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2006-05-05 11:00: Colloids and coatings for colours (Dr Andrew M. Howe, Kodak European Research, Cambridge)

2006-05-12 11:00: Lattice-kinetic approach to microfluidics (Professor Sauro Succi, IAC-CNR, Rome)

2006-05-19 11:00: Soft particle liquids (Dr David Heyes, Division of Chemistry, University of Surrey)

2006-05-26 11:00: The collapse of granular columns (Professor Rich Kerswell, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol)

2006-06-02 11:00: Hydrodynamic modes of resuspension (Dr Stuart B. Dalziel, GK Batchelor Laboratory & DAMTP)

2006-10-06 14:00: Yield stress liquids (Professor Richard Buscall, MSACT Consulting: Visiting Professor at the Universities of Melbourne and Leeds; formerly of ICI)

2006-10-06 14:00: Yield stress liquids (Professor Richard Buscall, MSACT Consulting: Visiting Professor at the Universities of Melbourne and Leeds; formerly of ICI)

2007-02-01 14:00: Multiphase flow in porous media from the micron to kilometre scale (Martin Blunt (Imperial))

2007-02-08 14:00: Mixing in stratified fluids: More questions than answers (Colm Caulfield (DAMTP & BPI))

2007-02-15 14:00: The stratosphere and climate (Mark Baldwin (Reading))

2007-03-01 14:00: A brief overview of models of sea ice rheology (Danny Feltham (UCL))

2007-03-08 14:00: H2O in melt inclusions - what can we learn? (Madeline Humphreys (DES))

2007-04-03 12:30: The prize for integrating Time Lapse seismic and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (Greg Walker BP)

2007-04-27 11:30: Large-scale simulation technique for shock and blast loaded structures (Dr Fehmi Cirak CUED)

2007-05-04 13:00: Professor Andy Woods (Professor AW Woods, BP Institute)

2007-05-07 14:00: Oil spill detection and prediction in the Mediterranean Sea (Jose M Redondo, Dept. Fisica Aplicada, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)

2007-05-11 11:30: Numerical simulation of the dynamics of a sailing boat (Matteo Lombardi)

2007-05-18 11:30: Fundamentals and applications of complex phase behaviour from a molecular perspective (Amparo Galindo, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London)

2007-05-25 14:15: Dam-break flows of visco-plastic and granular materials (Dr Andrew Hogg, University of Bristol)

2007-05-31 10:30: Long wave transition to instability of flows in horizontally extended domains of porous media (Professor Andrej Il'ichev, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Science and Professor George Tsypkin, Institute for Problems in Mechanics)

2007-06-01 11:30: Migrating and interacting solid particles in a Brinkman fluid (Antoine Sellier LadHyX)

2007-06-08 11:30: Development of anisotropy of permeability in expanding vesicular magma (Ed Llewellin, Earth Sciences, University of Durham)

2007-06-15 11:30: Ice and Ice cream (Dr Martin Izzard Unilever)

2007-07-05 14:00: Improving Waterflood Oil Recovery: Understanding the Habitat and Targetting Recovery of Remaining Oil (Cliff Black, BP Senior Advisor Waterflood Management & IOR)

2007-10-11 11:30: Separation Control in Over-expanded Supersonic Nozzles: Improving the Performance of Ballistic Drug and Vaccine Delivery Devices (Dr Maynard Marrion BPI)

2007-10-11 14:00: A brief overview of models of sea ice rheology (Danny Feltham (UCL))

2007-10-18 11:30: Microcapsules with liquid cores and solid shells for pressure-release applications (Dr Michael O'Sullivan BPI)

2007-10-18 14:00: The melt inclusion record of concurrent mixing and cooling in basaltic magma chambers (John Mclennan (Earth Sciences))

2007-10-25 11:30: Segregation in Frictional Granular Flows (Dr Jim McElwaine DAMTP)

2007-10-25 14:00: Volatile geochemistry of volcanic eruptions (Marie Edmonds (Earth Sciences))

2007-11-01 11:30: Stirring the Cahn-Hilliard fluid (Dr Lennon O'Naraigh, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College)

2007-11-01 14:00: Marvelous mathematical models (Hassan Aref (Virginia & Denmark))

2007-11-08 11:30: Numerical models for dam-break flows at the intitial stage (Dr Dongfang Liang, Engineering, Cambridge)

2007-11-22 11:30: Life at High Peclet Numbers (Professor R. Goldstein, DAMTP)

2007-11-22 14:00: Climate change and the trillion-dollar millennium mathematics problem (Tim Palmer (ECMWF))

2007-11-29 14:00: The stability of ice sheets: current understanding (Geoffrey Boulton (Edinburgh))

2008-01-17 11:30: Streaming potentials generated by a two-phase flow in capillary (Etienne Lac)

2008-01-24 11:30: The challenge of consumer products: the prediction of complex fluid flow behaviour in both the consumer and industrial manufacturing processes: today's challenges and tomorrow's needs (Dr Mark Meili, Proctor & Gamble)

2008-01-24 14:05: Thermal evolution of the Earth: evidence from Archean komatiites and basalts (Nick Arndt (LGCA, Universite J Fourier))

2008-01-31 11:30: Internal solitary waves in shallow water (Professor Peter Davies, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee)

2008-01-31 14:05: Geophysical evidence for highly focused fluid flow in sedimentary basins (Joe Cartwright (Cardiff))

2008-02-07 11:30: Plume dynamics associated with volcanism: atmospheric flows; submarine flows and lake eruptions (Andy Woods - BP Professor ( BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge))

2008-02-07 14:05: Mixing induced in oceanic overflows and dense gravity currents: a new entrainment parameterization (Claudia Cenedese (WHOI))

2008-02-10 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Jeanne Gherardi Scao)

2008-02-14 11:30: Soft, self-assembled systems: structure and flow properties (Dr Erika Eiser)

2008-02-14 14:05: Rossby waves in the Ocean: Theoretical advances and recent satellite observations (Nathan Paldor (Hebrew University, Jerusalem))

2008-02-21 12:00: How oscillating collapsible tubes extract energy from a viscous flow (Professor Matthias Heil, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Manchester)

2008-02-21 14:05: Models of convective exchange between lava lakes and magma chambers (Steve Blake (Open University))

2008-02-28 11:30: Stratified flows: From the lab to the ocean (Professor Tom Peacock, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MIT)

2008-02-28 14:05: Advances in simulating wave propagation in complex media: applications to rotational seismology and scattering (Heiner Igel (LMU Munich))

2008-03-06 11:30: Transport in heterogeneous porous media (Dr Diogo Bolster, Dept. of Geotechnical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalunya)

2008-03-06 14:05: Development of hydrocarbon miscibility in water and gas injection (Tara La Force (Imperial College))

2008-03-13 11:30: Title to be confirmed (WY Chow, I Stöcker, L Foley and C Smith)

2008-03-13 14:05: CANCELLED - Submarine  granular flows: how the interstitial fluid dramatically influences the granular dynamics (Olivier Pouliquen (IUSTI, Marseille))

2008-04-24 11:30: Pattern formation in permafrost (Dr Lucas Goehring, BP Institute)

2008-05-01 11:30: Buckling of elastic plates: theory and experiment (Prof Richard Craster, Imperial College Dept. of Mathematics)

2008-05-08 11:30: The world in a bowl of mush: solidification and fluid flow from the inner core to the Arctic Ocean (Dr Jerome Neufeld, ITG)

2008-05-15 11:30: Encapsulation by microcapsules (Grace Yow, BP Institute)

2008-05-22 11:30: Microbiological Responses and Population-Adaptation to Chemical Stress (Sujata Ray, BP Institute)

2008-05-29 11:30: An adaptive numerical method for multi-scale problems arising in phase-field modelling of solidification (Prof Peter Jimack, Computational PDEs Unit, University of Leeds)

2008-06-12 11:30: Title to be confirmed (Tej Bhinde and Seung Yeon Lee, BP Institute)

2008-09-25 09:30: Mixing by turbulent plumes (Andy Woods - BP Professor ( BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge))

2008-09-25 10:45: Some transient studies in stratified flow with horizontal shear (Cristobal Arratia, LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)

2008-09-25 11:45: Mixing in oceanic (and laboratory) overflows (Claudia Cenedese, WHOI)

2008-09-25 13:45: Maximal mixing efficiency (Stuart Dalziel, DAMTP)

2008-09-25 14:45: Interaction of natural convection and chemical kinetics (Silvana Cardoso, Chemical Engineering)

2008-09-25 16:00: On the energetics of turbulent mixing in stratified fluids (Remi Tailleux, Meteorology, University of Reading)

2008-09-26 09:30: Interfacial mixing by horizontal vortices and shear turbulence (Jan-bert Flor, LEGI Grenoble)

2008-09-26 10:45: The role of angular momentum conservation in rotating turbulence (Peter Davidson, CUED)

2008-09-26 11:45: The role of convective chimneys in the Greenland Sea (Peter Wadhams, DAMTP)

2008-09-26 13:45: Global shear instabilities in flames and their effect on the response to acoustic forcing. (Matthew Juniper, CUED)

2008-09-26 14:45: Bounds on mixing efficiency and Richardson number in stably stratified turbulent shear flow (Colm-cille Caulfield, BPI & DAMTP)

2008-10-09 11:30: The dynamics of Vulcanian plumes: Insights from laboratory analogue experiments (Jerry Phillips, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol)

2008-10-09 14:05: Whither sea ice (John Wettlaufer (Yale))

2008-10-14 16:30: U-Th-Pb isotopes in continental mantle roots: Tracing lithospheric metasomatism, melting and anthropogenic contamination (Nadine Wittig, Durham University)

2008-10-16 11:30: Turbulent jets with off-source heating (Andy Aspden, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

2008-10-21 16:30: Monogenetic Volcanism: A Window into Mantle Heterogeneity and Magmatic Processes (Ninad Bondre (Nature Geoscience, London))

2008-10-23 11:30: Magma mixing in channels and chambers under Iceland: Observations in dire need of models (John Maclennan, Department of Earth Sciences)

2008-10-23 14:05: Past changes in the marine carbon cycle (Harry Elderfield (Earth Sciences))

2008-10-28 16:30: Driving mechanisms for globally correlatable Phanerozoic eustatic sequences? (Mike Simmons (Netflex Petroleum, Oxford))

2008-10-30 11:30: Capillary waves as a label-free detection tool of biomolecules: Perspective for a droplet-based lab on a chip (Cyril Picard, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics)

2008-10-30 14:05: Physical Limnology: A review (Jorg Imberger (Western Australia))

2008-11-04 16:30: Solving the high level nuclear waste problem (Lou Vance (ANSTO, Australia))

2008-11-06 11:30: Dynamics of fluid-filled gelatin cracks (Onno Bokhove, Department of Mathematics, University of Twente)

2008-11-06 14:05: Influence of laterial variations in the mantle on the geodynamo (David Gubbins (Leeds))

2008-11-11 16:30: Going with the flow: modelling the distribution and life history of Antarctic krill (Sally Thorpe (British Antarctic Survey) - Challenger Talk)

2008-11-13 11:30: Snowflakes:  Letters from the sky and scientific messages from far beyond. (Professor John Wettlaufer, Bateman Professor of Geophysics & Physics, Yale University)

2008-11-13 14:05: Air-sea exchange of trace gases (Peter Liss (UEA))

2008-11-18 16:30: Modern Himalayan erosion: a geochemical approach of river transport (Christian France-Lanord (CRPG, Nancy, France))

2008-11-20 11:30: Extrusion of industrial pastes: A health warning (Milan Patel, BP Institute)

2008-11-25 16:30: Impact of the Boundary Exchange on the Element Cycle (Catherine Jeandel (LEGOS, Toulouse, France))

2008-11-27 14:05: Underwater granular flows (Olivier Pouliquen)

2008-11-27 14:15: Solution properties and rheology of telechelic associating polymers based on poly(ethylene glycol) (Rob English, Centre for Water Soluble Polymers, Glyndwr University)

2008-12-02 16:30: Quantifying Fault Damage Zone Permeability in Crystalline Rocks (Dan Faulkner (University of Liverpool))

2008-12-04 11:30: Stretching, droplets & instabilities in non-newtonian flow: The role of visco-elasticity (Jerry Gollub, Department of Physics, Haverford College)

2009-01-15 11:30: A Lagrangian Computational Method for Viscoelastic Flow:
Simulations of inkjet printing & particle migration in 3D viscoelastic flow (Neil Morrison, Department of Mathematics, University of Leeds.)

2009-01-20 16:30: Molten Earth: Magma in the Deep Mantle (Lars Stixrude, University College London)

2009-01-22 11:30: Ventilation: Is it just a lot of hot air (Shaun Fitzgerald, BPI & e-stack)

2009-01-27 16:30: Catastrophic megafloods in the English Channel explain how Britain became an island (Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London)

2009-01-29 11:30: Colloidal interfaces in confinement (Dirk Aarts, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Oxford)

2009-01-29 14:05: The impact of climate change on the global oceanic sink for CO2 (Corinne Le Quere (UEA/BAS))

2009-02-03 16:30: Heavy Stable Isotopes in Marine Geochemistry - Insights from Cadmium (Mark Rehkamper, Imperial College London)

2009-02-05 11:30: Delamination of thin sheets from sticky substrates (Dominic Vella, ITG)

2009-02-05 14:05: The three-dimensional morphology and topology of dendritic mushes (Peter Voorhees (Northwestern))

2009-02-10 16:30: Deglacial Meridional Overturning changes inferred from sedimentary 231Pa/230Th records from the North Atlantic (Jeanne Gherardi Scao, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research)

2009-02-12 11:30: BPI Research Colloquia (Lotty Gladstone, Michael O'Sullivan, Maynard Marrion - BP Institute)

2009-02-12 14:05: Spin-up, adjustment and equilibrium state of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (David Marshall (Oxford))

2009-02-17 16:30: Explosive volcanism: a materials catastrophe (Don Dingwell, University of Munich)

2009-02-19 11:30: The treatment of turbulence in engineering simulations (Paul  Tucker, CUED)

2009-02-19 14:05: Investigating the earthquake cycle and crustal deformation using space geodesy (Barry Parsons (Oxford))

2009-02-24 16:30: Mineral magnetism and palaeoclimate (Ted Evans, University of Alberta)

2009-02-26 11:30: Hilbert-Huang transform - A new method of analyzing unsteady, nonlinear turbulent flow data (Julien Landel, BPI & DAMTP)

2009-02-26 14:05: The porridge (and magma) problem: Viscoplastic Rayleigh-Benard convection (Alison Rust (Bristol))

2009-03-03 16:30: Characterising geomorphic responses to tectonic perturbation:  Insights and implications. (Alex Whittaker, Imperial College London)

2009-03-05 11:30: Internal wave beams: Transport and attractors. (Jeroen Hazewinkel, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research)

2009-03-05 14:05: Thermoviscous coupling in ice-sheets and its influence on grounding line migration (Richard Hindmarsh (BAS))

2009-03-10 16:30: Impact of the Boundary Exchange on the Element Cycle (Catherine Jeandel, LEGOS, Toulouse)

2009-03-12 11:30: Silent Secrets of a Seemingly Simple System: Segregation in Particle-Laden Rimming Flow (Prof Peter Thomas, School of Engineering, University of Warwick)

2009-03-12 14:05: Origin of the Earth and Moon (Alex Halliday (Oxford))

2009-04-09 11:30: Marginal stability of explosive volcanic columns (Guillaume Carrazo)

2009-04-20 11:30: About charge effects and depletion zones: Interactions of proteins in  solution and with interfaces (F. Schreiber, Applied Physics, University of Tuebingen)

2009-04-23 11:30: Cracking during lateral drying of alumina suspensions (Dr W. J. Clegg, from the Gordon Laboratory, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy)

2009-04-28 16:30: The solidification of gabbros (Marian Holness, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2009-04-30 11:30: About charge effects and depletion zones: Interactions of proteins in  solution and with interfaces (F. Schreiber, Applied Physics, University of Tuebingen)

2009-04-30 14:05: Modelling laminar flow over curved substrates as a prelude to turbulent flows (Tony Roberts (University of Adelaide))

2009-05-05 16:30: Implications of Quaternary sea-level variability for the debate on Messinian Mediterranean lower evaporite cycles (Eelco Rohling)

2009-05-07 14:00: Observational Evidence of Changes in the Brewer-Dobson Circulation (Qiang Fu (University of Washington/Seattle))

2009-05-08 17:30: The Past, Present and Future of Energy Technology inside BP (David Eyton, BP)

2009-05-12 16:30: Orbital forcing of western Antarctic Peninsula Holocene climate (Amelia Shevenell)

2009-05-14 11:30: Ablation -and maybe growth - at the base of floating ice sheets (D. Hatton, ITG)

2009-05-19 16:30: Accretion of the Earth and formation of the core (Bernie Wood, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford)

2009-05-21 11:30: BPI Research Colloquia (M Marrion/L Goering, BP Institute)

2009-05-27 11:00: Dispersion Relations for the Nonlinear Response of Chaotic Dynamical Systems (Valerio Lucarini, Department of Physics, University of Bologna)

2009-05-28 11:30: New approaches in reconstructing the oxygen isotopic composition of  the ocean over Earth history (S. Turchyn Earth Sciences)

2009-06-04 11:30: Modelling wave run-up and sediment transport (D. Pritchard Mathematics, Strathclyde University)

2009-06-22 14:05: Effects of subduction geometry on mountain building and volcanism in Japan (Selwyn Sacks (Carnegie Institution, Washington))

2009-10-08 11:30: Capillary effects on the dynamic sequestration of CO2 (Adrian Farcas, BP Institute)

2009-10-13 16:30: Constraints on mantle geochemistry and planetary differentiation derived from Fe isotopes (Helen Williams, University of Oxford)

2009-10-15 14:05: Geological storage of CO2; lessons learned from Australia's CO2CRC Otway Project (Peter Cook (CR2CRC))

2009-10-20 16:30: Structure and Development of Oceanic Core Complexes (Roger C. Searle, Durham University)

2009-10-22 14:05: Sailing On Diffusion (Tom Peacock (MIT))

2009-10-29 11:30: Shear banding and demixing in complex and biologically active fluids (Suzanne Fielding, Department of Physics, Durham University)

2009-10-29 14:05: Seismogenic fracture of magma (Hugh Tuffen (Lancaster))

2009-11-03 16:30: Optimal excitation of Atlantic ocean variability and implications for predictability (Laure Zanna, University of Oxford)

2009-11-05 14:05: Anoxia, methanogenesis, and uniformitarianism (Dan Schrag (Harvard))

2009-11-10 16:30: Up the down escalator: Formation and exhumation of (ultra) high pressure rocks (Clare Warren, Open University)

2009-11-12 11:30: Flow through and around groups of bodies (Ian Eames, Mechanical Engineering, University College, London)

2009-11-12 14:05: Dynamics of thermal plumes in newtonian and non-newtonian fluids (Anne Davaille (CNRS Paris))

2009-11-17 16:30: Morphologic and Geochemical Evolution of the Submarine Kermadec – Tonga Arc (Ian Wright, National Oceanography Centre Southampton)

2009-11-19 11:00: High-throughput Applications for Heterogeneous Catalysts (Professor Avelino Corma Canos - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia ())

2009-11-19 14:05: CANCELLED - Understanding contemporary change in West Antarctica: ocean interactions (Tony Payne (Bristol))

