3rd workshop on
Earth's Mantle Composition, Structure,
and Phase Transitions
August 30 - September 3,
2005 Saint Malo (France)
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3rd workshop on
Earth's Mantle Composition, Structure, |
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August 30 - September 3,
2005 Saint Malo (France)
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Location
Le Palais du Grand Large
BP 109
35407 Saint Malo Cedex (France)Tél. : +33 2 99 20 60 20
Fax : +33 2 99 20 60 30e-mail: contact@pgl-congres.com
internet: http://www.pgl-congres.comSaint-Malo is located on the north coast of french Brittany, known as Côte d'Emeraude. Saint Malo city's fortunes have been linked to the sea and the daily ebb and flow of some of the most powerful tides in the world. The City has also become an international sailing centre, home to thousands of boats and the initiator of several cross Channel or transatlantic races involving world famous sailors. Saint Malo is also an open history book. People have lived within these granite walls since the 12th century. This is the birthplace of explorers like Jacques Cartier, who took possession of Canada in 1534 in the name of the King of France, of intrepid buccaneers like Duguay-Trouin, or of Surcouf, Napoleon's master mariner.
Goals
The goals of the conference are to further our understanding of composition, structure, heterogeneity, and dynamics of Earth's mantle by consideration of the constraints imposed by various disciplines, and to promote an interdisciplinary exchange of research results. Important observational constraints are provided by seismology, through the characterization of structures in the mantle which my have significance for global dynamics and composition. Other constraints are imposed by geochemistry , high-pressure petrology, mineral physics, and geophysical fluid dynamics. The Saint Malo 2005 workshop is aimed at bringing together researchers from these different areas of geosciences in order to discuss the state of our understanding in these areas, and to propose new approaches for obtaining a more comprehensive model of the mantle. This meeting follows upon two previous interdisciplinary workshops on similar themes which were held at the GeoForschung Zentrum in Postdam (Germany) in April 2001, and in Fréjus (France) in 2003.
Schedule
The workshop starts on Tuesday (August, 30) with arrival of participants in the afternoon followed by a welcome party (from 7:30 pm) organized at the Palais du Grand Large (PGL). Local transportation will be available for participants from Rennes train station and Rennes airport on Tuesday, 30. The talks and poster sessions begin on Wednesday morning (August, 31) and continue till Saturday (September, 3). Sessions will end at 12:30 pm and departure is scheduled after lunch and final group picture, so as to allow participants to reach Rennes train station and airport to reach Paris in the evening of Saturday (for those taking flight early Sunday morning from Paris airports). Local transportation will be available for participants from PGL to Rennes train station and Rennes airport. Information about travel and directions can be found here.
Scientific Program
Parallel sessionSaint Malo 2005 workshop will be highly interdisciplinary. We want to bring roughly equal numbers of participants from seismology, mineral physics, geodynamics, and geochemistry, with no competing sessions. One aim is to have each discipline will tell the others what kind of data are needed to advance our understanding of the mantle. There will be poster sessions and a number of contributed talks as well.
List of registered participants (including abstract if submitted)
Thursday, September 1st afternoon will be dedicated to some extra-activities. Two optional programs are proposed to participants:
- a 1/2 day visit to Mont Saint Michel organized from Palais du Grand Large with a return travel with a 50 seats tour bus (40 €)
- a sailing challenge on 15 feet catamaran or sand yachts (66 € including instructor supervision, security, and equipment)
You are invited to tick one of these options in your reservation form if interested. Note that these activities depend on a minimum number of participants.
Registration
Registration fees, including full board (all meals) and local transportation:
Students and post-docs (age limit 35 years)
380 € Faculty 480 € Accompanying person (including all meals) 300 €
Registration is closed (please contact the organizers for late registration).
It is required that each participant has paid his/her conference fees and/or parallel activity registration (if applicable). These parallel activities will be organized on the basis of prepaid registrations only.
Housing
IMPORTANT: Registration fees do not include any housing.
Participants are therefore invited to make their hotel reservation directly with Palais du Grand Large. Reservation deadline was July 10th, 2005. Reservations at preferential rates cannot be guaranteed beyond this deadline. We invite participants to proceed as soon as possible. The hotel reservation can be done through a secure online credit card system here. Alternatively, information and reservation forms can be dowloaded here. These forms have to be mailed or faxed to Palais du Grand Large with payment of reservation fees. Each participant will receive from Palais du Grand Large a confirmation of hotel reservation as well as information about hotel location.
Organizing committee
If you have any questions or problems,
please contact the local organizing committee by e-mail:
Gaelle Dufour, James Badro or Guillaume Fiquet
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