Invited Speakers

– Peter Cobbold (University Rennes)
Modelling in the past, present and future

– Boris Kaus (ETH-Zürich)
Recent advances in computational geodynamics

– Ray Fletcher (PGP-Oslo)
Analytical Modelling

– Brian Evans(MIT)
Rock Rheology

– Yuri Podladchikov (PGP-Oslo)
Lithosphere behaviour

– Tony Watts (University Oxford)
Oceanic lithosphere and continental margins

– Taras Gerya (ETH-Zürich)
Subduction and plate tectonics

– Stefan Schmalholz (University Lausanne)
Continental lithosphere and orogeny

–Shijie Zhong (University Colorado)
Mantle Dynamics

– Evgueni Burov (University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
From rifts to Thrust Systems

– Ritske Huismans (University Bergen)
Lithosphere extension and Sedimentary Basins

– Frederic Herman (ETH-Zürich)
Surface Processes and Large Scale Tectonics

– Marcin Dabrowski (PGP-Oslo)
Small scale structures

– Helene Hebert (CEA, Paris)
Natural Hazards

– Regis Mourgues (University Le Mans)
Fluids and rock deformation

– William Sassi (IFP, Paris)
Hydrocarbon and Mineral Exploration

– Susan Buiter (Geological Survey of Norway)
Methods, techniques, materials and benchmarking

– Teng-fong Wong (Stony Brook, New York)
Deformation and failure mode of porous rock

– Karen Mair (PGP-Oslo)
Brittle failure

– Markus Albertz (ExxonMobil)
Salt tectonics
 
– Todd Ehlers (University Tuebingen)
Exhumation using low-temperature geochronology

Mid-afternoon sessions – Outstanding PhD students

1. Ksenya Nikolaeva on Subduction Initiation
2. …  suggested by PhD supervisors