Reflections on CIDER ‘08 & Outlook for the Future CIDER ‘09 Community Workshop May 18th 10 am Jackie Li University of Illinois

Mercury’s “Snowing” Core Mercury Chen et al. 08

Mercury’s “Snowing” Core Mercury Chen et al. 08 TmTm T ad Temperature Depth Cooling

Snowing Iron in Planetary Cores Ganymede Hauck et al. 06 Mars Stewart et al. 07

Earth’s Core TmTm T ad Temperature Depth Cooling Buffett 01

Mysterious Seismic Observations High attenuation PKP-Cdiff Wen 06, Cao et al. 07 Bumps Zou et al. 08

Snowfall in Earth’s Core? Shan Dou Garrett Euler Stan Hart Louise Kellogg Cin-Ty Lee Michael Manga Barbara Romanowicz Bin Chen Vernon Cormier Lili Gao David Gubbins Kuang He Svetlana Kharlamova Hongfeng Yang U. Illinois U. Connecticut U. Illinois U. Leeds U. Connecticut Carnegie Inst. Washington Saint Louis U. Li et al AGU Fall Meeting

Snowfall in Earth’s Core? Li et al AGU Fall Meeting

My CIDER Experience Lectures Instructors, topics, coverage, discussions Tutorials e.g. EoS Interactions Officemates Tutorials Social activities Projects Compare AGU Gordon Conference COMPRES

My Students’ Experience

My Thoughts on Future CIDERs Projects: Organization and follow-up Time Commitment Excellent leadership & admin. support KITP? or elsewhere? CIDER on the net? CIDER internship? Min. Physics The INSTITUTION