The annual MSG ‘Research in Progress’ (RiP) meeting was held at the University of Bristol on 26–28 March. The meeting comprised a one-day kinetics workshop, led by John Wheeler (University of Liverpool), followed by a two-day conference. The meeting was held as a hybrid event, with 39 people in person, and 16 people joining online. In total, 16 countries were represented, reflecting the increasing international profile of MSG.
Twenty-seven talks were given across the two days of the conference, covering a range of topics spanning from traditional regional studies of metamorphic terranes to modern machine learning approaches to petrographic datasets. A poster session was also held on the first evening, comprising eleven posters.
The meeting finished with the presentation of the 2024 Barrow award to Pierre Lanari (University of Bern, Switzerland), who gave a highly thought-provoking presentation on ‘Unlocking Earth’s secrets: Methods for probing metamorphic Processes’. Alessia Borghini (AGH University of Kraków, Poland) also gave a fascinating keynote talk on ‘Melt inclusions in eclogites record deep element cycles and element transfer to the mantle’. Finally, Richard Taylor (Zeiss) gave a talk on behalf of Zeiss microscopy, who generously sponsored the event, on the cutting edge of ‘How deep learning is changing microscopy’. We were delighted that all invited speakers were able to attend the event in person.
Alix Osinchuk (University of British Columbia, Canada) was awarded the student talk prize, with a special commendation given to Hero Bain (University of Bristol). Thorsten Markmann (University of Bern, Switzerland) was awarded the best student poster prize, with a special commendation given to Nicholas Lucas (University of Cambridge).
Special thanks to Freya George (University of Bristol) for organising the meeting, the University of Bristol for hosting the event, Zeiss for sponsoring the event and the student poster prize, and John Wheeler for running the kinetics workshop.
Attendees at the MSG 2024 RiP conference, Wills Memorial Building, Bristol University
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