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- SMP 12/21/02 | Peering into the Earth: From Earthquakes to Diamonds | Speaker: Wendy Panero
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- SMP 12/8/12 | Cosmic Rhapsody: From the Echo of the Big Bang to the Orchestration of the Universe | Speaker: Heidi Wu
- SMP 12/1/12 | Gravitational Lensing: Nature's Largest Telescopes | Speaker: Keren Sharon
- SMP 11/10/12 | The Sun as a Star | Speaker: Alicia Aarnio
- SMP 11/3/12 | Volcanoes and Precious Metal Deposits: What is the Connection? | Speaker: Adam Simon
- SMP 10/27/12 | Solar Powering Your House or Saving the World One Electron at a Time | Speaker: Stephen Forrest
- SMP 10/20/12 | How Flexible Bodies Move and Interact in Fluids | Speaker: Silas Alben
- SMP 10/13/12 | The Physics Behind the Music | Speaker: James Liu
- SMP 10/6/12 | The New Particle Discovery at LHC with the ATLAS Experiment | Speaker: Bing Zhou
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- Seminars & Colloquia
Volcanoes are a manifestation of a large scale recycling program wherein nature transfers elements among Earth's atmosphere, oceans, crust and mantle. One recognized byproduct of this complex recycling program is the formation of ore deposits rich in metals such as gold, silver and copper. While volcanoes are relatively common, metal-rich ore deposits are not. Thus, while geologists have a relatively good understanding of the processes that cause volcanoes to erupt, we do not yet have a comprehensive model that describes why some volcanic systems yield metal deposits and other do not. In this lecture, Professor Simon will describe the general characteristics of volcano-related metal ore deposits and how our science team combines field and experimental research to shed light on nature's recipe for ore deposit formation.
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