This Week in Geosciences (TWIG)

Week of October 30 - November 5, 2006


Speakers:	John H. S. Macquaker (University of Manchester)
Topics:	Sedimentary Processes and Myths about the optimal Environments of Source rock deposition
Series/Event:	Soft Rock Seminar
Date & Time:	Monday, 11/30, Noon
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Lyndon Murray (UT DGS PhD)
Topics:	Biostratigraphic analysis of the Vallecito Creek-Fire Creek section, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 10/31, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Dr. Andy Nyblade (Dept. of Geosciences, Penn State Univ)
Topics:	Africa Array: Imaging the African Superplume
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Thursday, 11/02, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Dr. Sergey Fomel
Topics:	Fast surface reconstruction from point sets
Series/Event:	Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 11/3,, 8:30 a.m.
Location	Main Conference Room, Bldg 130, J. J. Pickle Research Campus

Speakers:	Dave Wilson (UT DGS Postdoctoral Fellow)
Topics:	Seismic structure of the crust and upper mantle in the Southwestern United States
Series/Event:	Institute for Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 11/3, 11:00 a.m.-Noon
Location	UTIG Room 800

Speakers:	Dr. Hongbin Zhan (Texas A&M)
Topics:	What is wrong with the Advection-Dispersion Equation (ADE)?
Series/Event:	Hydro Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 11/3, Noon
Location	GEO 3.222

This Week in Geosciences (TWIG) is a weekly communication from the Department of Geological Sciences at the Jackson School. To submit events for TWIG, contact Terry Edgar in the Department at tedgar@mail.utexas.edu or 512-471-5172.