Lectures

(Stars denote student/postdoc presentations, underline denote presenter. Presentations by collaborators are listed only when significant personal contribution.)

Mineralogy2022: The year of mineralogy *
Razvan Caracas
(International Union of Crystallography, Melbourne, Australia, August 2023)

Condensation of planets and formation of atmospheres from protolunar disks after giant impacts *
Razvan Caracas, Sarah T. Stewart, Laura Schaefer
(Goldschmidt conference, Lyon, France, July 2023)

Lower mantle rehydration and core-mantle water exchanges from ab initio proton diffusivity in bridgmanite and post-perovskite
Chris Mohn, Razvan Caracas
(Goldschmidt conference, Lyon, France, July 2023)

Diffusion of noble gases in silica polymorphs at Earth’s mantle conditions *
Sarah Figowy, Razvan Caracas, Chris Mohn
(Goldschmidt conference, Lyon, France, July 2023)

Vaporization of He and C from a Pyrolite Melt: Implications for the Early Earth’s Atmosphere and Magma Ocean *
Anne H. Davis, Razvan Caracas
(Goldschmidt conference, Lyon, France, July 2023)

The critical point and the vaporization of phologopite *
Xi Zhu, Razvan Caracas
(Goldschmidt conference, Lyon, France, July 2023)

Study of multicomponent silicate system under shock in the protoplanetary disk *
Adrien Saurety, Razvan Caracas
(Goldschmidt conference, Lyon, France, July 2023)

Dynamical properties of diamond from ab initio simulations
Razvan Caracas
(International Diamond School, Brixen, Italy, 2023)
invited talk

The thermodynamic state of the protolunar disks after the giant impact
Razvan Caracas
(AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL, USA, December 2022)
invited talk

Hydrogen dissolution in  liquid iron *
Emma Stoutenburg, Cara Vennari, Natalia V. Solomatova, Andrew Campbell, Razvan Caracas
(AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL, USA, December 2022)

Supercritical points and the supercritical state of silicate systems from first-principles simulations
Razvan Caracas
(2022 IUCr Advanced High-Pressure Workshop, December 2022)
invited talk

The thermodynamic state of the protolunar disks after giant impacts
Razvan Caracas, Sarah T Stewart
(33rd IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics, online, August 2022)
invited talk

Thermochemical state of the protolunar disk after the giant impact
Razvan Caracas, Sarah T Stewart
(23rd General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Lyon, France, July 2022)

Moon Impact – a geological story
Razvan Caracas, Lena Martin, Mandy Bethkenhagen, Tim Bögels, Anais Kobsch, Zhi Li, Renata Schaan, Natalia Solomatova
(23rd General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Lyon, France, July 2022)

Helium partitioning between the mantle and the core at the early Earth *
Ozge Ozgurel, Razvan Caracas
(23rd General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Lyon, France, July 2022)

Partial core vaporisation during giant impacts *
Zhi Li, Razvan Caracas, Francois Soubiran
(23rd General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Lyon, France, July 2022)

Study of self-diffusion of noble gases in magma ocean *
Adrien Saurety, Razvan Caracas
(23rd General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Lyon, France, July 2022)

Densities and miscibilities of carbonate-silicate-metal melts in the lower mantle *
Anne Davis, Natalia Solomatova, Razvan Caracas, Andrew Campbell
(23rd General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Lyon, France, July 2022)

Thermochemical state of the protolunar disk after the giant impact *
Tim Bögels, Razvan Caracas
(23rd General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Lyon, France, July 2022)

Silicate supercritical fluids and melts in the context of planetary formation 
Razvan Caracas
(Goldschmidt 2022, on-line, July 2022)
invited keynote lecture

Outgassing of the magma ocean after the giant impact
Razvan Caracas
(Goldschmidt 2022, on-line, July 2022)
invited keynote lecture

Silicate supercritical fluids and melts in the context of planetary formation
Razvan Caracas
(EHPRG Meeting 2020, Tenerife, Spain, September 2020)

What atoms have to tell us about the protolunar disk 
Razvan Caracas
(AGU Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco CA, USA, December 2019)
invited centennial talk

Direct calculation of vapor-liquid equilibrium from ab initio Gibbs ensemble *
Zhi Li, Razvan Caracas 
(AGU Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco CA, USA, December 2019)

The fate of carbon after the giant impact *
Natalia V. Solomatova, Razvan Caracas, 
(AGU Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco CA, USA, December 2019)

Carbon flux through, inside, and outside of the magma ocean
Razvan Caracas, Natalia V. Solomatova, Anne Davis, Andrew Campbell
(DCO Meeting 2019, Washington DC, USA, October 2019)
invited talk

