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Doctoral Defense: Brandon Shuck
Start:July 1, 2021 at 9:00 am
End:
July 1, 2021 at 11:00 am
Location:
JGB 4.102
Please join the Jackson School of Geosciences for the final doctoral examination for BRANDON SHUCK on JULY 1, 2021; 9:00AM; JGB 4.102 (Barrow Family Conference Room) and via Zoom (see below).
The PhD project “Mechanisms Of Lithospheric Failure During Late Continental Rifting And Early Subduction” was supervised by Dr. Harm van Avendonk and Dr. Sean Gulick.
Committee members include: Donna Shillington, Nathan L Bangs, Thorsten Becker and Luc L Lavier
Zoom link: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/4732830175
Doctoral Defense: Evan Ramos
Start:July 1, 2021 at 10:00 am
End:
July 1, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Location:
JGB3.222
Please join the Jackson School of Geosciences for the final doctoral examination for EVAN RAMOS has been scheduled for JULY 1, 2021; 10:00AM; JGB3.222 and Zoom (see below).
The PhD project “Toward A Mechanistic Understanding Of Silicate Weathering And Li Transfer Across Landscapes, Past And Present” was supervised by Dr. Jaime Barnes and Dr. Dan Breecker.
Committee members include: Brady Foreman, Joel P Johnson and Daniella M Rempe
Zoom link: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/95141295703
Doctoral Defense: Wen-Ying Wu
Start:July 21, 2021 at 9:00 am
End:
July 21, 2021 at 11:00 am
Please join the Jackson School of Geosciences for the final doctoral examination for WEN-YING WU has been scheduled for JULY 21, 2021; 9:00AM; JGB3.222 and Zoom (see below).
The PhD project “Advancing the Application of Remote Sensing to Improve Land ?Surface Modeling” was supervised by Dr. Zong-Liang Yang.
Committee members include: Bridget R Scanlon, Bayani Cardenas and Daniella M Rempe
Doctoral Defense: Natasha Sekhon
Start:July 23, 2021 at 10:30 am
End:
July 23, 2021 at 12:30 pm
The final doctoral examination for NATASHA SEKHON has been scheduled for JULY 23, 2021; 10:30AM; Zoom (see below).
The PhD project “A monitoring and 20th stalagmite study from a shallow cave in New Mexico elucidating climate controls on geochemical variability with insight into stalagmite suitability for paleoclimate reconstructions ” was supervised by Dr. Jay Banner and Dr. Dan Breecker.
Committee members include: Bryan Black, Yuko M Okumura, Timothy M Shanhan
Zoom link: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/91054608576
The defense is open to all members of the University community and the public.
Hot Science At Home "To Err is Human"
Start:July 23, 2021 at 7:00 pm
End:
July 23, 2021 at 7:40 pm
Location:
Online (YouTube and Facebook)
Contact:
Didey Montoya, didey@austin.utexas.edu, 5124714211
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Much of what we experience in our lives each day is entirely forgotten. So what leads our brains to store experiences in memory that help us navigate the world? Perhaps the most important signal is mistake-making. Formal schooling unfortunately conveys the message that becoming more skillful means making fewer mistakes, which is demonstrably untrue. Come and learn how mistakes lead to advantageous changes to our memories and are the key to learning.
Professor Bob Duke is a former studio musician and public school music teacher whose research at UT focuses on human learning and behavior. Along with Art Markman, he co-hosts the NPR program and podcast Two Guys on Your Head, produced by KUT Radio in Austin.
Time: 7:00 – 7:40 p.m.
The event will be streamed live through our Facebook and YouTube channels and will include a Q&A session. Additional information is available at www.hotsciencecooltalks.org.
DeFord Lecture | Emily BrodskySeptember, 24 2026Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMLocation: JGB 2.324 How Earthquakes Organize Stress by Emily Brodsky, professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz Abstract: Stress is not uniform in the Earth. Therefore, we must use natural experiments to measure the distribution of stresses and related quantities, rather than single values. For instance, dynamic triggering shows that faults are uniformly distributed over their loading cycles in Southern California. The probability that a fault ruptures across a barrier measures the in situ energy distribution. Fault roughness reflects the distribution of strength. These natural experiments produce observable distributions that are surprisingly consistent and suggest some degree of self-organization in the Earth’s crust. Once established, the functional form of the distributions can be used to track changes in response to earthquakes as well as to distinguish fundamentally different fault systems. Transient fault locking before stress release in laboratory experiments can be interpreted as a consequence of self-organization of fault stress. The robust self-organization of multiple variables in earthquake systems suggests that the most consequential mechanical outcome of earthquakes may be the redistribution of stress and the strain energy associated with it. The low friction on a fault during seismic slip as inferred by temperature measurements of the Tohoku earthquake is consistent with dissipation playing a secondary role to this redistribution process. Through stress redistribution and interaction, subduction zone faults tend to synchronize, perhaps due to their geometric simplicity, while the continental system of Southern California cannot synchronize, perhaps due to the complexity of the fault network. Earthquakes organize stress in the crust and produce a suite of well-defined, consistent distributions. |
DeFord Lecture | Courtney SchumacherOctober, 01 2026Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMLocation: JGB 2.324 How Stratiform Rain Shapes Weather, Climate, and the Geological Record by Courtney Schumacher, professor at Texas A&M University |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesOctober, 02 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG Bldg 130, VR Room 1.116C BEG Seminar presented by Chas Bolton, UTIG, in person. Topic: TBD |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesOctober, 09 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/93201377630?pwd=KzF3TW53SFYzSUg4SUZVNGtxd3JvZ BEG Seminar presented by Bruce Hart, Western University, virtual Topic: TBD |
DeFord Lecture | Ching-Yao LaiOctober, 15 2026Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMLocation: JGB 2.324 |
AI and Your Best SelfOctober, 16 2026Time: 5:30 AM - 8:15 AMLocation: Welch Grand Hallway and 2.224 Auditorium Artificial intelligence is breaking free of chatbots and computer screens and moving into the physical world around us. Next-generation AI systems are learning to see, understand, and act in the world the way a person would. In this Hot Science - Cool Talks, pioneer Dr. Kristen Grauman will explore how these systems will one day coach you through a new skill, guide you through an unfamiliar place, or help with everyday tasks by watching and offering real-time feedback, making personalized learning more accessible. Join us for a look at a future where AI is a part of your environment, helping everyone learn, discover, and navigate the world more easily. |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesOctober, 16 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG Bldg 130, VR Room 1.116C BEG Seminar presented by Ruthie Halberstadt, JSG, in person. Topic: TBD |