Daily programme

The workshop starts on Sunday, 25 August with a welcome aperitivo (ice-breaker) from 18:30 followed by a dinner. Check-in is possible from 12:00 onwards.

The scientific activities will take place from Monday to Thursday (a guided visit to the medieval city of Siena is scheduled on Wednesday afternoon and evening).

An after-dinner farewell party will take place on Thursday evening.

Departure Friday morning.

Meals will be served in the following time slots:

  • 07:15–08:30 Breakfast
  • 13:00–14:30 Lunch
  • 20:00–21:30 Dinner

The detailed daily programme is organized as follows:

Sunday, 25 August

18:30–20:00 Aperitivo (Ice-Breaker)
20:00–21:00 Dinner

Monday, 26 August

07:15–08:30 Breakfast

08:20–08:30 Welcome

08:30–10:30 Session 1: Planetary Geodynamics (Chairman: Thorsten Becker)

  • 08:30–09:30 Klara Kalousova: Generation and Transport of Liquid Water in Ice Layers: Application to Solar System Moons
  • 09:30–10:30 Tina Rückriemen: Top-down vs. Bottom-up Core Freezing: Modes of Core Crystallization and Implications for Dynamos in Terrestrial Planets and Satellites

10:30–11:00 Coffee break

11:00–13:00 Session 2: Plate-mantle dynamics in the Early Earth (Chairman: Takashi Nakagawa)
  • 11:00–12:00 Alex Webb: Heat-pipe tectonics
  • 12:00–13:00 Craig O'Neill: The early mantle, plate dynamics, and what it takes to kick-start a tectonic engine

13:00–14:30 Lunch break

14:30–15:30 Plenary discussion

15:30–16:30 PICO-like session

16:30–17:00 Coffee break

17:00–19:00 Poster session 1

20:00–21:30 Dinner

Tuesday, 27 August

07:15–08:30 Breakfast

08:30–10:30 Session 3: The emergence of plate tectonics (Chairman: Fabio Capitanio)

  • 08:30–09:30 Nicolas Coltice: When geodynamic models fill the gaps of plate tectonics theory: from the emergence of modern tectonics to plate boundary dynamics
  • 09:30–10:30 Shijie Zhong: Modeling the dynamic origin of the present-day mantle structure including stagnant slabs and LLSVPs

10:30–11:00 Coffee break

11:00–13:00 Session 4: Global mantle convection (Chairman: Claudio Faccenna)

  • 11:00–12:00 Juliane Dannberg: Modelling mantle convection with chemical and rheological heterogeneities
  • 12:00–13:00 Grace Shephard: The iron spin transition; seismic tomographic identification and geodynamic implications

13:00–14:30 Lunch break

14:30–15:30 Plenary discussion on the topics of session 1 and 2

15:30–16:30 PICO-like session: 1-2 minutes oral presentation for each contribution of the poster session

16:30–17:00 Coffee break

17:00–19:00 Poster session 2

20:00–21:30 Dinner

Wednesday, 28 August

07:15–08:30 Breakfast

08:30–10:30 Session 5: Plate-mantle dynamics in the Cenozoic (Chairwoman: Carmen Gaina)

  • 08:30–09:30 Eva Bredow: How plume-ridge interaction shapes large areas of Earth's surface
  • 09:30–10:30 Taras Gerya: Slab tear propagation: numerical model and implications to Apennines

10:30–11:00 Coffee break

11:00–13:00 Session 6: Modelling deep surface process connection (Chairman: Claudio Faccenna)

  • 11:00–12:00 Bernhard Steinberger: How long does a plume head take to rise through the mantle?
  • 12:00–13:00 Valentina Magni: The link between mantle flow and magmatism in subduction zones

13:00–14:30 Lunch break

14:30–15:30 Plenary discussion

15:30–23:00 Guided visit to Siena (including dinner in Contrada La Selva)

Thursday, 29 August

07:15–08:30 Breakfast

08:30–10:30 Session 7: Data assimilation and Inverse geodynamic modelling (Chairman: Manuele Faccenda)

  • 08:30–09:30 Georg Reuber: Adjoint based inversions in geodynamic modelling: A guide
  • 09:30–10:30 Georg Stadler: Bayesian parameter inference in global instantaneous mantle flow

10:30–11:00 Coffee break

11:00–13:00 Session 8: Geodynamics across the scales (Chairman: Fabio Capitanio)

  • 11:00–12:00 Fabio Crameri: Dynamic modelling of Ocean-Plate Tectonics
  • 12:00–13:00 Ylona van Dinther: How Tectonics Affects Seismicity

13:00–14:30 Lunch break

14:30–15:30 Plenary discussion

15:30–16:30 PICO-like session

16:30–17:00 Coffee break

17:00–19:00 Poster session 3

20:00–21:30 Dinner

21:30–??:?? Farewell party

Friday, 30 August

07:15–08:30 Breakfast

08:30–10:30 Check out and Departure