David Bercovici, a professor of geophysics at Yale University, will give a talk titled "Origin of Plate Tectonics" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, 19 May 2016, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series.
Bercovici received his Ph.D. in geophysics and space physics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989. His research interests include geophysical and geological fluid dynamics, continuum mechanics, and nonlinear science, self-organization.
Coffee, tea, and a continental breakfast will be served before the lecture at 10:30 a.m.