CSEDI: Development of a Cooperative Institute for Deep Earth Research

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The proposed scope of work for the next 4 years is focused primarily onbetter defining the role and organization of a future fully developed CIDERInstitute (Cooperative Institute for Deep Earth Research) (seehttp://www.deep-earth.org/ for further details).Following on the successful CIDER summer program held at the Kavli Institute ofTheoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, CA from July 13 to August 6, 2004,the institute will hold three CIDER summer programs, in 2006, 2007 and 2008 respectively. Each program will last 3 weeks and comprise overlapping "tutorial" and"research workshop" parts. The tutorial part will involve 30 graduate students and post-doc's, who will stay for the whole duration of the program, and 10instructors, who may stay for 2 or 3 weeks. The research workshop part willalso involve about 15 more senior participants. Each summer program will beorganized around a specific interdisciplinary theme and will be held at orclose to an academic institution. The 2006 program will be held at theKavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) in Santa Barbara, CA, on thetheme: "Constraints on the fluxes of mass, heat and chemicals in the mantle, with aparticular focus on the upper mantle and transition zone". Location andthemes for the subsequent two workshops will be determined in coordinationwith the CIDER Steering Committee.