Scientific events

february 3 to 8, 2019

In nature as well as in many technical applications, one encounters the sometimes problematic phenomenon of intermittent dynamics, associated to avalanches, that are complex geometrical objects on scales that can span many orders of magnitude. This workshop aims at bringing together experts from various different fields to develop further the understanding of the nonlinear spatio-temporal response of avalanche systems and to find ways to define precursors that could help to prevent (…)

November 12 to 14, 2018

The AMMA-CATCH observatory invites you to an international conference on the occasion of its 30th anniversary. The expected participants are researchers, teacher-researchers, doctoral students and decision-makers.
Global changes are taking place on our planet. They concern the critical zone of the earth system, and occur at different scales. Their impacts on the energy and water cycles are already detectable, but how will these changes persist in the future and at which rate?
Three (…)

20 september 2018

Speaker: Reinhard Genzel (MPE Garching & UC Berkeley)
The Center of our Galaxy is a unique laboratory for exploring the astrophysics around a massive black hole and testing General Relativity and other theoretical concepts in this extreme environment. I will discuss the results of a major campaign of observing the Galactic Center in 2017/2108 with three instruments at the European Southern Observatory’s VLT, including the novel GRAVITY interferometric beam combiner of the 4 UTs. (…)

17 - 19 september 2018

Speaker: Dr Donovan N. Leonard, Electron Microscopy Group - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Dates : 17-19 September 2018 Location : ISTerre, Amphithéâtre Kilian, Maison des Géosciences, St. Martin d’Hères (F-38400) Local contact: Roland Hellmann, ISTerre, roland.hellmann univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
No registration fee, but please contact R. Hellmann if interested in attending
Short Course Program
► Day 1 Monday 17 September
10:00 - 10:15 Introductions, Course Overview, Student (…)

10 - 13 septembre 2018

on earth deformation & the study of earthquakes using geodesy and geodynamics

Wegener is sub-commission 3.5 of the International Association of Geodesy : Tectonics and Earthquake Geodesy

September 5-6

A two-day workshop on different uses of Atomic Force Microscopy (such as the one recently acquired at ISTerre) is being organized by Oxford Instruments at the Amphi Killian on September 5 and 6th. Presenters will include AFM users from different disciplines from the Grenoble campus.

August 29-31

Dans le cadre du projet Européen StarFormMapper (SFM), dont l’IPAG est partenaire, un workshop international est organisé dans les locaux de l’IMAG, sur le campus universitaire de Grenoble.

11-17 February 2018

The cryosphere forms an integral part of the climate system of the Earth. Measuring the properties of the seasonal and perennial snow cover properties is therefore essential in understanding interactions and feedback mechanisms related to the cryosphere.
Snow is a extremely complex and highly variable medium, and all essential properties of seasonal snow cover are challenging to measure. Diverse fields such as hydrology, climatology, avalanche forecasting and Earth Observation from space (…)

November 28-29th, 2017

Workshop "Marginal plateaus : from magmatic divergent margins to transform margins, and from the continental shelf to the pelagic and contouritic setting" Grenoble (France) - November 28-29th, 2017
►Keywords magmatic divergent margins, transform margins, post-rift subsidence, contourites
►Synopsis Marginal plateaus can be defined in the submarine morphology as flat (sub-horizontal) but deep (deeper than the shelf break) domains within the continental slope (Mercier de Lépinay et al., (…)

13-15 septembre

The second MAR workshop will be organized in Grenoble at IGE (Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement), rue Molière, salle Lliboutry, from 13 September PM until 15 september AM. This will be an opportunity for us to discuss about results, problems encountered and new projects
The program may be found enclosed. A lunch will be provided to the participants on thursday 14 and friday 15. Everybody is welcome. In order to facilitate the organization could you tell us if you come. (…)