2009-11-24 16:30: The oxygen side of sulphate: Sulphur and oxygen isotope effects related to microbial sulphur cycling (Benjamin Brunner, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, 28359 Bremen, Germany)

2009-11-26 11:30: NMR studies of displacement propagators in rocks and related porous media (Michael Johns, Chemical Engineering)

2009-12-01 17:00: The cycle of petrogenic organic carbon during orogeny: from metamorphism to erosion (Olivier Beyssac, CNRS, Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés, Paris, France)

2009-12-03 11:30: IR thermography and heat flux measurements in high enthalpy hypersonic flows (Gennaro dello Ioio, BP Institute)

2010-01-26 16:30: High 3He/4He in proto-Iceland plume basalts: implications for the deep Earth (Fin Stuart, SUERC, East Kilbride)

2010-01-28 14:05: Predicting thrusting sequences and in-situ stress states by optimization (Yves Leroy (ENS Paris))

2010-02-02 16:30: Fractionation effects in turbidity currents (Bill McCaffrey, University of Leeds)

2010-02-04 14:05: The implications of climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation on food, water, energy and human security (Bob Watson (Defra))

2010-02-09 16:30: Cradle of life or barren wasteland? Geochemical constraints on early martian water (Nick Tosca, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-11 11:30: Part III Reports (Alice Mannion, Peter Breen & Adam Brewer (Chemistry))

2010-02-11 14:05: Eddies, jets, meanders and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (Chris Hughes (Proudman))

2010-02-16 16:30: Bedrock Rivers (Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University)

2010-02-18 14:05: Geoengineering the Climate: Science, Governance & Uncertainty: the Royal Society study (John Shepherd (Southampton))

2010-02-23 16:30: 4.5 Gyr of maturation of the Upper Continental Crust?  Evidence from stable isotope ratios. (Ed Tipper, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-25 14:05: Regime change in volcanic systems (Geoff Wadge  (Reading))

2010-03-02 16:30: Challenging the assumptions of functional analysis of fossils: diet, feeding and tooth wear analysis. (Mark Purnell, University of Leicester)

2010-03-04 11:30: Fault Rocks and Permeability in the Upper Crust (Nigel Woodcock, Earth Sciences, CU)

2010-03-04 14:05: The climate impacts of non-CO2 emissions by aviation (Keith Shine (Reading))

2010-03-09 16:30: Millennial scale variability in the oxygen minimum zone off Baja California inferred by elemental composition over the past 70 kyr (Kazuyo Tachikawa, CEREGE)

2010-04-22 13:30: The politics of climate change (Tony Giddens)

2010-04-27 16:30: Methane plumes from the seafloor of West Spitsbergen: do they come from dissociation of methane hydrate caused by global warming? (Graham Westbrook, University of Birmingham)

2010-04-29 11:30: Dynamic mode Decomposition of Numerical and Experimental Data (Peter Schmid: LadHyX at Ecole Polytechnique)

2010-04-29 14:05: Climate change: where science and policy meet (Ron Oxburgh)

2010-05-06 11:30: Overturning Magma Chambers (Alex Cowan, BP institute)

2010-05-11 16:30: Dust Provenance in Polar Regions (Aloys Bory, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille)

2010-05-13 11:30: Soil Mechanics at the Particle Scale - Discrete Element Modelling and Micro Computed Tomography (Catherine O'Sullivan & Joana Fonseca Civil & Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London)

2010-05-20 11:30: Designing for climate change. (Torwong Chenvidyakarn (Architecture))

2010-05-20 14:05: The sound of climate change (Walter Munk)

2010-05-25 16:30: Excursions and paleointensity: Integration of magnetic and oxygen isotope stratigraphies (Jim Channell, University of Florida)

2010-05-27 11:30: Engineering in the cryosphere (Ben Lishman (Earth Sciences, University College, London))

2010-06-03 11:30: Intrusive gravity currents and the solitary wave lifecycle in a cylindrical geometry (Justine McMillan (Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta))

2010-06-03 14:05: Extreme Events in Finance and Geophysics. What Geophysics could teach Central Bankers (Philip Bond)

2010-06-10 11:30: BPI Research Colloquium: (Joel Taylor, BPI & Harry McLelland, Earth Sciences)

2010-07-29 14:05: CANCELLED - Physical Limnology: Recent Results from Lake Iseo (Jorg Imberger (University of Western Australia))

2010-10-07 11:30: How to control structure and rheology of particle-laden interfaces (Jan Vermant, Uni of Leuven)

2010-10-12 16:30: Tracking the solidification of a basaltic crystal mush (Madeleine Humphreys, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-14 11:30: Infrared thermography for temperature and velocity measurements in gas flows (Mauro Gallo, ETH Zurich)

2010-10-19 16:30: The motion and rheology of the Indian plate, and their effects upon Tibetan tectonics (Alex Copley, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-21 11:30: From Confinement to Composites:  Bio-inspired Crystallisation (Fiona Meldrum, Uni of Leeds)

2010-10-26 16:30: Melting above the (nominally) anhydrous solidus controls the location of volcanic arcs (Richard Katz, University of Oxford)

2010-10-28 11:30: Getting Organized at the Nanoscale with Liquid Crystals (David L. Patrick, Department of Chemistry, Western Washington University)

2010-10-28 14:05: Decadal climate variability over the past 100 years (Peter Baines (Bristol/Melbourne))

2010-11-02 16:30: Deforming the Earth: Runny Solids in the Deep Mantle (David Dobson, University College London)

2010-11-04 11:30: Lagrangian Coherent Structures in Urban Flows (Wengbo Tang, ASU)

2010-11-04 14:05: Missing mixing in the ocean mixed layer (Stephen Belcher (Reading))

2010-11-09 16:30: Rock records: when two are better than one (Andrew B. Smith, Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum)

2010-11-11 11:30: Polymeric Multilayer Capsules in Materials- and Biosciences (Prof Helmuth Mohwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces)

2010-11-11 14:05: Climate science informing policy (Emily Shuckburgh (BAS))

2010-11-16 16:30: Pleistocene glacial cycles: interactions amongst ice, volcanism, and atmospheric CO2. (Peter Huybers, Harvard)

2010-11-18 11:30: TBC (Richard Trueman, Richard Mott, BP Institute)

2010-11-18 11:30: Self segregation in water-borne latex coatings. (Richard Truman, BP Institute)

2010-11-18 14:05: Drumlins (Andrew Fowler (Oxford))

2010-11-23 16:30: Middle Miocene Expansion of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet Triggered by pCO2 decline (Gavin Foster, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)

2010-11-25 11:30: Numerical studies of droplet impacting and splashing. (Kensuke Yokoi, Uni of Cardiff)

2010-11-25 14:05: Ice cores and climate: how long is an interglacial? (Eric Wolff (BAS))

2010-11-30 16:30: Reactive melt migration and the evolution of mid-ocean ridge basalt (C. Johan Lissenberg, Cardiff University)

2010-12-02 11:30: TBC (Seung Yeon Lee, Andrea Kuesters, BP Institute)

2010-12-02 11:30: Richard Mott & Seung Yeon Lee: BPI Research Colloquium (Richard Mott & Seung Yeon Lee)

2010-12-02 11:30: Interfacial Studies on a Charged Surface in Oil by Contact Angle Measurements / Natural ventilation of an enclosed space driven by periodic gusting of wind (Seung Yeon Lee / Richard Mott, BP Institute)

2011-01-25 16:30: Climate change and volcanism: The Siberian Traps and Yellowstone volcanic provinces (Marc Reichow, University of Leicester)

2011-01-27 11:30: Random sphere packings/Thermo-responsive polymers in porous media (Larry Melidis and Alexis Tran-Viet)

2011-01-27 14:05: Underground CO2 Storage: using monitoring and prediction to prove the concept (Andy Chadwick (British Geological Survey))

2011-02-01 16:30: Comparative palaeoecology of mass extinction events (Richard Twitchett, University of Plymouth)

2011-02-03 11:30: Technical context for deepwater drilling and oil spill response. ( Dr Andy Leonard BP)

2011-02-03 14:05: Compaction and crystallisation in magma chambers: the Skaergaard Intrusion (Dan McKenzie (Earth Sciences))

2011-02-08 16:30: Large scale tectonic framework of SE Asia and the structure and deformation of the lithosphere beneath SE Tibet (Rob van der Hilst, MIT)

2011-02-10 11:30: Effects of turbulence on the ignition of flames. (Prof. Epaminondas Mastorakos, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2011-02-10 14:05: Solidification of poly-phase systems: what can gabbroic microstructures tell us? (Marian Holness (Earth Sciences))

2011-02-17 11:30: Numerical modelling of the respiratory system. (Bertrand Maury, Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université Paris Sud)

2011-02-17 14:05: Venice - sustainability and the impacts of the flood protection barriers (Paul Linden (DAMTP))

2011-02-22 16:30:  Recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction (Prof. Mike Benton, University of Bristol)

2011-02-24 11:30: When is one very much less than one? Lee wave tracing in stratified shear flow experiments (Dr Colm Caulfield, BP Institute, DAMPT and Churchill College)

2011-02-24 14:05: TBA (Thierry Alboussiere (ENS Lyon))

2011-03-01 16:30: Multiple sulfur isotope constraints on S oxidation processes in modern and ancient ecosystems (Aubrey Zerkle, University of Newcastle)

2011-03-03 11:30: Part III Presentations (Harry Frankish  Becky Welbourn  Paul Verhaak Earth Sciences Part III students)

2011-03-08 16:30: The microbial biogeochemistry of the sediment/water interface - players, processes, and rates (Dr Volker Bruchert, Stockholm University)

2011-03-10 11:30: Encapsulation of inhibitors for Down-well applications/Adventures of salty water droplets in oil (Wei Jin Gun & Michael O'Sullivan)

2011-03-17 11:30: Lubricating with polymer brushes (Prof. Dr. Nicholas D. Spencer, ETH Zürich)

2011-04-28 11:30: Experimental and Theoretical Modeling of Internal Tide Generation (Morris R. Flynn, Ph.D., P.Eng., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Alberta)

2011-05-03 16:30: Ocean Ridge Perspectives on Mantle Heterogeneity (Charlie Langmuir, Harvard)

2011-05-05 11:30: Granular research in extremes- from sand dunes in the desert to snow avalanches in the mountains (Dr Nathalie M. Vriend (DAMTP))

2011-05-10 16:30: Volcanic-Magmatic Interplays on Mid-Ocean Ridge Construction and Petrogenesis (Ken Rubin, University of Hawaii)

2011-05-12 11:30: Effects of natural convection on thermal explosions in a closed vessel (Ting-Yueh Liu, PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-17 16:30: In situ mineral carbonation (and hydration) in peridotite for CO2 capture and storage (and geodynamics) (Peter Kelemen, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory)

2011-05-19 11:30: How little we know about geological carbon storage (Prof Mike Bickle, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-26 09:30: Special Seminars in Multiphase Flow (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-08-30 11:20: Sublithospheric small-scale convection (Prof. Slava Solomatov)

2011-09-20 16:00: Simulation of seismic wave propagation through geometrically complex basins - the Dead Sea basin (Michael Tserarsky, Ben Gurion Univeristy, Israel)

2011-10-11 16:30: Extreme change in sulfide concentrations near the Bosporus Inlet (Black Sea) during the Little Ice Age tracked using molybdenum isotopes (Gail Arnold, MPI Bremen)

2011-10-13 11:30: Natural ventilation of double-skin facades, Energy Implications of Stratification (Nicola Mingotti, BP Institute, University of Cambridge, Andrea Kuesters, BP Institute, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-17 13:00: Bacteria foraging in a turbulent ocean (John Taylor (DAMTP))

2011-10-18 16:30: Relating atmospheric CO2 levels to biogeochemical processes (Phil Goodwin, Earth Sciences, Cambridge)

2011-10-20 11:30: Two-phase gravity currents in carbon dioxide sequestration /  Miscible viscous fingering induced by a simple chemical reaction (Madeleine Golding, DAMTP / Thomas  Gérard, BPI)

2011-10-24 13:00: Dynamical mechanisms for Southern Hemisphere climate change due to the ozone hole (Andrew Orr (BAS))

2011-10-25 16:30: Virtual Fossils and the Herefordshire Lagerstatte (Mark Sutton, Imperial College)

2011-10-27 11:30: Why and how does organic matter in sediment matter to climate change science? (Dr Albert Galy, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-31 13:00: Mixing at high Richardson number (Colm Caulfield (BPI, DAMTP))

2011-11-01 16:30: Strontium in the oceans: Where does it come from and where does it go? (Chris Pearce, Open University)

2011-11-03 11:30: Interfaces and mixing in CO2 sequestration (Dr Jerome Neufeld, BP Institute and DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-07 13:00: Air quality, ozone layer depletion and chemistry-climate interactions - measurements and modelling (John Pyle (Chemistry))

2011-11-08 16:30: Zooming into the subduction plate interface:  constraints from petrology, geodynamics and modelling (Philippe Agard, University Paris VI)

2011-11-10 11:30: The Existence and Significance of Deeply Buried Landscapes (Dr Nicholas White, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-14 13:00: Modelling melt, water routing and the filling and drainage of lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet (Ian Willis (SPRI))

2011-11-15 16:30: Unravelling the complexity of the geometry and nucleation phase of Apennininc extensional systems: the case of the 2009  MW 6.1 L’Aquila normal fault system (Central Italy). (Lauro Chiaraluce, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome)

2011-11-16 11:30: What are the battery technologies around the corner with or without Li? (Professor Jean-Marie Tarascon, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne)

2011-11-22 16:30: Tracing tephra horizons in the Greenland ice-cores and the potential for integrating disparate proxy records in the North Atlantic region (Siwan Davies, University of Swansea)

2011-11-24 11:30: Clay: the forgotten particle in submarine sediment density flows (Dr Esther Sumner, University of Leeds)

2011-11-28 13:00: Seismic Oceanography: High resolution imaging of thermohaline circulation to abyssal depths (Nicky White (DES))

2011-11-29 16:30: Silicate liquid immiscibility in tholeiitic basalt (Bernard Charlier, MIT)

2011-12-01 11:30: On the propagation of non-isothermal gravity currents in an inclined porous layer /  Propulsion in Stokes flow ( Will Rayward-Smith, BP Institute, University of Cambridge /  Tom Johnson, University of Birmingham)

2012-01-19 11:30: Encapsulation of microorganisms in colloidosomes / Encapsulation of Inhibitors for Down-well Applications (Polly Keen, BP Institute, University of Cambridge / Wei Jin Gun, BP Institute, University of Cambridge)

2012-01-23 13:00: Why is predicting the future of ice sheets so difficult? (David Vaughan (BAS))

2012-01-24 16:30: The capture of the Tsangpo by the Brahmuputra River and rapid exhumation of the Namche Barwa eastern syntaxis of the Himalaya:  testing the erosion-tectonic feedback hypothesis by new  provenance methods using rutile and zircon U-Pb in situ dating, and im (Randy Parrish, NIGL and University of Leicester)

2012-01-26 11:30: PlaqueTec Limited (Joseph Corrigan, Head of R&D, PlaqueTec Limited)

2012-01-31 16:30: Bubbles and Bangs: Volatile Controls on Magma Fragmentation (Kathy Cashman, University of Oregon)

2012-02-02 11:30: Title to be confirmed (BPI Students)

2012-02-06 13:00: Ocean observations beneath the floating tongue of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica: tales from an autonomous yellow submarine and its friends. (Pierre Dutrieux (BAS))

2012-02-07 16:30: Evolution and climate in the Cenozoic oceans (Paul Pearson, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University)

2012-02-09 11:30: NO SEMINAR (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-02-13 13:00: Carbon storage in the glacial ocean: radiocarbon recipes (Luke Skinner (Earth Sciences))

2012-02-14 16:30: Under the geological rug: The fluid dynamics of CO2 sequestration (Jerome Neufeld, BPI, Cambridge)

2012-02-16 11:30: Pore Network Modelling for Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (Paul Hammond, Schlumberger Cambridge Research)

2012-02-20 13:00: Long-life sea surface temperature (Mike Davey (DAMTP))

2012-02-21 13:00: NOTE TIME! 1-2pm! Cryptic Neoproterozoic mountain building events around the margin of Rodinia (Rob Strachan, University of Portsmouth)

2012-02-23 11:30: Multiphase Flow in Pipes (Trevor Hill, BP)

2012-02-27 13:00: Assessing Antarctica's contribution to global sea level rise over the next century: progress made within the EU ice2se project (Tony Payne (Bristol, Geographical Sciences))

2012-02-28 16:30: The orbital pacing of Palaeogene hyperthermals - can we believe model results? (Dan Lunt, University of Bristol)

2012-03-01 11:30: Dispersion and mixing in quasi-two-dimensional turbulent jets (Julian Landel, BP Institute)

2012-03-05 13:00: Ocean processes at the Antarctic continental slope (Karen Heywood (UEA, School of Environmental Sciences))

2012-03-06 16:30: Ocean turbulence, fronts, and the timing of the spring phytoplankton bloom (Dr. John R. Taylor (University of Cambridge))

2012-03-08 11:30: Flow and reaction of carbon dioxide stored in saline aquifers (Dr Silvana Cardoso, Chemical Engineering)

2012-03-12 13:00: CANCELLED -  Finite volume fountains and dense vortices (Gary Hunt (Imperial, Civil & Environmental Engineering))

2012-03-12 13:00: Downwelling in Basins Subject to Buoyancy Loss (Claudia Cenedese (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution))

2012-03-13 16:30: A window on deep geological time: exceptional fossils studied using new methods (Roy Wogelius, University of Manchester)

2012-03-15 11:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Axel Zeitler, Chem Eng)

2012-04-26 11:30: Subdivision-stabilised immersed b-spline finite elements for fluid-structure Interaction (Dr. Fehmi Cirak, Dept of Engineering)

2012-05-01 16:30: Intrusive LIPs: Petrological Interpretation of Deep Crustal Cumulate Bodies beneath Oceanic Hotspot Provinces (Mark Richards, Univeristy of California, Berkeley)

2012-05-03 11:30: (What's the Story) Internal Solitary Waves? (Bruce Sutherland, Dept of Physics and of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta)

2012-05-08 16:30: Title to be confirmed (David Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota)

2012-05-10 11:30: The Destabilising Effect of Stratification in Layered Shear Flows (Caulfield ( C (Cambridge))

2012-05-15 16:30: SCALING LAWS FOR AGGRADATION AND PROGRADATION  OF THE STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD (Peter Sadler, University of California at Riverside)

2012-05-17 11:30: Ionic Liquids Confined to Thin Films: Structure and Lubricity (Susan Perkin, Dept of Chemistry, University College London)

2012-05-22 16:30: The eve of biomineralisation (Rachel Wood, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh)

2012-05-24 11:30: Modelling of forced and natural wetting on uniform and non-uniform surfaces (Dr Mark Wilson, School of Mechanical engineering, Uni of Leeds)

2012-05-31 11:30: Numerical simulation of condensed-phase explosives (Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis (University of Cambridge))

2012-06-07 11:30: Patterning of Colloidal Particles via Infrared Radiation-Assisted Evaporative Lithography (J.L. Keddie  Department of Physics, University of Surrey)

2012-06-14 11:30: Granular segregation in driven binary monolayers (Draga Pihler-puzovic, Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, Uni of Manchester)

2012-10-04 11:30: Understanding Corrosion through Interface Characterisation (Rob Lindsay, Manchester)

