
	DAVID BERCOVICI *Professor and Chair* $\includegraphics$ Over-cooked chicken....again. (Photo: Joe Babarsky) Research interests: Geophysical and geological fluid dynamics; Nonlinear science, self-organization Research topics: Mantle convection; Lithosphere dynamics and origin of plate tectonics; Hotspots and mantle plumes Teaching: Undergraduate: GG100 Natural Hazards; GG326 Introduction to Geophysics. Graduate: GG525 Continuum mechanics; GG560 Theory of Viscous Flow; GG780 Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics; (other topics: Planetary physics; Potential theory (gravity, magnetics, heatflow); Nonlinear science; Applied mathematics.)