From foundations to state-of-the-art in magma/mantle dynamics

Workshop theme

This first workshop sets the scene for the rest of the four-month "Melt in the Mantle" programme. The workshop will review what we think we understand about mantle melting and melt transport, and what the big open questions are that remain. The workshop will bring together a diverse range of participants, including applied mathematicians, fluid dynamicists, petrologists, and geodynamicists, as well as other workers in related fields. It is only through such a broad interdisciplinary effort that progress will be made.

A large part of this workshop will be devoted to using ideas from continuum mechanics to understand melt segregation in the mantle. In particular, existing two-phase flow theories will be discussed, and their shortcomings exposed. The workshop will explore the connections between theories of two phase flow used in magma dynamics, and those in other fields (e.g. glaciology). Problems of mantle melting are intimately tied up with the dynamics of the mantle as a whole, and the workshop will contain a review of the relevant aspects of global mantle convection, and in particular the convective features that are associated with melting, such as mantle plumes and subduction zones. The workshop will survey the current state-of-the-art in mathematical methods for magma and mantle dynamics, with a review of both analytical and numerical approaches.

Understanding how much melt is produced in any given tectonic setting is fundamentally a question of thermodynamics, and the workshop will examine the challenges associated with describing the thermodynamics of multi-phase multi-component partially-molten rock. Observational constraints on mantle melting come from the petrology and geochemistry of rocks at the surface, and these observations will be carefully interrogated.

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Timetable

Monday 15th February 2016
09:00 to 09:50	Registration	No Room Required
09:50 to 10:00	Welcome from John Toland (INI Director)	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Dan McKenzie University of Cambridge Melt generation and extraction from the Mantle	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Paul Asimow CALTECH (California Institute of Technology) Mantle Melting: the achievements, promise, and limits of thermodynamics	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch @ Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:30 to 15:30	John MacLennan University of Cambridge Observational constraints on mantle melt transport	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Neil Ribe CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paris Saclay Rothschild Lecture: The Hawaiian Plume: What do Surface Observables Tell Us?	Room 1
17:00 to 18:00	Welcome Wine Reception	No Room Required

Tuesday 16th February 2016
09:00 to 10:00	John Rudge University of Cambridge An overview of the two-phase-flow equations for magma dynamics	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Marc Spiegelman The classics: Understanding the basic behavior of the "McKenzie" Equations	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Saswata Hier-Majumder Royal Holloway, University of London Partial Melting Above the Mantle Transition Zone	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch @ Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:30 to 15:30	Ian Hewitt Two-phase-flow dynamics in ice sheets	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	S. Majid Hassanizadeh Universiteit Utrecht Advanced theories of two-phase flow in deformable porous media, including fluid-fluid interfaces	Room 1

Wednesday 17th February 2016
09:00 to 10:00	David Bercovici Yale University Interface effects in two-phase phase physics	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Viktoriya Yarushina (De)compaction waves in porous viscoelastoplastic media and focused fluid flow	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Peter Driscoll Influence of mantle melting on cooling and volatile cycling	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch @ Wolfson Court	No Room Required
19:30 to 22:00	Formal dinner at Emmanuel College	No Room Required

Thursday 18th February 2016
09:00 to 10:00	Anne Davaille CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paris Saclay Thermal convection in an heterogeneous mantle: plumes, piles, domes, and LLSVPs.	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Andrea Tommasi CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université de Montpellier Feedbacks between deformation and melts in the upper mantle	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Christopher MacMinn University of Oxford Large deformations in soft porous materials: Squishing, swelling, and yielding	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch @ Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:30 to 15:30	Christian Huber Multiphase transport, flirting with the limits of continuum models	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Joe Dufek Georgia Institute of Technology Multiphase Flow in Crustal Magmatic Processes	Room 1

Friday 19th February 2016
09:00 to 10:00	Marc Hesse University of Texas at Austin Pore-scale controls on core formation in planetesimals	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Richard Katz University of Oxford Treatment of energy and composition in models of magma/mantle dynamics and implications for reactive flow	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Dave May ETH Zürich Geodynamics and Two-Phase Flow: A Computational Perspective	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch @ Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:30 to 15:30	Matthew Knepley Rice University Computational Considerations for Magma Dynamics Simulation	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Closing Remarks by Organisers	Room 1

From foundations to state-of-the-art in magma/mantle dynamics

Organisers

David Bercovici Yale University
John Rudge University of Cambridge

Speakers

Paul Asimow CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)
David Bercovici Yale University
Anne Davaille CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paris Saclay
Peter Driscoll
Joe Dufek Georgia Institute of Technology
S. Majid Hassanizadeh Universiteit Utrecht
Marc Hesse University of Texas at Austin
Ian Hewitt
Saswata Hier-Majumder Royal Holloway, University of London
Christian Huber
Richard Katz University of Oxford
Matthew Knepley Rice University
John MacLennan University of Cambridge
Christopher MacMinn University of Oxford
Dave May ETH Zürich
Dan McKenzie University of Cambridge
Neil Ribe CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paris Saclay
John Rudge University of Cambridge
Marc Spiegelman
Andrea Tommasi CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université de Montpellier
Viktoriya Yarushina

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Participants

David Al-Attar University of Cambridge
Todd Arbogast University of Texas at Austin
Paul Asimow CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)
Jonathan Burley University of Oxford
Peter Driscoll
Joe Dufek Georgia Institute of Technology
Isarapong Eksinchol University of Cambridge
Owen Evans Columbia University
Lars Hansen University of Oxford
S. Majid Hassanizadeh Universiteit Utrecht
Marc Hesse University of Texas at Austin
Ian Hewitt
Saswata Hier-Majumder Royal Holloway, University of London
Christian Huber
Herbert Huppert University of Cambridge
Akif Ibragimov Texas Tech University
Richard Katz University of Oxford
Boris Kaus Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; University of Southern California
Tobias Keller University of Oxford
Matthew Knepley Rice University
Takehiro Koyaguchi University of Tokyo
John Lister University of Cambridge
Gang Lu Universitetet i Bergen
John MacLennan University of Cambridge
Christopher MacMinn University of Oxford
Ana Maria Mancho Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (CSIC); Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas
Simon Matthews University of Cambridge
Dan McKenzie University of Cambridge
Jerome Neufeld University of Cambridge
Beñat Oliveira Macquarie University
David Rees Jones University of Oxford
Neil Ribe CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paris Saclay
Guillaume Richard Université d'Orléans
John Rudge University of Cambridge
Oliver Shorttle University of Cambridge
Shi Sim University of California, San Diego
Marc Spiegelman
Dave Stegman University of California, San Diego
Yasuko Takei University of Tokyo
Hongliang Wang Universitetet i Bergen
Garth Wells University of Cambridge
Andrew Wells University of Oxford
Viktoriya Yarushina
Son-Young Yi