Vibrational Spectra: From Ideal Crystals to Ideal Melts
Razvan Caracas, Jean-Alexis Hernandez, Zhi Li
(Goldschmidt, Barcelona, Spain, August 2019)
invited keynote lecture

Behavior of Selected Volatile Species during the Giant Impact and in the Protolunar Disk
Razvan Caracas, N. V. Solomatova
(Goldschmidt, Barcelona, Spain, August 2019)

Hydrogen mobility in transition zone silicates
Razvan Caracas
(CEED summer symposium, Sarpsborg, Norway, June 2019)
invited talk

An atomistic view of the protolunar disk
Razvan Caracas
(EWASS Meeting 2019, Lyon, France, June 2019)

An atomistic view of the protolunar disk
Razvan Caracas
(EGU Meeting 2019, Vienna, Austria, April 2019)

Carbon Sequestration in the Magma Ocean Implied by Complex Carbon Polymerization
Natalia V. Solomatova, Razvan Caracas, Craig E. Manning
(AGU Fall Meeting 2018, Washington, DC, USA, December 2018)

* Critical point of feldspars
Anais Kobsch and Razvan Caracas
(AGU Fall Meeting 2018, Washington, DC, USA, December 2018)

* An ab initio perspective on Giant Impacts and the protolunar disks
R. Caracas and the IMPACT team
(Highlights and prospects for numerical astrophysics in France, 2018, Lyon, France, October 2018)
invited talk

* Recreating the Giant Impact and the protolunar disk from ab initio simulations
R. Caracas
(XXII Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association 2018, Melbourne, Australia, August 2018)

* An ab initio perspective on the magma ocean stage of the Early Earth
R. Caracas
(The Center for the Earth Evolution and Dynamics, CEED, Oslo, Norway, October 2018)

* Silicate melts of the protolunar disk and the formation of the magma ocean from ab initio simulations
R. Caracas and S. T. Stewart
(The first billion years. Differentiation Workshop 2018, Pasadena, CA, USA, April 2018)

* Behavior of feldspars during the Giant Impact
Anaïs Kobsch and Razvan Caracas
(EGU 2018, Vienna, Austria, April 2018)

* Silicate melts from the Giant Impact to the Basal Magma Ocean
R. Caracas
(5th anniversary of the Center for The Earth Evolution and Dynamics, CEED, Oslo, Norway, February 2018)
invited talk

* Molten silicate mantle during a giant impact. Speciation from vapor to supercritical state
R. Caracas and S. T. Stewart
(AGU Fall Meeting 2017, New Orleans, LA, USA, December 2017)

* Raining a magma ocean: Thermodynamics of rocky planets after a giant impact
S. T. Stewart, S. J. Lock, and R. Caracas
(AGU Fall Meeting 2017, New Orleans, LA, USA, December 2017)

* Supercritical silicate melts in the protolunar disk.
R. Caracas
(Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington DC, USA, October 2017)
invited talk

* Volatiles in the hot silicate melts of the protolunar disk
R. Caracas
(The Origins of Volatiles in Habitable Planets: The Solar System and Beyond 2017, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, October 2017)
invited talk

* Volatiles in the hot silicate melts of the protolunar disk
R. Caracas
(6th Joint Workshop on High Pressure, Planetary and Plasma Physics (HP4) 2017, Goettingen, GermanySeptember 2017)
invited talk

*Supercritical silicate melts during and in the aftermath of the Giant Impact
R. Caracas
(Goldschmidt 2017, Paris, France, August 2017)
invited talk

* Supercritical silicate melts during and in the aftermath of the Giant Impact
R. Caracas
(Compres Annual Meeting 2017, Tamaya Resort, NM, USA, July 2017)
invited keynote talk

* Supercritical melts.
R. Caracas
(8th ABINIT developers’ Workshop 2017, Frejus, France, May 2017)

* Evolution and condensation of the proto-lunar disk
R. Caracas
(Earth and Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, February 2017)

* The Magma Ocean in the aftermath of the Giant Impact
R. Caracas
(Observatoire Cote d’Azur, Nice, January 2017)

* Supercritical multi-component silicate melts.
R. Caracas
(MecMatPla School and Workshop 2017, Montgenevre, France, January 2017)
invited talk

* Melts of the early Earth. An ab initio computational perspective.
R. Caracas
(AGU Fall Meeting 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2016)

MoonImpact is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement n°681818). PI: Razvan Caracas @ CNRS, ENS de Lyon
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