Last Mineralogy Lecture Series – Wednesday, 31st October

Our last speaker this series will be Dr. Matthew B. Weller. Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas, Austin. The title of his talk is: “Cracking up: a geodynamics prospective on the deep interior, tectonic state, and planetary evolution over time.” Read the abstract here: The Current State of the Earth The talk will […]


Penultimate Mineralogy Lecture Series – Wednesday, 17th October

Our speaker this week is Miki Nakijima, Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester. The title of her talk is “The cosmochemist’s guide to First Man.” Here is the abstract: The Moon The talk will be in Olin 247 at 4:30 PM, with questions and answers to follow at 5:30 PM


Johns Hopkins Alumni Lecture and Presentation Today featuring Donald A. Swanson, PhD ’64

Dr. Swanson’s talk will be followed by the presentation of the 2018 Johns Hopkins Distinguished Alumni Award. In his own words “I am a volcanologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and have studied active volcanoes for much of my career. My talk today will briefly describe two eruptions that involved volcanoes becoming severely disrupted by […]


Seventh Mineralogy Lecture Series – Wednesday, 10th October

Our speaker this week will be Jenna Frye, HEMI Artist-in Residence. As she always says, she makes stuff, and talks about teaching and making stuff. The picture above of the elephants playing with a toy, is her work. She is Assistant Department Chair at Maryland Institute College of Art and her talk will be entitled […]


Special Mineralogy Lecture: Tuesday, 2nd October

We have a special guest speaker today, Dr. Sally June Tracy, Post Doctoral Researcher at Princeton.  Her talk is entitled – “Structural changes in germanate analogues of Bridgmanite with Synchrotron Moessbauer Spectroscopy.” The Mineralogy Lecture Series, or MLS for short, will have the following format: Room: Olin 247 4-4:30 PM Pre-lecture discussion led by Prof. June […]


Fifth Mineralogy Lecture Series Talk – Wednesday, 3rd October

Our next guest lecturer is Dr. Curtis Williams, Postdoctoral Fellow from the University of California, Davis. Here’s the title of the talk – “Origin of Volatiles in Earth’s Mantle.” and the abstract is as follows: CW_MLS The Mineralogy Lecture Series, or MLS for short, will have the following format: 4-4:30 PM Pre-lecture discussion led by […]


Mineralogy Lecture: Wednesday, September 26th

Our guest lecturer this week is Dr. Ray Smith of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). In 2001, he joined LLNL as a postdoctoral researcher, were he worked on the development of X-ray lasers for applications on the COMET laser facility. In 2002, he joined Equation of State (EOS) group were he is currently developing […]


Sonia Tikoo – Mineralogy Lecture Series: 19th September

The speaker is Sonia Tikoo, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rutgers. Her talk is entitled “Paleomagnetic insights into the formation and evolution of solar system bodies.” Read the abstract here:Abstract


September 11, 2018

September 11, 2018 A great visit today from IMERYS, and lunch with our newest post-doc candidate, Riccardo Bolis, who will deliver tomorrow’s Mineralogy Lecture.


Next Mineralogy Lecture on 12th September

Our speaker will be Dr. Riccardo Bolis, Postdoctoral Researcher, CRNS, PIMM Laboratory, ENSAM, Paris, and his talk is entitled “Laser shock compression studies of MgO-SiO2 systems at high pressures.” Olin Hall 247 at 4:30 PM. Read the full abstract here: