CAS kickoff meeting, "Voodoo Tectonics organized by Professor Trond Helge Torsvik, groupleader of the CAS research project Mantle Dynamics: Linking Surface and Deep processes.

Lectures by CAS Fellows:

• Trond Torsvik: “Introduction and Welcome”
• Trond Torsvik: “CAS Objectives — Mantle Dynamics: Linking Surface and Deep processes”
• Reidar Trønnes: “Structure, Materials and Dynamics of the Mantle‐Core Boundary Region”
• Carmen Gaina: “The Early opening of the Indian Ocean: An African Perspective”
• Clint Conrad: “The Anisotropic Constraint on Global Mantle Flow and Net Lithosphere Rotation”
• Dietmar Müller: “Building a Virtual Geological Observatory”
• Douwe van Hinsbergen: “India‐Asia Collision Revisited”
• Rob Van der Voo: “Chaotic paleomagnetic signals from the Ediacaran: Could the geomagnetic
• field be to blame?”
• Mike Gurnis: “The Dynamics of Plate Tectonics and Mantle Flow: From Local to Global Scales”
• Pavel Doubrovine: “Absolute plate motions: Hotspotting vs. slab‐fitting”
• Susanne Buiter: “Dynamic subduction models: how initial choices affect the outcomes”
• Bernhard Steinberger: “Subduction history and TPW”
• Kevin Burke: “60 years of attractions and repulsions within the Earth's magnetic field”
• Stephanie Werner: “Beyond Voodoo Tectonics: A View from other Planets”