EMU School 2014 - Planetary Mineralogy

Main activities

The school is focused on recent advances in our understanding of the origin and evolution of the solar system, as revealed by the surfaces and interiors of planets, satellites, asteroids and comets, and analysis of meteorites. The official language of the school will be English.

Topics and teachers

• Planetary interiors (Wim van Westrenen, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Lunar geology (Mahesh Anand, Open University, UK)
• Meteorite parent bodies (Josep Trigo-Rodríguez, Institute of Space Sciences, Barcelona, Spain)
• Early solar system solids (Ian Saunders, Trinity College, Dublin)
• Noble gas chemistry of planetary materials (Julia Cartwright, Max Plank Institute, Germany)
• Isotopic analysis of primitive materials (Jutta Zipfel, Natural History Museum, Frankfurt, Germany)
• Terrestrial impacts (Alex Deutsch, Institut für Planetologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany)
• Shock metamorphism (Mark Burchell, Department of Physics, University of Kent, U.K.)
• Organics in primitive meteorites & NanoSIMS techniques (Laurent Remusat, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris)
• Micrometeorites (Luigi Folco, Università di Pisa, Italy)