Save the date! We are looking forward to welcoming you at the 26th TSK meeting in Freiberg (Saxony). Freiberg is a beautiful small town in the Erzgebirge, center of the 1000-years-spanning mining activity in the area and a World Heritage site. It is home to large Geo institutions such as the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, the Saxonian Geological Survey, the Sächsisches Oberbergamt, the Helmholtz Institute for Resource Technology, several large geoengineering companies and World’s finest mineral collections. It is located in the heart of famous high-metamorphic Saxothuringian basement complexes such as the UHT-Granulite massif and the UHP units in the Erzgebirge.

According to the initial intention of TSK, we encourage especially young scientists, Postdocs, PhD students, and undergraduate students, to come to this meeting.

We invite contributions from all disciplines related to TSK:
• Structural Geology and Tectonics
• Regional Geology, Variscan and Alpine Orogeny
• Sedimentary Processes and Paleogeographic Reconstructions
• Metamorphic and Magmatic Petrology, Geochemistry
• Microstructures, Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Experimental Rock Deformation
• Geo- and Thermochronology
• Structural geology and Resource Geology, Ores and Geothermal Energy, Nuclear Waste Storage
• Neotectonics, Earthquakes and Active Fault Zones
• Mantle Processes, Early Earth and Planetary Evolution
• Numerical and Analogue Modelling across Scales
• Structural Geology and Society, Structural Geology and Field Geology in Education
• …

The meeting schedule will follow the traditional scheme:

Monday, 23rd: Teaser workshops.
“Microstructure analysis with the Mtex toolbox” (Rüdiger Kilian, Halle)
“Thermal history modelling of thermochronological data with QTQt” (Florian Trilsch, Freiberg)
“Thermodynamic phase modelling with Theriak-Domino” (Thorsten Nagel, Freiberg)
Monday night: Icebreaker event in the Department for Geology.

Tuesday, 24th – Thursday, 26th: Conference (talks and posters). Venue for this will the new library building of the TUBAF.
Thursday night: Evening Event.

Friday, 27th – Saturday, 28th: Field trips. These will include a visit to the famous university-owned silver mine on Friday morning and trips to the Erzgebirge, the Saxon Granulite Massif and the Lausitz.

Feel free to contact us with ideas for the meeting (tsk21@tu-freiberg.de).
We will distribute a second circular and open registration in October.

See you next March in Freiberg,
Blanka, Florian, Iskander, Jörg, Raymond, Thorsten, Uwe, and Arite with many others.