The UTIG Discussion Hour is a weekly, flexible-format seminar hosted by UTIG and open to all members of our community. Presentations range from spotlighting new geoscience research to less technical talks sharing fieldwork excursions. See upcoming talks at our Events Calendar. Past talks are posted below and at our YouTube playlist.
April 22, 2025
Terrestrial Planetary Evolution: From grain-scale deformation to earthquakes and global mantle flow
Thorsten Becker, Dunyu Liu, Huiwen Sun, Chao Song, Chuanming Liu, Xiang He & Kaixuan Kang
University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
April 15, 2025
5-minute Stops Around Earth and Space with Sean & Co
Sean Gulick, Carson Miller, Soraya Alfred, Enrique Morales, Jon Amendola, Kylie Greiner, Ema Parker, Medha Prakash, Mercedes Jordan, Milo Stephenson & Eric Hiatt
University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
March 25, 2025
Earth’s dynamics and structure from combined geodynamic and seismological modeling
Manuele Faccenda
Associate Professor, Department of Geoscience, Università di Padova
March 4, 2025
Fluid dynamics throughout the solar system
Krista Soderlund, Chi Yan, Dunyu Liu, Arefe Ghazi Nezami, Peri Johnson, and Sara Santos
University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
January 21, 2025
The generation of plates from mantle convection: using Euler poles to identify and analyze plate evolution
Julian Lowman
Professor, Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto