9th Munich Earth Skience School, February 17-22, 2019
2019 will see another installment of the popular Munich Earth Skience School. This time it will focus on machine learning in the Earth Sciences. [more]

Inisght Mission landed successfully
The Insight Mission, which will bring a seismometer to Mars, landed successfully on the Red Planet. [more]

K.H. Hoffmann Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences for Prof. A. Fichtner
The Bavarian Academy of Sciences bestows the inaugural K.H. Hoffmann prize to Professor A. Fichtner from the ETH Zurich for his groundbreaking contributions to the field of theoretical seismology. The price will be presented at the annual meeting of the Academy on Dec 8, 2018. [more]

Systematic distribution of magnetic crystals throughout the human brain
LMU researchers have for the first time investigated the distribution of magnetic crystals throughout the human brain. The study shows that they are asymmetrically distributed and are mainly found in the cerebellum and brain stem. [more]

Bauer, S., M. Huber, S. Ghelichkhan, M. Mohr, U. Rüde, and B. Wohlmuth (2018), Large-scale Simulation of Mantle Convection Based on a New Matrix-Free Approach, Journal of Computational Science, doi:10.1016/j.jocs.2018.12.006, in press.

Ghelichkhani, Siavash, and Hans-Peter Bunge (2018), The adjoint equations for thermochemical compressible mantle convection: derivation and verification by twin experiments, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2018.0329.

Treumann, R. A., and W. Baumjohann (2018), Electron mirror branch: Probable observational evidence from historical AMPTE-IRM and Equator-S measurements, Annales Geophysicae (arXiv:1804.01131 [physics.space-ph]), 36(arXiv:1804.01131 [physics.space-ph]), 1563-1576, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-1563-2018, 11 pages, 4 figures.