2024
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Moderation of panel discussion “Climate Science : Key Take Aways”,
United Nations Climate Conference (COP29), Baku, Azerbaijan, 12 November.
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“Advancing Frontiers of Science for Geohazard Risk Reduction", AGW,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, 30 October.
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“Why earthquakes cause disasters and how to
counteract it?”, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 19 April.
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“Data Driven Numerical Modelling in Geodynamics”,
Department of Civit Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, 14 February.
2023
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“Advancing Frontiers of Disaster Science”, Institute
for Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, 6 December.
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“Data-Driven Numerical Modelling in Geodynamical
Problems: Success and Challenges”, Italian National Institute of Geophysics and
Volcanology, Rome, Italy, 28 September.
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“East European Sedimentary Basins Stewed Over an
Ancient Mantle Upwelling”, Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences,
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 29 March.
2022
- “Fostering international research cooperation”, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Chicago, USA, 12 December 2022 (online)
- “Data-Driven Numerical Modelling and Data Assimilation in Geodynamics”, XIV International Conference and School «Problems of Geocosmos - 2022», St. Petersburg, Russia, 3 October 2022 (online)
- “Advancing Frontiers of Disaster Science”, AGU Distinguished Lecture Series at the Baku State University, Baku, Azerbaijan, 1 September 2022 http://bsu.edu.az/en/news/professor_of_the_karlsruhe_institute_of_technology_delivers_lecture_at_bsu
- “Advancing Frontiers of Disaster Science”, AGU Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Maryland - College Park, USA, 27 July 2022 (online)
- “Advancing Frontiers of Disaster Science”, UNAM Foundation and AGU Distinguished Lecture Series, Universities for Science Consortium, Mexico City, Mexico, 14 June 2022 (online) https://www.facebook.com/UNAMUK/videos/1132876103925383
- “Advancing Frontiers of Disaster Science”, AGU Distinguished Lecture Series at the international webinar, Banaras Hindu University, India, 10 March 2022 (online)
- “Science of Natural Hazards and Risks to Impact Policymaking”, February Readings, National Academy, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2 February 2022 (online)
2021
- “International Year of Caves and Karst”, Opening of the IYCK2021, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, 13 September 2021
- “Lithospheric block-and-fault dynamics modelling: What did we learn about large earthquake occurrences and seismic hazard?” IAGA-IASPEI Scientific Assembly, Hyderabad, India, 21-27 August 2021 (online)
- “Nexus of Earth observations, natural hazard analysis and risk assessments to impact policymaking”, XXIV Congress of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), 9 July 2021, Nice, France (online)
- “Nexus of Earth observations, natural hazard analysis and risk assessments to impact policymaking”, National Science Foundation – American Geophysical Union Workshop on Bringing Land, Ocean, Atmosphere and Ionosphere Data to the Community for Hazard Alerts, 24-28 May 2021 (online) https://agu.confex.com/agu/21workshop2/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/789033
2020 (online)
- “Assessment and Accountability of Scientific Knowledge Creation: Considering the Present and Future of AGU”, Union Session, Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, 1-17 December 2020
- “Data-Driven Modelling and Analysis in Geodynamics”, International Conference on Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems and Processes (MACSPro'2020), 22-24 October 2020
- “Data-Driven Geodynamic Modelling: Success and Challenges”, Asia-Oceania Geosciences Society, Seoul, South Korea (cancelled, due to COVID-19)
- “Deterministic versus probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for the Shillong Plateau”, European Geoscience Union General Assembly, D1850 | EGU2020-3834, 6 May 2020
- “Lava Crust Development Inferred from Numerical Models and Surface Thermal Measurements”, International Geological Congress, Delhi, India, 2-8 March 2020 (cancelled, due to COVID-19)
2019
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“Centennial of the International Cooperation in Earth and Space
Sciences”, IUGG Centennial Day at UNESCO, Paris, France, 29 July 2019
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“Quantitative Modeling of Continental Lithosphere Dynamics, Large
Earthquakes, and Seismic Hazard Assessment”, 27th IUGG General
Assembly, Montreal, Canada, 8-18 July 2019
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“Role of Science in Advancing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction”, 27th IUGG General Assembly, Montreal, Canada, 8-18 July
2019
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“Centennial of the international cooperation in Earth and space
sciences”, Japan Geosciences Union, Annual Meeting, Chiba, Japan, 26-30 May
2019
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“Science and Policy dialogue: A review of Hazard Terminology and the need
for enhancing interdisciplinary collaboration”, Chair of panel, Global Platform
for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, Switzerland, 13-17 May 2019
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“From the Geological Past to the Present: 4D Data Assimilation in
Geodynamic Models”, Forum on Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE), Beijing, China,
26-28 February 2019.
