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2008.6.03 Perspective of 2004-2008, COE21 "How to Build Habitable Planets?"
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Date: 27 September - 8 October, 2008
Place: National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
         (Kagaku Miraikan), Odaiba,Tokyo, Japan

COE21 "How to build Habitable Planets?" will hold a series of international symposia and outreach programs for the summary and development of our researches from 2004 to 2008. The symposiums will be held from 27th, Sept. to 8th, Oct., 2008 at National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Odaiba, Tokyo.
A tentative schedule is as follows.

27th, Sept. 2008: Outreach program (1)

28th, Sept.: Registration, Symposium: Research Perspective of COE21 "How to Build Habitable Planets?" (Multidisciplinary Researches on Habitable Planet), and Icebreaker

29th Sept. to 3rd, Oct.: International symposium of "From Genome to Snowball Earth, MetazoanEvolution and Habitable Planets:Multidisciplinary Relations"

4th, Oct.: Outreach program (2), Registration and icebreaker for ISI2008

5th to 8th, Oct., 2008: 4th International Symposium on Isotopomers (ISI 2008)

2007.8.11 COE International Lecture 2  by Prof. George Helffrich
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University of Bristol
"Thermodynamic controls on seismic discontinuities in the mantle and core"

404 Lecture Hall of Ishikawadai Building No.6 Ookayama Campus,
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Sep. 26th  Tuesday       10:00-12:00    14:00-16:00
Sep. 27th  Wednesday   10:00-12:00    14:00-16:00

Subjects:
1) Seismological generalities
    Whole-earth velocity structure
    Wavelength, velocity, frequency
    Discontinuities - the lambda/4 and lambda/2 rules
    Fresnel zones
    Slowness    
    Ray geometries and the connection to slowness
2) Liquid generalities
    Equation of state
    Attenuation
    Contrasts in seismic wave propagation in liquids and solids
    Liquid metals       
      - Immiscibility and its basis
      - Wiedemann-Franz relationship
3) Brief introduction to the core
    Seismological structure
      - outer core
      - inner core
    Thermal structure
    Convective structure
    Internal energy sources
4) Seismological applications:  Core
    Possibility of layering in the outer core
    Liquid immiscibility
    Availability of data
    Calculating liquid immiscibility regions
    Constraints on core composition
    Core chemical evolution models

Participants:
Fill out the following information and send it to "coe21@geo.titech.ac.jp"
by 20 September 2006.
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Name:
Affiliations:
Mail address:
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2006.2.13 21COE Internatinal Workshop "Earth's Core Formation"
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404 Lecture Hall of Ishikawadai Building No.6 Ookayama Campus,
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Feb. 28th Tuesday  9:00-14:00
(TPF Workshop by Prof. Ida will be held at 15:00-17:00 at the same Room)

Guest speaker:
Bernard J. Wood (Macquarie University), Yutaka Abe (The University of Tokyo), Toshimori Sekine (National Inst Material Sci. Tsukuba), Katsuhiko Suzuki  (JAMSTEC).

Program: crick here
Participants: No registration necessary


2006.1.27 COE International Lecture Course by Prof. BERNARD J. WOOD
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Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Macquarie University, Australia
"Geochemistry and origin of the Earth's core"

404 Lecture Hall of Ishikawadai Building No.6 Ookayama Campus,
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Feb. 20th Monday     10:00-12:00    14:00-16:00
Feb. 21st Tuesday    10:00-12:00    14:00-16:00

Main subjects:
1) Theory of crystal-melt partitioning of trace elements.
2) Defects and trace element partitioning in perovskites
3) Core formation and the Oxidation State of the Earth.

Participants:
Fill out the following information and send it to "coe21@geo.titech.ac.jp"
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Name:
Affiliations:
Mail address:
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2005.11.1 Photographs in "POST-PEROVSKITE: International Workshop in Tokyo"

2005.5.20 Photographs in "Early Earth Symposium: Discussion Meeting in Makuhari"