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Past Events
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2020
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Short Course: Perple_X Tutorial and Lecture
October 29, 2020- Summer Seminar Series: Danilo Di Genova (BGI), ‘The impact of nanocrystal formation on magma viscosity and degassing: implications for the style of volcanic eruptions’
July 23, 2020- Summer Seminar Series: Enrico Marzotto (BGI IRTG) – Title: ‘Effect of water on lattice thermal conductivity of ringwoodite and its implications for the thermal evolution of descending slabs’
July 9, 2020- Summer Seminar Series: Taras Gerya (ETH Zürich), ‘Biogeodynamics: Influence of plate tectonics on life evolution and biodiversity’
July 16, 2020- PhD Defense – Doctoral Examination: Niccolò Satta (BGI), ‘High Pressure Minerals in the Earth and Moon: Understanding the Lunar Impact History and Earth’s Deep Water Cycle’
June 30, 2020- Summer Seminar Series: Drew Syverson (Yale University), ‘Metal cycling at mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems’
June 18, 2020- PhD Defense – Doctoral Examination: Egor Koemets (BGI), ‘The crystal chemistry of iron oxides and oxyhydroxides at extreme conditions: implications for the deep Earth’s oxygen cycle’
April 27, 2020- DMG-Short Course: High-Pressure Experimental Techniques and Applications to the Earth’s Interior
February 17–21, 2020This DMG-Short Course is held every year at the BGI. It is an introduction to the experimental and analytical methods employed by IRTG students in their projects. Attendance by IRTG students in their first year is compulsory, and at least five TU students attend every year. IRTG doctoral researchers also act as laboratory demonstrators. The students received a practical introduction into high-pressure and high-temperature experiments and the numerous related analytical techniques.
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- Site Visit of the DFG-IRTG Review Committee
February 11–12, 2020Oral and poster presentations took place at the BGI, to showcase ongoing research from students and postdocs associated with the IRTG. This meeting facilitated discussions between the reviewers, researchers, rapporteur, representatives from the State Ministry and the DFG Head Office staff. Compulsory for IRTG BGI students and visiting TU students.
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- PhD Defense – Doctoral Examination: Philipp Eichheimer (BGI), 'Fluid flow in porous media: A combined numerical and experimental approach'
February 11, 2020- Meeting: Biannual Meeting with IRTG Students
February 5, 2020- PhD Defense – Doctoral Examination: Rong Huang (BGI),
'Bridgmanite crystal chemistry and iron content in the Earth's lower mantle'
February 3, 2020- Block Course: Origin and Role of Volatiles in the Early Solar System and Planets
January 27 – February 4, 2020- Soft Skills Course for Women: Discrimination – Hostility – Conflict: Strategies to Recognize and to Fight Them
January 20–21, 2020Speaker Dr. Meike Lauggas, (Academic Supervisor, Coach and Organizational Consultant), met with female students at the BGI to present strategies to not only recognize discrimination, hostility and conflict, but also provided strategies for handling these situations in a safe and professional manner, including prevention. Courses for soft skill growth are offered throughout the year to promote training strategies, and to address soft skills gaps.
Participants actively taking notes during the soft skills course for women, at the BGI.
2019
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Tohoku colleagues visiting the BGI in 2019
- BGI colleagues visiting Tohoku University in 2019
- PhD Defense – Doctoral Examination: Dmitry Druzhbin (BGI), 'Silicon and oxygen volume diffusion in wadsleyite and implications to mantle transition zone rheology'
December 17, 2019- Winter Seminar Series: Valentina Magni (CEED Oslo), 'Subduction & Water: from the surface to the deep Earth'
November 14, 2019- Winter Seminar Series: Marcel Thielmann (BGI), 'The importance of the microscale for localization processes in the Earth'
November 7, 2019- IRTG Career Evening for Female Scientists
October 18, 2019In the framework of equal opportunity initiatives of the IRTG program, a career evening was organized for female scientists at the BGI. Former PhD students of the BGI, Dr. Martha Pamato (Università di Padova, Italy), and Dr. Micaela Longo (Canon Inc, UK), were invited to this evening; they described their experiences during their professional career in science and industry, respectively. Their entertaining talks were very well received, and were followed by a lively discussion among the attendees.
Presenters and attendees of the IRTG Career Evening for Female Scientists.
