15 maio 2014

CONFERÊNCIA NA FCUL DE HOMENAGEM AO PROFESSOR LUIS MENDES VICTOR

O CERU está associado à homenagem que se vai realizar ao Professor Mendes Victor. Esta homenagem é composta de várias iniciativas que vão decorrer em 2014 e 2015. A primeira delas realizou-se na Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, no dia 15 de Maio de 2014 e contou com a colaboração do Professor Jean-Paul Montagner (Institut de Physique du Globe, Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, France), no âmbito de uma conferência subordinada ao tema "The Earth - a turbulent and chaotic planet.

Antes da conferência houve uma sessão de posters sobre os trabalhos que os alunos de doutoramento e de mestrado, assim como os jovens investigadores, estão a desenvolver.

Jean-Paul Montagner

Professor of Geophysics at the University Paris-Diderot since 1989. He was responsible for the GEOSCOPE global seismic network, developing its data centre and continuing the development of an ocean bottom broadband observatory.
He was director of the seismolab at IPGP from 1997 to 2003, consultant at the Ministry of Higher Education and Research from 1991 to 1993, and director of the whole sector of Earth, Universe and Environment Sciences from 2003 to 2006 in the Research Division of the of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
He has done pioneer work on the study of seismic anisotropy in the earth’s mantle and on the inversion of seismic surface wave higher modes. Focusing on the Atlantic ocean (and also in the Azores) and on Africa, he showed that there are different families of plumes, some of them originating in the asthenosphere, others in the transition zone.