For location of places mentioned see maps.

Tuesday 2nd June arrival

19:00: Please join us for a pint at the Den Bar (27-29 Pembroke Road), from 7 p.m. onwards (but not very late). They serve simple food before ~9 p.m.
The back-up option will be William Searson's Pub (42-44 Upper Baggot Street).

Wednesday 3rd June am - Introduction and Setting the Scene

9:00 Welcome to DIAS
9:15 A. Jones Introduction/logistics/outline
09:30 C. Doukas (ESF/LESC) ESF & LESC
09:45 A. Jones Why we are here - objectives of the DefLAB workshop
10:00 D. Eaton The continental LAB: An overview
10:40 Coffee break
11:10 R. Evans Structure of the oceanic mantle: Geophysical constraints on lithosphere evolution
11:40 C. Rychert Review of seismological methods - 1
12:10 S. Fishwick Review of seismological methods - 2
12:40 Discussion
13:00 Lunch

Wednesday 3rd June pm - Seismology

14:00 R. Kind Studies of lithospheric plates with S receiver functions
14:15 T. Meier Constraints on the LAB depth and sharpness from measurements of Rayleigh wave dispersion curves
14:30 J. Ritter The lithosphere-astenosphere boundary underneath Ireland: Data - interpretation - unknowns
14:45 J. Plomerova LAB as boundary between fossil and present-day mantle seismic anisotropy
15:00 M. Grad European plate crust and new digital Moho depth map
15:15 E. Roux Joint inversion of magnetotelluric and surface wave data in an anisotropic earth
15:30 Coffee break and poster viewing
16:00 5-minute presentations and discussion
17:00 Poster viewing with wine & cheese

Evening: Explore Dublin
Some of us may meet in Toners, a traditional old pub at 139 Lower Baggot Street. One option for dinner would then be Tulsi (17a Lower Baggot Street), an Indian restaurant across the street (and then a bit to the right) from Toners.

Thursday 4th of June am - Other geophysics and geodynamics

9:00 I. Artemevia Defining the lithospheric base: semantics versus physics
09:30 M. Pérez-Gussinyé Effective elastic thickness of continents and its relationship to other proxies for lithospheric structure and surface tectonics
09:45 M. Scheck-Wenderoth Looking at the LAB from above - what can we learn from 3D lithosphere-scale models of sedimentary basins?
10:00 A. Jones The eLAB
10:15 5-minute presentations and discussion
10:30 Coffee break and poster viewing
11:00 E. Burov Mantle-lithosphere interaction models: recent achievements and new links to geophysical data
11:30 I. Jiménez-Munt Lithospheric-mantle thinning beneath the Alpine-Himalayan Belt. Influence of mantle dynamics on tectonic evolution from geodynamic modelling
11:45 G. Houseman Lithospheric dynamics
12:00 5-minute presentations and discussion
13:00 Lunch

Thursday 4th of June pm - Petrology/Mineralogy/Geochemistry

14:00 D. Mainprice Lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) as mechanical boundary layer based on mineral and rock physics
14:30 M. Grégoire The nature and evolution of the lithospheric mantle seen by a petrologist
14:45 L. Viereck-Götte Petrological constraints on the LAB topography from Central European Cenozoic Volcanic Fields
15:00 M. Abratis Petrology, age and textural anisotropy of lithospheric mantle xenoliths of the Central European Cenozoic Igneous Province (CECIP)
15:15 N. Wittig The influence of LAB topography on the evolution of sub-continental lithospheric mantle in the French Massif Central
15:30 Coffee Break and poster viewing
16:00 5-minute presentations and discussion
16:30 Poster viewing with wine & cheese
17:15 Special Event

Friday 5th of June am - Defining the problem(s)

9:00 Break into 3-4 groups
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Reporter reports and discussion
13:00 Lunch

Friday 5th of June pm - Identifying solutions to the problem(s)

14:00 Break into 3-4 groups
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Reporter reports and discussion
17:00 Final Plenary and discussion on follow-up activities/networking/collaboration
18:00 End
20:00 Workshop Dinner. Unicorn Restaurant, 12B Merrion Court off Merrion Row, Dublin 2


Five-minute presentations and posters

M. Abratis, L. Viereck-Götte, Th. Meier.
Rifting of buckled European lithosphere in combination with lithosphere-penetrating lineaments determines the composition of mafic igneous rocks in the northern CECIP
Nick Arndt.
Formation of cratonic lithospheric mantle
S. Bartzsch, S. Lebedev, T. Meier.
Resolving the LAB with surface-wave inversion
J. Fullea, J.C. Afonso , J.A.D. Connolly, M. Fernàndez, D. García-Castellanos.
Characterizing the lithospheric-sublithospheric upper mantle system: its thermal, compositional, seismological, and rheological structure in 3D
Alan Jones, Jarka Plomerova, Toivo Korja.
Comparison of the eLAB and sLAB for Europe
Hanneke Paulssen.
Joint inversion of lithosphere and asthenosphere using body and surface waves
Hanneke Paulssen, Xiaomei Zhang, Sergei Lebedev, Thomas Meier.
Structure of the lithospere and asthenosphere beneath the Gulf of California

Jan Vozar.
Electromagnetic investigations of the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary in Central Europe


DIAS, School of Cosmic Physics, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2