Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Oxygen Valve on Hydrogen Escape Since the Great Oxidation Event

Greg Cooke / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 13:15-13:40

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Detecting reversible retreat and readvance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Holocene

Joanne Johnson, British Antarctic Survey.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 17:30-19:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

The Magmatic Origin of the North Atlantic V-Shaped Ridges and Fractured Crust

Callum Pearman.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 09 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Self-organisation in mafic cumulates: differential migration of immiscible silicate liquids in the crystal mush

Marian Holness, University of Cambridge.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Vertical mixing and associated biogeochemical fluxes via radium isotopes

Tristan McKenzie, Uni of Gothenberg.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

Isabel Papanagnou.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Silica enrichment (and depletion) in the cratonic lithosphere

Emma Tomlinson, Trinity College Dublin.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Optical geodesy in the near-field of earthquake ruptures

James Hollingsworth, ISTerre, Grenoble, France.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBC

Prof Ljiljana Fruk ( Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology).

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Average physical structure of cratonic lithosphere, from thermodynamic inversion of global surface-wave data

Sergei Lebedev ( University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 23 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

The world’s least loved sedimentary structures: Sole marks as guides to flow dynamics, substrates, and the misidentification of life

Jeff Peakall, University of Leeds.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

How crustal exhumation rates determine the fate of porphyry copper deposits

Mineralogical Society Distinguished Lecturer 2024–25

Frances Cooper, University College London.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 03 June 2025, 12:00-13:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Optimization of deep ocean meridional circulation by turbulent mixing

Ali Mashayek (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 11:30-12:30

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Grain-scale models of transient diffusion creep

John Rudge.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 06 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

The early evolution of animal life and the generation of form

Frances Dunn, Oxford University Museum of Natural History & University of Oxford.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 12:00-13:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBC

Quentin Kriaa, Uni of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 June 2025, 11:30-12:30

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

The splendours of Isfahan, Iran, enabled by Late Quaternary earthquake faulting and drainage reversal

James Jackson.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 13 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Resolving the Boundary Layer Paradox: Seismic Clues to the Origin of Lithosphere Discontinuities

Tolulope Olugboji, University of Rochester.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Rock magnetic estimation of past precipitation from topsoil calibration - recent studies in Europe and India

Christian Zeeden, Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 17:30-19:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Has the thermal structure of cratonic lithosphere changed through time?

Zachary Sudholz.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 20 June 2025, 16:00-17:00