2012-10-08 13:00: Geographically-localised coastal-trapped waves (Ted Johnson (UCL))

2012-10-09 16:30: Geological Histories of Earth and Mars (Vic Baker, University of Arizona)

2012-10-11 11:30: Freezing Colloidal Suspensions: Periodic Ice-banding (Anthony Anderson)

2012-10-15 13:00: A biogeochemical framework for  physical oceanographers interested in ocean carbon storage (Philip Goodwin (DES))

2012-10-16 16:30: Magma chamber processes in ferrobasaltic layered intrusions (Oliver Namur)

2012-10-18 11:30: Finite-Reynolds number effects and interfacial phenomena due to  solid particles (Lorenzo Botto, Imperial College (London))

2012-10-22 13:00: The 2012 summer sea ice retreat in the Arctic and its implications (Peter Wadhams (DAMTP))

2012-10-23 16:30: Life and times in the Cambrian and its stratigraphic constraints on Himalayan geology, tectonics, and uplift history (Prof. Nigel Hughes, University of California, Riverside)

2012-10-25 11:30: SPECIAL SEMINAR BP LECTURER  - Functionalized Antibodies (Professor Akira Harada, Osaka University)

2012-10-29 13:00: Zooplankton grazing control of Southern Ocean phytoplankton biomass: A challenge to geoengineering proposals for Fe-fertilisation of the ocean (Corinne Le Quere (UEA) )

2012-10-30 16:30: Orogenesis - CO2 source or sink? Insight from quantification of fossil organic carbon weathering rates in Taiwan (Robert Hilton, Department of Geography, University of Durham)

2012-11-01 11:30: Clays in contact with water, ions and CO2: interfacial properties and hydrodynamics on the molecular scale (Benjamin Rotenberg, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie)

2012-11-05 13:00: The role of atmospheric dynamics in ozone-climate coupling (Ted Shepherd (Reading))

2012-11-06 16:30: Fingerprints of past carbon cycle-climate changes in the Bern3D model (Fortunat Joos, Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern)

2012-11-08 11:30: TBA (Peter Dudfield, Daan van Sommeren, BP Institute)

2012-11-12 13:00: Melting at the marine termini of glaciers and ice sheets: insights from a simple plume model (Adrian Jenkins (BAS))

2012-11-13 16:30: Stable vanadium isotope fractionation at high temperatures: a proxy for oxygen fugacity?  (Julie Prytulak, Imperial College)

2012-11-15 11:30: Shear at soft interfaces (Wuge Briscoe, University of Bristol)

2012-11-20 16:30: The origin of a phylum: soft-bodied fossils and early mollusc evolution (Martin Smith, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-22 11:30: Using dynamic models to understand continental deformation (Alex Copley (University of Cambridge))

2012-11-26 13:00: Bifurcation structure and stability of families of two-dimensional vortex pairs (Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz (DAMTP))

2012-11-27 16:30: The source of siderophile elements in the silicate Earth – clues from the Archean rock record (Matthias Willbold, University of Bristol)

2013-01-16 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Stefano Bernasconi,, ETH Zurich)

2013-01-17 11:30: NO SEMINAR (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-01-21 13:00: Exploration of a simple model for ice ages  (Andrew Fowler (OCIAM, Oxford & MACSI, Limerick))

2013-01-22 16:30: Banded Iron Formation and Ancient Life (Professor Kurt Konhauser, University of Alberta)

2013-01-24 11:30: Control design for amplifier and oscillator flows (Professor Peter Schmid, LadHyX - CNRS - Ecole Polytechnique)

2013-01-28 13:00: Turbulence and energetics in Jupiter's atmosphere (Peter Read (Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics))

2013-01-29 16:30: Decoding the fossil record of the earliest animals and their embryology (Professor Phil Donoghue, University of Bristol)

2013-01-31 11:30: BPI Student Seminar - CANCELLED (BPI Students)

2013-02-04 13:00: CANCELLED - Avalanching and Segregation of a granular material – tumble, fall, segregate and sort  (Nathalie Vriend (DAMTP))

2013-02-05 16:30: Walking on broken glass: investigating magmatic processes in explosive and effusive rhyolitic eruptions (Hugh Tuffen, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University)

2013-02-07 11:30: Multiphase Hele-Shaw Flows: from Beaches to Dredgers  (Onno Bokhove, Astro- & Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, University of Leeds)

2013-02-11 13:00: Convective instability of a reacting diffusive layer in a porous medium  (Silvana Cardoso (Engineering))

2013-02-12 16:30: In the footsteps of Professor Lidenbrock: a geochemical journey to the centre of the Earth (Rob Ellam, SUERC, Min Soc Distinuished Lecturer)

2013-02-14 11:30: Taking the Plunge: Stages of a dense river inflow into a lake (Charlie Hogg)

2013-02-18 13:00: Basal control on fast glacier flow (Poull Christoffersen (SPRI))

2013-02-19 16:30: (U-Th)/He dating of secondary Fe- and Mn-oxides in bedrock (Peter Reiners, University of Arizona)

2013-02-21 11:30: Mineral and Glass Surface Reactivity: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Roy Wogelius, Manchester)

2013-02-25 13:00: Modelling the plumbing of ice sheets (Ian Hewitt (Oxford, Mathematical Institute))

2013-02-26 16:30: Clumped-isotope geochemistry of carbonates: A new tool to study geological processes from palaeoclimatology to low-grade metamorphism (Stefano Bernasconi)

2013-02-28 11:30: Wave Crest Statistics - the occurence of freak or rogue waves (Chris Swan, Imperial college London)

2013-03-04 13:00: The dynamics of land-atmosphere interaction in West Africa (Doug Parker (Leeds, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science))

2013-03-07 11:30: TBA (TBC)

2013-03-11 13:00: Controls on grounding-line dynamics (Sam Pegler (DAMTP))

2013-03-12 16:30: Searching for the earliest signs of cellular life on Earth (Martin Brasier, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford)

2013-03-12 17:30: 4th Annual BPI Energy Lecture - Global Warming and the Fate of the Land Carbon Sink (Professor Stephen Pacala, Princeton University)

2013-03-14 11:30: The 2010 Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull: Interaction between volcanic plumes and the wind and consequences for modelling airborne ash hazard to aviation (Jerry Phillips, Dept of Earth Sciences, Bristol)

2013-03-21 11:30: Consider the Icicle (Stephen Morris, Dept of Physics, University of Toronto)

2013-04-18 11:30: Trembling, Chugging and Choking in Volcanic Eruptions (David Bercovici, Geology & Geophysics, Yale University)

2013-04-22 13:00: Submarine melt rate and circulation in an East Greenland fjord  (Claudia Cenedese (WHOI))

2013-04-25 11:30: The response of the Meridional Overturning Circulation and Antarctic Circumpolar Current to changes in surface forcing (Callum Shakespeare, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-02 11:30: An informal talk on some volcanic flow problems (Professor Andy Woods, BP Institute)

2013-05-07 16:30: Seismic Tremors and Wagging Magma: Key Precursors of Explosive Volcanism? (Marc Jellinek, University of British Columbia)

2013-05-09 11:30: Why did the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption cloud last so long? (Mark Jellinek, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences University of British Columbia)

2013-05-14 16:30: Magma ocean Influence on early atmosphere composition and mass (Marc Hirschmann, University of Minnesota)

2013-05-23 11:30: Mineral Separation by Froth Flotation: Research Tools and Techniques  (Professor Jan Cilliers FREng, Department of Earth Science and Engineering Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London)

2013-05-30 11:30: TBC (Peter Dudfield, BP Institute)

2013-06-05 11:30: Inferring past current contributions to the deep Atlantic using Nd isotope records  (Natalie Roberts, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2013-06-13 11:30: Packing of wires in cavities and growing surfaces (Professor Hans Herrmann  ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

2013-10-08 16:30: Challenges in constraining and understanding Strombolian (and Hawaiian) volcanism (Bruce Houghton, University of Hawaii)

2013-10-10 11:30: Turbulence subject to a strong background rotation (Peter Davidson, Engineering, Uni of Cambridge)

2013-10-14 13:00: Diapycnal transport in the ocean overturning circulation (Graham Hughes (DAMTP/Australian National University))

2013-10-15 16:30: Why don't tomographic models have error bars? (David Al-Attar, Bullard Labs, University of Cambridge)

2013-10-17 11:30: Automated parallel adjoints for model differentiation, optimisation and stability analysis (Patrick Farrell, Imperial College London)

2013-10-21 13:00: Mud wrestling: modelling shear-thinning and thixotropic fluid flow (David Pritchard (Strathclyde))

2013-10-22 16:30: Past Abrupt Climate Change and Freshwater Forcing: What do we know? (Alan Condron, University of Massachusetts)

2013-10-24 11:30: Nanotechnology for the Oilfield (James Tour, BP Lecturer, Rice University, Houston)

2013-10-28 13:00: Ozone forcing of the coupled climate in the Southern Hemisphere (David Ferreira (Reading))

2013-10-29 16:30: Effects of source heterogeneity on segmentation and melt production at mid-ocean ridges (Vincent Salters, Florida State)

2013-10-31 11:30: Coating and Drying of Thin Films and its impact on morphology and structure formation (Professor Wilhelm Schabel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

2013-11-04 13:00: Turbulence modelling for large-eddy simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer (Rica Enriquez (DAMTP))

2013-11-05 16:30: Magma intrusive rates and the growth of melt reservoirs and magma chambers (Catherine Annen, University of Bristol)

2013-11-07 11:30: Experiments on Mixing in Gravity Currents / Characterisation of Flux Sensitivity to Uncertainty in Porous Media (Alex Evans and Diana Sher, BP Institute)

2013-11-11 13:00: Cosmogonical musings and pleas (John Wettlaufer (Oxford))

2013-11-12 16:30: Ni partitioning between olivine and silicate melts, and insights into Hawaiian petrogenesis (Andrew Matzen, University of Oxford)

2013-11-14 11:30: The many faces of emulsion droplets (Jasna Brujic, NYU)

2013-11-18 13:00: Shallow flows: 2D or not 2D? (GertJan van Heijst (Eindhoven University of Technology))

2013-11-19 16:30: Sea ice in a Cretaceous greenhouse world? (Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey)

2013-11-21 11:30: Interfacial Effects in Microflows: Different Models vs Experiments (James Sprittles, University of Warwick)

2013-11-26 16:30: Why no Phanerozoic Snowball Earth? Changes in biogeochemical cycling across the Precambrian-Cambrian transition (Dr Graham Shields-Zhou (UCL))

2013-11-28 11:30: To be advised (Merlin Etzold, BP Institute)

2013-12-02 13:00: Ozone forcing of the coupled climate in the Southern Hemisphere (David Ferreira (Reading))

2013-12-03 16:30: Atmospheres and Interiors of Extrasolar Planets  (Nikku Madhusudhan, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

2013-12-05 11:30: Detraining and entraining line plumes (Charlotte Gladstone, BP Institute)

2014-01-16 11:30: Influence of chemical reactions on buoyancy-driven fingering in porous media (Professor Anne de Wit, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

2014-01-21 16:30: The deep ocean's role in glacial cycles with an emphasis on stratification and potential energy storage (Jess Adkins, Caltech)

2014-01-23 11:30: Listen to the Volcano (Joern Sesterhenn, TU Berlin)

2014-01-27 13:00: Diagnostics and dynamics: Two approaches for setting eddy diffusivity in ocean models (Scott Bachman (DAMTP))

2014-01-28 16:30: The Frasnian-Famennian Mass Extinction (John Marshall, University of Southampton)

2014-01-30 11:30: Fluid mechanics and biological development (Prof Julyan Cartwright, CSIC Spain)

2014-02-03 13:00: Why the stratosphere might help us predict how warm this spring will be (Peter Hitchcock (DAMTP))

2014-02-04 16:30: The pulse of the Southern Ocean (Kate Hendry, University of Bristol)

2014-02-06 11:30: Volume of Fluid methods for the study of droplet impact and atomization (Professor Stephane Zaleski)

2014-02-10 13:00: Calculating ice flux across ice-sheet grounding lines and ice-shelf calving fronts (Richard Hindmarsh (BAS))

2014-02-11 16:30: Hydrated peridotite as a sink for boron: implications for mantle heterogeneity and arc volcanism (Jason Harvey, University of Leeds)

2014-02-13 11:30: Title to be confirmed (Alan Eales, Fanny Yuen and Alan McCreanor, BP Institute)

2014-02-17 13:00: CANCELLED - Lava flows (Alison Rust (Bristol))

2014-02-18 16:30: Hydrothermal sediments are a source of water column Fe and Mn in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica (Dr Rachel Mills ( Southampton University))

2014-02-20 11:30: Nonlinear Stability of Multilayer Shear Flows (Professor Demetrios Papageorgiou, Imperial College)

2014-02-24 13:00: Experiments with mode 2-type internal solitary waves (Peter Davies (Dundee))

2014-02-25 16:30: The application of X-ray computed  microtomography to Geosciences: examples from the world of Volcanology and Petrology (Margherita Polacci, INGV, Italy)

2014-02-27 11:30: Molecular Adsorption at Metal and Metal Oxide Surfaces: From Corrosion to Catalysis via Functional Biomaterials (Dr Andrew Thomas, University of Manchester)

2014-03-03 13:00: Shocking models of meltwater flow under ice shelves (Andrew Wells (Oxford))

2014-03-04 16:30: The Origin, Evolution, and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (Dr. Stephen Brusatte, University of Edinburgh)

2014-03-06 11:30: Flow of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current through Drake Passage: Glacial versus Holocene (Professor Nick McCave, Dept of Earth Sciences)

2014-03-10 13:00: Causes and consequences of viscous anisotropy in deforming, partially molten rocks (Rich Katz (Oxford))

2014-03-13 11:30: Skipping Stones, Ruined Roads and those Dam Oscillations (Neil Balmforth, University of British Columbia)

2014-04-03 13:00: Visco-plastic lubrication: from theory to application (Sarah Hormozi (Universite Paris Est, Laboratoire Navier))

2014-04-17 11:30: Chemically Synthesised Carbon Nanomaterials (Dr Mohammad Choucair, Dept of Chemistry, University of Sydney)

2014-04-24 11:30: Julien Salort - Local investigation of turbulent thermal flows   (Julien Salort, Laboratoire de Physique ENS, Lyon)

2014-05-01 11:30: Extracting trends and correlations from noisy environmental data (John Wettlaufer, Oxford)

2014-05-06 15:30: Fast Crystal Clocks, at the Speed of Magma Ascent (Terry Plank, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)

2014-05-08 11:30: Fluid-solid interactions: from instabilities to energy harvesting (Sebastien Michelin, LadHyx Polytechnique)

2014-05-15 11:30: Turbulent fountains: classification and scaling arguments (Henry Burridge, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-22 11:30: Coarsening and grain boundary dynamics in a two-dimensional colloidal hard sphere system (Roel Dullens, Chemistry, Oxford)

2014-05-29 11:30: TBA (Pietro Cicuta, Physics, University of Cambridge)

2014-06-05 11:30: Synovial Fluid Lubrication of Artificial Joints (Phillipa Cann, Tribology Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London)

2014-06-12 11:30: Title to be confirmed (Internal BPI Speakers)

2014-06-19 11:30: Experimental modelling of the Fluid Dynamics of Magma Chambers / Buoyancy induced Taylor dispersion (Andrew Gilbert, BP Institute / Tiras Lin, BP Institute)

2014-10-07 16:00: The deep ocean density structure at the Last Glacial Maximum: what was it and why? (Madeline Miller, Harvard University)

2014-10-09 10:30: Title to be confirmed (Peter Dudfield, BP Institute)

2014-10-13 13:00: Granular segregation in nature (Nathalie Vriend (DAMTP))

2014-10-14 16:00: Copper isotopes and the role of sulfides during Earth’s differentiation (Paul Savage, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)

2014-10-16 11:30: Understanding and Developing Inorganic Lubricant Additives (Professor Paul O'Brien, University of Manchester)

2014-10-20 13:00: The slowly evolving background state of the atmosphere (John Methven (Reading))

2014-10-22 16:00: QDG WEDNESDAY SPECIAL - Top-down and bottom-up evidence for the early anthropogenic hypothesis (Prof Bill Ruddiman (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, US))

2014-10-23 11:30: Numerical Simulation of Viscoelastic Free Surface Flows (Susanne Claus, UCL)

2014-10-27 13:00: Applications of the adjoint method to post-glacial sea level change (David Al-Attar   (Bullard, DES))

2014-10-28 16:00: Reservoir architectures of flood basalt systems - a 3D Reservoir architectures of interlava systems - a 3D photogrammetric study of Eocene cliff sections, Faroe Islands (Simon Passey, CASP)

2014-10-30 11:30: Surface texturing for turbulent friction reduction (Ricardo Garcia-Mayoral, Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2014-11-03 13:00: Enigmas of Erebus: observations of an active lava lake (Clive Oppenheimer (Geography))

2014-11-04 16:00: Chasing waterfalls: constraining the global sulfur isotopic budget in rivers (Andrea Burke, St Andrews)

2014-11-06 11:30: Injection-driven deformation of a soft granular material (Christopher MacMinn, Engineering, Oxford)

2014-11-10 13:00: CANCELLED - Diapycnal mixing in the ocean: from large scale meridional overturning circulation to dissipation scale (Ali Mashayek (MIT))

2014-11-11 16:00: Simulating radiocarbon in ocean and atmosphere through the deglaciation (Mathis Hain, University of Southampton)

2014-11-13 11:30: Drying droplets: coffee stains and Mexican hats (David Fairhurst, Nottingham Trent University)

2014-11-17 13:00: Large poromechanical deformation of a frictional material (Chris MacMinn (Oxford))

2014-11-18 16:00: A Dual Rift Model for the Opening of the NE Atlantic (Richard Walker, University of Leicester)

2014-11-20 11:30: SEE DETAILS BELOW (Alex Evans, Nicola Mingotti, Kate Miller - BPI)

2014-11-25 16:00: Detachment-mode seafloor spreading and the tectonics of oceanic core complexes (Antony Morris, University of Plymouth)

2014-11-27 10:30: Digital Matter: Towards Colloidal Machines (Professor Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan)

2014-12-01 13:00: Cliffs and screes (Keith Richards / Mike Bethel  (Geography))

2014-12-02 16:00: Greenhouse Algae: The Calcifying Phytoplankton during Cenozoic Warm Climates (Tom Dunkley Jones, University of Birmingham)

2014-12-04 14:00: BPI End of Term Seminar (Andy Hogg, Dave Pritchard, Jerry Phillips, Pete Smith)

2015-01-15 11:30: Gradient damage models and brittle fracture: crack nucleation and complex patterns (Corrado Maurini, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI)

2015-01-19 13:00: Ditch the 2 degC goal (Charlie Kennel and David Victor (Scripps, UCSD))

2015-01-20 16:00: The chalcophile (sulfur-loving) cycle: from MORB to crust (Frances Jenner, Open University)

2015-01-22 11:30: Periodic and quasiperiodic vortex shedding in the wake of a rotating sphere (Benoit Pier, LMFA, Ecole Central, France)

2015-01-26 13:00: On the effect of fluid injection on seismic and aseismic fault slip (Jean-Philippe Avouac (Bullard, Earth Sciences))

2015-01-27 16:00: The composition of the lower mantle and its influence on the redox state of the Earth (Dan Frost, Bayreuth)

