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Monday June 25, 2018

9:00 - 9:15               Welcome

9:15 - 10:00            Xavier Le Pichon (Collège de France), "Afterthoughts of a witness: comparing the Plate Tectonic revolution to the sudden freezing of supercooled lake Ladoga in "Kaputt" of Curzio Malaparte"

10:00 - 10:30          Jason Morgan (Princeton University, USA), "My perspective on the origin of plate tectonics, and how space geodesy is changing it today"

10:30 - 11:00          Dan McKenzie (Cambridge University, UK), "The thermal structure of the oceanic lithosphere"

11:00 - 11:30          Coffee break

11:30 - 12:00          Walter Roest (Ifremer, France), "CNEXO and Ifremer: over fifty years of worldwide marine scientific research and exploration of the French EEZ"

12:00 - 12:30          Francis Albarède (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France), "Where did geochemists hide during the plate tectonics revolution?"

12:30 - 14:00          Lunch break, luncheon sponsored by Total

14:00 - 14:30          Laurent Jolivet (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France), "From mantle flow to crustal deformation, a geological perspective"

14:30 - 15:00          Richard Gordon (Rice University, USA), "The Plate Tectonic Approximation, Space Geodesy, Cenozoic True Polar Wander, and the Origin of the Hawaiian-Emperor Bend"

15:00 - 15:30          Coffee break         

15:30 - 16:00          Roland Bürgmann (University of California Berkeley, USA), "Probing the Rheology of the Asthenosphere"

16:00 - 16:30          Peter Molnar (University of Colorado, USA), "Mantle earthquakes: keys to mantle dynamics and the strength of the lithosphere"

16:30 - 17:00          Eric Calais (Ecole Normale Supérieure, France), "Large earthquakes in stable plate interiors: a challenge to plate tectonics"

17:00 - 19:00          Poster session

Tuesday June 26, 2018

9:00 - 9:30               Luce Fleitout (CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France), "Intraplate deformation: short versus long time-scales"

9:30 - 10:00            Cesar Ranero (ICREA at CSIC, Barcelona, Spain), "Illuminating subduction systems: 50 years of limited geophysical success —  what to do with so many remaining challenges?"

10:00 - 10:30          Jean-Philippe Avouac (California Institute of Technology, USA), "Megathrust earthquakes: How large? How destructive? How often?"

10:30 - 11:00          Coffee break         

11:00 - 11:30          Mathilde Cannat (Institut de Physique du Globe, France), "Current understanding of plate divergence processes at mid-oceanic ridges"

11:30 - 12:00          Roger Buck (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, USA), "The role of magma in continental breakup and seafloor spreading"

12:00 - 12:30          Dietmar Müller (University of Sydney, Australia), "How plate tectonics drives the geological carbon cycle"

12:30 - 14:00          Lunch break

14:00 - 14:30          Gilles Ramstein (CNRS, LSCE, France), "Plate tectonics and climate: what's new since Wegener and Koppen?"

14:30 - 15:00          Barbara Romanowicz (Collège de France), "Mantle plumes as presently imaged by global seismic tomography"

15:00 - 15:30          Coffee break         

15:30 - 16:00          Anne Davaille (CNRS, Universté Paris-Sud, France), "Structure of mantle convection: plumes and plates"

16:00 - 16:30          David Bercovici (Yale University, USA), "Generation of plate tectonics from grain to global scale"

16:30 - 17:00          Nicolas Coltice (Ecole Normale Supérieure, France), "Will plate tectonics still be our paradigm in 50 years?"

17:00 - 18:00          Panel Discussion

18:00 - 19:00          Closing cocktail

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