Dr. Luc Lavier
Student Involvement
Cordillera Darwin, March 2010
UTIG's research associate, Luc Lavier, has taught classes on geodynamics and deformation. He also serves as research advisor to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
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
Eakin, Dan, UT Austin, PhD Student (co-advisor)
Lester, Ryan, UT Austin, PhD Student (co-advisor)
Liz Logan, UT Austin, PhD Student
Lindsay Lowe, UT Austin, PhD Student (co-advisor) (2010)
Paresh Patel, UT Austin, PhD Student
Patricia Persaud, California Institute of Technology, Ph. D student (2003)
Volker Otto, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Ph. D student (Fall 2000)