Symposia and Meetings

SEDI 2026

The 18th Symposium of SEDI was be held in Townsville, QLD, Australia, from June 29 – July 3.

Go to the SEDI 2026 Website

Archive of Meetings

Year Date Location Link
2024 “SEDI 2024”
23-28 June, 2024 Great Barrington, MA, USA SEDI 2024
2022 “SEDI 2022”
11-15 July, 2022 Zurich, Switzerland SEDI 2022
2000 “SEDI 2000” proceedings appeared in volume 128 of Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2001
30 July-4 August, 2000 Exeter, UK Dialog #11
2018 “SEDI 2018”
8-13 July, 2018 Edmonton, Canada SEDI 2018
2016 “SEDI 2016”
24-29 July, 2016 Nantes, France SEDI 2016
2014 “SEDI 2014” proceedings appeared in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2015
3-8 August, 2014 Shonan Village Center, Kanagawa, Japan
SEDI 2014
2012 “SEDI 2012” proceedings appeared in volume 223 of Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2013
1-6 July, 2012 Leeds, UK
2010 “SEDI 2010” proceedings appeared in volume 188 of Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2011
19-23 July, 2010 Santa Barbara, CA, USA
2008 “SEDI 2008” proceedings appeared in Volume 178 of Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2010
27-31 July, 2008 Kunming, China
2006 “SEDI 2006” proceedings appeared in Volume 101, number 5 & 6 of Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 2007
9-14 July, 2006 Prague, The Czech Republic
Dialog #14
2004 “SEDI 2004” proceedings appeared in Volume 153 of Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2005
4-9 July, 2004 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Dialog #13
2002 “Geophysical and Geochemical Evolution of the Deep Earth” proceedings appeared in Volume 140 of Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2003
22-26 July, 2002 Granlibakken, Tahoe City, CA, USA
Dialog #12
2000 “SEDI 2000” proceedings appeared in volume 128 of Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2001
30 July-4 August, 2000 Exeter, UK Dialog #11
1998 “Voyage To The Center of The Earth” proceedings appeared in volume 117 of Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2000
5-10 July, 1998 Tours, France
1996 Symposium in 1996 held in conjunction with the Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting sponsored by the AGU.
23–26 July, 1996 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Dialog #10
1994 “The Earth’s Deep Interior” proceedings appeared in volume 91, pages 1-186 of Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 1995
7-12 August, 1994 Whistler Mountain, BC, Canada
Dialog #8
1992 “The Core-Mantle Boundary Region: Structure and Dynamics”
6-10 July, 1992 Mizusawa, Japan
Dialog #6
1990 “Reversals, secular variation and dynamo theory”
6-10 August, 1990 Santa Fe, NM, USA
Dialog #4
1988 “Structure and Dynamics of the Core and Adjacent Mantle” held in conjunction with the 17th International Conference of the Committee on Mathematical Geophysics
23-25 June, 1988 Blanes, Spain Dialog #2

Minutes of SEDI Business Meetings

Minutes were taken at several SEDI meetings prior to 1999 but minutes from back meetings have not been processed for the web page at this time.

Other SEDI Business Meeting Minutes can be found in issues of the Deep Earth Dialog

Other Symposia

    • Official co-sponsor of Union Symposium 6: “Dynamics of the Earth’s Deep Interior and Earth’s Rotation” at the IUGG General Assembly at Vienna in August, 1991.
    • At the IUGG General Assembly at Boulder, Colorado in July, 1995, co-sponsor of the following IASPEI sessions:
      • SJS5, “Core-Mantle Boundary Region”
      • SJS7, “Mantle dynamics and the geological record”
      • SJS8, “Modeling the Earth’s Interior”
      • SW2, “Thermoelastic Properties of Deep Mantle Phases”
      • SW11, “Deja Q: Anelasticity of the Earth’s Deep Interior”,
      • VJS4, “Geochemical and Geophysical Signatures of Mantle Plumes”
    • Sponsor of several sessions at the IUGG General Assembly at Sapporo, Japan in July, 2003.
    • Sponsor of several sessions at the IUGG General Assembly at Perugia, Italy in July, 2007
    • Co-sponsor of several scientific sessions at the assemblies of IAGA and IASPEI in 1989, 1993, and 2001.
    • Co-sponsor of numerous sessions at the meetings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the European Geophysical Society (EGS) and the European Union of Geoscience (EUG), now European Geosciences Union (EGU).

Summaries of many of these sessions may be found in past issues of the Deep Earth Dialog.