Weekly Seminars

In our weekly seminars, we not only present our current projects, research results, dissertations and theses, but also invite external experts to selected lectures.

The seminars take place during the lecture period on Thursday at 4:00 pm in Bldg. 50.40, room 157.

Guests are very welcome !

Allgemeine Geologie

Winter semester 2024/2025
Date	Time	Title	Speaker
30/01/2025	16:00 h	High-latitude carbonate deposition constitutes a climate conundrum at the terminal Mesoproterozoic.	Prof. Michiel deKock
23/01/2025	16:00h	Machine Learning and Data Science applications in geothermal exploration: examples from the Upper Rhine Graben	Thilo Wrona & Johannes Wiest (Deutsche ErdWärme)
16/01/2025	16:00h	Numerical Modelling of Lava Flows and Lava Dome Growth	M.Sc Natalya Zeinalova
19/12/2024	16:00h	On the use of LandLab to generate stratigraphic forward models	Dr. Paul Baville
12/12/2024	16:00h	Multi-proxy isotope tracing of dolomitization processes in the Williston Basin, North America	Dr. Sara Rose Kimmig
05/12/2024	16:00h	Qualitative modeling of etch-pit formation (dissolution) on the K-feldspar surface through phase-feld approach	M.Eng Akash Kumar
28/11/2024	16:00h	Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution of the Central Segment of the Upper Rhine Graben (Localities Graben Neudorf, Waghäusel and Philippsburg): Observations from Well and 3D Seismic Data	M.Sc Igor Kozlov
21/11/2024	16:00h	Clues on stress field, kinematics and associated processes in the Earth’s crust from geomechanical modelling	Dr. Tobias Hergert
07/11/2024	16:00h	Sedimentary evolution of Late Cretaceous deep-water basins in the Dinarides – a project introduction	Dr. Sanja Šuica & M.Sc Iva Olić
31/10/2024	16:00h	Dating the Miocene arid phase in the Dinarides: new inferences from the Valjevo-Mionica Basin, Serbia	M.Sc. Robert Šamarija
24/10/2024	16:00h	Topography Response to Horizontal Slab Tearing and Oblique Continental Collision: Insights From 3D Thermomechanical Modeling	Dr. Giridas Maiti

Summer semester 2023/2024
Date	Time	Title	Speaker
18/07/2024	4:00 pm	Comparison of automatically generated multi-well correlations	Shubham Pathak
11/07/2024	4:00 pm	Fault modeling: observations, geometry and uncertainties	Prof. Dr. Guillaume Caumon
04/07/2024	4:00 pm	Evolution of the Miocene Sinj Basin revealed through U-Pb zircon geochronology (Dinarides Lake System, Croatia)	M.Sc. Robert Šamarija
27/06/2024	4:00 pm	Uncertainty assessment of complex computer models	PD Dr. Kathrin Menberg
20/06/2024	4:00 pm	Stratigraphic correlation of lateral continuous facies using computer-assisted multi-well correlation	Dr. Paul Baville
13/06/2024	4:00 pm	Viscoplastic deformation of fault damage zones	Dr. Mayukh Talukdar
06/06/2024	4:00 pm	Computational multiscale methods for geophysical models	T.-T. Prof. Dr. Roland Maier
23/05/2024	4:00 pm	Evaluation of Nanostructures in Oriented Thin Films of Tectonically Deformed Rocks: Integrating SEM-EBSD and TEM studies in Structural Geology	Prof. Dr. Manish A. Mamtani
02/05/2024	4:00 pm	Sediment detection in the Enguri Reservoir, Georgia	Dr. Stephan Hilgert

