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Michael Brown
Elasticity of ferropericlase through the pressure-induced high-spin to low-spin transition
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Joao F. Justo Filho
Thermoelastic properties of ferropericlase at lower mantle conditions
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Koichiro Umemoto
Spin transition in ferrous iron in MgSiO
3 perovskite under pressure
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Dane Morgan
First-principles study of Fe spin crossover in the lower mantle
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Dipta Bhanu Ghosh
Structural and spin transitions in Fe
2O
3
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Anne Hofmeister
Measurements and models of thermal transport properties
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Alex Goncharov
Thermal conductivity of lower mantle minerals
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Viktor Struzhkin
Electronic structure and transport properties in iron compounds: spin cross-over effects
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Tuesday (Aug 7)
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Don Helmberger
Predicting a global perovskite and post-perovskite phase boundary
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Thorne Lay
Seismological tests of the post-perovskite presence
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Marteen de Hoop
Imaging of structure at and near the core-mantle boundary
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Xiaodong Song
Correlation and scaling of P and S anomalies in D" beneath Central America
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Ed Garnero
Incorporating seemingly disparate high resolution seismic findings in the context of deep mantle dynamics and chemistry.
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Bruce Buffett
A bound on heat flow below a double crossing of the perovskite-postperovskite phase transition
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Paul Tackley
Dynamical implications of the post-perovskite transition
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Arie Van de Berg
Convection modeling of the post-perovskite transition and constraints on thermal conditions near the core mantle boundary
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Marc Monnereau
Topology of the post-perovskite phase transition and mantle dynamics
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Wendy Mao
Iron-rich post-perovskite at the core-mantle boundary
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Taras Gerya
Numerical modelling of shell tectonics during terrestrial planetary accretion
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Richard Peltier
Deep Earth Viscosity: A new test based upon the impact of variations in Earth's rotational state upon holocene relative sea level histories
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Wednesday (Aug 8)
VLab software and developments in grid computation
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Gordon Erlebacher
Introduction
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Jamie Rintelman
Enabling science with grid technology
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Marlon Pierce
Open grid computing environments collaboration
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Dave Yuen 3-D Interactive Visualization with Mantle Convection
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Powerwall Demonstration
Bijaya B. Karki
A Visualization Framework for Earth Materials Studies
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Gordon Erlebacher, Renata Wentzcovitch, Cesar da Silva, Pedro da Silveira, Evan Bollig, Dan Kigelman:
Vlab: a service oriented architecture for planetary materials computations
Renata
Video Presentation
Cesar
Video Presentation
VLab Demo
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Gordon
Video Presentation
Thursday (Aug 9)
Water in the Mantle
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Suzan Van der Lee: Earths Deep Water Cycle
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Shun-ichiro Karato: Geodynamic significance of seismic anisotropy of the upper mantle: new insights from laboratory studies
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Marc Hirschman: Hydrous partial melting of the upper mantle as judged from mineral/melt partition coefficients
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Michael Wysession: Seismic wave attenuation and water in the lower mantle
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Sylvie Demouchy: The effect of hydrogen on the ionic diffusion in mantle minerals
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Zhu Mao: Single-crystal elasticity of hydrous wadsleyite and implication for the Earth's transition zone
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Bjorn Winkler: Hydrogen bonding in minerals
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Lars Stixrude: Investigating water in deep Earth using density functional theory
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Ilja Siepmann: Monte Carlo simulations of water speciation in hydrated silica
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Mark Ghiorso: Molecular dynamics studies of MgSiO3 liquid to 150 GPa: thermodynamics and transport properties
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Friday (Aug 10)
Transition Zone
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Adam Dziewonski: Boundary Layers in the Mantle
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Baosheng Li: Constraints on mantle composition from 1D Earth models
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Justin Ravenaugh: The transition zone and mid-mantle in regions of subduction
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