2018
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“International Scientific Cooperation to Address Challenges Facing
Society”, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), 10-14 December
2018.
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“Paradigm Shift in Disaster Science: Transdisciplinary System Analysis
with Action-Oriented Research”, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union
(AGU), 10-14 December 2018.
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“International Cooperation in Earth and Space Sciences”, Mexican
Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 29 October 2018.
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“Paradigm Shift in Disaster Science: Transdisciplinary System Analysis
with Action-Oriented Research”, International Summit on Earth Science: Earth
Sciences and Sustainable Development, Beijing, China, 21 August 2018.
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“Geodynamics and geodesy for earthquake modeling and seismic hazards of
the Tibet-Himalayan region”, International Symposium on Geodesy and Geodynamics
– Tectonics, Earthquake, and Geohazards (ISGG 2018), Kunmiing,
China, 30 July – 2 August 2018.
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“Geodynamic modelling, hazard
assessment and forecasting of great earthquakes”, General Assembly of the Asia
Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Honolulu, USA, 3-8 June 2018.
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“Science-based Geohazard Risk Reduction”, International Conference on
Geoinformation for Disaster Management (GI4DM2018), Istanbul, Turkey, 18-21
March 2018.
2017
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“Direct and Inverse Problems in Models of Lava Flow”, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, 5 December 2017.
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“Disaster risk research, synthesis, and assessment”, Global Forum on
Science and Technology for Disaster Resilience, Tokyo, Japan, 24 November 2017.
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“The role of scientific unions in promotion of international geoscience”,
Royal Jordanian Geographic Centre, Amman, Jordan, 9 November 2017.
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“Disaster risk reduction for sustainable development”, National Aviation
Academy, Baku, Azerbaijan, 8 September 2017 (invited by the President of the Academy Arif Pashayev, and Academy’s
Senior Adviser Roald Sagdeev, a former Science Adviser to Soviet President
Michael Gorbachev).
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“From lithosphere dynamics and earthquake
modelling through seismic hazard and risk assessments to disaster risk
reduction: A long way towards seismic safety and sustainability”, Conference on Earthquake
Engineering and Seismology – 6CNIS & 2CNISS, Bucharest, Romania, 14-17 June
2017.
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“Integrating
Natural Hazard Science with Disaster Risk Reduction Policy”, Fourth World Landslides Forum,
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 31 May 2017.
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“Seismic hazards and risks: can we assess them?” Lecture at the
Department of Earth Sciences, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku,
Azerbaijan, 18 April 2017.
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“Constraining lava flow and temperature from
surface thermal measurements”, European science Foundation Workshop
on Uncertainty Quantification in Lava Flow Hazard Modelling, Catania, Italy, 21-23 February 2017.
2016
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“Data-driven numerical modelling in geodynamics
and tectonophysics”, Moscow, Russia,
3-7 October 2016.
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“Geohazard research for
disaster risk reduction”, Second China Congress on Geodesy and Goephysics, Nanjing, China, 23-25 September 2016 (keynote
lecture).
- “Toward paradigm shift in disaster risk research”, UArctic Congress, St. Petersburg, Russia, 13-17 September 2016.
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“Geohazard modeling and
assessment for disaster risk reduction”, International
Conference on Data Intensive System Analysis for Geohazard Studies, Sochi,
Russia, 18-21 July 2016.
2015
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“Science-Driven Disaster Risk
Research and Assessment”, AGU Fall
Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 14-18 December 2015.
