Friday Earth Sciences Talks (FEST)

The Earth Sciences study countless aspects of ‘System Earth’ and, as such, form a multidisciplinary field of their own. Earth scientists often have specialist backgrounds, e.g., in biology, chemistry, hydrology, physics, material sciences, or computational sciences. There are many occasions where these specialists meet each other, varying from international conferences to local (group) seminars. But while the Earth connects everybody, people from different disciplinary backgrounds may sometimes get lost in the specialistic details of other disciplines. To tackle this 'communication problem', we introduced the Friday Earth Sciences Talks, or FEST.

With the FEST, we intend to bring the departments of Earth Sciences and Physical Geography together. The aim is to present (mostly) Utrecht-based Earth Sciences in an accessible way, primarily in order to stay familiar with each other’s work across disciplines. Simultaneously, this provides an excellent platform to help (in particular MSc.) students in their orientation on possible graduation specialisations and future careers. In general, the FEST is bi-weekly and takes place in the Koningsberger building. The student-staff after-social is usually in, or in front of, the Vening Meinesz A building and organised with help of our

The preliminary schedule is as follows, but may be subject to change.

DateSpeakerRoomAfter-social
January 17Detlef van Vuuren (SD)COSMOSVMA-Bistro
February 14Junjie Wang (AW)COSMOSVMA-Bistro
February 28Thomas Sweijen (AW)COSMOSVMA-Bistro
March 14Ylona van Dinther (AW)COSMOSVMA-Bistro
April 11Arjan Dijkstra (UT Twente)PANGEAVMA-Bistro
April 25Sietske Batenburg (AW)COSMOSVMA-Bistro
May 9Charlie Beard (AW)COSMOSVMA-Bistro
May 23Sander Osinga (TNO)COSMOSVMA-Bistro
June 6Faezeh Nick (FG)COSMOSVMA-Bistro
June 20Niko Wanders (FG)COSMOSVMA-Grand Café
September 19  VMA-Bistro
October 3  VMA-Bistro
October 17  VMA-Bistro
October 31  VMA-Grand Café
November 14  VMA-Bistro
November 28  VMA-Bistro
December 12  VMA-Bistro

Titles and abstracts are published one to two weeks in advance on the Events calendars of both departments: Earth Sciences and Physical Geography, as well as on . The organising FEST-committee can be contacted via fest.aw@uu.nl. Also if you'ld like to join the committee or just provide an idea for a speaker.

The committee especially welcomes one or more new members from Physical Geography!

 

FEST-committee