2015-01-29 12:00: Hydrodynamic Theory of Coating (Jens Eggers, Bristol)

2015-02-02 13:00: Building ventilation and applications in practice (Shaun Fitzgerald (Breathing Buildings, Engineering))

2015-02-03 16:00: Environmental effects of sulfur emitted by large-scale flood lava eruptions (Anja Schmidt, University of Leeds)

2015-02-03 18:15: Physics of the Everyday (Prof. Dame Athene Donald (Cavendish Laboratory))

2015-02-05 12:00: Einstein on the beach: fluid flow on a curved space (Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Uni of Winsconsin)

2015-02-09 13:00: Periodic and quasiperiodic vortex shedding in the wake of a rotating sphere (Benoit Pier (Ecole Centrale, Lyon))

2015-02-10 16:00: Rift initiation in a continental setting: the western Balkan peridotites (Uli Faul, MIT)

2015-02-12 12:00: BPI Speakers (Stefano Rocco, Tim Beeson-Jones, Tom Eaves - BPI)

2015-02-16 13:00: Ascending plumes and descending thermals: aspects of convection in the atmosphere (Gabriel Rooney (Met Office))

2015-02-17 16:00: Influence of large Sulfur Bacteria on the Geochemistry of Coastal Sediments (Heide Schulz-Vogt, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research)

2015-02-19 12:00: Resource efficiency: what are the limits? (Jonathan Cullen, Dept of Engineering, Uni of Cambridge)

2015-02-23 13:00: Towards a new dynamics for Earth's core (Andrew Jackson (ETH Zurich))

2015-02-24 16:00: Searching for Bird Origins in the Gobi Desert of China; The Middle-Upper Jurassic Shishugou Fauna of Xinjiang (Jim Clark, George Washington University)

2015-02-26 12:00: A computational model for macroscale simulations of moving contact lines (Yi Sui, Queen Mary University of London)

2015-03-02 13:00: The role of mesoscale processes in biogeochemical cycling during the last glacial termination (Kate Hendry (Earth Sciences))

2015-03-03 12:00: A molecular approach to the bioenergetics of sulfate reduction  (Inês Cardoso Pereira, ITQB/UNL)

2015-03-05 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Felicity Bartholomew and Finn Box, BP Institute)

2015-03-09 13:00: Oil Palms, Alkenes, SCIs and Ozone: New measurement approaches to sidestep atmospheric chemical complexity (Bill Bloss (Birmingham))

2015-03-10 16:00: Greenhouse-icehouse shifts and the evolution of latitudinal diversity gradients (Alastair Crame, British Antarctic Survey)

2015-03-12 12:00: Elastocapillary dynamics: Pattern forming and the role of evaporation (Dominic Vella, University of Oxford)

2015-04-21 16:00: Beyond the age of fishes: assembling the other half of vertebrate diversity (Dr Matt Friedman, University of Oxford)

2015-04-23 12:00: Kinneyia, a fossil hydrodynamic instability  (Lucas Goering, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics, Germany)

2015-04-28 16:00: Feedbacks  between early animal evolution and  global  geochemical cycles (Richard Boyle, University of Southern Denmark)

2015-04-30 12:00: Aromatic interactions in simple and complex liquids (Neal Skipper, UCL)

2015-05-05 16:00: Temperature-dependent carbon cycling in the Eocene greenhouse (Professor Paul Pearson, Cardiff University)

2015-05-07 12:00: The impact of internal heat transfer on the performance of air breathing cycles (Rob Miller, Cambridge)

2015-05-12 16:00: Copper porphyries (TBC) (Steve Sparks, University of Bristol)

2015-05-14 12:00: Dynamics and Instability  of  straight  and  helical Vortices (Prof Maurice Rossi, CNRS-Institut D'Alembert University of Paris 6)

2015-05-19 16:00: TBD (Professor David Johnston, Harvard University)

2015-05-21 12:00: Permeability of fault zones and how it changes over time (Professor Emily E. Brodsky, University of California, Santa Cruz)

2015-05-28 12:00: Purely-elastic flow instabilities, elastic turbulence and an engineering application (Professor Robert Poole, Dept of Engineering, University of Liverpool)

2015-06-04 12:00: Dynamical systems methods for tracking oil dispersion in ocean flowsand their application during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (Igor Mezic, Engineering, UCSB)

2015-09-10 09:00: Sovereignty and Imperialism: Non-European Powers in the Age of Empire (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-10-08 11:30: How Elastic Flow Instabilities Increase Oil Recovery  (Andrew Howe, BP Institute and Dept of Chem Eng)

2015-10-12 13:00: Ice-shelf buttressing, the marine-ice sheet instability, and the sensitivity of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, to ocean conditions (Hilmar Gudmundsson (British Antarctic Survey))

2015-10-15 11:30: Strong Acoustic Streaming in High-Intensity Discharge Lamps (Greg Chini, University of New Hampshire)

2015-10-19 13:00: 3D Self-Sustaining Processes in Shear Flows with and without Surface Waves (Greg Chini (University of New Hampshire))

2015-10-20 16:00: Understanding sulfur isotopes in modern and ancient marine sediments: From the microbial to the global scale (Itay Halevy, Weizmann Institute of Science)

2015-10-22 11:30: Internal BPI Welcome Seminars (BP Institute internal seminar)

2015-10-26 13:00: Near-inertial waves and turbulence in the winter Gulf Stream (Dan Whitt (DAMTP))

2015-10-27 16:00: Constraining sediment routing system responses to tectonics and climate (Alex Whittaker, Imperial College)

2015-10-29 11:30: Self-assembly of nanoparticles on membranes (Dr Andela Saric, Cambridge)

2015-11-02 13:00: Magma storage, eruption and outgassing during volcanic eruptions - from space (Marie Edmonds (Dept. of Earth Sciences))

2015-11-03 16:00: The interplay between brittle and ductile processes at oceanic transform faults (Jessica Warren, University of Delaware)

2015-11-05 11:30:  Exploring multiphase flows in porous media (Jonathan Mitchell, Schlumberger Cambridge Research)

2015-11-09 13:00: Tropical Cyclone Motion in the Presence of Surface Discontinuity and Topography (Johnny Chan (City University of Hong Kong, Trinity College Cambridge))

2015-11-10 16:00: Chilean Volcanoes constrain global models of convergent margin volcanism (Steve Turner, University of Oxford)

2015-11-12 11:30: Modified Sequential Fully Implicit Scheme for Compositional Flow Simulation (Arthur Moncorge, TOTAL)

2015-11-16 13:00: Flow of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: Origins and glacial-interglacial shifts (Nick McCave (Dept. of Earth Sciences))

2015-11-17 16:00: Oscillations in stratified, bubbly magma and long-period volcanic seismicity at Kilauea, Hawaii AND The role of magmatic lithospheric thickening on arc front migration (Leif Karlstrom, University of Oregon)

2015-11-19 11:30: Green to Gold - From academic curiosity to a Multi $Bn Business Opportunity! (Professor Xiaobin Zhao, Cambond)

2015-11-24 16:00: New insights into early Cenozoic glaciation: Eocene-Oligocene climate records from IODP Exp. 318, Wilkes Land, Antarctica (Claire Huck, National Oceanography Centre, Univ of Southampton)

2015-11-26 11:30: High-density Reservoir Networks in Semiarid Northeastern Brazil (Iran Lima-Neto, UFC Brazil and BP Institute visitor)

2015-11-30 13:00: Mixing at the fringes of a rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelf (Alberto Naviera-Garabato (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton))

2015-12-01 16:00: Disparities in the evolution of multicellularity (Phil Donoghue, University of Bristol)

2015-12-03 11:30: Drops in an electric field: instabilities, bifurcations and singularities (Marco Fontelos, ICMAT, Spain)

2016-01-14 11:30: Convective mass transfer from a droplet into a submerging falling film (Julien Landel ( DAMTP))

2016-01-18 13:00: Tropical rainfall, Rossby waves and initialised climate predictions (Adame Scaife (Met Office Hadley Centre))

2016-01-21 11:30: Liquids on solids, and gases in liquids on solids, in vacuum (Rob Jones, Uni of Nottingham)

2016-01-25 13:00: The fluid dynamics of a suspension of frazil ice crystals (David Rees Jones (Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford))

2016-01-26 16:00: Principles of triple oxygen isotope geochemistry (Daniel Herwartz (University of Cologne))

2016-01-28 11:30: Sedimentological Regimes for Subaqueous Turbidity Currents (Thomas Halsey, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company)

2016-02-01 13:00: Deformation in Porous Media; squashing paper, and carbon dioxide storage (Duncan Hewitt (DAMTP))

2016-02-02 16:00: Himalaya: from mountains to drilling in the Bengal fan (Christian France-Lanord, Nancy)

2016-02-04 11:30: Regulation of topographic order in the developing nervous system through dynamic cell adhesion (Professor Stephen Price, UCL)

2016-02-08 13:00: Stochastic dynamical systems and seasonal climate dynamics (Woosok Moon (DAMTP))

2016-02-09 16:00: One of the many relationships between mantle petrology and atmospheric chemistry: The case of nitrogen. (Sami Mikhail, University of St Andrews)

2016-02-11 11:30: Internal Student talks - see abstracts (BPI students)

2016-02-15 13:00: Dynamical attribution of recent variability in Atlantic overturning (Helen Johnson (Earth Sciences, University of Oxford))

2016-02-16 16:00: Partitioning of water fluxes across the  Himalayas (Christoff Andermann, GFZ Potsdam)

2016-02-18 11:30: Internal student talks (BPI students)

2016-02-22 13:00: Flexural Mechanics of Subduction (Neil Ribe (CNRS, Universite Paris Sud))

2016-02-23 16:00: Earth history’s largest carbon isotopic shift: Constraints on the origin and timing of the Cryogenian Trezona d13C anomaly  (Dr. Catherine Rose, Trinity College Dublin)

2016-02-25 11:30: The destabilization of capillary rafts into armored droplets (Suzie Protiere, UPMC)

2016-02-29 13:00: An equivalent barotropic view of the Southern Ocean and Antarctic Circumpolar Current (Dave Munday (British Antarctic Survey))

2016-03-01 16:00: Could early land vegetation have bioengineered the planet? (Dianne Edwards, Cardiff University)

2016-03-03 11:30: When ice meets ocean: meltwater plumes from the murky depths (Andrew Wells, University of Oxford)

2016-03-04 16:00: Mixed up by Buoyancy (Andy Woods (BP Institute))

2016-03-07 13:00: How many oceans are there really? Using Lagrangian ocean dynamics to study climate, marine ecosystems and plastic accumulation (Erik van Sebille (Grantham Institute/Physics, Imperial College))

2016-03-08 16:00: Tectonic pulsing, climate cycles and contourites: drilling results from IODP Expedition 339 (Dorrik Stow, Heriot-Watt University )

2016-03-10 11:30: Internal BPI Seminars (TBC)

2016-04-18 16:00: Melt transport in the mantle: constraints from field observations and ideas for  future work (Peter Kelemen, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory)

2016-04-19 16:00: Relamination, delamination and tadpole zones: Formation of lower continental crust by density sorting of buoyant arc lavas and plutons (Peter Kelemen, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory)

2016-04-21 11:30: Granular segregation in dunes and avalanches (Nathalie Vriend (University of Cambridge))

2016-04-28 11:30: Characterization of Gravelly Soils for Geotechnical Engineering Applications (Professor Jason DeJong, University of California Davis)

2016-05-05 11:30: Formation, Breakup and Coalescence of Droplets (Dr Rafael Castrejon-Pita, QMUL)

2016-05-10 16:00: Our ocean in motion: How currents carry plankton, and how that affects palaeoproxy reconstructions (Erik van Sebille, Imperial College London)

2016-05-12 11:30: Instabilities in shear-thinning viscoelastic fluids: a long story (Helen Wilson, UCL)

2016-05-17 12:00: Working with Natural Hazards: Perspectives from a Catastrophe Modelling Company (Caroline McMullan, AIR Worldwide)

2016-05-19 11:30: Physics of Surfing (Christophe Clanet, LadHyx, GK Batchelor Lecturer - DAMTP)

2016-05-26 11:30: Unravel buried soft interfaces: From lipid bilayers to responsive polymer brushes (Wuge Briscoe ( University of Bristol))

2016-06-02 11:30: Folding within deep-marine deposits: large contorted rafts and small convolutions (Dr Lotty Gladstone, BP Institute)

2016-06-09 11:30: Title to be confirmed (BPI Internal Speakers)

2016-08-08 15:00: The mechanics of internal wave generation by volcanic eruptions (Peter Baines (University of Melbourne))

2016-10-06 11:30: Generation of quick flood events by a groundwater flow (Dr Adrien Guerin, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)

2016-10-10 13:00: Reduced-order transport models for energy and the environment  (Zhong Zheng (DAMTP))

2016-10-11 12:00: Triggering of the largest Deccan eruptions by the Chicxulub impact OR What really killed the dinosaurs? (Prof Mark Richards, University of California, Berkeley)

2016-10-13 11:30: Non-Covalent Chemistry (Dr Chris Hunter, Dept of Chemistry)

2016-10-17 13:00: Adding the time dimension to our large-scale glacier inversions: goals, challenges, and early work (Dan Goldberg (University of  Edinburgh))

2016-10-18 12:00: Application of Se stable isotopes: From microbial redox reactions to environmental cycling of Se (Kathrin Schilling, Royal Holloway University of London)

2016-10-20 11:30: Topographic enhancement of turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean (Ali Mashayek Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT)

2016-10-24 13:00: Salinity intrusion in Northern San Francisco Bay: Observations and models (Stephen Monismith (Stanford University))

2016-10-25 12:00: The composition of Earth and Exo-planets (Amy Bonsor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

2016-10-27 11:30: Redxo-active anilines: From switchable surfactants to tuneable gas capture (Professor Charles Faul, Chemistry, Uni of Bristol)

2016-10-31 13:00: Splash and spray from a partially submerged spinning disc (Megan Davies Wykes (DAMTP))

2016-11-01 12:00: Impacts of Depositional Environments on δ34S Records: Rethinking Stratigraphic Trends and Geobiological Interpretations (Professor David Fike, Washington University in St Louis)

2016-11-03 11:30: Some fluid-structure interaction problems in the viscous limit (Dr Zhong Zheng, Mechanical Engineering, Princeton University)

2016-11-07 13:00: The precession resonance mechanism in nonlinear wave systems (Dan Lucas (DAMTP))

2016-11-08 12:00: Looking at Last Interglacial Sea Level records through a solid Earth lens (Jacky Austermann, Bullard Labs, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-10 11:30:  FEniCS-Shells: solving thin structural theories using a high-level finite element language (Dr Jack S. Hale, Research Unit in Engineering Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of Luxembourg.)

2016-11-14 13:00: How Boltzmann statistics govern a river's shape (Olivier Devauchelle (IPGP))

2016-11-15 12:00: Uranium isotope ratios as redox sensors : Toward a predictive understanding (Anirban Basu, Royal Holloway University of London)

2016-11-17 11:30: Biofunctionalised Nanotools for New Materials Design (Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Dept of Chemical Engineering)

2016-11-22 12:00: A geochemical journey in time: on the track of uranium and nickel (Balz Kamber, Trinity College Dublin)

2016-11-24 11:30: Flow and Arrest of Very Dense Suspensions (Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP))

2016-11-28 13:00: Rethinking volcanism from a trans-crustal perspective (Kathy Cashman (University of Bristol))

2016-11-29 12:00: Oxygen distribution in Earth's core (Tetsuya Komabayashi, University of Edinburgh)

2016-12-01 11:30: Waves and wave-driven flows on coral reefs (Stephen Monismith, Stanford)

2017-01-17 12:00: The Bardarbunga volcanic system, Iceland, and its 2014-2015 dyking event, major eruption, and slow caldera collapse (Freysteinn Sigmundsson, Nordic Volcanological Center, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland)

2017-01-19 11:30: Multi-directional simple shear response of soils (Giovanna Biscontin (University of Cambridge))

2017-01-24 12:00: Understanding the carbon isotope record during early Paleogene greenhouse conditions (Dr. Gerald Dickens, Rice University, Houston USA)

2017-01-26 11:30: Characterising heterogeneity in multiphase flow and reactive transport processes in application to CO2 storage (Dr Sam Krevor, Imperial College London)

2017-01-30 13:00: On the generation of waves by turbulent wind (Frédéric Moisy (FAST))

2017-02-02 11:30: Arrested bubble 'rise' in a narrow tube (Mrs Catherine Kamal, Bristol)

2017-02-06 13:00: Debris flow analogue models: how far can we push them? (Lis Bowman (University of Sheffield))

2017-02-07 12:00: Isotopic reactive transport approaches to unraveling (bio)geochemical processes in groundwater systems (Jenny Druhan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

2017-02-09 11:30: Improving Oil Recovery Using Controlled Salinity Waterflooding (Dr Matthew Jackson, Imperial College)

2017-02-13 13:00: Impacts and fragmentation in liquid-liquid systems: Planet formation in the lab (Maylis Landeau (DAMTP))

2017-02-14 12:00: Assessing volatile heterogeneity in the Icelandic mantle and transport of volatiles from mantle to surface (Saemundur Halldorsson, University of Iceland)

2017-02-16 11:30: Electrohydrodynamic control of multi-fluid systems at small scales (Dr Radu Cimpeanu, Imperial College London)

2017-02-20 13:00: Understanding drivers of Arctic sea ice loss through analysis of observations and models (Julienne Stroeve (UCL))

2017-02-21 12:00: Stickiness: a key ingredient in process to product relations of sedimentary systems (Daniel Parsons, University of Hull)

2017-02-23 11:30: Instabilities of internal gravity wave beams: insignts from experimental and analytical approaches (Directeur Thierry Dauxois, ENS Lyon)

2017-02-27 13:00: Inferences of mantle viscosity based on ice age datasets (Jacky Austermann (Bullard) )

2017-02-28 12:00: Atoms on the move: deformation-induced trace element redistribution in zircon (Sandra Piazolo, University of Leeds)

2017-03-02 11:30: Multifunctional Micro and Nanoencapsulation technology with remote controlled delivery and release of various cargos (Professor Gleb Sukhorukov, Queen Mary University of London)

2017-03-06 13:00: Mixing efficiency in run-down gravity currents (Paul Linden (DAMTP))

2017-03-07 12:00: The metamorphic rock record: insights from eclogites (Owen Weller, University of Cambridge)

2017-03-09 11:30: Energy release rate in hydraulic fracture: Can we neglect an impact of the hydraulically induced shear stress? (Professor Gennady Mishuris, Aberystwyth)

2017-03-13 13:00: The transient response of ice-shelf melting to ocean change (Paul Holland (BAS))

2017-03-14 12:00: Granulite facies metamorphism and melting: the message from the metabasites (Richard White, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

2017-03-16 11:30: Internal BPI Student Seminars (Ed Hinton, Neerjana Bhamidipati and Thomasina Ball)

2017-04-20 12:00: Indian Monsoon: Trends, Rhythms and Thresholds since Eocene (Liviu Giosan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

2017-04-27 11:30: Vibrating cables & flapping flags: classical fluid-solid instabilities or energy sources ? (Professor Sebastien Michelin, LadHyx)

2017-05-02 12:00: A guide to the science of Equality & Diversity (Fionnuala Murphy and Rogier Kievit)

2017-05-02 16:00: Sea-level changes and extreme waves between past and future worlds (Alessio Rovere, MARUM - University of Bremen; ZMT - Leibniz center for tropical marine research)

