HOME   DIRECTORY   ACTIVITIES   PROPOSE ACTIVITY   APPLY   FOR VISITORS   ONLINE TALKS   OUTREACH 
KITP Program: Soft Earth Geophysics
(Jan 5 - Mar 26, 2026)
Coordinators: Sujit Datta, Doug Jerolmack, Nathalie Vriend, and Vashan Wright

 Overview
 Online Talks >
 ...newest
 Conference
 Participants
 ...by date
 ...today

 
KITP
 Home
 This Week
 Next Week
 Directory
 All Talks

Time Speaker Title
1/6-1/9 Conference: Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics
1/12, 10:00am Everyone
Everyone
Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
1/13, 10:00am Doug Jerolmack
University of Pennsylvania
A few problems with debris flows[Video][CC]
1/13, 10:30am Cristian Escauriaza
PUC Chile
3 Questions[Video][CC]
1/14, 10:00am Nathalie Vriend
University of Colorado Boulder
Stress in motion: Photoelastic insights into granular rheology[Video][CC]
1/14, 10:30am Duncan Hewitt
University of Cambridge
Analysing 'simple' continuum models... How to gain working intuitions for the implications of different rheological behaviour?[Video][CC]
1/15, 10:00am Vashan Wright
UCSD
Rigidity in the upper 30 m of Earth's subsurface[Video][CC]
1/15, 10:30am Chloe Lindeman
Johns Hopkins
Pattern formation problem[Video][CC]
1/16, 10:00am Nathalie Vriend (CU Boulder)
Douglas Jerolmack (Univ. of Penn)
Cacey Bester (Swarthmore)
Mahesh Bandi (OIST)
Rachel Glade (Rochester)
Justin Burton (Emory)
Kimberly Hill (Minnesota)
Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
1/20, 10:00am TBC Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
1/21, 10:00am Morgane Houssais
Clark University
Scaling up soil creep from the lab!.. Big questions and being okay with being wrong[Video][CC]
1/21, 10:30am Justin Burton
Emory University
The space between the grains, and why air matters[Video][CC]
1/22, 10:00am Nancy Ingabire Abayo
Lafayette College
Influence of Subsurface Depositional Geometry on Soil's Response to Loading[Video][CC]
1/22, 10:30am Kerstin Nordstrom
Mt. Holyoke
Exit strategy: how grains pass through constrictions[Video][CC]
1/23, 10:00am TBC Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
1/26, 10:00am TBC
TBC
Townhall SEG: introduction & consolidation of open questions
1/27, 10:00am Raisa Achiriloaie
University of Pennsylvania
Low Reynolds Number Flow Instabilities in Model Soft-Earth Materials[Embargoed]
1/27, 10:30am Evelyn Sun
University of Pennsylvania
TBC[Video]
1/27, 11:00am Nandish Vora
University of Pennsylvania
Dynamics of creep in model earth systems[Video]
1/28, 10:00am John Shaw
University of Arkansas
TBC[Video]
1/28, 10:45am Eckart Meiburg
UCSB
Fluid Mechanics of the Dead Sea: Rise of the Salt Giants[Video]
1/29, 10:00am Erick Franklin
UNICAMP
Vexing questions...[Video]
1/29, 10:45am Mary Baaru
Kenyatta University
How can soil stability be enhanced without compromising on soil properties [Video]
1/30, 10:00am TBC
TBC
Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
2/02, 10:00am TBC
TBC
Townhall SEG: introduction & consolidation of open questions
2/03, 10:00am Joe Dufek
University of Oregon
Breaking and Sticking in Explosive Volcanic Eruptions[Video][CC]
2/03, 10:45am Ram Sharma
UCSB
Problems of confinement and boundaries[Video][CC]
2/04, 10:00am Alex Leonelli
UCSB
Transport of Cohesive Sediment[Video]
2/05, 10:00am Ishan Srivastava
LBNL
Beyond mu(I) Rheology[Video][CC]
2/05, 11:00am PJ Zrelak
University of Oregon
How can we assess the metastability of granular systems?[Video][CC]
2/06, 10:00am TBC
TBC
Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
2/09, 10:00am TBC
TBC
Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
2/10, 10:00am Joaquin Jimenez Martinez
ETH Zurich
