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Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Geological Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that brings in distinguished speakers from other universities and research institutions.

The organizer for this year's lecture series is Dr. Clara Castro.

Lectures are Friday afternoons from 4:00 to 5:00 pm, in Room 1528 C.C. Little Bldg. A reception is held following the lecture in 2540 C.C. Little. The events are free and open to the public.

Winter 2008 Smith Lecture Schedule
January	4	Amy Bengtson, University of Wisconsin	Fe Spin Crossover in Lower Mantle Materials: A First-Principles Study
	11	Sharon Hoffman, MIT/ Woods Hole	What Can U-Series Radionuclides in Marine Sediments Tell Us About the Ocean?
	18	Anna Courtier, University of Minnesota	Seismic Evidence of Mantle Water in Regions of Active and Ancient Subduction
	25	Jeff Gee, Scripps	The Dufek Layered Intrusion: Insights into Jurassic Geomagnetic Field Behavior
February	1	Arlo Weil, Bryn Mawr College	Moving Towards a Viable Four-Dimensional Model of Fold-Thrust Belt Evolution: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Wyoming Salient
	8	Demian Saffer, Pennsylvania State University	Permeability: An Overlooked Control on the Strength of Subduction Megathrusts
Dorr Dinner	15	Paul Hoffman, Harvard University	Ice Age to Snowball Earth: How Geological Discoveries Drove Climate Dynamics and Geodynamics
	22	Ron Smith, Yale University	Orographic Precipitation, Drying Ratio and Isotope Fractionation in the California Coastal and Sierra Ranges
	29	Winter Vacation	No lecture
March	7	Antony Lowry, Utah State University	Mass Loading and Rock Flow: New Insights from Isostatic Analysis
	14	Ho-Kwang Mao, Carnegie Institution of Washington	Diamond Windows on Planetary Interior — Minerals & Rocks
	21	Susan Humphris, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Relation between Volcanism, Tectonism, and Hydrothermal Activity at Mid-Ocean Ridges
	28	Jean Braun, University of Rennes, France	Quantifying the Efficiency of the Couplings (and Feedbacks?) Between Tectonics and Erosion
April	4	Sasha Turchyn, University of Cambridge, UK	Oxygen Isotope Insight into the Marine Sulfur Cycle; Proxy Development and Interpreting the Cretaceous Record
	11	Danièle Pinti, Université du Québec à Montréal	Early Archean Diversified Biosphere Inferred from Carbon, Nitrogen, and Iron Isotopes in Cherts

Winter 2008 — Other Lectures Lectures start at 4:00 pm in Room 1512 C.C. Little BldG.
March	11	Wendy Panero, Ohio State University	The Volatile Content of the Deep Earth
	18	Jie Li, University of Illinois	Planetary Magnetism under High Pressure
	20	Kaj Johnson, Indiana University	Inferring Earthquake and Mountain Building Processes in Taiwan Using Geophysical and Geologic Observations
	25	Eric Hetland, California Institute of Technology	Models and Observations of Non-Steady Interseismic Strain Accumulation

Smith Lectures Fall 2007 (PDF)

Lectures Winter 2007 (PDF)

Smith Lectures Fall 2006 (PDF)

Smith Lectures Winter 2006 (PDF)

Smith Lectures Fall 2005 (PDF)

Smith Lectures Winter 2005 (PDF)

Department Lecture Series Fall 2001 - Winter 2004 (PDF)

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