The school

The school will combine formal classes, hands-on tutorials, round-table discussions and research seminars on the structure, dynamics and evolution of the Earth interior. It is aimed at PhD students and young researchers.

Program

• Mornings, starting at 9:00am, two classes of 1:30 each.
• Afternoons, starting at 4:30pm, a class and 1 seminar.
• The detailed program is available here. Please check it regularly since it can be subject ot changes.
• All lectures and some seminars are recorded and can be accessed on the school youtube chanel.

The school will primarily be in english

Multi-disciplinary discussions

• Rheology.
• Mixing and heterogeneities.
• Open science: community-led journal, community codes, open data.

Presentations by participants

• Two sessions of short presentations by all participants will be organised.
• All participants are encouraged to bring poster, preferably in portrait format to fit the poster boards.

Lectures

• Thierry Alboussière (U. Lyon): Introduction to core convection
• Maëlis Arnould (U. Lyon): Lithosphere and mantle interactions
• Frédéric Chambat (U. Lyon):Births and Moon cycles
• Gaël Choblet (U. Nantes): Planets (for internal Earth scientists), an introduction
• Sylvie Demouchy (U. Montpellier)
• Fanny Garel (U. Montpellier):
  • Introduction to rheology
  • What is a (lithospheric) plate?
• Stéphane Labrosse (ENS de Lyon): A primer on geodynamics
• Maylis Landeau (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris):
  • Dimensional analysis applied to the deep Earth
  • Earth formation and core-mantle differentiation
• Ludovic Margerin (U. Toulouse): Scattering of seismic waves in the Earth and accompanying movie 1 and movie 2
• Jean-Paul Montagner (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris): Seismic anisotropy
  • Guillaume Morard (U. Grenoble Alpes): Core Mineral physics part1, part2, part3.
• Henri-Claude Nataf (U. Grenoble Alpes)
• Isabelle Panet (Institut Géographique National): Introduction to geodesy
• Yanick Ricard (ENS de Lyon): What rheology for plate tectonics
• Barbara Romanowicz (UC Berkeley, Collège de France):
  • Imaging the earth’s interior using seismic waves: Body waves and surface waves
  • Introduction to geophysical inverse theory
• Séverine Rosat (U. Strasbourg): Earth Normal modes
• Nathanaël Schaeffer (U. Grenoble Alpes): An introduction to the geodynamo
• Andrea Tommasi (U Montpellier): Deformation and anisotropy of physical properties: From the crystal to the rock and plate scale

Opening seminar

• Henri-Claude Nataf: A pass to the deep Earth

Reseach seminars

• Guillaume Morard - A diversity of exoplanets.
• Thierry Alboussière - ‘Anisodyne’, an anisotropic dynamo.
• Gaël Choblet - The dynamics of oceans buried under ice layers in the external solar system.
• Stéphane Labrosse (with A. Morison and G Choblet) - Sublimation induced surface cooling drives convection in Sputnik Planitia, Pluto.
• Ludovic Margerin - Application of multi-diffusion to InSight data.
• Séverine Rosat - Inner-core free oscillations: an observational challenge.

Scientific committee

• Stéphane Labrosse, ENS de Lyon, France.
• Barbara Romanowicz, UC Berkeley and Collège de France.

Application

Owing to COVID-19 restrictions, the number of participants is limited to 25 (39 including lecturers). Candidates must send mail to S. Labrosse (stephane.labrosse (at) ens-lyon.fr) and B. Romanowicz (barbara.romanowicz (a) college-de-france.fr ) stating:

• Lastname, firstname
• Number of years in PhD or postdoc
• Primary field (e.g. geodynamics, mineral physics, seismology etc.)
• Subject of PhD or postdoc project

Each candidate must also ask their advisor to send us a short support letter.

Application deadline: June 7, 2021

The housing and food is covered by our sponsors: Labex LIO and CNRS.

Practical informations

• Arrival: The school will start by an opening seminar by Henri-Claude Nataf on Monday 5^th at 5pm. We will be hosted onsite starting at 2pm.
• Departure will be on Friday 16^th after lunch.
• Getting there: detailed informations are available on the school website. It is possible to walk from the Les Houches train station to the school, but may not be very practical with luggages. Taxis can be reserved by the school secretary, Isabel Lelievre: houches-secretariat@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr.
• Meals:
  • Breakfast: 7:45 to 8:45
  • Lunch: 12:30
  • dinner: 19:30

COVID-19 regulations

• All participants are asked to bring a negative test dating less that 72 hours. Both PCR and antigen tests are accepted. This is required even for participants that are already vaccinated.
• A self-test will be performed on Tuesday 6^th.
• Wearing masks will be required inside buildings.
• Weather permiting, meals, coffee breaks, poster discussions will be held outside.

Location

Les Houches school of Physics is located in Les Houches, at the entrance of the Chamonix valley, at the foot of the Mont-Blanc, in the French Alps. It offers all necessary facilities, with a lecture room (70 seats, see image by Ed Garnero), several rooms for group working, internet access, a restaurant and chalets for housing. Check the school website for more details.