Local financial support will be provided by the Russisn Science Foundation and the Russian Academy of Science.  Some student support will be made available from IUGG and IASPEI. We are also soliciting funding sources from other national agencies in America and Europe.

Invited Speakers
Russian ex-patriots ( 12 to 15 are expected to come )
Dr. Irina Artemieva, Anatoly Belonosko, Evegenii Burov, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Anton Duchkhov, Yuri Fialko, Taras Gerya, Alexander Goncharov, Andrei Kalinichev, Dmitri Karpeev, Vladimir Lyakhovsky, Artem Oganov, Yuri Podladchikov, Nikolai Shapiro, Stephan Sobelev, Slava Solomatov, Viktor Struzhkin, Lev Terasov, Lev Truskinovsky, Oleg Vasilyev, Alik Ismail-Zadeh, and Andrei Zerr

They cover the fields of general geophysics, applied mathematics, applied mechanics, mineral physics, high-pressure physics, seismology, earthquakes, transport properties, tectonics and mantle convection, ice-sheet dynamics, and rheology.

Foreign scientists ( 30 to 35 are expected )
Yehuda Ben-Zion, David Bercovici, Reini Boehler, Larry Boschi, John Brodholt, Ondrej Cadek, Hana Cizkova, Moonsup Cho, Sierd Cloetingh, Maarten de Hoop, Martyn Drury (netherlands), Alessandro Forte, Robert J. Geller, Ulrich Hansen, John Hernlund, Kei Hirose, Anne Hofmeister, Satoru Honda, Tetsuzo Irifune, Andy Jackson, Raymond Jeanloz, Haemeyong Jung, Masanori C. Kameyama, Shun-Ichiro Karato, Boris Kaus, Hitosi Kawakatsu, Matthew Knepley, Klaus-Regenauer Lieb, Marc Monnereau, Louis Moresi, Gabriele Morra, Masaaki Obata (Kyoto, Japan), Eiji Ohtani, Dick Peltier, Steve Quenette, Mike Riedel (Potsdam, Germany), Barbara Romanowicz, Dave Rubie (germany), Lars Ruepke, Ataru Sakuraba, Stefan M. Schmalholz, Jerry Schubert, Gordan Stuehner, Paul J.Tackley, Nozumo Takeuchi, Mitsuhiro Toriumi, Toshiro Tanimoto, Arie van den Berg, T. Yagi, Daisuke Yamazaki, and David Yuen.

Geodynamics/seismology: Sierd Cloetighn (Netherlands), J.J. Dong ( Auburn University), Ritske Huisman (Norway), Jean-Paul Montagner (Paris, France), Jeanot Trampert (Utrecht, Netherlands), Peter van Keken (Michigan, U.S.A.), and Jean-Pierre Vilotte (Paris, France).

They cover the fields of mantle rheology ,core dynamics, earthquakes , applied mathematics, seismology, postglacial rebound ,mantle convection, grid computing, structural geology, lithospheric dynamics ,numerical modeling, high-pressure geophysics.

With such an array of international and Russian ex-patriots, we can expect this gathering will generate a lot of excitement among the younger students who are interested in quantitative geosciences from Russia, neighboring countries in Eastern Asia and Europe and from the Americas. They will be solicited to attend this event in order to provide some valuable input and energy.