2017-05-04 11:30: Modelling entrainment and surface processes in atmospheric flows over rural and urban boundary layers. (Maarten van Reeuwijk, Imperial College London)

2017-05-04 14:00: Altering volcanic rocks at the Earth’s surface: A progress report (Lou Derry, Cornell University, USA)

2017-05-09 12:00: Microbial growth on isoprene-an abundant climate active trace gas (Professor Colin Murrell University of East Anglia)

2017-05-09 12:30: From genes to functions: Microbial life in Movile Cave ecosystem (Deepak Kumaresan, Queens University Belfast)

2017-05-11 11:30: Measuring Ocean Mixing (Greg Ivey, UWA Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia)

2017-05-16 12:00: Why the Boring Billion is the most interesting period in Earth History (Ray Pierrehumbert, University of Oxford)

2017-05-18 11:30: 'Mixing in Gravity Currents' and 'Gravity Driven Flow in a Horizontal Annulus' (Diana Sher and Marcus Horsley - BP Institute)

2017-05-23 12:00: Rivers and climate change: three short stories of their partnership (Andrew Wickert, University of Minnesota)

2017-05-25 11:30: Drop splashing at smooth dry surfaces  (Professor Jose Gordillo, University of Seville)

2017-06-01 11:30: Title to be confirmed (TBC)

2017-06-08 11:30: Dynamics of thin liquid sheets: Theory and Experiments (Mahesh Tirumkudulu (IIT Bombay, INDIA))

2017-06-15 11:30: Title to be confirmed (TBC)

2017-10-05 11:30: Taking control of flowing dense suspensions (Dr Chris Ness (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-09 13:00: The evolution of ice rheology in glacier shear margins: Crystallographic fabric and thermoviscous feedbacks (Brent Minchew (BAS))

2017-10-10 12:00: Biologically-induced weathering and soil development in the earliest land-plant ecosystems (Dr Ria Mitchell, Natural History Museum, London)

2017-10-12 11:30: Effects of Submesoscale Turbulence on Reactive Tracers in the Upper Ocean (Dr Kat Smith (DAMTP))

2017-10-16 13:00: Wind work on ocean eddies and the decadal-mean impact of relative wind stress on the ocean (Xiaoming Zhai (UEA))

2017-10-17 12:00: Iron and zinc stable isotope constraints on slab dehydration and devolatilisation processes (Dr Helen Williams, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-17 12:00: Technical challenges in the upstream oil industry (Dr Fereidoun Abbassian, BP Wells, Production and Facilities)

2017-10-19 11:30: Density stratification in gravity currents; topographic interactions, shear layer stability, and impact on the global sediment budget (Professor Ben Kneller, University of Aberdeen)

2017-10-23 13:00: Aquaplanet and stationary wave monsoons (Ruth Geen (University of Exeter))

2017-10-24 12:00: The origin and early diversification of land plants (Prof. Charles Wellman, University of Sheffield)

2017-10-26 11:30: Halogen bonding and Crystal Engineering (Chris Truscott, BPI)

2017-10-30 13:00:  The linear stability of general zonal flows for any Rossby and Richardson numbers  (Mike Bell (Met Office, Exeter))

2017-10-31 12:00: Controls on microbial communities in subseafloor environments investigated by ocean drilling (Prof. Mark Lever, ETH Zürich)

2017-11-02 11:30: Friction behavior of Organic Friction Modifiers: an experimental and numerical approach (Professor Clotilde Minfray, Ecole Centrale de Lyon)

2017-11-06 13:00: Long-range propagation of ocean swell (Bill Young (UCSD))

2017-11-07 12:00: Influence of Himalayan river dynamics on the Bronze-age Indus Civilisation in NW India (Prof. Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London)

2017-11-09 11:30: Numerical study of interfacial flows for environmental and industrial applications (Dr Zhihua Xie, University of Cardiff)

2017-11-13 13:00: Modelling grain growth in polycrystals (Felix Ng (University of Sheffield))

2017-11-14 12:00: Directly dating faults: in-situ U-Pb calcite dating (Dr Catherine Mottram, University of Portsmouth)

2017-11-16 11:30: Rupture-resistant filter cakes for wellbore strengthening - Nikzad Falahati and Simulator of underground water flow and transport processes - Jan Hybs (Jan Hybs and Nikzad Falahati, BP Institute)

2017-11-21 12:00: Mg-silicate gels, limestones and the opening of the South Atlantic: the bizarre giant reservoirs of offshore Brazil (Prof. Paul Wright, Natural Sciences, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff)

2017-11-23 11:30: Towards Durable Hydrophobicity and Omniphobicity  (Nenad Miljkovic, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaing (UIUC))

2017-11-27 13:00: Aeolian dune development and migration dynamics: field insights from a terrestrial laser scanner (Jo Nield (University of Southampton))

2017-11-28 12:00: Deep time continental weathering and climate change in the Palaeozoic (Dr Jennifer Morris, University of Cardiff)

2017-11-30 11:30: Bubbly jets and particle-laden fountains in confined and unconfined spaces (Martin Lippert, BP Institute)

2017-12-12 12:00: When you squish magma, its structure changes, and this affects trace element partitioning (Dr Eleanor Mare, University of St Andrews)

2018-01-08 11:30: Gravity-driven flows of non-Newtonian fluids in porous media (Professor Sandro Longo, University of Padua)

2018-01-08 11:30: TBC (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-01-16 12:00: Modern versus ancient controls on sedimentary systems; the present is not always the key to the past  (Prof. Poppe de Boer, Utrecht University)

2018-01-18 11:30: The Best of TIMES?  Turbulence, Instability, Mixing and Exact States in Stratified Shear Flows (Professor Colm C Caulfield, BP Institute)

2018-01-22 13:00: Mixing and transport of warm waters on the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf (Alex Brearley, British Antarctic Survey)

2018-01-23 12:00: The Moon as an Archive of Collisional Processes in the inner Solar System: New Views from Apollo Samples and Lunar Meteorites (Dr Katherine Joy, University of Manchester)

2018-01-25 11:30: Gravity-driven flows of non-Newtonian fluids in porous media (Professor Sandro Longo, University of Parma)

2018-01-29 13:00: Dynamical Response to the QBO and the Solar Forcing in the Northern Winter Stratosphere: Towards a Deeper Mechanistic Understanding (Hua Lu, British Antarctic Survey)

2018-01-30 12:00: Understanding cranial biomechanics and skull evolution in fossil vertebrates (Prof. Emily Rayfield, University of Bristol)

2018-02-01 11:30: The sensitivity of West Antarctica to the submarine melting feedback (Robert Arthern ( British Antarctic Survey))

2018-02-05 13:00: Multi-scale observations of ocean circulation in the Atlantic (Eleanor Frajka-Williams, University of Southampton)

2018-02-06 12:00: A phosphorus control on Earth's oxygenation history (Prof. Simon Poulton, University of Leeds)

2018-02-08 11:30: Developing and Selecting Tribological Coatings (Professor Allan Matthews, School of Materials, the University of Manchester, Director BP International Centre for Advanced Materials)

2018-02-12 13:00: Surface meltwater ponding and drainage causes ice-shelf flexure (Alison Banwell (University of Cambridge))

2018-02-13 12:00: Applications of correlated optical and electron spectroscopy to nanomaterials (Dr Emilie Ringe, University of Cambridge)

2018-02-15 11:30: The Engineering of Thin Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator Gravimetric Sensors (Dr Andrew Flewitt (University of Cambridge))

2018-02-19 13:00: Chemical convection and stratification at the top of the Earth's outer core (Matthieu Bouffard, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research)

2018-02-22 11:30: Mechanical properties of cells or cell components on the micro- and nanometer scale (Othmar Marti, Institute of Experimental Physics, Ulm University)

2018-02-26 13:00: Geophysical flows on Earth and Mars (Jim McElwaine (Durham University))

2018-02-27 12:00: CANCELLED (weather): Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility in evaporites (Dr Carl Stevenson, University of Birmingham)

2018-03-01 11:30: Filling box flows in porous media (Chunendra Sahu, BP Institute)

2018-03-05 13:00: Adding turbulent convection to geostrophic circulation: insights into ocean heat transport (Catherine Vreugdenhil)

2018-03-06 12:00: Geochemical and sedimentological constraints on pre-GOE ocean chemistry (Dr Nick Tosca, University of Oxford)

2018-03-08 11:30: Downstream dispersion of bedload tracers (Eric Lajeunesse, IPGP)

2018-03-12 13:00: Radiocarbon as a carbon cycle tracer in the 21st century (Heather Graven, Imperial)

2018-03-13 12:00: Acoustic imaging of catastrophic flood terrains in the English Channel: How Britain became an island (Prof. Jenny Collier, Imperial College London)

2018-03-15 11:30: Transport and Settling of Sediments in River Plumes (Bruce Sutherland, Depts. Physics / Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta)

2018-04-10 11:30: On the origin of the hydraulic jump in a thin liquid film  (Rajat Bhagat, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Uni of Cambridge)

2018-04-26 11:30: Plasma Spray and Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation Coatings (Professor Bill Clyne, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Uni of Cambridge)

2018-05-03 11:30: On the origin of the hydraulic jump in a thin liquid film  (Rajat Bhagat, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Uni of Cambridge)

2018-05-08 12:00: Jurassic Black Shales and the Exceptional Carrots of Yorkshire (Dr Liam Herringshaw, University of Hull)

2018-05-10 11:30: Non-equilibrium turbulence scalings and self-similarity in turbulent planar jets (Giaccchino Cafiero, BP Institute)

2018-05-15 12:00: Structural style and evolution of an understudied salt-related extensional basin: the Sverdrup Basin (NE Canadian Arctic) (Dr Berta Lopez-Mir, CASP)

2018-05-17 11:30: Bob Groves - I'm Glovin' It and Alex Routh - How do LEA proteins operate? (Alexander F. Routh, BP Institute and Bob Groves, BP Institute visitor)

2018-05-22 12:00: Active faults, ancient earthquakes, and past climates in eastern Iran and Turkmenistan (Dr Richard Walker, University of Oxford)

2018-05-24 11:30: Ed Hinton -Injection of a fluid into a confined aquifer with a vertical gradient of permeability. Alex Gutai - Formation and eruption of silicic magmas by crustal melting. (Edward Hinton, BP Institute and Alex Gutai, BP Institute)

2018-05-29 12:00: Insights into the volcanic forcing of climate from high-resolution sulfur isotopes in ice cores (Dr Andrea Burke, University of St. Andrews)

2018-05-31 11:30: Kinetic barriers in surfactant adsorption and desorption (Dr Chris Breward, University of Oxford)

2018-06-07 11:30: Self-sculpting of a dissolvable body due to gravitational convection (Megan Davies Wykes (University of Cambridge))

2018-06-14 11:30: NO SEMINAR (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-06-15 11:30: Suppression of marine ice sheet instability (Dr Sam Pegler, Applied Maths, University of Leeds)

2018-06-28 11:30: Extreme Environments and Dynamic Morphology: Anticipating and harnessing evolving structure-property relationships ( Jessica Krogstad, Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

2018-10-04 11:30: See details (Edward Hinton, BP Institute and Neeraja Bhamidipati, BP Institute)

2018-10-08 13:00: Waves and turbulence in sustained stratified shear flows (Adrien Lefauve, DAMTP)

2018-10-09 12:00: Geochemical Constraints for Prebiotic Chemistry (Dr Paul Rimmer, Cavendish Astrophysics, University of Cambridge)

2018-10-11 11:30: Symmetry Breaking For Biomimetic Locomotion (Professor Jian Deng, Zhejiang University)

2018-10-15 13:00: Waves, turbulence and large-scale flows in mixed convective-stably-stratified fluids (Louis-Alexandre Couston, British Antarctic Survey)

2018-10-16 12:00: Rapid changes or gradual transitions? Holocene climate and its impact on societies. (Dr Heinz Wanner, University of Bern)

2018-10-18 11:30: Unstructured Mesh Generation and Its Applications (Dr Hang Si, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin)

2018-10-22 13:00: Internal wave-induced mean flow (Felix Beckebanze, Mathematical Institute, Utrecht University)

2018-10-25 11:30: Oppositely Charged Polyelectrolyte/Surfactant Mixtures at  the Air/Water Interface: The Dominance of Non-equilibrium Effects  (Dr Richard A Campbell, University of Manchester)

2018-10-29 13:00: Precessing flows: from geophysics to bioreactors (Patrice Meunier, IRPHÉ, CNRS, Marseille)

2018-10-30 12:00: The story of Mt Everest: metamorphism, deformation, and the 1933 summit attempt (Dr Dave Waters, University of Oxford)

2018-11-01 11:30: A high-order and conservative particle-mesh algorithm for advection-dominated flows (Jakob Maljaars and Robert Jan Labeur, Delft University of Technology)

2018-11-05 13:00: Dynamics of volcanic outgassing and plume transport revealed by proximal Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) measurements (Emma Liu, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2018-11-06 12:00: The rare earth elements: critical raw materials for the 21st century (Dr. Kathryn Goodenough, BGS)

2018-11-08 11:30: The Benefits of Bayesian Machine Learning (Stanley Lazic, Cantab)

2018-11-12 13:00: On the dynamics of phytoplankton blooms in experiments and the real world (Aleksandra Lewandowska, Tvärminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki)

2018-11-13 12:00: Devil is in the detail: micro-scale record of deposition, deformation and ice dynamics during ‘Snowball Earth’ (Dr Marie Busfield, Aberystwyth University)

2018-11-15 11:30: Nanocarbon and Metal Aerogels as Multifunctional, Porous Support Materials in Adsorption and Catalysis (Dr Robert Menzel, Department of Chemistry, University of Leeds)

2018-11-20 12:00: Planetary investigations beyond the Solar system. (Dr Amaury Triaud, University of Birmingham)

2018-11-22 11:30: Carbon capture and storage: it has a cost, but does it have any value? (Professor Niall Mac Dowell, Imperial College London)

2018-11-26 13:00: Turbulent leakage in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Laura Cimoli, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford)

2018-11-27 12:00: The oceanic cycling of trace metal micronutrients (Dr Susan Little, Imperial College)

2018-11-29 11:30: Multiphase Aspects of Ice Sheet Dynamics (Professor Ian Hewitt, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)

2019-01-17 11:30: Adjoint-based data assimilation for compressible and reactive flows (Professor Joern Sesterhenn, Technische Universitat Berlin)

2019-01-21 13:00: Coupled ice-ocean interactions for the Amundsen Sea glaciers, Antarctica (Jan De Rydt - Northumbria University)

2019-01-22 12:00: Dinosaur Resurrection: The rise of modern birds from the ashes of an asteroid (Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge)

2019-01-24 11:30: Molecular Photosynthesis: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On (Marcella Bonchio University of Padova and ITM-CNR)

2019-01-28 13:00: The influence of small-scale turbulence on mixed layer fronts (Matthew Crowe, DAMTP)

2019-01-29 12:00: Causes of episodic volcanism (Prof. Steve Sparks, University of Bristol)

2019-01-31 11:30: Diffusion problems for Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation in permeable porous media (Edmund Fordham, Energetics Research)

2019-02-04 13:00: Turbulence in Forced Stratified Exchange Flows (Kat Smith, DAMTP)

2019-02-05 12:00: Equilibrium, disequilibrium, and basaltic Plinian eruptions (Dr Margaret Hartley, University of Manchester)

2019-02-07 11:30: Interacting plumes in a rotating environment: The special case of a single plume and The dynamical system of mixing layers (Chris Howland (University of Cambridge), Jeremy Parker (University of Cambridge))

2019-02-11 13:00: The formation of large impact craters (Gareth Collins, Imperial College London)

2019-02-12 12:00: East Asian palaeodrainage evolution and Himalayan-Tibet tectonics (Dr Yani Najman, Lancaster University)

2019-02-14 11:30: The viscosities of partially molten materials undergoing diffusion creep (John Rudge (University of Cambridge))

2019-02-19 12:00: Tracing planetary differentiation with experimental geochemistry (Dr Eleanor Jennings, Birkbeck University of London)

2019-02-21 11:30: The structure and origin of confined Holmboe waves (Adrien Lefauve (DAMTP, University of Cambridge))

2019-02-25 13:00: From a steady plume to periodic puffs during confined carbon dioxide dissolution (Francois Nadal, Loughborough University)

2019-02-26 12:00: Natural nanomagnets (magnetosomes) offer inspirational solutions to green production of magnetic nanoparticles  (Dr Sarah Staniland, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield)

2019-02-28 11:30: Special Seminars (See below)

2019-03-04 13:00: Sources of hydrographic variability in Sermilik Fjord, a major glacier fjord in southeast Greenland (Irena Vankova, BAS)

2019-03-05 12:00: The trouble with tubules: pseudofossils and the palaeontology of the deep subsurface (Dr Sean McMahon, University of Edinburgh)

2019-03-07 11:30: Turbulence, Periodic Orbits and Koopman analysis (Rich Kerswell, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2019-03-11 13:00: The role of lateral rheology contrasts in the evolution of mountain ranges (Camilla Penny, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2019-03-12 12:00: A Twenty-first Century View of Plutons (Prof. Allen Glazner, MSA Distinguished Lecturer, University of North Carolina)

2019-03-14 11:30: Modelling the Dynamics and Hazards from Volcanic Mudflows and Flash Floods (Dr Jeremy Phillips, University of Bristol)

2019-04-25 11:30: CFD from academia to industry (Dimitrios Pavlidis, Foster + Partners)

2019-04-30 12:00: I wasn't born cubic, said Ca-rich almandine garnet (Prof. Bernardo Cesare, University of Padova, Italy)

2019-05-02 11:30: Controlling carbon nanomaterials in dispersion with surfactants: stability and adsorption at interfaces (Tom McCoy, BP Institute)

2019-05-07 12:00: Environmental and climatic effects of volcanic aerosol:  past, present and future (Dr Anja Schmidt, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-09 11:30: Searching for periodic orbits in turbulence with convolutional neural networks (Dr Jacob Page (University of Cambridge))

2019-05-14 12:00: The thermal evolution of the continents (Prof. Claude Jaupart, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP))

2019-05-16 11:30: Self-Assembly in Deep Eutectic Solvents (Professor Karen Edler, University of Bath)

2019-05-21 11:30: Special Seminar: Rheology of complex suspensions (Olivier Pouliquen, Aix-Marseille Université)

2019-05-21 12:00: Linking ages to stages and dates to rates (Dr Clare Warren, Open University)

2019-05-23 11:30: How to Snowboard on Mars? (Professor Jim McElwaine, Durham University)

2019-05-28 12:00: Geochemistry and geochronology of minerals and interfaces: A nanoscale perspective (Prof. Steven Reddy, Curtin University)

2019-05-30 11:30: Some applications of the numerical method SPH  to geophysical problems (Professor Joe Monaghan, Monash University)

2019-06-06 11:30: Title to be confirmed (TBC)

2019-06-18 12:00: Importance of Innovation in Engineering (Capt Mark Grenfell-Shaw)

2019-10-03 11:30: Granular flow visualization using nuclear imaging (Professor Indresan Govender, University of KwaZulu-Natal)

2019-10-08 12:00: Terrestrial hydrothermal environments as windows to prebiotic worlds (Claire Cousins (University of St Andrews))

