GEOFUTURE 
Planning Sessions  and Student Activities
THURSDAY November 29
Students: Geo.X partner institutes   Researchers, project leaders and guests: GEO-FUTURE discussions  
9.00 Group A:  (max 33)          
  Bus to Free University Berlin   9.00 Future initiatives: general discussions Auditorium Haus H  
  full-day visit to Dept. of Earth Sciences   Opening address Joachim  Rüss, BMBF     
17:30 Bus pick-up for Urania lecture        
  (lunch packets provided on bus)   ca. 11.00 Coffee and breakout into groups   Seminar rooms Haus H
           
9.00 Group B: (max 40)     13.00 Lunch in GFZ cantine     
  Public transport to Natural History Museum      
  half-day tour, return to Potsdam   14.00 Continue group discussions as needed Seminar rooms Haus H
14:00 Lunch in GFZ cantine         coffee available in foyer    
15.00 General discussion in plenum   Auditorium Haus H  
All participants: Evening lecture at the Urania Hall in Berlin
16:00 Soup and snacks in GFZ cantine
17:30 Buses leave for Berlin
19:30 Prof. Maarten deWit   Earth Stewardship Science with Everyone a Stakeholder
22:00 Return to Potsdam 
FRIDAY November 30
Students: Short course alternatives  
9.00 - 11:00 Sedimentary Basins & Hydrocarbon Systems Researchers, project leaders and external guests      
room VR2 by W. Sonibare          
      9.00 Business meetings etc. (ad hoc)   Seminar rooms Haus H
9.00 - 11:00 Layered Mafic Intrusions & Ore Systems 10:00 Remote SIMS node South Africa ( room VR1)    
room VR3 by Dr. I. Veksler          
      13.00 Lunch in GFZ cantine     
13.0o Lunch in GFZ cantine                     
Registered participants only                      
14:00 - 17:00           Potsdam visitors tour    
18:00 - 24:00          Farewell Dinner and Party, Restaurant Walhalla Potsdam