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Best Oral Presentation Award
THESIS student awarded for best oral presentation at annual meeting of DGG (German Geophysical Society)
THESIS-students join forces in the experimental monitoring of active volcanoes in Mexico
Miguel Alatorre (THESIS student) and Dr. Yan Lavallee (THESIS student alumni) initiate international collaborations with volcanologists from the universities of Colima and Mexico to study two active volcanoes in Mexico. Their new endeavor aims to combine experimental work with field studies to refine our knowledge of fragmentation involved in the transition of effusive to explosive eruptions.
Geophysics congratulates Josep de la Puente on successfully defending his doctoral thesis
Yesterday Josep de la Puente successfully defended his doctoral thesis on "Seismic Wave Simulation for Complex Rheologies on Unstructured Meshes".
Intl. Graduate School THESIS receives further funding
The International Graduate School THESIS funded by the Elitenetwork of Bavaria, LMU and TUM has been approved for an additional funding period of 4 years until July 2012.
Master's Programme in Geophysics approved
The Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts has approved the joint Geophysics Master's Programme of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Technical University Munich.
Prof. Kruhl and students on a field-trip in Scotland
The Süddeutsche Zeitung (issue 22.08.2007) reports on the experiences of Prof. Kruhl, a THESIS-faculty member, and a group of Bachelor-students in Geology during their field-trip to Scotland.
Prof Don Dingwell is rewarded a research professorship under LMUexcellent
Professor Don Dingwell is rewarded one of a small number of select research professorships under the university-wide LMUexcellent framework.
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities elects Geophysicist as member
Prof. Bunge becomes a member of the class for Mathematics and the Natural Sciences of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Professor Heiner Igel gives public lecture on "Earthquakes - natural disasters and windows to inner Earth"
Professor Heiner Igel, LMU spricht im Rahmen des Begleitprogramms zur Wanderausstellung Unruhige Erde" über "Erdbeben Naturkatastrophe und Fenster ins Erdinnere" - Vortrag im Museum Mensch und Natur (Schloß Nymphenburg) am Donnerstag, 28.6.07 um 18.30 Uhr im Vortragssaal. Der Eintritt ist frei!
Professor Don Dingwell gives public lecture on "Volcanoes - with HighTech against HighRisk"
Professor Don Dingwell, LMU spricht im Rahmen des Begleitprogramms zur Wanderausstellung "Unruhige Erde" über "Vulkane - Mit HighTech gegen HighRisk" - Vortrag im Museum Mensch und Natur (Schloß Nymphenburg) am Donnerstag, 31.05.07 um 18.30 Uhr im Vortragssaal. Der Eintritt ist frei!
DFG richtet neues Schwerpunktprogramm unter Münchner Koordination ein
DFG will establish a new priority program (SPP) under the co-cordination of Munich Geophysics. The program will investigate the geodynamic evolution of the South Atlantic and southern Africa. Particular emphasis will be placed on the interplay of deep earth processes in the mantle and processes in the lithosphere.
Yan Lavallee receives "Most Cited Author 2003-2007 Award"
Yan Lavallee and co-authors received the "Most Cited Author 2003-2007 Award" for their publication on "Caldera subsidence in areas of variable topographic relief: Results from analogue modeling" in Journal of Volcanology & Geothermal Research at this year's EGU 2007 in Vienna.
Prof Heiner Igel Keynote Lectures at EGU General Assembly on April 18. 19:00-20:00
Prof Heiner Igel is the invited speaker of the C.F. Gauss Keynote Lecture of the Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft (DGG) at the European Geosciences Union in Wien on April 18. 19:00-20:00.
Diploma-student Susanne Lehndorfer honored at AGU Fall Meeting 2006
nt Susanne Lehndorfer wins "Outstanding Student Paper Award" at AGU Fall Meeting 2006 for her presentation in the Seismology Section on "Observations of rotational motions around vertical and horizontal axes: Comparison with translations".
Antonio Piazzoni wins outstanding Student Paper Award at the AGU 2006 Fall Meeting
Congratulations to Antonio Piazzoni, who has won an Outstanding Student Paper award from the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Proposal for DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative accepted !
Martin Käser's proposal "Seismic wave propagation solutions for realistic 3D media" for the DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) Extreme Computing Initiative is accepted. In collaboration with Michael Dumbser and Josep de la Puente a new high-resolution approach for wave propagation simulation on massively parallel hardware is further developed and applied to large-scale problems in numerical seismology.
Wenn es in Bayern Erdbeben regnet
The LMU issued a recent press statement on work by Toni Kraft and co-workers at LMU Geophysics and University of Potsdam, published in Geophysical Research Letters and Tectonophysics, in which they argue for a link between rainfall and seismic instability.
Dr. Hayfaa Abdul Aziz publishes in NATURE
Munich research scientist Hayfaa Abdul Aziz and her co-authors have just published a paper on the astronomical forcing of mammal turnover.
PhD student Giampiero Iaffaldano publishes in Geology
Giampiero Iaffaldano, together with his co-authors, published an article in this month's Geology. Giampiero is supervised by Professor Bunge and member of the International Graduate School THESIS funded by the Elite Network of Bavaria.
Radio-Interview with Professor Bunge
Sendetermin Montag 18.09.06 von 18:00 - 18:30 auf BR2 in der Sendung IQ - Wissenschaft und Forschung (Thema 4 - Blick ins Innerste: Die Erde und ihre Bewegungen)
Christina Plattner awarded MARGINS AGU 2005: Honorable mention
The MARGINS judges awarded Christina Plattner's AGU 2005 presentation an honorable mention. (http://www.margins.wustl.edu/MARGINS_Prize/MPWinners2005.html)
MGC Graduation Ceremony/Absloventenfeier 2015
MGC Graduation Ceremony 2015
Special Symposium: Frontiers in Geomicrobiology
Research talks (public)
75 years of Earth Monitoring at the Geophysical Observatory Fuerstenfeldbruck (1939-2014)
A celebration at the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Geophysical Observatory Fuerstenfeldbruck will be held at Fuerstenfeldbruck on Oct 10th, 2014.
Das große Japanbeben von 2011 - Jahrhundert-Ereignis im Erdsystem - Podiumsdiskussion
Podiumsdiskussion zu den geowissenschaftlichen Hintergründen des Erdbebens in Japan.
PhD Defense of Christoph Moder
Special seminar talk by Christoph Moder
PhD Defense of Verena Hermann
Special seminar talk by Verena Hermann.
GPlates Workshop
A one-day introduction to the use of the GPlates-software being developed by Prof. Dietmar Müller and his group from the University of Sidney. Prof. Müller is currently a Mercator-Visiting-Professor.
Master's Programme Geophysics: Semester Opening
In this meeting we will give an overview on courses, contents, time schedules and the like. Besides this each of our three main research groups will present itself and its associated elective course module.
PhD Defense of Andreas Fichtner
Special seminar talk by Andreas Fichtner