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Origin of the moon – challenges and prospects

Satellite meeting organised by Professor David Stevenson FRS and Professor Alex Halliday FRS

  • 25 - 26 September 2013, 09:00 - 17:00
Add to Calendar 09/25/13 09:00 AM 09/26/13 05:00 PM United Kingdom (GMT) Origin of the moon – challenges and prospects <p>Satellite meeting organised by Professor David Stevenson FRS and Professor Alex Halliday FRS</p> Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, MK16 9JJ
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Satellite meeting organised by Professor David Stevenson FRS and Professor Alex Halliday FRS

Event details

Our understanding of the origin of Earth’s moon is challenged by recent isotopic data, simulations of physical processes for giant impacts and evolution of the resulting disk, and new spacecraft studies. This meeting follows on from a Royal Society meeting in London on the same topic by focusing on the unsolved problems and assessing the prospects for future directions of research.

Poster session

A poster session was held throughout this meeting alongside the schedule of presentations and discussion.  

Confirmed Speakers and Chairs

Professor Francis Albarede, Dr Mahesh Anand, Dr James Day, Professor Hidenori Genda, Dr William Hartmann, Dr Martin Jutzi, Professor Bernard Marty,  Kaveh Pahlevan, Professor David Rubie, Dr Julien Salmon, Professor Richard J Walker, Dr Mark Wieczorek and Professor Jack Wisdom.

Programme available here

Organisers

Professor David Stevenson FRS, Caltech, USA

Professor David Stevenson FRS, Caltech, USA

David Stevenson is the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science at the California Institute of Technology and is an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. A native of New Zealand, his early work was in the condensed matter physics of planetary interiors, especially giant planets, but his wide ranging career has included contributions to the interpretation of planetary magnetic fields, the formation of planetary cores, melt migration, the origin of the Moon and numerous aspects of planetary and satellite formation, evolution and structure. He was involved in the Cassini mission and is a Co-Investigator and group leader in the Juno mission, currently in orbit at Jupiter. Awards include Fellowship in the Royal Society (London), membership of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), the Urey Prize (American Astronomical Society) and Hess Medal (American Geophysical Union).

Professor Alex Halliday FRS, Vice President (Physical Secretary), the Royal Society

Professor Alex Halliday FRS, Vice President (Physical Secretary), the Royal Society

Professor Alex Halliday has been Head of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division at Oxford University since October 2007.

Before coming to Oxford, he spent twelve years as a professor at the University of Michigan and then six years in Switzerland, where he was Head of the Department of Earth Sciences at the ETH in Zürich. In 2004 he took up the Chair of Geochemistry at Oxford, where his research involves the use of isotopic methods to study Earth and planetary processes.

Professor Halliday is a former President of the Geochemical Society and of the European Association for Geochemistry. He has experience with a range of top science boards and advisory panels including those of the Natural Environment Research Council, the Natural History Museum London, the Max Planck Society, the Royal Society and the American Geophysical Union.

An enthusiast for technological innovation, most of Professor Halliday's recent research is in developing and using new mass spectrometry techniques to shed light on the origin and early development of the solar system and recent earth processes, such as continental erosion and climate. However, he has also been engaged in other studies, such as the mechanisms of volcanic eruptions, and the formation of mineral and hydrocarbon deposits.

Professor Halliday's scientific accomplishments have been recognised with awards including the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society, the Bowen Award of the American Geophysical Union and the Urey Medal of the European Association of Geochemistry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2000.

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