Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Searching for Long-period signals in Apollo Seismic Data

Juan Li, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Fault orientation in earthquake seismic precursors: Insights from the laboratory

Carolina Giorgetti, ENS Paris.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Unravelling magma-water interaction in an oceanic core complex with full-waveform imaging and numerical modelling

Michele Paulatto, Imperial College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

3D tomographic constraints on upper-plate elastic structure and inter-plate geometry offshore the Ecuadorian-Colombian margin

Manel Prada -- Institute of Marine Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

What small earthquakes can teach us about large earthquakes at caldera ring faults

Tom Winder ( University of Iceland).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

What small earthquakes can teach us about large earthquakes at caldera ring faults

Tom Winder, University of Iceland.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Catastrophic failure: sound and vision

Ian Main, University of Edinburgh.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

H, He, and seismic evidence for a bilithologic plume-fed asthenosphere

Jason Phipps Morgan, Institute of Marine Sciences, Barcelona.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Dispersed volcanism in East Africa-Arabia: evidence for a single, active plume head

Chiara Civiero, University of Trieste.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

What’s shaking Mars? An overview of NASA’s InSight Mission

Anna Horleston, University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Energy partitioning and shear resistance evolution during earthquake sequences in experiments with simulated quartz gouge

Daniel Faulkner, University of Liverpool.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 22 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

MANTLE PLUMES AND GLOBAL MANTLE DYNAMICS: INSIGHTS FROM FULL WAVEFORM TOMOGRAPHY

Barbara Romanowicz, UC Berkeley.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Preliminary results of the 2023 geochemical exploration of volcanic volatiles at Deception Island (Antarctica): new inferences on the mantle heterogeneity

Antonio Caracausi, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Palermo, Italy.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Seismic interferometry of vehicle and train traffic: Case studies from the USA and South Africa

Diego Quiros, University of Cape Town.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Insights into the geodetic signature of continental hydrology

Kristel Chanard -- IPGP, Paris.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Magma cracking through the lithosphere

Adina Pusok, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Water can move mountains: hydrologically induced deformation in the Apennines (Italy) and Sierra Nevada (California) observed from GNSS data

Francesca Silverii, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV, Italy).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Aggradation, incision and lateral migration of alluvial rivers

Fergus McNab, GFZ Potsdam.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Investigating seismic anisotropy in the Central Mediterranean

Foivos Karakostas, UCL.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 16 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Earthquakes, Stress Drops and the Strength of Faults

Simon Lamb, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 09 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Earth evolution as a thermal system: From rock mechanics to Earth science

Chun'an Tang - Dalian University of Technology.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Monday 17 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Math + Explainable AI for weather and climate, with a focus on extremes

Gianmarco Mengaldo -- NUS, Singapore.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 12 June 2024, 12:00-13:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Geodynamic constraints on early Earth crust formation and tectonics

Brad Foley -- Penn State University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Whole Earth oscillations: Thé key to imaging Earth’s deep interior

Arwen Deuss - Utrecht University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

The Turkana Rift Arrays Investigating Lithospheric Structure (TRAILS) Experiment

Ian Bastow, Imperial College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Searching for habitability on Venus and exoplanets

Oliver Shorttle, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

New Insights from the Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP)

Max Werner -- University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Carbon subduction and mid-ocean ridge emissions modulate icehouse-greenhouse climates

Ben Mather, University of Sydney.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Carbon subduction and mid-ocean ridge emissions modulate icehouse-greenhouse climates

Ben Mather, University of Sydney.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Sunday 14 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Evaluating Dynamic Topography Predictions using the Stratigraphic Record

Victoria Fernandes, GFZ Potsdam.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Origin of carbonatites using the triple-isotope approach

Elsa Amsellem, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

The Tristan da Cunha mantle plume, new insights from geophysical, petrological and geochemical studies along the Walvis Ridge hotspot track and at Tristan da Cunha Island

Wolfram Geissler, Alfred Wegener Institute.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Cyprus: Seismicity, Subduction and Serpentinite

Tom Merry, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Cancelled: postponed to May 1st, 2024

Maximilian Werner, University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Repeated rupture of persistent fault zone asperities: structure and variability of large earthquakes at the Kermadec subduction zone

Karen Lythgoe, University of Edinburgh.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Natural hazards in a warming world: exploring the big questions

Max Van Wyk de Vries, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Volatile recycling at the Lesser Antilles subduction zone

Jenny Collier -- Imperial College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Radical uncertainty in subsurface science: How do we make decisions?