- Meeting: Biannual Meeting with IRTG Students
October 18, 2019- IRTG Soft Skills Course: Presentation and Rhetorical Skills
September 30 – October 1, 2019A two-day soft skills course entitled ‘Presentation and Rhetorical Skills’ was organized at the BGI, and was attended by 12 PhD students (four of them from TU). During the course, participants gave short presentations which were recorded on video and reviewed afterwards. The course provided very valuable advice for giving presentations and presenting posters, and was very well received by the students. Courses for soft skill growth are offered throughout the year to promote training strategies, and to address soft skills gaps.
The instructor and some of the participants of the IRTG soft skills course, ‘Presentation and Rhetorical Skills’, at the BGI.
- Field Trip: Ries Impact Crater, Nördlingen (Germany)
September 27–28, 2019A two-day excursion to the Nördlinger Ries was organized by Prof. Audrey Bouvier (BGI). The group, which included Dr. Florian Heidelbach, Prof. Michihiko Nakamura, 11 IRTG BGI and TU students, and four BGI Masters students, visited various outcrops to examine the large-scale effects of impact cratering and shock metamorphism. The Ries is one of the best-preserved large impact crater structures on Earth (~25 km diameter), and very accessible. The visit commenced with an overview lecture on impact cratering provided by Dr. Stefan Hölzl and Dr. Jörg Fritz, at the Rieskrater Museum and ZERIN Research Centre. These facilities include unique rock and meteorite collections. The group then climbed the bell tower of the Church of St Georg in Nördlingen, which is constructed of the local shock metamorphic rock called suevite; they were rewarded with an amazing 360˚ view of the medieval city and the crater structure. Visits to the field sites and quarries were coordinated with Gisela Pösges and Cindy Cooper, of the Ries Geopark (www.geopark-ries.de). The variety of impact-formed and displaced rocks and the unusual structural geology are spectacular, and result from a series if sequential processes that can be traced through the very short timescale of the impact. The significance of the impact crater itself has been recognized since the 1960s, when it was used as a training ground for Apollo astronauts. In the evening, Dr. Vera Assis Fernandes (University of Manchester) gave a presentation about the bombardment history of the Moon. The group travelled from the northern to the southern rim of the crater to observe and compare the lithologies involved within the breccias, exposure of the crystalline rocks, lake reef, and distal deposits of suevite. In addition to the unique impact-related features, such as impact rocks and high-pressure shock minerals, the Ries Geopark has much more to offer; the students were also exposed to paleontology and sedimentary geology, archaeology, and links between geology and historical architecture in Nördlingen.
Field trip participants in Nördlingen, in front of the St Georg Church, which was built using suevite impact melt rock.
Photo courtesy of F. Heidelbach.- IRTG International Workshop: Earth, Sea and Sky V - International Joint Graduate Program Workshop in Earth and Environmental Sciences
June 2–4, 2019This IRTG International Workshop was held in Sendai. The program included a one-day field trip to the tsunami disaster area from the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, a day of qualifying examinations for GP-EES students from TU (with mixed TU/BGI examiners), and one day of scientific presentations given by guests from overseas research institutions, which was accompanied by a poster session. This time provided ideal opportunities for the PhD students to present their scientific results and discuss them with experts in the field, as well as to intensify their contacts with the respective partner institution and colleagues. This workshop was co-hosted by The International Joint Graduate Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tohoku University and JSPS-DFG Japanese-German Graduate Externship for Research on Deep Earth Volatile Cycle.
Venue
Aoba Science Hall and Room N204, Science Complex C, Graduate School of Science, Kita-Aobayama Campus, Tohoku University [Access] The building is shown as “H04” in the map. [Campus Map]open/download flyer
Workshop program, June 2–4, 2019
Workshop Abstract: Presentation & Poster Titles
International Guests
Prof. Frederick Bingham (University of North Carolina Wilmington)
Dr. Tiziana Boffa-Ballaran (University of Bayreuth)
Prof. Daniel Frost (University of Bayreuth)
Dr. Julien Gasc (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris)
Prof. Catherine McCammon (University of Bayreuth)
Dr. James D. P. Moore (Nanyang Technological University)
Prof. Kelvin Richards (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)
Prof. Martha Savage (Victoria University of Wellington)
Dr. Ross S. Stein (Temblor, Inc. / U.S. Geological Survey)
Dr. Gerd Steinle-Neumann (University of Bayreuth)
Dr. Benoit Taisne (Nanyang Technological University)
- Field Trip: Mt. Fuji and the Surrounding Area (Japan)
June 2, 2019Naoki Araya (TU PhD student), organized an excursion to Mount Fuji and the neighboring Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures, on the Sunday between the IRTG International Workshops in Tokyo and Sendai. This field trip included a visit to a volcanic pipe, and also provided an introduction to an active arc volcano for many of the BGI IRTG and TU students.
