Structure, composition and dynamics of the earth’s core

Introduction Barbara Romanowicz, Collège de France

• Annie Souriau, Observatoire Midi-Pyrenées (Toulouse)
  Hemispherical properties of the inner core and the implications for a possible growing mechanism

• Jessica Irving, (Cambridge)
  Degree 1 structure in the inner core from normal mode and body wave data

• Coffee Break

• Daniele Antonangeli, IPG (Paris)
  Composition of the Earth's inner core from sound velocity measurements on iron and iron alloys

• Lidunka Vocadlo, UCL
  Ab initio calculations on iron and iron alloys at Earth's core conditions

• Lunch

• Bernard Bourdon, ENS (Lyon)
  Geochemical constraints on the core formation and composition

• Michael Walter, (Bristol)
  Constraining the light elements in Earth's outer core from observation, experiment and theory

• Coffee Break

• Julien Aubert, IPG (Paris)
  Imaging the internal dynamical structure of Earth's core

• Philippe Cardin, ISTerre (Grenoble) - co authors: R. Deguen, S. Merkel, A. Lincot
  Seismic anisotropy of the inner core deduced from geodynamical and mineralogical models

• Panel Discussion - discussion leaders: Gauthier HULOT, IPG (Paris) & Razvan CARACAS, ENS (Lyon), Guillaume FIQUET & Alexandre FOURNIER
  

• Session poster from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.  Salle 4