Paleomagnetism and supercontinents: resolving the Rodinia puzzle
Professor Rob Van der Voo
College of Literature, Science & the Arts, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, USA

Unravelling proterozoic earth processes through mineral deposits - the temporal distribution of mineral deposits: a strong reflection of tectonic and lithospheric evolution
Professor David Groves
Director, Centre for Global Metallogeny M004, University of Western Australia

Geodynamic modelling and orogenic processes
Professor David Yuen
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Supercomputer Institute, University of Minnesota, USA

Rodinia: refined and revised
Professor Ian Dalziel
The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Paleogeography, paleomagnetics and global glaciations
Dr David Evans
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, USA

Rodinia descendants in South America
Professor Reinhardt Fuck
Instituto de Geociencias, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil

topic to be advised
Professor Dr Onno Oncken
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany

Rodinia: the African perspective
Dr Richard Hanson
Department of Geology, Texas Christian University, USA

Origin and setting of global glaciations
Professor Paul Hoffman
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, USA

Assembling Australia
Dr Russell Korsch
Geoscience Australia

Crustal structure of accretionary and collisional orogens based on seismic transects
Professor Larry Brown
Cornell University, USA

Metamorphic patterns in accretionary and collisional orogens - secular variation in metamorphic regimes and punctuated tectonic evolution of earth
Professor Mike Brown
Department of Geology, University of Maryland, USA

Rates of crustal recycling and implications for paleogeographic reconstructions
Professor David Scholl
Department of Geophysics
Stanford University, USA