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2019 Commencement Celebration
The Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences (EPSS) invites all of our graduating students and their families and friends to join us for a special celebration.
InSight brings the first piece of UCLA to the surface of Mars
Insight Brings the First Piece of UCLA to the Surface of Mars
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Upcoming Events
EPSS 295B - EPSS Colloquium
Title: Darwin’s First Theory: Exploring Charles Darwin’s Quest to Find a Theory of the Earth
Date: April 2, 2019
Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Rob Wesson
EPSS 245C - Tectonics & Seismology Seminar
Title: 3-D mapping of the "Paleo-Pacific" slabs in the lower mantle and its implications for Mesozoic East Asian tectonics
Date: April 3, 2019
Time: noon - 1 p.m.
Speaker: Yiduo Liu
EPSS 286A - Planetary Science Seminar
Title: The Strange Case of Phaethon
Date: April 5, 2019
Time: noon - 1 p.m.
Speaker: David Jewitt
EPSS 295B - EPSS Colloquium
Title: A Twenty-First Century View of Plutons
Date: April 9, 2019
Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Allen Glazner
EPSS 245C - Tectonics & Seismology Seminar
Title: Transient rheology during earthquakes: insight from nanotextures and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry of hematite fault mirrors
Date: April 10, 2019
Time: noon - 1 p.m.
Speaker: Alexis Ault