2019-10-10 11:30: Ptychotomographic imaging of nano-materials at I13-1 Diamond Light Source (Dr Charan Kuppili, Dept of Earh Sciences, Uni of Cambridge)

2019-10-14 13:00: Simply simulating objects and phase change in fluid flow (Eric Hester, University of Sydney)

2019-10-15 12:00: The end-Permian mass extinction from a high southern palaeolatitude perspective (Prof. Chris Fielding, University of Nebraska)

2019-10-17 11:30: Nicola Mingotti - BP Institute, Martin Lippert - BP Institute, Neeraja Bhamidipati - BP Institute  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-21 13:00: Processes affecting climate model projections of stratospheric water vapour (Jake Smith, DAMTP)

2019-10-22 12:00: Modelling atmospheric CO2 and O2 evolution over Earth history (Benjamin Mills (University of Leeds))

2019-10-24 11:30: Karol Bacik - Sand Dunes and Their Interactions Kasia Warburton - Glacial Squeegee: Tidal Effects on Subglacial Hydrology (Karol Bacik, DAMTP and Kasia Warburton, DAMTP)

2019-10-28 13:00: Decoding the thermochemical and magnetic evolution of asteroids using thermal modelling (James Bryson, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2019-10-29 12:00: The Rise of the Silk Roads c. 5,000 years ago: how Earth and Materials Sciences reveal the making of the first global economic network (Miljana Radivojevic (UCL))

2019-10-31 11:30: Unsteady Turbulent Plumes and Volcanoes (Dr Matthew Scase, Nottingham University)

2019-11-04 13:00: Motion of vortices with buoyancy (Stefan Llewellyn Smith, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD)

2019-11-05 12:00: A deep-time perspective on macroecology (Erin Saupe (University of Oxford))

2019-11-07 11:30: Hydrological networks and flow of the Greenland ice sheets (Dr Poul Christoffersen, Scott Polar Institute (University of Cambridge))

2019-11-11 13:00: Viscoplastic Droplets (Maziyar Jalaal, DAMTP)

2019-11-12 12:00: New methods for old bones – Reconstructing fossil evolution and palaeobiology using new technologies (Stephan Lautenschlager (University of Birmingham))

2019-11-14 11:30: Decoding the thermochemical and magnetic evolution of asteroids using thermal modelling (Dr James Bryson, Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2019-11-18 13:00: What sets the heat content of Southern Ocean mode water formation regions? (Emma Boland, British Antarctic Survey)

2019-11-19 12:00: Rethinking Marine Hydrocarbon Biogeochemistry with a Biological Source (David Valentine (UCSB))

2019-11-21 11:30: The interplay of stress and chemical processes in rocks: why it matters, what is explained, and some unsolved problems (Professor John Wheeler, University of Liverpool)

2019-11-26 12:00: Icy alteration on Mars: Glacial alteration of volcanic terrains (Alicia Rutledge (University of Oxford))

2019-11-28 11:30: WEEE separation and PVC window frames separation (Phil Mutsaerts, All Controls)

2019-12-02 13:00: Zonal jet variability: insights from a framework of idealised models (Laura Cope, DAMTP)

2019-12-03 12:00: Interfacial Network Geometry (Katharina Marquart (Imperial College London))

2019-12-05 11:30: Amine-Functionalised Metal-Organic Frameworks as Next Generation Adsorbents for CO2 Capture (Dr Alex Forse, Dept of Chemisty, University of Cambridge)

2020-01-14 12:00: The Sedimentary Cycle on Early Mars (Scott McLennan (Stonybrook))

2020-01-16 11:30: Nanotechonolgy, Biology, and Sustainability: Intersections with Gold Nanocrystals (Prof. Catherine Jones Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign))

2020-01-20 13:00: Turbulence driven by tides in planetary cores: wave turbulence vs. geostrophic turbulence (Thomas Le Reun, DAMTP)

2020-01-21 12:00: Functional consequence of extinctions: from the Miocene to the Anthropocene (Catalina Pimiento-Hernandez (Swansea University))

2020-01-23 11:30: Edward Hinton - Capillary trapping of CO2 in aquifers with vertically varying permeability and Chris Howland - Mixing in forced stratified turbulence (Edward Hinton, BP Institute and Chris Howland, DAMTP)

2020-01-27 13:00: The ocean boundary layer beneath a melting Antarctic ice shelf: stratification, tides and turbulence (Cat Vregdenhil, DAMTP)

2020-01-28 12:00: Unnatural Selection: evolution at the hand of man (Katrina Van Grouw (Tring))

2020-01-30 17:00: SPECIAL SEMINAR - PLEASE SEE TIME AND LOCATION CHANGE (Prof Stephen Belcher, Chief Scientist,  Meteorological Office )

2020-02-03 13:00: Quantifying irreversible mixing in stratified turbulence and breaking internal waves (Chris Howland, DAMTP)

2020-02-04 12:00: Mineralogical Controls on Earth's Climate (Caroline Peacock (Leeds))

2020-02-06 11:30: Fin Allen - A recipe for Cation-bridging and David Broussault - Metal doped silica beads, a promising system for environmental and biological application? (Fin Allen, BPI and David Brossault, BPI)

2020-02-10 13:00: Impacts of surface-derived meltwater on ice motion in Greenland and the Antarctic Peninsula (Andrew Sole, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield)

2020-02-11 12:00: Mount St. Helens: a 40-yr perspective on the 18 May 1980 eruption and its impact on volcano science (Katharine Cashman (University of Bristol))

2020-02-13 11:30: Rocking the boat: The physics of kayaks, canoes and rowing (Graham Benham, BP Institute)

2020-02-18 12:00: Interplay of core and recycled crust signals in mantle plumes: the coupled geodynamics of He and W (Matt Jackson (UCSB))

2020-02-20 11:30: Towards the control of transition to turbulence (Cedric Baume, Uni of Leeds)

2020-02-24 13:00: How mixed is the ocean mixed layer? (Neeraja Bhamidipati, BP Institute, University of Cambridge)

2020-02-25 12:00: Biomineralisation and boron proxies: the possible, the impossible and the likely (Oscar Branson (University of Cambridge))

2020-02-27 11:30: Functional nanomaterials for energy harvesting and sensing (Sohini Kar-Narayan, Materials Science, Uni of Cambridge)

2020-03-02 13:00: Separating the forced atmospheric circulation response to Arctic sea-ice loss from internal variability (Christine McKenna, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds)

2020-03-03 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Rachael Rhodes (University of Cambridge))

2020-03-05 11:30: Introduction to Imaging Fluid Flows with Application to Viscous Fingering (Dr Patrick Bunton, William Jewell College)

2020-03-10 12:00: The formation and early evolution of the Solar System: An oxygen isotope perspective (Richard Greenwood (OU))

2020-03-12 11:30: Cleaning soil layers by impinging liquid jets (Ian Wilson, Dept of Chemical Engineering (University of Cambridge))

2020-04-23 11:30: Open questions in turbulent stratified mixing: Do we even know what we do not know? (C. P.  Caulfield, BPI and DAMTP)

2020-04-30 11:30: Making rubber gloves (Alexander F. Routh  CEB and BP Institute ( BP Institute and Bob Groves, BP Institute visitor))

2020-05-07 11:30: How new deep-sea observations change turbidity current models (Matthieu Cartigny, Uni of Durham)

2020-05-12 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Jenny Druhan (The University of Illinois))

2020-05-14 11:30: Experimental insights into the gravity-driven flows and mixing in layered porous media (Chunendra Sahu, BP Institute)

2020-05-21 11:30: DEM, dams and dikes (Catherine O'Sullivan, Imperial College)

2020-05-26 12:00: Title to be confirmed (David Wallis (U. Cambridge))

2020-05-28 11:30: Modelling Dispersal of Aerosols in Buildings (Andy Woods - BP Professor ( BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge))

2020-06-18 11:30: Surface Science Aspects of Coronavirus (Stuart Clarke, BPI and Dept of Chemistry)

2020-07-28 12:00: Uncomfortable Histories: working to decolonise the Sedgwick Museum (Liz Hide, Sedgwick Museum)

2020-08-11 12:00: The keys to the past: a mixed-methods approach to reconstructing the 1812 eruption of La Soufrière St. Vincent (Jazmin Scarlett)

2020-08-25 12:00: Fieldwork in context: challenges and opportunities (Sam Giles, University of Birmingham)

2020-09-17 15:00: Mapping and characterizing enigmatic habitats in the last great wilderness on Earth (Prof Andrew Davies (University of Rhode Island))

2020-09-24 15:00: Decolonising the curriculum: lessons from sociology (Ali Meghji, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-01 15:00: 3D fault architecture controls the dynamism of earthquake swarms (Prof Zachary Ross (CalTech))

2020-10-07 12:00: Intraplate faults and Australian earthquakes (Tamarah King, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford)

2020-10-08 11:30: Title to be confirmed (Introduction to BPI Faculty)

2020-10-12 13:00: Gravity-driven flows and mixing in layered porous media (Chunendra Sahu, BP Institute, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-15 11:30: The effects of planetary-scale volcanism on Io's interior structure and evolution (Dan Spencer ( University of Oxford))

2020-10-15 15:00: Ice sheets and sea level in a changing climate (E2E: Prof Natalya Gomez (McGill Univ) & Prof Jerry Mitrovica (Harvard))

2020-10-18 15:00: The Chicxulub Impact Structure: The formation of large impact structures and the consequences (Auriol Rae, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-19 13:00: The ocean’s transient conveyor belt (Shantong Sun, Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech)

2020-10-22 11:30: The link between the global carbon cycle and the interplay between calcium and sulfur in marine pore fluid (Hal Bradbury, Dept of Earth Sciences, Uni of Cambridge)

2020-10-26 13:00: From top to bottom: using surface velocity variations to look below glaciers (Kasia Warburton, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-29 11:30: TBC (Kieran Gilmore, BPI and Sandy Armstrong, BPI)

2020-10-29 15:00: tbd (Dr. Laura Wallace of UT Austin and GNS Science, New Zealand)

2020-11-02 13:00: Dune-dune interactions: experiments and modelling (Karol Bacik, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-05 11:30: See Below (Patrick Mortimer, BPI and Eric Newland, BPI)

2020-11-05 16:00: Unique Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S. (Karletta Chief (University of Arizona))

2020-11-09 13:00: Jet Regimes and the Predictability of Euro-Atlantic Weather (Kristian Strommen, Department of Physics, University of Oxford)

2020-11-12 11:30: Particle suspension from Rouse to Turbidty Currents, and back again (Dr Robert Durrell, University of Hull)

2020-11-12 15:00: Strong Acid (Prof. Macalady (Penn State) and Prof M Torres (Rice))

2020-11-16 13:00: Double-Diffusive Convection in the Arctic Ocean (Nicole Shibley, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University)

2020-11-19 11:30: Flood inundation prediction (Professor Paul Bates, Uni of Bristol)

2020-11-26 11:30: Internal wave recipes? Identifying the optimal mix of multi-scale shear and convection in wave-breaking events. (Colm Caulfield, BPI and DAMTP)

2020-11-26 15:00: Atmospheres of Earth and Icy planets (Dr Craig Poku (Leeds) & Naomi Rowe-Gurney (Leicester))

2020-11-30 13:00: Limitations of the Miles-Howard criterion (Jeremy Parker, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2020-12-03 11:30: Mini Symposium: On Laboratory Observations of Turbidites: Traction and Yielding. (Nigel Woodcock, Dave Pritchard, Jerry Phillips, and Andy Woods)

2020-12-03 15:00: Science and Justice in the Anthropocene (Professor Jill Schneiderman (Vassar College))

2020-12-10 15:00: Shaking it loose and burning it up: The carbon budget of erosion from earthquakes to floodplains (Joshua West (USC) & Gen LI (Caltech))

2021-01-14 14:15: BP Sustainability Lecture 2021 (Professor Emily Allyn Weiss - Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Director, Photo-Sciences Research Center (PSRC) Northwestern University )

2021-01-14 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Sally Benson (Stanford))

2021-01-21 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Jennifer Druhan, University of Illinois)

2021-01-25 13:00: Contributions to a mechanistic understanding of climate change (Stephan Fueglistaler, Princeton University)

2021-01-28 11:30: Mixing in bubble trains and bubble plumes (Andy Woods, BPI)

2021-01-28 15:00: Psyche: Journey to a Metallic World (Prof Lindy Elkins-Tanton (Arizona) & Dr Rona Oran (MIT))

2021-02-01 13:00: Nondiffusive turbulent mixing in surface oceanic boundary layers (Dr. Tomas Chor, University of Maryland)

2021-02-04 11:30: Impact of wind on dynamics of turbulent buoyant plumes (Guillaume Carazzo, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)

2021-02-04 15:00: Paleocene–Eocene climate and carbon cycle: tales from the 'boring background' (Kate Littler, University of Exeter)

2021-02-08 13:00: On the interaction between submesoscales and turbulence: from theory to application (Abigail Bodner, Brown University)

2021-02-11 11:30: The Effect of Coordination Chemistry in Aerosols and Fogs on Air Quality (Dr Chiara Giorio, Dept of Chemistry)

2021-02-11 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Barbara Sherwood Lollar (U Toronto))

2021-02-15 13:00: The fluid mechanics of CO2 sequestration in heterogeneous porous media: a journey across scales (Graham Benham, BPI and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2021-02-18 11:30: Stratification in Drying Films: Diffusion and Diffusiophoresis and  Particle sedimentation from current blown plumes and Nanoporous silica as a pre-concentrator for enhanced VOC detection (Claire Rees-Zimmerman, BPI and Cara James, BPI)

2021-02-18 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Steve Shirey, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science)

2021-02-22 13:00: The long term development of Triadic Resonance Instability for finite width internal wave beams (Katherine Grayson)

2021-02-25 11:30: Solutal Convection in Porous Media (Prof Marc Hesse, University of Texas)

2021-02-25 15:00: Volatiles in Earth’s mantle: primordial or subducted? Insights from new generation nitrogen and sulfur isotope systematics (Dr Jabrane Labidi (IPGP) and Dr James Dottin III)

2021-03-01 13:00: Un-mixing the Ocean: Double-Diffusion, Ice Shelves and Arctic Eddies (Leo Middleton, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2021-03-04 11:30: Peatland hydrology and carbon cycling (Professor Joseph Holden, University of Leeds)

2021-03-04 15:00: Structural and magnetic transitions in minerals and functional materials: the pervasive roles of strain and elasticity (Prof. Michael Carpenter, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge)

2021-03-08 13:00: Stress coupling between Greenland supraglacial lakes during rapid drainage (Laura Stevens, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford)

2021-03-11 11:30: How will climate change affect volcanic plume rise and aerosol cycle? (Thomas Aubry (University of Cambridge))

2021-03-11 15:00: How Are Geochemical Reactions in Aquifers Connected to Climate Change Mitigation? (Chen Zhu ( Indiana University))

2021-03-12 13:00: The Future Green Economy: Panel Discussion (Prof. Gargi Bhattacharya (Professor of Sociology at the University of East London), Kate Metcalf (Co-director of the Women’s Environment Network) and Dr. Natalie Jones (Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk))

2021-03-15 13:00: What ground deformation can tell us about sub-surface systems (Adam Butler, BPI and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2021-03-18 11:30: Have Glue, Will Travel! (Ewen Kellar, TWI)

2021-03-18 15:00: How are water isotopes influencing our understanding of Antarctic climate variability over the past 2000 years? (Anaïs Orsi)

2021-03-25 15:00: Global climate change mitigation under the COVID-19 new normal (Prof Dabo Guan & Dr Can Cui)

2021-04-01 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. David Bercovici)

2021-04-08 15:00: The small and mighty: the role of microbes and minerals in melting the Greenland Ice Sheet (Prof Liane Benning (GFZ))

2021-04-22 15:00: Reconstructing a deep time Earth system: The penultimate ice house (Prof Isabel Motañez (UC Davis) and Sophia Macarewich (U Michigan))

2021-05-06 11:30: Some problems in low Reynolds number environmental flows (Ed Hinton, The University of Melbourne, Australia)

2021-05-13 15:00: On Tornado Dynamics (Professor Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta, Canada)

2021-05-17 15:00: The Green Transition in Natural Resources (Panel discussion: Pippa Howard (Flora and Fuana International) and Andy Whitmore (London Mining Network))

2021-05-20 11:30: Granular Flows (Amalia Thomas, Uni of Cambridge)

2021-05-27 11:30: Ocean Plastics (Erick van-Sebille, Utrecht University, Netherlands)

2021-06-03 11:30: How I became stuck in Layered Materials: From Origins of Life, to Drugs to Renewable Energy (Dawn Geatches, STFC UKRI)

2021-10-06 16:00: Geoscience in Context: A clean energy future isn't set in stone (Thomas Franssen and Mandy de Wilde )

2021-10-07 11:30: Marangoni flows and instabilities during drying (William Schabel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

2021-10-07 15:00: The history of the global carbon cycle as recorded by the chemical composition of shallow-water marine carbonate sediments (John Higgins, Princeton University)

2021-10-14 11:30: Characterizing turbulent heat transport in the ocean using machine learning (Miles Couchman (University of Cambridge))

2021-10-14 15:00: The influence of seawater infiltration on oceanic transform fault slip behavior (Jessica Warren, University of Delaware)

2021-10-21 11:30: Particle Plumes in Cross Winds - Going to Extremes (Andy Woods, BPI and Stuart Clarke, BPI)

2021-10-22 15:00: Marine sedimentary carbon cycling (Harold Bradbury, University of Cambridge)

2021-10-25 13:00: A full-tensor approach for parameterising oceanic eddy tracer transport (Michael Haigh, Imperial College London)

2021-10-28 11:30: Alex Routh - Conformation of Organic Friction Modifiers under shear and Jerome Neufeld - Storing CO2 in geological complexities (Alex Routh, BPI and Jerome Neufeld, BPI)

2021-10-28 15:00: Just how weird is the solar system?  (Tim Elliott, University of Bristol)

2021-11-01 13:00: Modelling stratified turbulence in the ocean interior (Sam Lewin, DAMTP)

2021-11-04 11:30: Modelling Challenges in Nuclear Fusion (Remi Delaporte-Mathurin, CEA France)

2021-11-04 15:00: Productivity and dissolved oxygen controls on the Southern Ocean deep-sea benthos during the Antarctic Cold Reversal (Joseph Stewart, University of Bristol)

2021-11-08 13:00: Fingers and Fractures: Instabilities in Viscoplastic Fluid Films (Thomasina Ball, U. Warwick)

2021-11-11 11:30: Six Features of Sand Dunes (Nathalie Vriend (University of Cambridge))

2021-11-11 15:00: Geoscience in Context: Tackling the diversity crisis in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Natasha Dowey, Sheffield Hallam University)

2021-11-15 13:00: Unmixing the Ocean: Double Diffusion and Turbulence in Polar Oceans (Leo Middleton, DAMTP)

2021-11-18 11:30: Clare Rees-Zimmerman - Diffusiophoresis of latex in silica and Mohammed Al-Sharabi  - Investigating the liquid transport kinetics of ceramic powder compacts using terahertz pulsed imaging (Clare Rees-Zimmerman and Mohammed Al-Sharabi, BPI)

2021-11-18 15:00: Fast faults and fluids in the earthquake cycle (Tom Mitchell, University College London)

2021-11-25 11:30: The role of convective vortices in accumulating buoyant material in the ocean (Jenny Dingwall, Cambridge)

2021-11-25 15:00: Using ecology to unlock the secrets of early animal evolution (Emily Mitchell, University of Cambridge)