Incomplete mixing in porous media[Video][CC]
2/10, 10:45am Ivan Sudakow
Open University
Physical Kinetics in Earth System Modeling[Video][CC]
2/11, 10:00am Anne Voigtlaender
LBNL
Getting intimate with an Earth System. Conditioning, triggering, and propagation of processes and signals[Video][CC]
2/11, 10:45am Sreeram Rajesh
UCSB
Role of polymer rheology on capillary cohesion[Slides][Video][CC]
2/12, 10:00am Shravan Pradeep
Univ. of Penn
Advancing fundamentals in soft particulate yielding: lessions from Soft Earth rheology[Embargoed]
2/12, 10:45am Veronika Saiz
TU Dresden
On the Erodibility of Deep-Sea Beds: Shear Stress as Governing Parameter[Video][CC]
2/13, 10:00am All Participants Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
2/17, 10:00am Nathalie Vriend
(CU Boulder)
Douglas Jerolmack
(Univ. of Penn)
Vashan Wright
(UCSD)
Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
2/18, 10:00am Bernhard Vowinckel
TU Dresden
The viscous-inertial transition in dense frictional suspensions[Video][CC]
2/18, 10:45am Kimberly Hill
Minnesota
Flow Forensics and Fines, aka, What's in the matrix? Care?[Video][CC]
2/19, 10:00am Polina Zhilkina
UC Santa Barbara
Oscillatory flows[Video][CC]
2/19, 10:45am Eric Breard
Edinburgh Univ.
TORCH: TOwards the Reliable Assessment of PyroClastic Density Current Hazards[Video][CC]
2/20, 10:00am Nathalie Vriend
(CU Boulder)
Douglas Jerolmack
(Univ. of Penn)
Vashan Wright
(UCSD)
Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
2/23, 9:30am Vashan Wright
(UCSD)
Douglas Jerolmack
(Univ. of Penn)
Nathalie Vriend
(CU Boulder)
Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
2/23, 12:15pm Karen Daniels
NC State
Rigidity (or not) on the Earth's surface and beyond [Video]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
2/24, 10:00am Will Steinhardt
UCSC
Is Heterogeneity Complicated?[Video][CC]
2/24, 10:45am Paul Tautenhahn
UCSB
Rheology of Partially Cohesive Suspensions[Video][CC]
2/25, 10:00am Brandon Hayes
CU Boulder
Arbitrary-Shape Photoelastic Grain Solver (APEGS): role of shape on granular mechanics[Video]
2/25, 10:45am Nathan Keim
Penn State
Erasing memories with flow[Video]
2/26, 10:00am George Bergantz
Washington
TBC[Video]
2/26, 10:45am Alban Sauret
Maryland
To Clog or Not To Clog?[Video]
2/27, 10:00am All Participants Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
3/02, 10:00am Nathalie Vriend
(CU Boulder)
Vashan Wright
(UCSD)
Douglas Jerolmack
(Univ. of Penn)
Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
3/03, 10:00am Orencio Duran Vinent
Texas A&M
'Accretional' Landscapes[Video][CC]
3/03, 10:30am Nick Ouellette
Stanford
Do grains matter in erosion?[Video][CC]
3/04, 10:00am Hunter King
Rutgers
Geometric / Emergent Cohesion[Video][CC]
3/04, 10:45am Corey O'Hern
Yale
What is jamming?[Video][CC]
3/05, 10:00am Ruby Gans
CU Boulder
Granular Fingering[Video][CC]
3/05, 10:30am Benjamin McMillan
Bristol
Granular Materials[Video][CC]
3/06, 10:00am Vashan Wright
(UCSD)
Nathalie Vriend
(CU Boulder)
Douglas Jerolmack
(Univ. of Penn)
Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
3/09, 10:00am All Participants Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
3/10, 10:00am Jhardel Dasent
UCSD
How does gouge entropy dictate frictional instabilities[Video][CC]
3/10, 10:45am Krishnaroop Chaudhuri
CU Boulder
Photoelastic Particle[Video][CC]
3/11, 10:00am Rylan Hodgson
CU Boulder
TBC
3/11, 10:45am Rich Kilburn
Scripps Inst. of Oceanography
TBC
3/12, 10:00am Ruby Fu
Caltech
TBC
3/12, 10:45am Ted Brzinski
Haverford College
TBC
3/13, 10:00am All Participants Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
email: contact | printer friendly