PLENARY SPEAKERS

It is an honor and a pleasure for us to host such distinguished lecturers during EMC2021:

Monday, 30 August 2021
[8.30-9.15]
Chair: Patrick Cordier

Prof. Eiji Ohtani  (Tohoku University, Japan)

Laureate of the IMA Medal for Excellence in Mineralogical Research in 2019

with lecture: High Pressure Mineral Physics of the Deep Mantle and Core

Monday, 30 August 2021
[14.00-14.45]
Chair: Blanca Bauluz

Prof. Dr. Mercedes Suárez (University of Salamanca, Spain) with lecture: Smectites: The key to the millionaire overheads in the construction of the third set of looks of the Panama Canal

Tuesday, 31 August 2021
[8.30-9.15]
Chair: Daniele Castelli

Prof. Diego Gatta (University of Milan, Italy) with lecture: The effect of pressure on open-framework silicates: elastic behaviour and crystal–fluid interaction

Tuesday, 31 August 2021
[14.00-14.45]
Chair: Jakub Kierczak

Prof. Jan Środoń (Institute of Geological Sciences PAN, Poland) with lecture: Illite and its role in the global cycling of elements

Wednesday, 1 September 2021
[8.30-9.15]
Chair: Patrick Cordier

Prof. Gordon Brown (Stanford University, USA)

Laureate of the IMA Medal for Excellence in Mineralogical Research in 2018

with lecture: X-ray Spectroscopic, Scattering, and Imaging Studies of Earth Materials and Processes: From the Nanoscale to the Global Scale

Wednesday, 1 September 2021
[14.00-14.45]

Chair: John Lloyd

Prof. Sergey Krivovichev (Saint-Petersburg University, Russia) with lecture: At the edge of order: structural mineralogy in the new millenium

Thursday, 2 September 2021
[8.30-9.15]

Chair: Frank Melcher

Prof. Daniel Vollprecht (Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria) with lecture: Waste Mineralogy – spotlights on an interdiscplinary research field