MSG Research in Progress Videos 2023

The main activity by MSG was to host the annual ‘Research in Progress’ meeting, which was held at the University of Oxford on 4–5^th April, with an ice-breaker event on the 3^rd April. The meeting was held as a hybrid event, and well attended, with 69 people in person, and 20 people joining online. In total, 16 countries were represented.

Forty-one talks were given across the two days, covering a range of topics including kinetics, petrochronology, and traditional regional studies of metamorphic terranes. Keynote talks were given by Donna Whitney (University of Minnesota, USA) and Iwona Klonowska (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland), with Frank Spear (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) giving the Barrow award winner’s talk. All keynote and award winner presenters attended the event in person. Maria Margarita Ariza-Acero (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) was awarded the student talk prize. A poster session was also held on the final evening, comprising sixteen posters. Omar Droubi (Penn State, USA) was awarded the student poster prize. The international nature of all keynotes and student prizes speaks to the increasing international profile that MSG has received following successful online conferences during COVID.

Thanks to Zeiss for sponsoring the ice-breaker event and the student poster prize. Thanks also to Richard Palin (University of Oxford) for being the lead organiser. Freya George has offered to host MSG at Bristol University in 2024; this will be discussed at our next committee meeting on 10^th May 2024.

We also held an AGM at the RiP meeting. The only change to the committee was that Nicholas Lucas (University of Cambridge) replaced Isabel Carter (AGH-UST, Poland) as student representative and webmaster. 

MSG 2023 RiP conference, St Anne’s College, Oxford