2021-11-25 15:00: Using ecology to unlock the secrets of early animal evolution (Emily Mitchell, University of Cambridge)

2021-11-29 13:00: Submesoscale in the Texas-Louisiana shelf and its implications on the biogeochemistry (Jinliang Liu, DAMTP)

2021-12-02 11:30: Carbon storage in heterogeneous porous reservoirs (Graham Benham (University of Cambridge))

2021-12-02 13:00: Waves and flows on a coral reef beach and in the adjoining lagoon (Stephen Monismith, Stanford University)

2022-01-20 12:30: Large-Scale Carbon Materials that Sequester CO2: A Pipeline for Sustainable Materials or Pipedream? (Dr Adam Boies (University of Cambridge))

2022-01-20 15:00: Disentangling polar biogeochemistry through (silicon) isotope geochemistry (Kate Hendry, British Antarctic Survey)

2022-01-27 11:30: Hydraulic reconstruction of the 1818 Giétro Glacial Lake outburst flood (Tomas Trewhela, University Adolfo Ibanez)

2022-01-27 15:00: Reconstructing CO2 change on 100 to 100 million year timescales (James Rae, University of St. Andrews)

2022-01-31 13:00: Harnessing Computing for Societal Challenges – the Importance of Multiphase Flows (Damir Juric, Churchill College & CNRS LISN Paris)

2022-02-03 11:30: Boundary layers and Biominerals (Oscar Branson (University of Cambridge))

2022-02-03 15:00: A view across rifting events: Late Cretaceous continental faunas of Eastern Africa and Madagascar (Patrick O'Connor, University of Ohio)

2022-02-10 11:30: Dissecting turbulent plumes in cross flow using DNS data (Marteen van Reeuwijk, Imperial College )

2022-02-10 15:00: The origin of stress- and fluid-driven seismicity in volcanic settings: a laboratory perspective (Dr Philip Benson, University of Portsmouth)

2022-02-14 13:00: Connecting Atmospheric & Oceanic Boundary Layer Turbulence to Global Warming:  Regional Mixed Layer Depth as an Emergent Constraint (Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University)

2022-02-17 11:45: The role of ammonia in a future carbon-free energy landscape (Laura Torrente-Merciano, Chem Eng, Cambridge)

2022-02-17 15:00: Crust formation and deformation on the rapidly rotating early Earth  (Simon Lock, University of Bristol)

2022-02-22 11:30: David Madden - DFT Studies on the Reactivity of Iron Surfaces: Searching for Novel Routes to Passivation and Anke Krautsieder - Preparation and testing of novel materials for steel surface maintenance procedures (David Madden, BPI and Anke Krautsieder, BPI)

2022-02-24 15:00: Priming patterns of volcanic eruptions revealed by deep-time diffusion chronometry (Martin Mangler, Durham University)

2022-02-28 13:00: Data-driven identification of turbulent mixing in stratified flows (Miles Couchman, DAMTP)

2022-03-03 11:30: Sustainable and effective antimicrobial surface coating based on natural cellulose  (Jason Zheng, University of Birmingham)

2022-03-03 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Jacqueline Houghton, University of Leeds)

2022-03-07 13:00: Interannual variability in the tropical lower stratosphere (Alison Ming, DAMTP)

2022-03-14 13:00: The impact of realistic topographic representation on the parameterisation of lee wave energy flux (Lois Baker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London)

2022-03-17 11:30: Maths for Wetropolis flood demonstrator and a graphical cost-effectiveness tool for flood-mitigation schemes (Prof Onno Bokhove, Leeds Institute of Fluid Dynamics)

2022-03-17 15:00: Mid-Cenozoic faunal dynamics in the Western Branch of the EARS: A view from the Rukwa Rift Basin (Nancy Stevens)

2022-04-28 11:30: NO TALK (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-02 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-05 11:30: Shallow water models of the interaction of gravity currents with obstacles (Ed Skevington, University of Hull)

2022-05-09 13:00: Response of terrestrial aridity to global warming (Qiang Fu, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington)

2022-05-10 12:00: The evolution of the geobiological nitrogen cycle (Eva Stüeken, University of St Andrews)

2022-05-12 11:30:  Interactions between barchan dunes (Willian Righi Assis, University of Campinas (UNICAMP). School of Mechanical Engineering)

2022-05-17 12:00: [Geoscience in Context]  Skills for sustainable geoscience: evidencing transition in Energy and Higher Education (Jen Roberts, University of Strathclyde)

2022-05-19 11:30: Optofluidic hollow-core photonic crystal fibre (Dr Tijmen Euser (University of Cambridge))

2022-05-23 13:00: AI for Polar Route and Mission Planning (Maria Fox, Artificial Intelligence Lab, British Antarctic Survey)

2022-05-24 12:00:  Crust formation and deformation on the rapidly rotating early Earth  (Simon Lock, University of Bristol)

2022-05-26 11:30: Urban Flooding Mitigation (Dr Dick Fenner (University of Cambridge))

2022-05-31 12:00: Investigating the role of ozone-depleting substances in driving observed and projected Arctic climate change (Mark England, University of California Santa Cruz)

2022-06-06 13:00: Multiscale vortex structure in the regime of incipient hurricanes (Rupert Klein, Mathematik and Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin )

2022-06-07 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-06-09 11:30: See Below (Paddy Mortimer, BPI and Holly Smith, BPI)

2022-06-14 12:00: The eccentricities of calcite production by coccolithophores (Rosalind Rickaby, University of Oxford)

2022-06-16 11:30: The Geobattery Concept – a sustainable future for shallow geothermal resources? (Dr Gus Fraser Harris, University of Edinburgh)

2022-09-15 14:00: Redox processes in subduction systems (Katy Evans, Curtin University)

2022-09-27 12:00: Mass transport through Europa’s ice shell and the habitability of Europa’s internal ocean (Professor Marc Hesse, University of Texas)

2022-10-06 11:30: Introduction to the Institute and some thoughts on energy transition (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-10-10 13:00: Spatio-temporal characteristics of mixed-layer turbulence in an energetic oceanic zone (Pauline Tedesco, Imperial College)

2022-10-13 11:30: Engineering with Droplets (Pallav Kant (Department of Earth Science))

2022-10-17 13:00: Mechanisms of formation of a Mesospheric Inversion Layer and Subsequent Elevated Stratopause Associated with the 2019 Stratospheric Sudden Warming (Haruka Okui, University of Tokyo)

2022-10-18 12:00: Cold Blood in Hot Times: Using the vertebrate fossil record to understand biotic responses to climate change (Prof. Jason Head, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2022-10-20 11:30: Shaping of solids under natural convection (Megan Davies Wykes (University of Cambridge))

2022-10-24 13:00: Optimizing scalar transport using branching flows (Anuj Kumar, University of California Santa Cruz)

2022-10-27 11:30: Upper limit of wind farm power generation and wind extractability (Dr Takafumi Nishino, Dept of Engineering Science, University of Oxford)

2022-10-31 13:00: Towards machine learning in operational weather forecasting (Matthew Chantry, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts)

2022-11-01 12:00: Quantifying complexity in challenging data: fault slip rates on millennial timescales (Laura Gregory, University of Leeds)

2022-11-03 11:30: Infection dispersal in buildings  (Dan Toy (University of Cambridge))

2022-11-03 11:30: Dan Toy - Infection dispersal in buildings (Dan Toy (University of Cambridge))

2022-11-07 13:00: The influence of submesoscale instabilities on the equilibration of ocean fronts (Aaron Wienkers, DAMTP)

2022-11-08 12:00: Raising the Colorado Plateau – tales from xenoliths and petrological modeling (Richard Palin, University of Oxford)

2022-11-10 11:30: NO SEMINAR (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-11-14 13:00: Experimental insights on the coupling between oceanic internal tides and lee waves (Yvan Dossmann, Université de Lorraine, Nancy)

2022-11-15 12:00: Understanding the Lithosphere (Sergei Lebedev, University of Cambridge)

2022-11-17 11:30: New approaches to coupling the thermodynamics and geodynamics of mantle melting (Lucy Tweed (University of Cambridge))

2022-11-22 12:00:  Battery Metals: Formation and the race to Net Zero (Nick Gardiner, University of St. Andrews)

2022-11-24 11:30: The dynamics of deep-submarine explosive eruptions (Eric Newland (University of Cambridge))

2022-11-28 13:00: Physical oceanography of a sub-Antarctic island fjord from observations and modelling (Joanna Zanker, British Antarctic Survey)

2022-11-29 12:00: Biogenic magnetite tracing of ocean oxygenation across Cenozoic warming events (Liao Chang, Peking University)

2022-12-01 11:30: Amphiphilic surfactants as model additives for engine friction reduction and Michael Sargent - Battery Thermal Management Fluids and Systems (Beatrice Boggio Robutti and Michael Sargent, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows)

2023-01-12 11:30: Reprogramming and Printing DNA Nanostructures (Hanadi Sleiman, McGill University)

2023-01-19 11:30: Leidenfrost temperature(s) (Pierre Chantelot, Universite of Twente)

2023-01-23 13:00: Filling in the Map: Understanding Arctic Ocean mixing rates, mechanisms and space-time geography from ocean observations (Stephanie Waterman, Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia)

2023-01-24 12:00: The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs (Susannah Maidment, Natural History Museum)

2023-01-26 11:30: Modelling electrode heterogeneity in lithium-ion batteries (Dr Toby Kirk, Imperial College London)

2023-01-30 13:00: Modelling the response of ice to subglacial flooding (Sophie Tobin, DAMTP)

2023-01-31 12:00:  Geochemical Insights into Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability  (Carrie Lear, Cardiff University)

2023-02-02 11:30: Development and application of environmental flow software (Jenny Stocker, Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants)

2023-02-06 13:00: Macroalgae Cultivation for Ocean CDR: An Idealized Numerical Study (Si Chen, DAMTP)

2023-02-07 12:00: A Palaeontological view of the modern climate and biodiversity crisis (Danila Schmidt, University of Bristol)

2023-02-09 11:30: NO TALK THIS WEEK (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-02-13 13:00: Probabilistic causal network modelling of Southern Hemisphere eddy-driven jet long-range predictability in spring-to-summer  (Elena Saggioro, University of Reading)

2023-02-14 12:00: Rewriting the tale of deep-ocean upwelling (Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton)

2023-02-16 11:30: Inverse problems in fluid dynamics for enhanced velocimetry (Alexandros Kontogiannis (University of Cambridge))

2023-02-20 13:00: Viscoplastic model of mountain building (Elvinas Ribinskas, DAMTP)

2023-02-23 11:30: Virtual Barriers for Horizontal Buoyancy-driven Flows (Daria Frank ( DAMTP))

2023-02-28 12:00: A pinch of salt: Halogen cycling through the solid Earth  (Margaret Hartley, University of Manchester)

2023-03-02 11:30: Climatic Reach of small-scale Ocean Turbulence (Ali Mashayek (University of Cambridge))

2023-03-06 13:00: AMOC – scratch the ‘surface’ and get to the ‘bottom’ (Shenjie Zhou, British Antarctic Survey)

2023-03-07 12:00: The eruptive tempo and long-term behaviour of open vent volcanoes  (Emma Liu, University College London)

2023-03-09 11:30: Deep ocean steady-state transport and decadal variability inferred from 1980-2021 anthropogenic transient tracer observations (Laura Cimoli (University of Cambridge))

2023-03-13 13:00: Computing (generalised) Lagrangian mean without tracking particles (Hossein Kafiabad, Durham University)

2023-03-14 12:00: Taphonomy and The Tree: are Fossil Taxa Misleadingly "Primitive"? (Robert Asher, University of Cambridge)

2023-03-29 11:30: Shallow water modelling of rainfall-runoff processes (Dr D Liang (University of Cambridge))

2023-04-27 11:30: Shallow water modelling of rainfall-runoff processes (Dr D Liang (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-02 12:00: Ice, mud, and models: how paleo data assimilation is helping illuminate our geologic past (Matthew Osman, University of Cambridge)

2023-05-04 11:30: Mimicking cell-surface machinery with bespoke DNA nanostructures (Roger Rubio Sanchez (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-09 12:00:  Preservation of H2O heterogeneity in the Icelandic mantle (Simon Matthews (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-11 11:30: Time-Lapse Volumetric Seismic Imaging of Water Masses at a Major Oceanic Confluence in the South Atlantic Ocean (Xiaoqing Chen (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-16 12:00: Nick Shackleton and the Big White Box in the Car Park (David Hodell, University of Cambridge)

2023-05-18 12:00: Can Enzymes Help Address the Climate Crisis? (Sam Cobb ( Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Reisner Lab))

2023-05-23 12:00: A chronostratigraphic framework for the Ediacaran Period and the chronostratigraphic potential of sedimentary carbonates using U-Pb carbonate LA-ICP-MS (Marjorie Cantine, Goethe University Frankfurt)

2023-05-25 11:30: Energy and Environmental Flows in Sanitation (Professor Michael Templeton, Imperial College London)

2023-05-30 12:00: A new look at the past provides perspectives for biodiversity management (Matthew Adeleye, University of Cambridge)

2023-06-01 11:30: Buckling of a fast drying drop of particle suspension (Mahesh Tirumkudulu, IIT Bombay)

2023-06-01 15:00: SPECIAL SEMINAR - Drying, Diffusion and Interdiffusion in Multicomponent and Multilayer Films (Professor Wilhelm Schabel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

2023-06-06 12:00: Seawater calcium concentration may be a key driver of long-term pCO2 (David Evans, University of Southampton)

2023-06-08 11:30: A new class of maneuverable robots for  Inspection and Mapping of complex networks of gas and water pipes (Tom Bewley, UCSD)

2023-06-13 12:00: Novel applications of non-traditional stable isotopes to studying near-equilibrium geochemical kinetics with applications to carbon removal and storage (Chen Zhu, Indiana University, Bloomington)

2023-06-15 11:30: Internal IEEF Single slide seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-07-06 11:30: Molecular layers, thin films and coatings - Applications of coatings (Stuart Clarke, IEEF)

2023-10-05 11:30: Stuck in the mud? Channelling and clogging in plastic fluids (Duncan Hewitt ( DAMTP))

2023-10-09 13:00: Self-assembly in stratified fluids and extreme depth fluctuations in high-altitude Himalayan lakes (Richard Mclaughlin, University of North Carolina)

2023-10-10 12:00: Salty waters: Life’s origins and biological habitability on Earth (and Mars?) (Benjamin Tutolo, University of Calgary)

2023-10-12 11:30: The Interaction between Gravity Currents and Breaking Internal Waves (Professor Jeffrey Koseff, Stanford)

2023-10-16 13:00: Layering Processes in Double Diffusive Convection (Paul Pruzina, University of Cambridge)

2023-10-17 12:00: After the Moon (Stephen J. Mojzsis, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CsFK), Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

2023-10-19 11:30: Sophie Meyjes - Impact of global variability in zooplankton grazing rates on carbon export flux - Joshua Lanham - Regimes of seasonal CDW intrusion onto the circumpolar Antarctic shelf in a high-resolution model  (Sophie Meyjes (University of Cambridge) and Joshua Lanham (University of Cambridge))

2023-10-23 13:00: Robots, Satellites, Planes, Ships and Models -  The next generation of ocean submesoscale studies (Eric D'Asaro)

2023-10-24 12:00: Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean Turbulence (Ali Mashayek, University of Cambridge)

2023-10-26 11:30: Understanding surfactant behaviour to reduce friction in motor vehicles and Why don't we bleed to death?  Morphology, gelation and drying in droplets of human blood: tracking advective evolution (Beatrice Anna Maria Boggio Robutti, University of Cambridge and Sheila Bhatt, University of Cambridge)

2023-10-30 13:00: Reactive melt transport in the mantle (Lucy Tweed (University of Cambridge))

2023-10-31 12:00: Teaching a new trick to old data: reassessing the Neogene history of C4 grasses in the Great Plains of North America (David Fox, University of Minnesota)

2023-11-02 10:30: Interface heterogeneity and metal plating in lithium metal and anode-free batteries (Svetlana Menkin  (University of Cambridge))

2023-11-06 13:00: Boundary Upwelling of Antarctic Bottom Water by Topographic Turbulence (Lois Baker, University of Edinburgh)

2023-11-07 12:00: Integrative Neuroanatomy and The Origin of Birds (Amy Balanoff, John Hopkins University)

2023-11-09 11:30: TBC (TBC)

2023-11-14 12:00: Metals, Magnetism and Meteorites: A brief guide to magnetic field generation on small planetary bodies (Dr Claire Nichols, University of Oxford)

2023-11-16 11:30: Surfactants: from self-assembly to application  (Dr Thomas McCoy, IEEF)

2023-11-20 13:00: ENSO teleconnections to the Southern Hemisphere and impacts on weather systems (Zoe Gillett, University of New South Wales/DAMTP)

2023-11-21 12:00: How to form a rare-earth rich carbonatite, and why that might be a good thing (Sam Broom-Fendley, University of Exeter)

2023-11-23 11:30: Insights from laboratory experiments with boundary mixing (Scott Li)

2023-11-28 12:00: The Holocene history of Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, West Antarctica, revealed through subaerial and subglacial archives (Keir Nichols, Imperial College London)

2024-01-18 11:30: Understanding multihazard in a warming world: landslides and cryospheric hazards in the 21st Century (Maximillian Van Wyk de Vries, Uni of Cambridge)

2024-01-22 13:00: A machine learning approach for identifying the sensitivity of chlorophyll-a to nutrient concentration in the global ocean (Joo-Eun Yoon, DAMTP)

2024-01-23 12:00: A paleoclimate perspective on the (in)stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (Eric Wolff, Department of Earth Sciences)

2024-01-25 11:30: The statistics of extreme waves in the coastal zone (Ioannis Karmpadakis, Imperial College London)

2024-01-29 13:00: Negative effective viscosity in strongly stratified turbulence (Qi Zhou, University of Calgary)

2024-01-30 12:00: At the Edge of Reactivity: Exploring the Dynamics of Fluid-Mineral Interactions (Oliver Plumper, Utrecht University)

2024-02-01 11:30: Transport and Settling of Buoyant Microplastics in Turbidity Currents (Professor Bruce Sutherland, Uni of Alberta)

2024-02-05 13:00: From internal waves to turbulence in a stably stratified fluid (Costanza Rodda, Imperial College)

2024-02-06 12:00: Antarctic summer sea-ice variability reconstructed from novel biological archives (Erin McClymont, Durham University)

2024-02-08 11:30: Catalysing Net Zero and Energy Transition Strategies through Thermodynamic Principles (Edris Joonaki, TÜV SÜD UK National Engineering Laboratory)

2024-02-12 13:00: The Influence of Lateral Spreading upon Solitary Wave Formation by Internal Tides (Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta)

2024-02-13 12:00: Data-driven slow earthquake dynamics (Adriano Gualandi, Department of Earth Sciences)

2024-02-15 11:30: Modelling the Response of Ice to Subglacial Flooding (Sophie Tobin, University of Cambridge)

2024-02-19 13:00: The evolution of source regions beneath active mud volcanoes: a poroelastic phase change problem (Luke Kearney, University of Oxford)

2024-02-20 12:00: Rapid temperature fluctuations in the early Iceland plume revealed by olivine-spinel and melt thermometry (Elliot Carter, Trinity College Dublin)

2024-02-22 11:30: High-performance Computing to Support Wind Energy Research (Sylvain Laizet, Imperial College London)