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“Seismic and Volcanic Hazards
and Risks”, Distinguished Lecture Program,
Mexican Academy of Sciences, Mexico
City, Mexico, 12 November 2015
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“Seismic Hazard, Earthquakes, and Disasters: Could We Predict Them?” The
10th International Workshop on Modern Methods of Processing and
Interpretation of Seismological Data, Novkhany,
Azerbaijan, 14-18 September 2015.
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“Data Assimilation in Geodynamical Modelling:
Methods and Some Applications”,
Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC2015), ETH, Zurich,
Switzerland, 1-3 June 2015.
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“Inverse problems in dynamics of the Earth's mantle”, 2015 Joint
Mathematics Meetings, American Mathematical Society and Mathematical
Association of America, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 11 January 2015.
2014
- “Science-driven approach to disaster risk reduction”, International Conference “Improving Geophysical Risk Assessment, Forecasting, and Management (GEORISK2014)”, Madrid, Spain, 18-21 November 2014.
- “International cooperation in geodesy and geophysics to benefit the society”, CNC-IUGG Conference “From Global Change to Future Earth”, Beijing, China, 23-25 October 2014.
- “How to be prepared to unexpected extreme seismic event: from science to actions”, International Workshop EMSEV2014, Lesna, Poland, 22-26 September 2014.
- “Data Assimilation in Geodynamical Models”, International Workshop on the Frontiers of Computational Geodynamics, Beijing, China, 30 June 2014.
- “Where, When and Why an Earthquake Hazard becomes a disaster?”, International Institute of Applied System Analysis, Laxemburg, Austria, 29 April 2014.
- “Disaster Risk and Society”, 50th anniversary of the Indian Geophysical Union, Hyderabad, India, 9 January 2014.
2013
- “Extreme Seismicity and Disaster Risk: Hazard versus Vulnerability”, Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, USA, 11 December 2013.
- “International Cooperation in Geosciences for the Benefit of Society”, Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly (DACA-13), Davos, Switzerland, 8-12 July 2013.
- “Inverse Retrospective Problems in Geodynamics”, SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Padova, Italy, 17-20 June 2013.
2012
- “Modeling, Forecasting and Mitigating Extreme Earthquakes”, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 3-7 December 2012.
- “Extreme Geohazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications”, Axford Lecture, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Singapore, 13 August 2012
- “Extreme GeoHazards and Disaster Risk Research: International Perspectives”, U.S.-Russian Symposium of the Intergovernmental Working Group on Science and Technology of the Bilateral Presidential Commission “Developing a road map to improved disaster risk reduction through collaborative actions”, Moscow, Russia, 17 July 2012
- “International Cooperation in Earth Sciences”, Euroscience Open Forum, Dublin, Ireland, 13 July 2012
- “Geodynamics and Intermediate-Depth Seismicity in the SE Carpathians”, International Conference on Moldavian Risks, Bacău, Romania, 17 May 2012.
- “Extreme Seismicity and Societal Implications”, First Workshop of Asia-Pacific Region Global Earthquake and Volcanic Eruption Risk Management, Tsukuba, Japan, 24 February 2012.
- “Understanding Extreme Seismic Events”, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 17 January 2012.
- “Geodynamics, Seismicity and Seismic Hazard of the South-Eastern Carpathians (Central Europe)”, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 16 January 2012.
2011
- “Modeling and Predicting Extreme Seismic Events”, European Science Foundation Conference on Understanding Extreme Geohazards, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, 29 November 2011.
- “Extreme seismic hazards and disasters: from basic science to preventive disaster management”, IRDR Conference “Disaster Risk: Integrating Science and Practice”, Beijing, China, 2 November 2011.
- “Extreme seismic events: from basic science to preventive disaster management”, General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Sciences (URSI), Istanbul, Turkey, 19 August 2011.
- “The Pacific plate subduction beneath the Japanese island arc: Insight from the past”, IUGG General Assembly, Melbourne, Australia, 3 July 2011.
- “Contribution of computational geophysics to the CTBT monitoring system”, IUGG General Assembly, Melbourne, Australia, 3 July 2011.
