Research in Progress meeting 2026

Oxford - July 8th and 9th

RiP 2026	Registration	Programme	Information

Programme

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This year’s Research in Progress meeting will begin on the afternoon of Wednesday 8th July and conclude on the afternoon of Thursday 9th.

Register now to showcase your own research in this year’s meeting!

A meeting dinner and group photo will be held on the Wednesday evening. The MPG AGM will take place after the meetings close on Thursday, all are welcome.

Further details will be provided after the close of abstract submissions (29th May).

Invited Speakers

• Holger Stunitz (University of Tromsø)
  • Recent advances in experimental quartz rheology and consequences for the plastic deformation of other silicates.
• Banusha Kugabalan (Imperial College London)
  • Determining palaeostress signals using rock magnetism.
• Benjamin Hess (University of Oxford)
  • Thermodynamics of Stressed Crystals: Stress–Composition Coupling and Its Geological Consequences.
• Zhi Li (University College London)
  • Predictive Modeling of Chemically Complex Earth-Forming Materials via Deep-Learning-Driven Atomistic Simulations.