2013 COMPRES Annual Meeting General Information

The Abbey Resort Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

June 17, 2013 to June 20, 2013

The Abbey Resort
269 Fontana Blvd
Fontana-On-Geneva Lake , WI 53125
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Abbey Resort

Short Schedule: 

  • Monday , June 17: Arrival (on-site registration starts at 4 PM) and reception (6:00PM) plus dinner. No formal sessions.
  • Tuesday, June 18: Formal sessions with Keynotes in morning and afternoon. Poster session late afternoon.
  • Wednesday, June 19: Formal sessions in morning and afternoon.
  • Thursday, June 20: Formal sessions in the morning.

Keynote Speakers: 

  • Elizabeth Cottrell - Smithsonian Institution - "Mantle Redox Heterogeneity"
  • Uli Faul - Boston University - "Physical mechanisms of transient viscoelastic behavior of polycrystalline olivine"
  • John Tarduno - University of Rochester - "The oldest geodynamo and shielding from the solar wind"
  • Sujoy Mukhopadhyay - Harvard University - "Probing the Hadean world with noble gases"
  • Vedran Lekic - University of Maryland - "Emerging consensus on large scale shear wave speed structure in the mantle"
  • Renata Wentzcovitch - University 0f Minnesota - "Recent progress in theory of Earth and planetary materials"

Poster and Abstract Information: 

Recommended Poster Size 4' H x 4' W - to be mounted on tri-fold poster boards. See the Abstracts page for further information, to submit an Abstract , or contact Chong-Hwey Fee , fee@illinois.edu or Steve Hurst , shurst@illinois.edu