"Magnetic Mineral Identification" workshop at Niederlippach
As part of the DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms 1488 "Planetary Magnetism" there is a workshop on "Magnetic Mineral Identification" workshop at the paleomagnetic laboratory Niederlippach. [more]

TERRA-Group meeting 2012
The 4th joint meeting of the TERRA development team will take place in Munich. [more]

Master's Programme Geophysics: Semester Opening
In this meeting we want to welcome (back) our master's students and an overview on courses, contents, time schedules and the like. [more]

Dr. Florian Lhuillier receives research scholarship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Dr. Florian Lhuillier will work for the next two years as a member of the geomagnetism group on the following topic: Do multiple geodynamo regimes exist? Exploration from numerical simulations, observatory and palaeomagnetic data. [more]

Christian Pelties wins "Outstanding Student Paper Award" at the AGU Meeting 2011
At the 2011 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Christian Pleties presented a poster on Three-Dimensional Dynamic Rupture Simulation with a High-order Discontinuous Galerkin Method on Unstructured Tetrahedral Meshes. For his presentation he received an Outstanding Student Paper Award. Mr Pelties is a member of the Computational Seismology Group at Munich Geophysics. [more]

TETHYS: End-of-Lifetime
After six years of operation the Tectonic High-Performance Simulator (TETHYS), Munich Geophysics' HPC cluster, has reached the end of its lifetime and will be decommissioned. The final shutdown is planned for Monday 2 April 2012. [more]

Castro, Cristobal E., Eleuterio F. Toro, and Martin Käser (2012), ADER scheme on unstructured meshes for shallow water: simulation of tsunami waves, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05471.x.

Treumann, R. A., and W. Baumjohann (2012), Magnetic field amplification in electron phase-space holes and related effects, Annales Geophysicae, 30(also arxiv-1202.5428), 711-724, doi:10.5194/angeo-30-711-20121-2012, 14 journal pages, 4 Figures.

Nader, M. F., H. Igel, A. M. G. Ferreira, D. Kurrle, J. Wassermann, and K. U. Schreiber (2012), TOROIDAL FREE OSCILLATIONS OF THE EARTH OBSERVED BY A RING LASER SYSTEM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY, Journal of Seismology, doi:10.1007/s10950-012-9304-9, in press.

PhD & Postdoc Positions in Computational Seismology
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Geophysics Section, Seismology Group) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany, is seeking applications from enthusiastic young researchers for positions at Ph.D. and postdoc level in computational seismology. [more]