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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.
Workshop: Density, Temperature and Elastic Constants of Earth's Mantle
This workshop will bring together a small group of world-leading experts, to discuss our current understanding of Temperature, Density and Elastic Constants in the mantle.
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)