Dear all,

This is to announce that registration and abstract submission for the  
next Mineral Physics Group meeting, 'New Views on the Earth's  
Interior', is now open. The meeting is to be held at in conjunction  
with the the British Geophysical Association at Burlington House in  
central London, 12th-13th February. You can register using the web or  
by post. See:

	http://www.minersoc.org/pages/groups/minphys/minphys.html#views

for more details on registration and abstract submission. The  
deadline for registration and submission of abstracts is 19th  
December 2008. Further details can be found below.

Best wishes,

Andrew Walker


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New Views on the Earth's Interior
12-13th February 2009
Geological Society, Burlington House, London

This is a cross-disciplinary meeting of the British Geophysical  
Association and the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and  
Ireland. The aim is to present new developments on the structure,  
composition, dynamics and evolution of all areas of the Earth's  
interior. This includes subduction zones, the transition zone, the  
lower mantle and D'', and the Earth's inner and outer core.

Dr Sebastian Rost (Leeds, UK) will present the Bullerwell Lecture at  
this meeting and there is an exciting line-up of speakers including:

* Dr Arwen Deuss (Cambridge, UK)
* Dr Dan Frost (BGI)
* Prof. Alex Halliday (Oxford, UK)
* Prof. Thorne Lay (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
* Dr Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni (UCL, UK)
* Prof. Graham Pearson (Durham, UK)
* Prof. Andreas Rietbrock (Liverpool, UK)
* Prof. Paul Tackley (ETH, Switzerland)
* Dr Lidunka Vocadlo (UCL, UK)
* Prof. Don Weidner (SUNY-Stony Brook, USA).

Go to http://www.minersoc.org/pages/groups/minphys/minphys.html#views  
for more information and details of registration and abstract  
submission.

The deadline for registration and submission of abstracts is 19th  
December 2008

Organizing Committee: John Brodholt ([log in to unmask]), James  
Wookey, Mike Walter, Dave Dobson, Andrew Walker, Richard Harrison,  
Kevin Murphy, Russell Rajendra