IRTG participants of the field trip to Mount Fuji and the surrounding area.
- IRTG International Workshop and Meeting: Deep Volatile Cycling in the Earth – Joint Doctoral Seminar
May 31 – June 1, 2019This IRTG International workshop and meeting was organized to bring together students and scientists from TU and the BGI, at the Tohoku branch in Tokyo. All IRTG students from the BGI and TU gave presentations about their research projects, as well as six invited speakers from other research institutions. This workshop was an ideal opportunity for the PhD students to present their scientific results and discuss them with experts in the field, as well as to intensify their contacts with the respective partner institution and colleagues.
Workshop program, May 31 (Fri)
Workshop program, June 1 (Sat)
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Group photo from the IRTG International Workshop in Tokyo.
- Meeting: Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) 2019 Annual Meeting
May 26–30, 2019- Field Trip: Volcanic Complexes of Mount Zaō (Japan)
May 25, 2019- Meeting: IRTG Annual Poster Session
May 16, 2019- Field Trip: Miyake Island (Philippine Sea)
May 11–13, 2019- Girls' Day: A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
March 28, 2019Doctor Catherine McCammon headed the outreach activities for the BGI, at the University of Bayreuth Girls’ Day. The BGI IRTG students were able to volunteer their time to assist and supervise the Girls’ Day participants as they used practical and playful experiments, as well as laboratory equipment, to discover the fascinating underworld of planet Earth.
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- Field Trip: Hawaiian Islands (USA)
March 4–13, 2019Prof. Michihiko Nakamura organized a field trip for TU and visiting BGI IRTG students to the Hawaiian Islands (The Big Island, Maui, and O'ahu). This was an invaluable opportunity for the IRTG students from both the BGI and TU to examine the active volcanic fields of a hot spot volcano. Most notably, the IRTG students were able to visit the Kīlauea Volcanic Fields and the Haleakalā High Altitude Observatory Site.
Pictures from the Kīlauea (left) and Haleakalā (right) volcanic parks. Photos courtesy of Niccolò Satta (BGI IRTG student).
- DMG-Short Course: High-Pressure Experimental Techniques and Applications to the Earth's Interior
February 18–22, 2019This DMG-Short Course is held every year at the BGI. It is an introduction to the experimental and analytical methods employed by IRTG students in their projects. Attendance by IRTG students in their first year is compulsory, and at least five TU students attend every year. IRTG doctoral researchers also act as laboratory demonstrators. There were 31 doctoral and master students who took part in the five-day short course this year. Three doctoral students from TU joined the course, along with participants from 11 countries in total. The students received a practical introduction into high-pressure and high-temperature experiments, as well as analytical techniques commonly used in the investigation of high-pressure samples. The course was very well received, and fostered exchange and collaboration between participants and lecturers.
Participants and lecturers at the BGI for the DMG-Short Course.
- Short Course: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior
February 14–15, 2019- Meeting: Biannual Meeting with IRTG Students
Semiannually starting in 20192018
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Tohoku colleagues visiting the BGI in 2018
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BGI colleagues visiting Tohoku University in 2018
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2018 Seminar Series: Sonja Aulbach, (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Petrologie und Geochemie, Frankfurt/M., Germany), ‘Fe redox state and oxygen fugacity of mantle eclogites: Implications for lithospheric and sublithospheric processes’
October 31, 2018- Field Trip: The Garching FRM II Reactor and Neutron Beamline,
and the Solnhofen Geological Museum (Germany)
September 26, 2018This one-day field trip served as an introduction to the practicalities of neutron diffraction experiments, at the large volume press beamline facility SAPHiR, being developed by BGI. The IRTG students from the BGI visited the German research reactor FRM II at Garching (near Munich), where neutron scattering experiments are performed in a variety of experimental setups. Most notably, is the multi-anvil press SAPHiR, which has been installed there on the initiative of BGI and will be used for in-situ HP-HT neutron diffraction experiments. A stop was also made at the world-famous paleontological site of Solnhofen, where most of the existing fossils of the feathered dinosaur Archaeopteryx were discovered. This field trip was compulsory for BGI and visiting TU IRTG students.
