February 25-27, 2009
2/25		Chair
13:00		Ohtani	Fukao, Y.	Integration of efforts in different disciplines towards the goal of the stagnant slab project
13:30			Kawakatsu, H.	Seismic constraints on the deep water transportation and deep "dry" cold slab beneath SW Japan
14:00			Bina, C.	Phase Stability and Metastability in Deep Slab Structure and Dynamics
14:30			Iwamori, H.	Transportation of H2O Beneath the Japan Arcs and its Implications for Global Water Circulation
15:00			Shimizu, H.	Semi-global and regional electrical conductivity models derived from inversion of electromagnetic variation data in the North Pacific Ocean and Philippine Sea
15:30				Coffee
16:00		Irifune	Katsura, T.	Electrical conductivity of the upper mantle materials
16:30			van Keken, P.	The global range of subduction zone models: Consequences for transport of volatiles to the deep Earth
17:00			Obayashi, M.	Seismic image of stagnant slabs: Implication in deformation, temperature and water content
17:30			Yoshioka, S.	2D temperature model in deep slabs incorporating kinetics of the 410-km and 660-km phase transformations
19:00				Reception
2/26
9:00		Suetsugu	Helffrich, G.	Compositional controls on upper surface mineralogy in downgoing and recumbent slabs
9:30			Richard, G.	Numerical Models of Slab Dehydration in the Earth’s Mantle Transition Zone
10:00			Jacobsen, S.	Effects of hydration on the elastic properties of the mantle above subducting slabs at 300-660 km depth
10:30				Coffee
11:00		Inoue	Shito, A.	Seismic property and the implication in the Izu-Bonin subduction zone inferred from BBOBS data
11:30			Wiens, D.	Mantle Wedge and Transition Zone Structure in the Mariana Subduction Zone
12:00			Jackson, I.	Laboratory-based Interpretation of Upper-mantle Seismic Tomograms: Progress and Prospects
12:30
13:30				Poster Session
14:00
14:30
15:00				Coffee
15:30		Ogawa	Honda, S.	Modeling of front and back sides of subduction zones around the Japanese Islands
16:00			Suzuki, A.	A Viscosity Minimum of Basaltic Magma at High Pressure
16:30			Schmerr, N.	Upper Mantle Discontinuity Topography Beneath South America from Thermal and Chemical Heterogeneity
17:00			Billen, M.	THE NON-STEADY-STATE EVOLUTION OF SLABS: NON-NEWTONIAN UPPER MANTLE AND SLAB RHEOLOGY
17:30			Yanagisawa, T.	The effect of phase transition and viscosity layering on the slab stagnation
2/27
9:00		Utada	Tarits, P.	Electrical tomography of the lower mantle beneath stagnant slabs: a case study in Europe
9:30			Tange, Y.	EQUATION OF STATE OF MgSiO3 PEROVSKITE BASED ON A NEW MgO PRESSURE-SCALE
10:00			Takeuchi, N.	Fine-Scale Heterogeneities in the Lowermost Mantle Constrained by Broadband Tiltmeter Waveforms
10:30				Coffee
11:00		Tanaka	Thomas, C.	Seismic Structures in the lowermost mantle and the post-perovskite phase transition
11:30			Hirose, K.	Subducted Basaltic Crust and the Slow Shear Velocity Anomalies in the Lowermost Mantle
12:00			Conveners	Closing note