Andrew Curtis -- University of Edinburgh.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Planetary seismology: from InSight Mission to Mars to Upcoming Lunar Missions

Doyeon Kim -- Imperial College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Natural variability of faults and earthquakes over a range of temporal scales, and the implications for seismic hazard

Zoe Mildon -- University of Plymouth.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Seismological evidence for secular mantle cooling beneath cratons

Federico Munch -- ETH Zürich.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Long term thermochemical evolution of Earth's mantle

Maxim Ballmer -- University College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Architecture & Composition of the Australian Lithosphere – Perspectives from Mantle Xenoliths & Receiver Functions

Zachary Sudholz -- University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Seeing into the heart of a planet: InSights from the Martian Core

Jessica Irving -- University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

The interplay of deep Earth and surface processes shaping Southeast Asia and the Australian continents

Sabin Zahirovic -- University of Sydney.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Recent progress in imaging the subsurface structure of Mars by Zhurong rover radar

Ling Chen -- Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Magma overpressure and its importance for eruption triggering and explosivity

Mike Cassidy -- University of Birmingham.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Lecture 2023: “Chirality-Complexity Relations for Nanostructures”

Nicholas Kotov, University of Michigan.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Lowermost-mantle density and thermochemical structure from from recent normal-mode measurements

Rûna van Tent -- Utrecht University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Probing Into the Crust Through eastern Scotland: Seismological constraints on the Highland Boundary Fault

Amy Gilligan -- University of Aberdeen.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

On or Off? Interpreting episodic tremor during the Fagradalsfjall eruption 2021

Eva P. S. Eibl - University of Potsdam.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Using numerical models of whole-mantle convection to unravel mantle-lithosphere interactions.

Maelis Arnould, University of Lyon.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Constraining the chemistry of the lower mantle from global tomography

Laura Cobden - Utrecht University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Microgravity for volcano monitoring and research

Elske de Zeeuw-van Dalfsen - KNMI.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Structure and uplift history of the Transantarctic Mountains: a test for convective instability in the upper mantle

Tim Stern - Victoria University of Wellington.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundary

Zhikai Wang - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Tracking fluids through Earth’s crust: Insights from volcanic seismicity and impacts for society

Thomas Hudson - Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Seismic tomography from ocean bottom seismometers

Maria Tsekhmistrenko - University College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Metal Complexes as Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Prof. Gilles Gasser, Chimie ParisTech.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Matthew Powner, University College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor John Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-18:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceutical Compounds

Dr Martin Eastgate, Bristol- Myers Squibb.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Small Things Make Big Differences

Athena SWAN Talk

Professor Catherine J. Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The Golden Road: Synthesis and Surface Chemistry of Gold Nanocrystals

BP Sustainability Lecture

Professor Catherine J. Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Quantum Chemistry in the Continuum"

Professor Anna Krylov, University of Southern California.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 September 2019, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Mini-symposium: Programming materials with classical conditioning algorithms

Prof. Olli Ikkala, Molecular Materials (Molmat) - Aalto University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 15:10-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Mini-symposium: Assembly of nano-polysaccharides and plant polyaromatics at interfaces

Prof. Orlando J. Rojas, Aalto University (Finland) & North Carolina State University (US).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 14:00-14:50

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Mini-symposium: Wood Hemicelluloses: Molecular Structure and Interactions in Woody Tissues

Prof. Francisco Javier Vilaplana Domingo, UNIVERSITETSLEKTOR.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 13:00-13:50

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

PROTAC-mediated Protein Degradation: A New Therapeutic Modality

Professor Craig Crews, Yale University..

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modified nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids for medicinal chemistry and chemical biology

Prof Michal Hocek - IOCB Prague - Czech Republic.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Switchable Polymerization Catalysis: Ordered Block Polymers from Monomer Mixtures

Prof. Charlotte Williams (University of Oxford).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Friday 15 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Catalytic Activation of Renewable Resources to make Polymers and Fuels

Prof. Charlotte Williams (University of Oxford).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Establishing meso-methyl BODIPYs as viable visible-light excitable photocages

Roy Weinstain - Tel-Aviv University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

2018 Merck Lectureship

Professor Sarah Reisman- Caltech.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 15:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multicomponent Reactions in Peptide and Protein Chemistry

Prof Daniel García Rivera from the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Havana (Cuba).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Improving the Prediction of In vivo Drug Activity

Peter Tonge, Institute for Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery, Stony Brook University USA.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 16 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Evolution of Functionality of Porous Coordination Polymers

2013 winner of RSC de Gennes Prize for outstanding & exceptional work in the field of Materials Chemistry

Professor Susumu Kitagawa, Kyoto University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Friday 24 July 2015, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Hydrogel-Actuated Integrated Responsive Systems (HAIRS): Moving Towards Adaptive Materials

Second Lewis Lecture

Professor Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Friday 08 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multifunctionality of Liquid-filled Porous Materials: From Encryption to Anti-Fouling

First Lewis Lecture

Professor Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nanomaterials Design for Energy and Environment

Inaugural Schlumberger Lectures

Professor Yi Cui, Stanford University, USA.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cephalopod-derived Materials for Photonic and Protonic Devices

Informal Materials RIG seminar

Professor Alon Gorodetsky, University of California, Irvine.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Monday 09 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Chemical Adventures Using the Unified Principles of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis

Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas, Emeritus Professor.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Interplay of X-ray Spectroscopy with Functional Materials - Addressing Scientific Issues with Synchrotron Capabilities

Information Materials RIG seminar

Professor Tsun-Kong Sham, Canadian Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Canada.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Non lithium based technologies: walking on the sodium side

Dr Rosa Palacin, CSIC, Inst Ciencia Mat Barcelona, Spain.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 14:30-15:30