The Department of Geosciences hosts a new series of seminars for the II semester of the a.y. 2025/2026

From Tuesday 24 February 2026, the Department of Geosciences presents a new series of seminars for the second semester of the a.y. 2025/2026.

The events, proposed by members of the Department and held by speakers from Italian and international universities and research centers will be open to anyone interested.

  • Tuesday 24 February, 4.30 p.m. - Arduino Classroom: Testing the permeability of the barrier separating the inner and outer circumsolar disk - speaker: Dr. Yves Marrocchi - Director of the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG-CNRS, France). Click here for abstract and details.
  • Tuesday 3 March, 4.30 p.m. - Arduino Classroom: Geomorphic controls on organic carbon storage and flux in river corridors - speaker: Prof. Katherine B. Lininger – Geography Department, University of Colorado Boulder (USA). Click here for abstract and details.
  • Thursday 5 March, 4.30 p.m. - 1F Classroom: How unique is our home planet? Geochemical evidence for an ancient subduction zone on Mars - speaker: Prof. Frank E. Brenker – Schwiete Cosmochemistry Laboratory, Goethe University, Frankfurt. Click here for abstract and details.
  • Tuesday 10 March, 4.30 p.m. - Arduino Classroom: Functional Soil Properties in Viticulture: Soil and Geological Controls on Terroir Across Scales - speaker: Prof. Edoardo A.C. Costantini CNR-IBE - Biology, Agriculture and Food Sciences Department, Sesto Fiorentino. Click here for abstract and details.
  • Tuesday 17 March, 4.30 p.m. - Arduino Classroom: Against the flow: how much can we control river sediment dynamics - speaker: Dr. Mirko Musa - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Click here for abstract and details.
  • Tuesday 24 March, 4.30 p.m. - Arduino Classroom: The effects of fluids on geochronology - speaker: Prof. Suzette Timmerman, Institut für Geologie, Universität Bern, Switzerland. Click here for abstract and details.
  • Tuesday 31 March, 4.30 p.m. - Arduino Classroom: Coupling latent heat release with reaction kinetics in metamorphic systems, relatore: Dr. Simon Schorn, Institute of Geosciences Mainz Institute of Multiscale Modeling, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. Click here for abstract and details.