Spring 2005 Colloquium Schedule

Fridays at 4PM, 228 Natural History (except as noted below)

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Date Speaker
Host Group

21 Jan
Prof. Jeroen Tromp, Cal Tech
"Seismic Tomography, Adjoint Methods, Time Reversal, and Banana-Donut Kernels"
(abstract)
Song
28 Jan
Geology/CEE  Joint Colloquium
Prof. Gary Parker
Univ. of Minnesota
Incoming UIUC Prof. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and W. H. Johnson Professor of Geology
 "Effect of post-glacial sea level rise on large rivers"
(abstract)
Marshak

4 Feb
Dr. Gordon Grant
"A River Runs Underneath It:  Geological Control of Hydrogeomorphic Regimes in the Oregon Cascades and Implications for Climate Change"
(abstract)
Kieffer

11 Feb
Prof. David Archer , Univ. of Chicago
"100 kyr-timescale impacts of fossil fuel combustion"
(abstract)
Hu
18 Feb
Prof. Christian Teyssier, Univ. of Minnesota
"Flow of crust and paleoelevation of the North American Cordillera"
(abstract)
Marshak

25 Feb
Prof. Fabien Kenig, Univ. of Illnois at Chicago
"Indicators of biological processes in aging basaltic crust and very ancient sediments: Lipids in modern hydrothermal fluids and Archaean sediments"
(abstract)
Fouke

4 Mar
Yingwei Fei, Carnegie Insitute of Washington
"Phase transformations and chemical composition of the Earth's mantle"

Li
11 Mar
Prof. Michael Loui
Former Associate Dean, Grad College, UIUC
"Authorship and Plagiarism: True Tales of Real Cases"
(abstract)

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18 Mar No Colloquium- Spring break

25 Mar
No Colloquium- Spring break
1 April
Prof. Grant Garven, Johns Hopkins Univ.
"Hot Fluids, Sea Floor Hydrogeology, and Formation of the World's Largest Zinc Deposit at Red Dog, Alaska"
(abstract)
Bethke
8 April
Prof. Raymond Torres, Univ. of South Carolina
"Ecogeomorphology of a salt marsh landscape"
LOCATION:  217 Noyes Hall

Johnson
15 April
Dr. Cliff Frolich
"What Mother Never Told Me About Deep Earthquakes"  (abstract)
Chen
22 April
Prof. Albert Hsui
"Geodynamics: Mother of All Geological Processes"
(abstract)
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29 April
Dr. Glenn Buckley
Buckley Colloquium in Environmental Geology
 "WATER CRISIS MANAGEMENT, TEXAS STYLE:  THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY"  (abstract)
TIME:  3:00 PM

Marshak
6 May
No Colloquium- First Day of Final Exams

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