****************************************************************************************** 2011 MSA Short Course on Sulfur in Magmas and Melts From: Jim Webster <jdw@xxxxxxxx> ****************************************************************************************** Sulfur in Magmas and Melts and Its Importance for Natural and Technical Processes 2011 Mineralogical Society of America Short Course, and 2011 Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry Volume 73 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN...... We direct your attention to a Mineralogical Society of America short course on "Sulfur in Magmas and Melts and Its Importance for Natural and Technical Processes " to be held in Goslar, Germany, on August 21st - 23rd, 2011 - immediately after the 2011 Goldschmidt Conference. This course will bring together experts in relevant geological and geochemical fields with those in the technical glass industry and glass sciences, and we invite interested students and professionals to attend. The short course will involve lectures based on the 16 chapters of the Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry volume 73 on this broad subject (see: http://msasulfurinmelts.org). Topics to be addressed include advances in analytical protocols for sulfur determination in rocks, minerals, and glasses; experimental, spectroscopic and thermodynamic constraints on the speciation, solubility, and diffusion of sulfur in melts; sulfur stable isotope systematics; partitioning of sulfur between fluid, melts, and minerals; the importance of sulfur in preparing, coloring, and melting industrial glasses; volcanic degassing and fining of glass melts; sulfur and magmatic ore deposits; sulfur in the solar system, and others. The course will also include a poster presentation session for students on August 21st. A summer school is offered to students and young researcher which includes the short course and two practical courses: (1) Experimental simulations of volcanic processes on August 20th in Hannover, Germany. (2) Glass making and glass properties on August 24th in Clausthal, Germany. The summer school is limited to 36 participants. Funding to partially support the travel and accommodations of participants of the summer school is available. Partial financial support for travel expenses of American graduate students and American early career postdoctoral researchers has been provided by the US NSF Petrology and Geochemistry Program; the actual $ amounts of reimbursement to be determined later. Additional information is available at the url: http://www.minsocam.org/msa/sc/sulfur_descriptn.pdf Registration and payment information is available at, for online registration: https://msa.minsocam.org/shortcourses.html and for the downloadable registration form to fax or mail, use: http://www.minsocam.org/msa/sc/sulfur_reg.pdf REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN...... Organizers/editors: Harald Behrens, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany (h.behrens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) Joachim Deubener, TU Clausthal, Germany (joachim.deubener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Jim Webster, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA (jdw@xxxxxxxx) ============================================================== To unsubscribe from the volcano list, send the message: signoff volcano to: listserv@xxxxxxx, or write to: volcano-request@xxxxxxxx To contribute to the volcano list, send your message to: volcano@xxxxxxxx Please do not send attachments. ==============================================================