Field trip participants in front of the reactor building of the FRM II at Garching.
- Short Course: Texture and Interface Analyses Using EBSD
July 23–27, 2018An IRTG-sponsored short course on the interpretation of textures in experimental and natural samples was organized at the BGI. It consisted of lectures and practicals, and focused on introducing the students to the main measuring and analysis tools in the field of grain boundary characterization with electron backscattering diffraction (EBSD). For this course a number of leading experts in this field were invited to the BGI, including: Marc de Graef, Gregory Rohrer (Carnegie Mellon University), Pamela Burnley (University of Nevada), Vivian Tong (Imperial College, London), Luis Morales (ETH Zürich), and Matteo Demurtas (University of Otago). With 29 participants (6 of them from Tohoku), the course was both very well attended and received.
Students and lecturers of the short course on the interpretation of textures in experimental and natural samples, at the BGI.
- IRTG International Workshop: Earth, Sea and Sky III – International Joint Graduate Program Workshop in Earth and Environmental Sciences
May 27–29, 2018
This International Workshop is a program of invited speakers on volatiles and related themes complementary to the core research of the IRTG; often involving the inputs and outputs of the deep volatile cycle. In addition, a few talks are given by new IRTG students who are then assessed. There is also poster session. Compulsory for TU IRTG members and for BGI IRTG students visiting Japan. Held annually at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Venue
Science Complex A, Tohoku University Aobayama Campus [Access]
The building is shown as “H02” in the map. [Campus Map]
Excursion to the Naruko and Onikobe areas, where students studied historic volcanic activity. Eight overseas researchers, two TU staff, six GP-EES student researchers, and five international student researchers attended.
Presentations were attended by 10 overseas researchers, 25 Tohoku University staff, and doctoral researchers (18 GP-EES and 12 international researchers).
Professor Daniel Frost, the Spokesperson for the IRTG for The BGI, gives a presentation.
Poster session at Aobayama Campus where 44 students presented.
Luncheon accompanying the poster session.
Earth, Sea, and Sky III group photo, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
- Meeting: Japanese Geoscience (JpGU) 2018 Annual Meeting
May 20–24, 2018Both BGI and TU IRTG students were able to give oral and poster presentations at this 5-day meeting. The annual meeting took place at the Makuhari Messe International Conference Hall, International Exhibition Hall / Tokyo Bay Makuhari Hall in Chiba, Japan.
BGI and TU IRTG students presenting at the JpGU 2018 Annual Meeting.
- Field Trip: Volcanic complexes of Mount Asama (Japan)
May 10–12, 2018- Meeting: Annual BGI Poster Session
April 26, 2018- Introduction to Japanese Culture - Prof. Menkhaus (Meiji University, Tokyo)
March 26, 2018
Prof. Menkhaus
(Meiji University, Tokyo)To better prepare the BGI IRTG students for their research exchange at Tohoku University in Japan, Prof. Menkhaus from Meiji University in Tokyo, held a lecture and discussion over Japanese culture and history. Prof. Menkhaus teaches law, and has lived and worked in Japan for over 30 years; he is also the Chairman of the Association of Former Fellows of the Japanese Society for the Progress Science (JSPS). He was therefore able to give the students a vivid impression of the cultural similarities and differences in his entertaining lecture.
- DMG-Short Course: High-Pressure Experimental Techniques and Applications to the Earth's Interior
February 19–23, 2018This DMG-Short Course is held every year at the BGI. It is an introduction to the experimental and analytical methods employed by IRTG students in their projects. Attendance by IRTG students in their first year is compulsory, and at least five TU students attend every year. IRTG doctoral researchers also act as laboratory demonstrators. This year, 29 (mainly doctoral) students took part in the 20th high-pressure short course. Seven doctoral students from Tohoku University joined the course, along with IRTG members from the BGI, and participants from nine countries in total. The students received a practical introduction into high-pressure and high-temperature experiments and the numerous related analytical techniques.
Presenters and participants of the 20th DMG-Short Course at the BGI.
