Location: Goldsmith room, HGS 176
Time: Thursdays 12:30 pm unless otherwise noted
Calendar:
Feb 22, 2019
Seminar: Daven Quinn, Caltech: "The error structure of remotely-sensed geological orientation measurements and their application to structural studies of Mars" (Thu 12:00 pm)
Sep 17-18, 2018
Robert Clayton Memorial Symposium
Jul 13, 2018
Seminar: Chris Ormel, University of Amsterdam, "Formation of the TRAPPIST-1 System" (1:00 pm)
Apr 11, 2018
Seminar: Rhonda Stroud, US Naval Research Laboratory, "Picoastronomy: An electron microscopist's view of the history of the Solar System" (Wed 3:00 pm)
Mar 29, 2018
Seminar: Jun Tsuchiya, Ehime University, "First principles investigation of hydrous phases in the Earth's deep interior"
Mar 28, 2018
Seminar: Rainer Wieler, ETH Zurich, "Does the noble gas record in meteorites provide evidence for an irradiation by energetic particles from the early sun? A review of old, new and very new data" (Wed 11:00; lunch served afterward)
Mar 15, 2018
LPSC practice talks
Mar 1, 2018
Seminar: Vikram Dwarkadas, University of Chicago, "Investigating a Stellar Wind Origin for High 26Al and Low 60Fe in the Early Solar System"
Feb 22, 2018
Seminar: Justin Hu, University of Chicago, "NRIXS study in equilibrium fractionation of europium in minerals and synthesized glass: exploration of new proxy for redox conditions in nature"
Feb 1, 2018
Discussion leader: Richard Lyons, University of Chicago
Jan 25, 2018
Seminar: Mihkel Kama, Cambridge University, "Unravelling the story of volatile elements through disks into planets"
Jan 18, 2018
Seminar: Ruslan Mendybaev, University of Chicago, "Evaporation of CAI-like melts in vacuum and low-pressure hydrogen: Similarities and differences"
Jan 11, 2018
Seminar: Sarah Aarons, University of Chicago, "Geochemical evidence of West Antarctic Ice Sheet instability during the previous interglacial period: Insights from mineral dust"
Nov 30, 2017
Seminar: Andy Heard, University of Chicago, "Mass fractionation laws for iron isotopes in Archean sedimentary rocks"
Nov 16, 2017
Discussion leader: Gerry Olack, University of Chicago
Nov 2, 2017
Seminar: Nicole Nie, University of Chicago, "Iron isotope tracing the formation of hematite spherules in Hawaii (a terrestrial analogue of Martian blueberries)"
Oct 26, 2017
Discussion leader: Jennika Greer, University of Chicago
Oct 3, 2017
Seminar: Gregor Golabek, University of Bayreuth, "Laboratory and numerical experiments on pallasite formation" (Tue 1:00 pm)
May 4, 2017
Seminar: Kevin McKeegan, University of California Los Angeles, "Lunar zircons and the age of the moon"
Apr 20, 2017
Seminar: Céline Defouilloy, University of Wisconsin, "Origin of crystalline silicates from Comet 81P/Wild 2: Combined study on their oxygen isotopes and mineral chemistry"
Apr 13, 2017
Discussion leader: Krysten Villalon, University of Chicago
Apr 6, 2017
Seminar: Kaustubh Hakim, University of Amsterdam, "A laboratory approach to probe the mineralogy of carbon-enriched rocky exoplanets"
Mar 16, 2017
LPSC practice talks
Mar 9, 2017
Seminar: Levke Kööp, University of Chicago, "Evidence for irradiation in CAI minerals: About the early active Sun, presolar origins, regolith and meteoroids"
Mar 2, 2017
Discussion leader: Mohit Melwani Daswani, University of Chicago, "Water in the Tissint martian meteorite: Help Mohit understand where it's coming from"
Feb 23, 2017
Seminar: Matouš Ptácek, University of Chicago, "On compressible multiphase flow dynamics, volcanoes, and drinking champagne: A Magmaficent Cambridge Tale"
Feb 16, 2017