2024-02-26 13:00: Data-Driven and Equation-Informed Optimal Control of Lagrangian pairs in turbulent flows (Chiara Calascibetta)

2024-02-27 12:00: The TTG window and the formation of Earth’s earliest continental crust. (Richard White, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews)

2024-02-29 11:30: Two topics in subsurface CO2 storage – Field scale flow modelling, and evaluating the feasibility of scaling up deployment to climate relevant scales (Sam Krevor, Imperial College London)

2024-03-04 13:00: A Simple Model Coupling Moisture and Large-Scale Dynamics in the Tropical Troposphere (Matt Davison, DAMTP)

2024-03-05 12:00: Paallavvik Island and the search for Earth's primitive water (Lydia Hallis, University of Glasgow)

2024-03-07 11:30: Novel processing and 3D correlative imaging of electrodes for batteries (Dr Chun Ann Huang, Imperial College London)

2024-03-11 13:00: Disentangling the Upper Tropospheric and Lower Stratospheric Circulation Responses to Increased CO2: Considering Interactive Ozone Impacts, (Non)Linearity, Regionality, and Vertical Structure (Molly Menzel, NASA GIS)

2024-03-12 12:00: Microbial responses to warming and their impact on carbon stocks (Cara Magnabosco)

2024-03-14 11:30: New understanding of liquid thermodynamics, viscosity and its lower bounds (Kostya Trachenko ( Queen Mary, University of London))

2024-04-23 12:10: Preservation of very old climate records in ice cores from Allan Hills, Antarctica (Edward Brook, Oregon State University )

2024-04-25 11:30: Specific Ion Effects in Colloidal Surface Forces  (Drew Parsons, Assoc. Prof., University of Cagliari)

2024-04-29 12:30: Large-scale flow structures in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection: Dynamical origin, formation, and role in material transport (Philipp Vieweg)

2024-04-30 12:00: Fresh perspectives on the origins of major animal groups: insights from the late Ediacaran of Namibia (Alex Lui, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-02 11:30: A molecular-level description of the oxygen evolution reaction using in situ spectroscopy (Rosa Arrigo, Uni of Salford)

2024-05-09 11:30: Engineering solutions for heart valve disease using computational modelling and simulation (Shelly Singh-Gryzbon, Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-21 12:00: Mapping the core-mantle boundary (Sanne Cottaar, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-23 11:30: Some aspects of contact line dynamics with applications to flow in porous materials (Stephane Zaleski, Institut Jean Le Rond ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne Université)

2024-05-28 12:00: Towards a 500 Million-Year History of Earth’s Atmospheric CO2 (Hana Jurikova, University of St Andrews)

2024-06-04 12:00: The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron (oxyhydr)oxides (Jordon Hemingway, ETH Zurich)

2024-06-06 11:30: Ocean boundary layer turbulence (Bethan Wynn’s-Cattanach, Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

2024-07-02 15:00: Making waves on the "mathematical canal" (Dr David Pritchard, University of Strathclyde)

2024-07-04 11:30: Starting vortices generated at the sharp edges of an arbitrary body (Edward Hinton, Uni of Melbourne Australia)

2024-09-27 14:00: Nonlinear Preconditioning for Implicit Solution of Discretized PDEs (David Keyes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

2024-10-10 11:30: Some flow problems in large scale energy storage (Professor Andy Woods, IEEF)

2024-10-14 13:00: Convective instability, upwelling and mixing efficiency measurements in an abyssal canyon (Prof. Matthew Alford, Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

2024-10-15 12:00: The Red Queen, Mars, living and dying fast and young: macroevolution in graptoloids (James Crampton, Victoria University of Wellington)

2024-10-17 11:30: What can Arctic staircases tell us about ocean mixing? (Nicole Shibley (University of Cambridge))

2024-10-21 13:00: Whodunit? Is climate change responsible for ice loss from Antarctica? (Dr Alex Bradley, British Antarctic Survey)

2024-10-22 12:00: Exploring Central Africa's Lithium Pegmatites: Geology, Resource Potential, and Geopolitical context (Anouk Borst, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven)

2024-10-24 11:30: The Formation of Metal Salts in Carboxylated Nitrile Latex (Alexander F. Routh ( Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology))

2024-10-28 13:00: Tackling climate change - going beyond emissions reduction (Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge)

2024-10-29 12:00: Active plate tectonics in the Paleoarchean (Simon Lamb, Victoria University of Wellington)

2024-10-31 11:30: Cheap and effective catalysts for sustainable hydrogen production (Rafia Nimal (University of Cambridge))

2024-11-04 13:00: Quantifying model uncertainty in the dynamical and radiative adjustments to stratospheric heating (Dr Colleen Golja, Imperial)

2024-11-05 12:00: A geochemical test of the Snowball Earth hypothesis. (Francis Macdonald, UC Berkeley)

2024-11-07 11:30: CO2 dissolution during geological carbon storage: the Cinderella trapping mechanism (Mike Bickle, Uni of Cambridge)

2024-11-11 13:00: From iron cores to estuaries: the interaction of environmental flows with their transported particles (Dr Quentin Kriaa, University of Twente)

2024-11-12 12:00: The post-Variscan evolution of Ireland – a case study in constraining shallow crustal exhumation and deformation (David Chew, Trinity College Dublin)

2024-11-14 11:30: CCS & permeability: thinking about uncertainty through a perturbation analysis and Bubble growth in alkaline electrolysis (Emily Flicos, IEEF and James Morris, IEEF)

2024-11-18 13:00: Deep-ocean transport and decadal variability inferred from anthropogenic transient tracer observations (Dr Laura Cimoli (DAMTP))

2024-11-19 12:00: Exceptional preservation in tropical settings: A glimpse into the fossil record of northern South America (Javier Luque, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2024-11-21 11:30: Technological pathways for thermomechanical energy conversion and storage: Progress, challenges and outlook (Professor Christos Markides, Imperial College London)

2024-11-25 13:00: Tracing pathways of change in North Atlantic climate: Have we crossed a tipping point? (Dr Marilena Oltmanns (NOC))

2024-11-26 12:00: A Systems Approach to Sustainability Transformation: science-based and stakeholders co-designed solution pathways (Phoebe Koundouri, Athens University of Economics and Business )

2024-11-28 11:00: Symposium on Energy and Environmental Flows (Jeremy Phillips (Bristol), Steve Sparks (Bristol), IEEF and Dept Earth Sci Faculty)

2024-12-02 13:00: Meeting the Challenge of Net Zero after COP29 (Prof. David Reiner (Judge Business School))

2024-12-03 12:00: Is the Atlantic overturning circulation on the brink of collapse?  (David Thornalley, University College London)

2024-12-05 11:30: Novel approaches to Hydrogen, CO2 Conversion and Ammonia to reduce carbon emissions (Professor John Irvine, St Andrews University)

2025-01-23 11:30: No Seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-01-27 13:00: Climate policy: why is it needed and how to make it work (Sanna Markkanen (CISL))

2025-01-28 12:00: Fluid Physics of Ice-Covered Oceans (Nicole Shibley, University of Cambridge)

2025-01-30 11:30: Multiphase Transport Phenomena and Energy Process Intensification (Yulong Ding, University of Birmingham)

2025-02-03 13:00: The atmospheric response to Arctic amplification: Insights from idealised models (Will Seviour (Exeter))

2025-02-04 12:00: The interplay of large-scale tectonics, metamorphism, and earthquake cycles (Alex Copley, University of Cambridge)

2025-02-06 11:30: Cracking in Drying Films (Alex Routh, IEEF and Chem Eng)

2025-02-10 13:00: The structure and lifecycle of stratified mixing in forced shear flows (Adrien Lefauve (DAMTP, University of Cambridge))

2025-02-11 12:00: Environmental controls on mineral-associated permafrost organic carbon fate (Catherine Hirst, University of Durham)

2025-02-13 11:30: Effects triggered by singular solutions in the collapse of non-spherical bubbles (Daniel Fuster, Institut D'Alembert)

2025-02-17 13:00: Stratification and mixing regimes in the global coastal ocean: classifications and trends from models and observations (Jo Hopkins (NOC))

2025-02-18 12:00: Natural hazards in a warming world: landslides, volcanoes, and cryospheric hazards in the 21st century (Maximillian Van Wyk De Vries, University of Cambridge)

2025-02-20 11:30: Bubble growth in alkaline electrolysis (James Morris, IEEF)

2025-02-24 13:00: Human Judgement and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty (Helen Roberts (Met Office))

2025-02-25 12:00: Evolution and effects of ecosystem engineers through the Phanerozoic  (Alison Cribb, University of Southampton)

2025-02-27 11:30: Green Carbon for the Chemical Industry: Decoupling Polymers from Fossil Resources (Professor Matthew Davidson, Bath Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change)

2025-03-03 13:00: Intensified shelf break exchange through submarine canyons: upwelling, internal tides, and turbidity currents (Rob Hall (UEA))

2025-03-04 12:00: Isotopic composition of samples returned from the Ryugu and Bennu asteroids  - insights into the initial composition of the solar protoplanetary disk (Martin Bizarro, University of Copenhagen)

2025-03-06 11:30: Reactions in Porous Rocks (Sam Clarke, IEEF)

2025-03-10 13:00: Ice Shelves: Antarctica’s Gatekeepers (Becky Dell (Geography))

2025-03-11 12:00: From Sediment to Spodumene (Claire Bucholz, Caltech)

2025-03-13 11:30: CO2 savings from widespread deployment of Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (Matthew Jackson, Imperial College London)

2025-03-17 13:00: Volcanic fissure localisation and lava delta formation: Modelling of volcanic flows undergoing rheological evolution (Jesse Taylor-West (Bristol))

2025-03-18 12:00: Direct observations of sub-ice environments immediately after large calving event off George VI Ice Shelf, West Antarctica (Dr Sasha Montelli)

2025-03-20 11:30: Novel Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Production (James Fidler, IEEF and Chemistry)

2025-05-01 11:30: Interaction of Mechanical Ventilation and Natural Convection (Dan Toy, IEEF)

2025-05-13 12:00: Self-organisation in mafic cumulates: differential migration of immiscible silicate liquids in the crystal mush (Marian Holness, University of Cambridge)

2025-05-15 11:30: Vertical mixing and associated biogeochemical fluxes via radium isotopes (Tristan McKenzie, Uni of Gothenberg)

2025-05-20 12:00: Silica enrichment (and depletion) in the cratonic lithosphere (Emma Tomlinson, Trinity College Dublin)

2025-05-22 11:30: Nano in Precision Medicine: Applications in Early Cancer Detection and Drug Delivery (Prof Ljiljana Fruk ( Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology))

2025-05-27 12:00: The world’s least loved sedimentary structures: Sole marks as guides to flow dynamics, substrates, and the misidentification of life (Jeff Peakall, University of Leeds)

2025-05-29 11:30: James Sear - Plumes in Turbulence  Ross Shepherd — Efficiency of  CO2 storage in aquifers  (James Sear and Ross Shepherd, IEEF)

2025-06-03 12:00: How crustal exhumation rates determine the fate of porphyry copper deposits (Frances Cooper, University College London)

2025-06-05 11:30: Unveiling complex transport processes in a large deep lake: From coastal upwelling to higher-mode internal waves (Rafael Reiss (University of Cambridge))

2025-06-10 12:00: The early evolution of animal life and the generation of form (Frances Dunn, Oxford University Museum of Natural History & University of Oxford)

2025-06-12 11:30: Mixing and chemical transfers in particle clouds – implications following planetary impacts (Quentin Kriaa, Uni of Cambridge)

2025-07-03 11:30: Applying simple mathematical models in the mining and energy industries (Jason Furtney, Itasca International)

2025-09-30 12:00: Carbon Capture and Mineralization (Siggi Gislason, University of Iceland)

2025-10-02 11:30: Fracture Network Connectivity and Its Evolution (Weiwei Zhu, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

2025-10-09 11:30: The signature hidden in the deformation of a free surface (Mathieu Sellier (University of Canterbury, New Zealand))

2025-10-13 13:00: Predicting wind extremes in a warming climate: from general circulation to storm-resolving models via improved turbulence representation (Emanuele Silvio Gentile, University of Reading)

2025-10-14 12:00: Late Miocene Uplift of the Lesser Himalaya Recorded by Clumped Isotope Compositions of Detrital Carbonate (Dr Uri Ryb, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2025-10-16 11:30: A multilayer model for multiscale flows of thin (and not-so-thin) films (Stephane Popinet, Sorbonne University)

2025-10-20 13:00: Multihazard in a warming world: landslides, volcanoes and cryospheric hazards in the 21st century (Max Van Wyk de Vries, Department of Earth Sciences / Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-21 12:00: Cambridge Zero: maximising Cambridge’s contribution towards a zero-carbon world through research, education, policy & innovation (Dr Eric Mackie, Head of Research Engagement, Cambridge Zero)

2025-10-23 11:30: Modeling and simulation of salt caverns: from lab to field scale (Herminio Tasinafo Honorio, Delft University of Technology)

2025-10-27 13:00:  Climate Repair, Now or Never? (Shaun Fitzgerald, Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-28 12:00: Antarctic glacier geophysics - uncovering ice sheet evolution (Professor Martin Siegert, University of Exeter)

2025-10-28 17:00: SPECIAL PUBLIC SEMINAR - Challenges of Energy Transition (Dr Jon Salkeld)

2025-10-30 11:30: Particle-driven convection (Megan Davies Wykes (University of Cambridge))

2025-11-03 13:00: Horizontal and vertical transport in a large, deep lake: Coastal upwelling and higher- mode standing internal waves in Lake Geneva (Rafael Reiss, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-04 12:00: Mixing and melting: turbulence in the ice shelf/ocean boundary layer (Professor John Taylor, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-06 11:30: Beyond Industrial Carbonisation (Professor Joe Howe, University of Lincoln)

2025-11-10 12:00: Formation and importance of copper-gold-iron deposits in back-arc environments (Professor Adam Simon, University of Michigan)

2025-11-10 13:00: Sources, pathways and drivers of Sub-Antarctic Mode Water formation (Bieito Fernandez Castro, University of Southampton )

2025-11-11 12:00: Bridging the gap between isotope geochemistry and plant sciences (Dr Rebekah Moore, Imperial College London)

2025-11-13 11:30: Coupling rheology and segregation in granular flows (Nico Gray, University of Manchester)

2025-11-17 13:00: Dynamics of fire and ice: wildfire weather and ice-sediment interactions (Kasturi Shah, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-18 12:00: Decoding carbonate (bio)mineralisation using high-throughput mineralogy (Professor Julie Cosmidis, University of Oxford)

2025-11-20 11:30: Decoupling Strategies in Electrochemical Water Splitting (Mark Symes, University of Glasgow)

2025-11-24 17:00: Decoding Deep Time with author Laura Poppick (Laura Poppick)

2025-11-25 12:00: Insights into the drivers of Ediacaran-Cambrian phosphogenesis from phosphorites of the Khuvsgul Group, Mongolia (Dr Eliel Antilla, ETH Zurich)

2025-11-27 11:30: Developing high performance materials for hydrogen production (Professor Stephen Skinner, Imperial College London)

2025-12-01 13:00: Special event: Good COP, Bad COP: post-COP30 reflections (Prof Piers Forster, University of Leeds)

2025-12-02 12:00: Core–mantle isotopic fractionation in large terrestrial planets (Dr Edith Kubik, University College Dublin)

2026-01-22 11:30: Modelling Cr contamination and remediation in an Indian mining region; Sukinda Valley (Angus Fotherby, Cambridge)

2026-01-26 13:00: Overturning 'overturning paradigms': radiocarbon constraints on glacial-interglacial ocean circulation and CO2 change (Luke Skinner, Department of Plant Science, University of Cambridge)

2026-01-27 12:00: Birth, Life and Death of the early animals of the Ediacaran  (Dr Emily Mitchell (University of Cambridge))

2026-01-29 11:30: ENTRAINMENT ACROSS TURBULENT/TURBULENT INTERFACES: POINTS OF DISTINCTION FROM TURBULENT/NON-TURBULENT INTERFACES (Oliver Buxton, Imperial College London)

2026-02-02 13:00: Quantifying the human component of the Earth System (Eric Galbraith, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

2026-02-03 12:00: Does the Isua supracrustal belt preserve the oldest sedimentary rocks on Earth? (Dr Kristoffer Szilas (Natural History Museum Denmark))

2026-02-05 11:30: FEVER: Forecasting Eruptions at Volcanoes after Extended Repose (Dr Eric Newland, UCL)

2026-02-09 13:00: Atmospheric waves: gravity waves and their representation in climate models (Iman Toghraei, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2026-02-10 12:00: Assessing the role of the Gephyrocapsa complex during the Mid-Brunhes interval (Dr Alba Gonzalez-Lanchas (University of Oxford/University of Salamanca))

2026-02-12 11:30: A Stefan-Graetz problem in the kitchen: cleaning by convective dissolution (Ian Wilson (University of Cambridge))

2026-02-16 13:00: How much permafrost organic carbon will be released to the atmosphere by 2100? - some geochemical perspectives (Catherine Hirst, University of Durham)

2026-02-17 12:00: Iron rain and iron snow in planetary interiors: insights from fluids experiments (Dr Quentin Kriaa (University of Cambridge))

2026-02-23 13:00: Considerations and counterfactuals for carbon dioxide removal by enhanced rock weathering in agricultural lands (Tom Reershemius, Newcastle University )

2026-02-24 12:00: The journey of volcanic crystals: the time lords of eruptive history (Dr Chiara Maria Petrone (Natural History Museum London))

2026-02-24 12:00: Melting of unconstrained particles (Edoardo Bellincioni, University of Twente)

2026-02-26 11:30: Engineering the Vortex: Structural Innovations for Advanced Wind and Tidal Turbines (Yabin Liu, University of Cambridge)

2026-03-02 13:00: Establishment of Modern Atlantic Circulation linked to Weakening Iceland Scotland Overflow Water (David Thornally, UCL)

2026-03-03 12:00: Sulphur stories from the land, sulfur stories from the sea (Dr Guillaume Paris, University of Lorraine)

2026-03-05 11:30: Explosions and power generation at Lake Kivu, Rwanda (Andy Woods, IEEF)

2026-03-09 13:00: Antarctic ice-ocean interactions: lessons from paleo-records (Svetlana Radionovskaya, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2026-03-10 12:00: Making Sense of a Geological Dog's Dinner - Petrology and Petrogenesis of the Motzfeldt REE-Nb-Ta deposit, South Greenland (Professor Adrian Finch, University of St Andrews)

2026-03-12 11:30: See Below (Hainhan Li, IEEF and Ruiyang Wang, IEEF)

2026-03-16 13:00: Exploring Mechanistic Interactions that Shape the Biological Carbon Pump: Do We Know Enough to Predict Its Future? (Lavenia Ratnarajah, UCL)

2026-03-17 12:00: Large-eddy simulations of the ice-shelf-ocean boundary layer beneath basal terraces (Dr Bethan Wynne-Cattanach, University of Cambridge)

2026-03-19 11:30: Controls on Capillary Trapping of CO2  in an Anticline (Ross Shepherd (University of Cambridge))

2026-04-30 11:30: TBC (Prof. John R. Taylor (University of Cambridge))

2026-05-14 11:30: TBC (Quentin Kriaa, University of Cambridge)

2026-05-21 11:30: TBC (Rashma Rao, Imperial College London)