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IAP 2011 Activity


2011 EAPS Lecture Series: Highlights from 150 years of EAPS at MIT
Shuhei Ono
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

This year's theme celebrates the 150th anniversary of MIT, founded by a geologist, William Barton Rogers by highlighting accomplishments of EAPS faculty and students. The series features talks by current and past members of the EAPS community to cover topics about the major discoveries in the Earth and Planetary Sciences and contribution from EAPS scientists.
Contact: Vicki McKenna, 54-911B, x3-3380, vsm@mit.edu
Sponsor: Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

50- years of mineralogical crystal field theory - the legacy of Roger Burns and MIT
Darby Dyar Associate Professor, Dept. of Astronomy, Mt Holyoke College
Thu Jan 13, 12-01:00pm, 54-915

Jule Charney: Life, Instability and Prediction
Joe Pedlosky Scientist Emeritus, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Fri Jan 14, 12-01:00pm, 54-915

Father of Chaos: The Life and Times of Edward N. Lorenz
Kerry Emanuel
Wed Jan 19, 12-01:00pm, 54-915

The volatile content and D/H ratios of the Lunar Picritic glasses
Alberto Saal Associate Professor, Geological Sciences, Brown University
Fri Jan 21, 12-01:00pm, 54-915

The hottest, the coldest, the highest, the deepest and the most foreign places on Earth: John Edmond's geochemical explorations
Ed Boyle
Fri Jan 28, 12-01:00pm, 54-915
Latest update: 11-Jan-2011


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Last update: 7 Sept. 2011