- “Numerical modeling in geodynamics and seismicity: Success stories and perspectives”, Workshop on Seismic and Aseismic Deformation in Crustal Domain Subject to Very Slow Deformation Rates, Mt Ste Odile, France, June 1, 2011.
- “Extreme seismic hazards: From modelling and prediction to preventive disaster management”, Conference “Geoinformation for Disaster Management”, Antalya, Turkey, 7 May 2011.
- “Modeling of extreme seismic events”, International Workshop on Extreme Natural Hazards and Disaster Risks in Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, 18 January 2011.
- “Advances in predicting evolution of the Earth interior”, Technical University of Vienna (TUWien), 13 January 2011.
2010
- “Extreme natural events: from modeling and forecasting to societal needs”, Round-Table Discussion at the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Cairo, Egypt, 1 November 2010.
- “Inverse problems and data assimilations in geodynamics” (keynote lecture), Second International Conference on Data Analysis and Modelling in Earth Sciences DAMES’2010, Lisbon, Portugal, 22-24 September 2010.
- “Geodynamics and seismicity of the Vrancea region: Insight from the past”, AGU Joint Meeting of Americas, Iguassu, Brazil, 9-12 August 2010.
- “Modelling and predicting extreme seismic events”, AGU Chapman Conference on Complexity and Extreme Events in Geosciences, Hyderabad, India, 15–19 February 2010.
- “Numerical techniques for solving inverse retrospective problems of thermal evolution of the Earth interior”, Seminar of the Workgroup on Inverse Problems, Department of Mathematics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 20 January 2010.
2009
- “Inverse retrospective problems in geodynamics”, ESF-ILP-Academie Europeaea TOPO-Europe Workshop, Heidelberg, Germany, 15-17 October 2009.
- “Extreme geophysical events: From modeling and prediction to preventive disaster management”, 2009 Joint Assembly: The Meeting of the Americas, American Geophysical Union, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 24-27 May 2009.
- “Direct and inverse problems in geodynamics”, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland, March 2009.
- “Direct and inverse problems in dynamics of the geosphere”, Department of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy, University of Vienna, Austria, January 2009.
2008
- “Reconstructing the geodynamic conditions for Japan Sea opening back to Early Miocene”, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan, 3 December 2008.
- “Computational geodynamics as a research tool in geohazard analysis” (invited key-note), International Geological Congress, Oslo, August 2008.
- “Data assimilation methods in geodynamical models” (invited lecture), International Workshop on Advanced Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics, University of California, Davis, July 2008.
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“Reduzierung
von geologischen und meteorologischen Risiken”, RisiKa
Internationaler Kongress und Fachmesse,
Kongresszentrum Karlsruhe, April 2008.
- “Extreme seismic events in the Vrancea region” (invited key-note lecture), International Conference on Extreme Events, Causes and Consequences, Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris, France, March 2008.
2007
- “Geophysical hazards and preventive disaster management of extreme natural events”, Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, USA, December, 2007.
- “Extreme Seismic Events” (key-note lecture), International Conference on 50th Anniversary of the International Geophysical Year and Symposium on Natural Disasters and Risks in the Modern World, Suzdal, Russia, September 2007.
- “Earthquakes: From basic science and prediction to preventive disaster management” (invited talk), Union Symposium US8 “Earthquake prediction: what can be done with the best science available?”, General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, Vienna, 19 April 2007.
- “How hot is the upper mantle beneath the Japanese islands?” (invited talk), Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 16 February 2007.
2006
- “Computational geodynamics and seismology toward the understanding of extreme seismic events” (key-note lecture), International Conference on Global Change, Islamabad, Pakistan, 11-17 November 2006.
- “Extreme Seismic Events: From Science to Preventive Disaster Management” (plenary key-note lecture), General Assembly of the Asian Seismological Commission, Bangkok, Thailand, 8 November 2006.
- “Crustal Dynamics, Earthquake and Fault Slip Rate Modelling in Tibet and Himalayans” (invited talk), General Assembly of the Asian Seismological Commission, Bangkok, Thailand, 7 November 2006.
2005
- “Variational data assimilation in mantle dynamics”, AGU Fall Meeting, December 5-9, 2005.