- Short Course: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior
February 19–20, 2018- Meeting: Monthly Luncheon with IRTG Students
monthly / ended in 2018*)2017
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Tohoku colleagues visiting the BGI in 2017
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BGI colleagues visiting Tohoku in 2017
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Workshop: Mantle Dynamics and Deep Earth Material Cycles
November 17, 2017Dr. Hauke Marquardt (BGI) organized a one-day workshop at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich, which was co-sponsored by the BGI IRTG. This workshop brought together researchers with expertise in different Earth Science disciplines, including observational geophysics, numerical modelling, and experiments, to discuss current concepts on dynamic processes occurring in the mantle and associated material cycles. The main focus being on the effects of multi-phase deformation and strain localization.
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- DMG-Short Course: Mineralogy, Mineral Physics and Seismology of the Earth's Mantle
September 18–22, 2017Dr. Hauke Marquardt (BGI) and Prof. Christine Thomas (Münster) organised this week-long short course, with 13 doctoral student participants. Lecturers included Dr. Laura Cobden (Universität Utrecht), Prof. Christine Hernlund and Prof. John Hernlund (beide ELSI Tokyo) and practices included an introduction into the construction of seismic models from mineral physics data and the analysis of seismic data. (in collaboration with the Universities of Münster and Utrecht, Seismology groups).
Students and lecturers of the DMG-short course, ‘Mineralogy, Mineral Physics and Seismology of the Earth's Mantle,’ at the BGI.
- IRTG International Workshop and Meeting: Deep Volatile Cycling in the Earth – Joint Doctoral Seminar
September 14–15, 2017This annual workshop and meeting is compulsory for IRTG students, and is comprised of series of events, including a program of invited speakers, student presentations and business meetings. This year’s meeting was held in Bayreuth, where all the students involved in the program presented their PhD projects. Seven of those presentations were given by students from Tohoku University. The meeting came to a close with a plenary lecture by Pierre Cartigny (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris), about the deep carbon cycle in the Earth, and with a geological field trip to the Oberpfalz.
Timetable: IRTG DrSeminar Zeitplan 6.pdf
Guest student Yongsheng Huang (TU), during his talk at the International IRTG meeting.
Poster presentation session during the International IRTG meeting in.
Geological field trip to the Oberpfalz and the former drill site of the German Continental Deep Drilling Project (“KTB”) near Windischeschenbach.
- Soft Skills Course: Project Management
September 11–12, 2017This soft skills course was offered at the BGI through the consulting company Kempkes.Gebhardt, and focused on project management. The course was supported with equal opportunity funds, and was fully-booked with 14 participants (three Postdocs, ten PhD students, and one Master student). It offered a practical introduction into effective planning and the understanding of scientific projects. Courses for soft skills growth are offered throughout the year to promote training strategies and to address soft skills gaps. Within the framework of the IRTG graduate school a soft skills course.
Participants of the ‘Project Management’ soft skills course, at the BGI.
- IRTG International Workshop: Earth, Sea and Sky II - International Joint Graduate Program Workshop in Earth and Environmental Sciences
May 28–30, 2017This International Workshop is a program of invited speakers on volatiles and related themes complementary to the core research of the IRTG; often involving the inputs and outputs of the deep volatile cycle. In addition, a few talks are given by new IRTG students who are then assessed. There is also poster session. Compulsory for TU IRTG members and for BGI IRTG students visiting Japan. Held annually at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
‘Earth, Sea and Sky II’ was a three-day workshop held at the Tohoku University Aoba Science Hall, with a field trip to Mount Zaō volcano, led by Prof. Michihiko Nakamura. Prof. Tomoo Katsura and Dr. Catherine McCammon from BGI led two of the plenary lectures, presenting new results about electrical conductivity of the asthenosphere and the state of iron in the deep Earth, respectively. The International Joint Graduate Program Workshop in Earth and Environmental Sciences was co-hosted by the Tohoku University GP-EES and JSPS-DFG Japanese-German Graduate Externship.
Venue
Science complex C 2F, Aoba Science Hall, Kita-Aobayama Campus, Tohoku University [Access]
The building is shown as “H04” in the map. [Campus Map]
May 28 (Sun)
Field Trip (Zaō/Azuma/Naruko volcano) 2 RVs Guided by Nakamura M.
