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KITP Program: Soft Earth Geophysics
(Jan 5 - Mar 26, 2026)
Coordinators: Sujit Datta, Doug Jerolmack, Nathalie Vriend, and Vashan Wright

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Time Speaker Title
3/13, 10:00am All Participants Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
3/12, 10:45am Ted Brzinski
Haverford College
TBC
3/12, 10:00am Ruby Fu
Caltech
TBC
3/11, 10:45am Rich Kilburn
Scripps Inst. of Oceanography
TBC
3/11, 10:00am Rylan Hodgson
CU Boulder
TBC
3/10, 10:45am Krishnaroop Chaudhuri
CU Boulder
TBC
3/10, 10:00am Jhardel Dasent
UCSD
TBC
3/09, 10:00am All Participants Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
3/06, 10:00am Vashan Wright
(UCSD)
Nathalie Vriend
(CU Boulder)
Douglas Jerolmack
(Univ. of Penn)
Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
3/05, 10:30am Benjamin McMillan
Bristol
Granular Materials[Video][CC]
3/05, 10:00am Ruby Gans
CU Boulder
Granular Fingering[Video][CC]
3/04, 10:45am Corey O'Hern
Yale
What is jamming?[Video][CC]
3/04, 10:00am Hunter King
Rutgers
Geometric / Emergent Cohesion[Video][CC]
3/03, 10:30am Nick Ouellette
Stanford
Do grains matter in erosion?[Video][CC]
3/03, 10:00am Orencio Duran Vinent
Texas A&M
'Accretional' Landscapes[Video][CC]
3/02, 10:00am Nathalie Vriend
(CU Boulder)
Vashan Wright
(UCSD)
Douglas Jerolmack
(Univ. of Penn)
Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
2/27, 10:00am All Participants Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
2/26, 10:45am Alban Sauret
Maryland
To Clog or Not To Clog?[Video]
2/26, 10:00am George Bergantz
Washington
TBC[Video]
2/25, 10:45am Nathan Keim
Penn State
Erasing memories with flow[Video]
2/25, 10:00am Brandon Hayes
CU Boulder
Arbitrary-Shape Photoelastic Grain Solver (APEGS): role of shape on granular mechanics[Video]
2/24, 10:45am Paul Tautenhahn
UCSB
Rheology of Partially Cohesive Suspensions[Video][CC]
2/24, 10:00am Will Steinhardt
UCSC
Is Heterogeneity Complicated?[Video][CC]
2/23, 12:15pm Karen Daniels
NC State
Rigidity (or not) on the Earth's surface and beyond [Video]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
2/23, 9:30am Vashan Wright
(UCSD)
Douglas Jerolmack
(Univ. of Penn)
Nathalie Vriend
(CU Boulder)
Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
2/20, 10:00am Nathalie Vriend
(CU Boulder)
Douglas Jerolmack
(Univ. of Penn)
Vashan Wright
(UCSD)
Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
2/19, 10:45am Eric Breard
Edinburgh Univ.
TORCH: TOwards the Reliable Assessment of PyroClastic Density Current Hazards[Video][CC]
2/19, 10:00am Polina Zhilkina
UC Santa Barbara
Oscillatory flows[Video][CC]
2/18, 10:45am Kimberly Hill
Minnesota
Flow Forensics and Fines, aka, What's in the matrix? Care?[Video][CC]
2/18, 10:00am Bernhard Vowinckel
TU Dresden
The viscous-inertial transition in dense frictional suspensions[Video][CC]
2/17, 10:00am Nathalie Vriend
(CU Boulder)
Douglas Jerolmack
(Univ. of Penn)
Vashan Wright
(UCSD)
Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
2/13, 10:00am All Participants Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
2/12, 10:45am Veronika Saiz
TU Dresden
On the Erodibility of Deep-Sea Beds: Shear Stress as Governing Parameter[Video][CC]
2/12, 10:00am Shravan Pradeep
Univ. of Penn
Advancing fundamentals in soft particulate yielding: lessions from Soft Earth rheology[Embargoed]
2/11, 10:45am Sreeram Rajesh
UCSB
Role of polymer rheology on capillary cohesion[Slides][Video][CC]
2/11, 10:00am Anne Voigtlaender
LBNL
Getting intimate with an Earth System. Conditioning, triggering, and propagation of processes and signals[Video][CC]
2/10, 10:45am Ivan Sudakow
Open University
Physical Kinetics in Earth System Modeling[Video][CC]
2/10, 10:00am Joaquin Jimenez Martinez
ETH Zurich
Incomplete mixing in porous media[Video][CC]
2/09, 10:00am TBC
TBC
Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
2/06, 10:00am TBC
TBC
Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
2/05, 11:00am PJ Zrelak
University of Oregon
How can we assess the metastability of granular systems?[Video][CC]
2/05, 10:00am Ishan Srivastava
LBNL
Beyond mu(I) Rheology[Video][CC]
1/16, 10:00am Nathalie Vriend (CU Boulder)
Douglas Jerolmack (Univ. of Penn)
Cacey Bester (Swarthmore)
Mahesh Bandi (OIST)
Rachel Glade (Rochester)
Justin Burton (Emory)
Kimberly Hill (Minnesota)
Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
1/15, 10:30am Chloe Lindeman
Johns Hopkins
Pattern formation problem[Video][CC]
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