Program

9th ALPINE Workshop

Cogne
16th -18th September, 2009

Monday, the 14th -Tuesday, the 15th: Pre-conference field trip to the Sesia Zone (M. Handy, M. Konrad-Schmolke) leaves Cogne in the early morning and arrives back in the late afternoon

Tuesday evening, the 15th: Registration and Apéritif

Wednesday, the 16th

• Deep structure –Transitions in time and space between Alpine orogens
• Invited speaker: Clark Burchfiel (MIT)

• Plate motion, seismicity and neotectonics – How compatible are they?
• Invited speaker: Christian Sue (Univ. Brest)

Thursday, the 17th

• Modeling Alpine orogens – From plate kinematics to dynamics
• Invited speaker: Jean Braun (Univ. Rennes)

• The role of climate in the Alpine evolution – From facts to ideas and back
• Invited speaker: Volker Mosbrugger (Senkenberg Museum/Frankfurt)

• Metamorphic structure of the Alps – What parts of the Alpine history does it preserve?
• Invited speaker: Romain Bousquet (Potsdam)

Friday, the 18th

• Timing and rates of Alpine processes
• Invited speakers: Martin Engi (Bern) / Friedhelm von Blankenburg (Berlin-Potsdam)

• Sedimentary basins in the Alps as archives for climatic and tectonic events
• Invited speakers: Fritz Schlunegger (Bern) / Mary Ford (Nancy)

Friday, the 18th - Saturday, the 19th: Post-conference field trip to the Gran Paradiso nappe (M. Ballêvre) leaves Cogne in the early afternoon