Seminar: Edwin Kite, University of Chicago, "Recent advances in understanding river-forming climates on Mars"
Feb 9, 2017
Seminar: Tim Bowling, University of Chicago, "Giant impacts and the interior structure of Ceres"
Feb 2, 2017
Discussion leader: Jennika Greer, University of Chicago
Jan 26, 2017
Seminar: Steve Simon, University of Chicago, "Pristine and nearly pristine chondrites: What they are, and what we can learn from them"
Jan 19, 2017
Seminar: Sebastiaan Krijt, University of Chicago, "Interpreting observations of (warm) water in protoplanetary disks"
Jan 12, 2017
Seminar: Bethany Chidester, University of Chicago, "Heat Producing Elements and the Energy Budget of Earth's Core"
Dec 8, 2016
Seminar: Patrick Boehnke, University of Chicago, "Illusory late heavy bombardments"
Dec 1, 2016
Seminar: Nicolas Greber, University of Chicago, "Re-evaluating the chemical evolution of the continental crust based on fluid immobile isotope and element systematics"
Nov 17, 2016
Seminar: Nicole Nie, University of Chicago, "Isotope fractionation during Fe photo-oxidation: Implications for early Earth and Mars"
July 21, 2016
M.S. Seminar: Chris Kelly, University of Chicago, "Search for live 244Pu in Lunar Regolith" (1:00 pm)
May 25, 2016
Seminar: Michael Velbel, Michigan State University, "Fate and transport of solutes in asteroidal aquifers -or- Mineral chemistry tells us what was in the water on the parent body/bodies of CM carbonaceous chondrites" (Wed 12:00 pm at Field Museum)
April 28, 2016
Seminar: János Kodolányi, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, "NanoSIMS and TEM investigation of SiC grains of supernova origin"
Mar 17, 2016
LPSC practice talks
Feb 25, 2016
Discussion leader: Chris Kelly, University of Chicago
Feb 16, 2016
Seminar: Daniel Stolper, Princeton University, "A Pleistocene ice-core record of atmospheric O2 concentrations" (Tue 3:00 pm)
Feb 11, 2016
Seminar: Reto Trappitsch, University of Chicago, "Simultaneous iron and nickel isotope analyses with CHILI"
Jan 28, 2016
Seminar: Mohit Melwani Daswani, University of Chicago, "Martian chlorides"
Dec 9, 2015
Seminar: Guillaume Avice, Université de Lorraine, "Evolution of the atmosphere and the mantle through time" (Wed 3:00 pm)
Nov 19, 2015
Seminar: Sebastiaan Krijt, University of Chicago, "From grains to planetesimals"
Nov 12, 2015
Seminar: Shogo Tachibana, Hokkaido University, "Evaporation and condensation experiments in the laboratory"
Nov 5, 2015
Discussion leader: Rich Lyons, University of Chicago
Oct 22, 2015
Discussion leader: Tim Bowling, University of Chicago
Oct 8, 2015
Discussion leader: Nicolas Greber, University of Chicago
Mar 11, 2015
LPSC practice talks
Mar 4, 2015
Discussion leader: Chris Kelly, University of Chicago
Feb 25, 2015
Discussion leader: Fred Ciesla, University of Chicago
Feb 18, 2015
Seminar: Surya Rout, Field Museum, "Correlated Electron Microscopy and Atom Probe Tomography of Iron Meteorites — Studying Asteroid Core Formation at a New Scale"
Feb 11, 2015
Seminar: Philipp Heck, Field Museum, "New presolar exposure ages of presolar SiC grains"
Feb 4, 2015
Seminar: Rebecca Fischer, University of Chicago, "Petrology of metal-rich systems with applications to Earth's core"
Jan 21, 2015
Seminar: James Holstein, Field Museum, "Spinel Group Minerals in Unequilibrated Ordinary Chondrites (L3.1, 3.4, 3.7): Preliminary Data for Classification of Fossil Meteorites"
Jan 14, 2015
Seminar: Frank Richter, University of Chicago, "The Thermal History and Geologic Setting of the Martian Nakhlite Meteorites"