Winter semester 2023/2024
Date	Time	Title	Speaker
08/02/2024	4:00 pm	Paleozoic evolution in the Alborz: Continuous extension from the Gondwanan active margin to Paleotethys post-rift passive margin	Dr. Jeroen Smit
01/02/2024	4:00 pm	Influences of slab breakoff on foreland basin architecture: inferences from stratigraphic forward modeling	M.Sc. Lucas Eskens
18/01/2024	4:00 pm	Coming soon	Dr. Martina Klose
11/01/2024	4:00 pm	In situ U-Pb dating of low-U minerals: challenges and opportunities	Dr. Aratz Beranoaguirre
14/12/2023	4:00 pm	CALKROC research activities in Namibia - ore forming processes in time and space	Dr. Benjamin Walter
07/12/2023	4:00 pm	Zircons of the Bushveld complex constrains for the timing of magma chamber accretion and intercumulus processes	Prof. Dr. Armin Zeh
23/11/2023	4:00 pm	Carbonate platform margin to foreland basin evolution in the Pre-Karst Unit of the Dinarides, Bosnia and Herzegovina	M.Sc. Robert Šamarija
09/11/2023	4:00 pm	Normal fault controls on submarine channel evolution in the Taranaki basin, New Zealand	B.Sc. Robin Ulwig
02/11/2023	4:00 pm	On the impact of the bedrock erodibility on the depositional response time to a slab break-off using stratigraphic forward modeling	Dr. Paul Baville
26/10/2023	4:00 pm	Late Cretaceous sedimentation on the southern Tethyan passive margin, Tunisia: New evidence of tectono-eustatic controls and reservoir petrophysics properties	Dr. Mabrouk Bachari
19/10/2023	4:00 pm	Arctic Volcanism in Woodfjorden, Spitsbergen: Expedition Report	Prof. Dr. Agnes Kontny

Summer semester 2022/2023
Date	Time	Title	Speaker
20/07/2023	4:00 pm	Exploring deep time in collections and the field	Dr. Julien Kimming
13/07/2023	4:00 pm	Geoenergy applications in clay-bearing sandstones: Causes of permeability impairment	Dr. Chaojie Cheng
06/07/2023	4:00 pm	Ridge morphodynamics over an immobile rough bed in an open-channel	Dr. Ing. Michele Trevisson
29/06/2023	4:00 pm	East European Sedimentary Basins Stewed Over an Ancient Mantle Upwelling	Dr. Alik Ismail-Zadeh
22/06/2023	4:00 pm	Syn-kinematic terrestrial carbonates shed light on the late-stage evolution of the Dinarides	T.T. Prof. Dr. Nevena Andrić-Tomašević
15/06/2023	4:00 pm	Impact of structural uncertainty on the distribution of the numerically simulated properties	M.Sc. Ali Dashti
25/05/2023	4:00 pm	Carbonates in the geologic record - Assessing their formation with isotope geochemistry	Dr. Tobias Kluge
11/05/2023	4:00 pm	Numerical modelling and mapping of Miocene dyke opening in the Cserhát Hills, Hungary	B.Sc. Dorina Juhász
04/05/2023	4:00 pm	Application of digital educational content in geological studies	Dr. Ilnar Khasanov

Winter semester 2022/2023
Date	Time	Title	Speaker
29/03/2023	4:00 pm	Variation in rock fabric with depth in the upper 1 km of the earth’s crust and its implications for mineralization.	M.Sc. Ritwik Chakraborty
23/03/2023	4:00 pm	The influence of upper mantle on the topographic response of the slab detachment: insights from numerical experiments	Dr. Andrea Piccolo
16/02/2023	4:00 pm	3D seismic at the Asse nuclear waste repository site	Dr. Thomas Hertweck
26/01/2023	4:00 pm	Computer-assisted multi-well correlations	Dr. Paul Baville
19/01/2023	2:00 pm	Deep and shallow earthquakes in Afghanistan: Challenges, processes and implications	Dr. Sophia-Katharina Kufner
12/01/2023	4:00 pm	Neogene transtension and stress field change in the central Upper Rhine Graben: Implications for structural development and geothermal exploration	Dr. Jens Grimmer
08/12/2022	4:00 pm	Rock magnetism: Basics and applications - Iberian bending and Chicxulub impact	M.Sc. Bruno Daniel Leite Mendes
01/12/2022	4:00 pm	Numerical forecast of the THM long-term behavior of Malm geothermal reservoir	Dr. Robert Egert
24/11/2022	4:00 pm	Role of subducting plate in orogeny and mountain topography: Insights from numerical and laboratory modeling	Dr. Giridas Maiti
17/11/2022	4:00 pm	Reservoir quality of the Buntsandstein	Dr. Benjamin Bush
10/11/2022	4:00 pm	Controls on along-strike variations for foreland basin development: a case study of the Northern Alpine Foreland Basin	M.Sc. Lucas Eskens