UTIG's research associate, Luc Lavier, has taught classes on geodynamics and deformation. He also serves as research advisor to graduate students.

Teaching
"Earth Dynamics" - University of Texas Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Institute for Geophysics, Lecturer Fall 2006: Organization and co-teaching (70%) of Earth Dynamics. The class syllabus included the teaching of the concepts of: (1) stress, strain linked to elastic, viscous, visco-elastic and plastic material constitutive relationships. (2) Plate flexure, heat diffusion and advection, post-glacial rebound, viscous flow in the Earth, Stokes flow, convection. (3) Numerical methods to solve transport and diffusion equations.

"Numerical Models of Deformation: Implications of Rheology" - Faculty (August 5-12 at Colorado College): A Summer School in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences (ISES) in Rheology of Earth Materials, teaching of Numerical models of deformation: Implications of rheology.

GRADUATE STUDENTS
Lindsay Lowe, UT Austin, PhD Student (co-advisor)
Paresh Patel, UT Austin, PhD Student
Patricia Persaud, California Institute of Technology, Ph. D student
Volker Otto, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Ph. D student (Fall 2000)