May 29 (Mon)
09:00 - 09:05 Opening remarks (Prof. Hayasaka)
09:05 - 11:45 8 oral presentations (15+5 min), 10 min coffee break
13:30 - 14:30 3 oral presentations
14:40 - 16:40 Qualifying Exam of GP-EES students
11@10 min/each student, with 10 min break
May 30 (Tue)
09:30 - 11:30 Poster session
(4 GP-EES students + other TU students,
1 BGI student)
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13:00 - 13:35 Prof. William McDonough (Tohoku U/U Maryland)
“Geoneutrinos and heat production in the Earth” 13:35 - 14:10 Prof. Catherine McCammon
(Bayerisches Geoinstitut, U Bayreuth)
“Iron matters and how it affects the
Earth's interior”
14:10 - 14:45 Prof. Tomoo Katsura
(Bayerisches Geoinstitut, U Bayreuth)
“Electrical conductivity of the oceanic
asthenosphere, and its interpretation
based on laboratory measurements”
14:45 - 15:00 Break- Field Trip: Volcanic complexes of Mount Zaō (Japan)
May 28, 2017- Meeting: (Japan Geoscience Union) JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017
May 20–25, 2017- Meeting: Annual BGI Poster Session
May 4, 2017- Girls’ Day: A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
April 27, 2017Doctor Catherine McCammon organized the outreach activities for the BGI, at the University of Bayreuth Girls’ Day. The BGI IRTG students were able to volunteer their time to assist and supervise the Girls’ Day participants as they used practical and playful experiments, as well as laboratory equipment, to discover the fascinating underworld of planet Earth.
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- DMG-Short Course: High-Pressure Experimental Techniques and Applications to the Earth’s Interior
February 20–24, 2017This DMG-Short Course is held every year at the BGI. It is an introduction to the experimental and analytical methods employed by IRTG students in their projects. Attendance by IRTG students in their first year is compulsory, and at least five TU students attend every year. IRTG doctoral researchers also act as laboratory demonstrators. The students received a practical introduction into high-pressure and high-temperature experiments and the numerous related analytical techniques.
The following Tohoku University members attended the course:
• Takayuki Nakatani (Assi. Prof.)
• Bhathiya Athurupana（D2）
• Fumiya Maeda（D1）
• Liang Yuan（D1）
• Masanori Kido（D1）
• Huang Yongsheng（D1）
- Short Course: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth’s interior
January 12–13, 2017- Meeting: Monthly Luncheon with IRTG Students
Monthly at the BGI2016
2016 marked the start of the DFG-funded International Research and Training Group (IRTG) on Deep Earth Volatile Cycles, a collaboration with the Department of Earth Sciences at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. Twelve PhD positions were funded in this program for the span of 4.5 years; we were pleased to admit the first PhD students in 2016. By exchanging researchers with Tohoku University, diverse aspects of the cycling of volatiles within the Earth’s interior will be studied, in a collaboration that takes explicit advantage of the complementary expertise of scientists at the two institutions. The first joint workshops were held in July 2016, at Tohoku University, in Sendai. Over 20 scientists from the BGI attended, and over the course of 2016, we were also very pleased to welcome more than 20 researchers from Tohoku University at the BGI.
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Tohoku colleagues visiting the BGI in 2016
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BGI colleagues visiting Tohoku University in 2016
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2016 Seminar Series: Sean Raymond (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France), ‘Solar System Mysteries’
November 16, 2016- Field Trip: Münchberg Metamorphic Massif (Germany)
September 30, 2016Prof. Dan Frost organized a field trip to the eclogites of the Münchberg Massif, in the Bohemian Massif. High pressure metamorphic rocks are rare in Japan, so these outcrops, located just 20 minutes from Bayreuth, provided a unique experience for visiting Japanese researchers.
Field trip to eclogites of the Münchberg Massif in the Bohemian Massif- Meeting: Women in Geosciences: Equal Opportunities - Careers
September 29, 2016Prof. Katharina Marquardt organized a round-table breakout session/meeting to discuss the different aspects of female scientific careers and equal professional opportunities. This was attended by female scientist of the IRTG and BGI. This was done in collaboration with the staff division for “Equal Opportunities” at the University of Bayreuth. As guest speaker, Dr. Nathalie Bolfan Casanova/Clermont-Ferrand described her experiences and the challenges faced in balancing career and family commitments.
