Symposium (Aug. 27-28)

Jean Francheteau, Professor at the University of Brest, was, in the seventies and eighties, one of the privileged witnesses and actors in the elaboration of the theory of plate tectonics and in the exploration of the mid-ocean ridge system. He is, for instance, one of the discoverers of hydrothermal sites along the East Pacific Rise, true oases for ecosystems totally unknown until then and major sites of exchanges between the Earth interior and the ocean.

This symposium is an opportunity to recall the eminent scientific stature of Jean Francheteau by gathering in Brest some of the major figures in these discoveries and, in a historical perspective, to review the state of the art in some research areas opened by Jean Francheteau.

The detailed program will be provided soon.

The Symposium will also serve as an introduction to the following Summer School.

Invited speakers

• Xavier Le Pichon (Collège de France)
• Robert Ballard (URI Center for Ocean Exploration)
• Jason W Morgan (Princeton University)
• Pierre Choukroune (Université Aix-Marseille)
• Richard Gordon (Rice Univervity)
• Catherine Mevel (IPG Paris)
• Paul Tapponnier (Earth Observatory of Singapore)
• Emile Okal (Northwestern University)
• Michel Diament (IPG Paris)
• Francis Albarède (ENS Lyon)
• Thierry Juteau (Université de Brest)
• Richard Hey (University of Hawaii)
• Mathilde Cannat (IPG Paris)
• Michael Perfit (University of Florida, Gainesville)
• Claude Jaupart  (IPG Paris)