C.- F. Gauss lecture Geodynamo Modeling: successes and challenges

The magnetic field of the Earth can be explained by regarding the Earth's core as a giant dynamo, the geodynamo. Recently, computer models of the geodynamo have been quite succesful in explaining most of the properties of the geomagnetic field. Prof. Ulrich Christensen will present exciting new results of geodynamo modelling during his C.-F. Gauss lecture of the Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft.

The great mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss was the first to measure and describe the Earth's magnetic field quantitatively. Since then, the field has considerably changed its strength and shape. Only recently numerical simulations of the geodynamo have become surprisingly realistic to explain some essential features of the varying geomagnetic field including reversals. Yet, a general theory explaining all possible varieties of these fields in the Solar System is still lacking.

In the first "C.- F. Gauss lecture" sponsored by the Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft (DGG) the invited speaker Prof. Ulrich R. Christensen (Max-Planck- Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany) will present exciting new results on successes and challenges of geodynamo modelling. abstract  

Prof. Christensen's scientific intersts are: dynamics of planetary interiors, mantle convection, dynamo models, numerical simulation.

Lecture 

First C.-F. Gauss lecture of the Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft (DGG):  "Geodynamo modeling: successes and challenges" by U.R. Christensen | >>programme

Room: Lecture Room 10 (E1), Wed Apr 5, 2006, 19:00 - 20:30
The lecture will be preceded by a reception for DGG-members and friends.