Flyer EINBLICKE 2016
- Meeting: BGI 30th Anniversary Celebrations and International Joint IRTG Conference
September 28–30, 2016In September 2016, scientists from Tohoku University joined their BGI colleagues to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the BGI. As part of these celebrations, a series of lectures were presented with a strong volatiles theme, which included talks by nine international invited speakers, all with close links to the BGI. During the meeting, Prof. E. Ohtani of Tohoku University received a certificate announcing his appointment as a ‘Distinguished Affiliated Professor of Bayreuth University’ from Prof. Dr. Stefan Leible, President of the University of Bayreuth.
The founding director of the BGI, Prof. Fritz Seifert, during his introductory speech.
Prof. E. Ohtani (TU) receives his certificate of appointment as a ‘Distinguished Affiliated Professor’ from University President, Prof. S. Leible.
Excursion stop at the Eclogite of Weissenstein, with a geological introduction by Prof. D. Dolejs (Univ. Freiburg).
Program
Wednesday, 28th Welcome 14:00 Welcome / Look back / look into the future
(Lecture room H33 at building AI)
Dan Frost / Fritz SeifertFrom ca. 14:30 BBQ (at BGI)
Thursday, 29th Day of Seminars (building AI, H33) 09:00 Water in the Earth’s mantle: achievements from BGI and beyond
Nathalie Bolfan Casanova/Clermont-Ferrand09:40 Host-inclusion crystallography to constrain eclogite exhumation paths
Ross Angel/Padova (Patrick O’Brien/Potsdam)10:20 Geodynamics of partial melting and its geophysical expression
Fabrice Gaillard/Orléans11:00 Coffee break 11:30 Recycling of crustal materials through study of UHP minerals in collisional orogens, ophiolites, and xenoliths: A perspective
Tatsuki Tsujimori/Sendai12:10 The ultra-reducing mantle - a low temperature affair
Max Schmidt/Zurich12:50 Lunch (Mensa-Frischraum; side room) 14:00 Diamond growth in high-pressure fluids
Hélène Bureau/Paris14:40 From Volatiles in the Earth to Shocked Meteorites: our exchange and collaborations with BGI in recent 20 years
Eiji Ohtani/Sendai15:20 Coffee break 15:50 Molten zones in the solid Earth: an electrical perspective
Huaiwei Ni/Hefei16:30 Three-dimensional kinetic modeling of magma crystallization
David Dolejs/Freiburg17:10 END 18:30 Bus leaving from BGI to Eremitage 19:00 Dinner at Restaurant Eremitage
Friday, 30th Field trip ca. 10:00 Bus to Wirsberg 10:30 - 12:00 Wirsberg Geo-trail (ca. 3 km) to Grundmühle/Marktschorgast 12:30 -14:00 Lunch at Landgasthof Hermes 14:00 Bus close to Marktschorgast 14:30 - ca. 16:30 Hiking to Weissenstein (ca. 4 km), Eclogite, geology and stop at beer garden at Weissenstein Tower ca. 17:00 Return to Bayreuth - Short Course: Thermodynamics in Earth Sciences
July 7, 2016- IRTG International Workshop and Kick-Off Meeting: New Challenges in Volatile Cycling in the Deep Earth
July 3–6, 2016
The IRTG International workshop and kick-off meeting was held in Sendai, directly after the Goldschmidt meeting in Yokohama. Seventeen scientists and seven PhD students from the BGI presented their research at the workshop. Keynote talks were presented by ten invited speakers, on topics central to the goals of the IRTG. Before the workshop, a one-day field trip was organised to visit areas affected by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. This workshop was compulsory for IRTG students.
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Group picture from the IRTG kick-off meeting in Sendai, Japan.
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More Program Information- Field Trip: Tohoku Coastal 2011 Tsunami Disaster Area
July 3, 2016- Japan Geoscience Union Meeting (JpGU) 2016
May 22–26, 2016Posters were exhibited at the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU). The annual meeting took place at the Makuhari Messe International Conference Hall, International Exhibition Hall / Tokyo Bay Makuhari Hall in Chiba, Japan.
Timetable & Meeting Information
- Meeting: Annual Poster Session
April 28, 2016 - Field Trip: Münchberg Metamorphic Massif (Germany)
- DMG-Short Course: Mineralogy, Mineral Physics and Seismology of the Earth's Mantle
- Field Trip: The Garching FRM II Reactor and Neutron Beamline,
- BGI colleagues visiting Tohoku University in 2019
- Summer Seminar Series: Danilo Di Genova (BGI), ‘The impact of nanocrystal formation on magma viscosity and degassing: implications for the style of volcanic eruptions’
