CSEDI: Development of a Cooperative Institute for Deep Earth Research

University Of California-Berkeley, Berkeley CA

Investigators

Abstract

The proposed scope of work for the next 4 years is focused primarily on better defining the role and organization of a future fully developed CIDER Institute (Cooperative Institute for Deep Earth Research) (see http://www.deep-earth.org/ for further details). Following on the successful CIDER summer program held at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, CA from July 13 to August 6, 2004, the institute will hold three CIDER summer programs, in 2006, 2007 and 2008 respectively. Each program will last 3 weeks and comprise overlapping "tutorial" and "research workshop" parts. The tutorial part will involve 30 graduate students and post-doc's, who will stay for the whole duration of the program, and 10 instructors, who may stay for 2 or 3 weeks. The research workshop part will also involve about 15 more senior participants. Each summer program will be organized around a specific interdisciplinary theme and will be held at or close to an academic institution. The 2006 program will be held at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) in Santa Barbara, CA, on the theme: "Constraints on the fluxes of mass, heat and chemicals in the mantle, with a particular focus on the upper mantle and transition zone". Location and themes for the subsequent two workshops will be determined in coordination with the CIDER Steering Committee.