- Lectures on computational geodynamics and seismicity, International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Earthquake Prediction, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, October 3-15, 2005.
- “Numerical modelling of salt diapirism: Methods, results and perspectives” (Key-note lecture), International Conference on Adaptive Modelling and Simulation (ADMOS 2005), Barcelona, Spain, September 10, 2005.
- “Numerical modelling in tectonics and earthquake predictions” (Key-note lecture), IGOS GeoHazards Workshop, BRGM, Orleans, France, June 28, 2005.
- “Buoyancy-driven contemporary tectonic stress and intermediate-depth seismicity in Europe”,Uppsala University, Sweden, June 10, 2005.
- “Numerical modeling of salt extrusion”, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Houston, USA,May 26, 2005.
- “Quantitative modelling of crustal block-and-fault dynamics and seismicity in the Tibet-Himalayan region”, General Assembly of the European Geoscience Union, Vienna, Austria, April 28, 2005.
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“Data
assimilation in mantle dynamics: Numerical experiments”, Institut de Physique
du Globe de Paris, France, March 14, 2005.
Before 2004
- “Dynamics of descending lithospheric slab, stress and seismicity: Application to the SE-Carpathians”, University of Bonn, Germany, December 5, 2003
- “Computational geodynamics: Problems, methods, results and perspectives”, University of Graz, Austria, October 20, 2003.
- “Stress and seismicity in areas of descending relic slabs”, Seventh International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Earthquake Prediction, Miramare, Trieste, Italy, 29 September - 11 October 2003.
- “On the forward and backward modeling of mantle dynamics”, Seventh International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Earthquake Prediction, Miramare, Trieste, Italy, 29 September - 11 October 2003.
- “Dynamic structural restoration of sedimentary basins containing diapiric salt structures: quantitative approach and its applications”, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, Texas, USA, July 25, 2003.
- “Numerical approach to solving problems of slow viscous flow backwards in time”, M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 17-20, 2003.
- “Inverse problem of mantle convection” (invited poster), Gordon Conference “Interior of the Earth”, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USA, June 8-13, 2003.
- “Geodynamics, tectonic stress and seismicity of the SE-Carpathians and Central Apennines: similarity and differences”, University of Trieste, Italy, December 2002.
- “Eulerian finite-element method and its application to problems of geodynamics”, Workshop on geodynamical modeling, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland, September 17, 2002.
- “Geodynamics, seismicity and stress in the descending lithosphere beneath the SE-Carpathians inferred from analytical to 3D numerical modeling”, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany, July 3, 2003
- “Dynamics of the descending lithosphere in the SE-Carpathians”, Colloquium “Weighing the Earth Through Plumes and Volcanoes in Iceland and Elsewhere”, Institut f?r Geowissenschaften, Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz, May 2002.
- “Geodynamics and seismicity of the southeastern Carpathians inferred from analytical to three-dimensional numerical modeling”, Symposium “Challenges for Earth Sciences in the 21st Century”, Universitaet Karlsruhe, April 2002.
- “Restoration of geological profiles: Quantitative approach”, ENI-AGIP company, Milan, Italy, October 2001.
- “Numerical modeling in problems of geophysical fluid dynamics”, Sixth International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Earthquake Prediction, Miramare, Trieste, Italy, October 2001.
- “Dynamics of the lithosphere associated with magmatism, phase transformations, and sedimentary basin formation”, Joint Colloquium of the Department of Geology, Geophysics and Geochemisty of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, December 2000.
- “Salt structures and oil in the Pricaspian basin”, International Conference on Geodynamics of Caspian and Black Sea Regions, Baku, Azerbaijan, June 1999.
- “Eclogitization-Induced Mantle Flow Mechanism of Sedimentary Basin Evolution”, Zonenshain International Conference on plate tectonics, Moscow, Russia, February 1998.
- “On New Ideas in Global and Regional Dynamics of the Earth”, Moscow Colloquium on Theoretical Physics at Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences - invited by V.L. Ginzburg, Nobel Prize in Physics, Moscow, Russia, March 1997.
- “Numerical Modeling of Gravitational Instability of Geostructures”, Colloquium of the Center for Parallel Computers of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, September 1996.