Workshop on Synergy of 21st Century High-Pressure Science and Technology
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois USA
April 29 - May 1, 2006

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April 28

Friday

 

18:00 – 20:00

Registration/Reception at Argonne Guest House

 

 

 

April 29

Saturday

Workshop on Synergy of HP – Day 1

 

Breakfast at Guest House

8:30 – 8:45

APS Auditorium

Opening Session

 

8:30

Opening
Ho-kwang Mao

8:35

Welcome
J. Murray Gibson

 

 

8:45 – 10:45

APS Auditorium

Session 1: Integrated High-Pressure Science

Chair: William A. Bassett

8:45

Synergy of High-Pressure Research
Ho-kwang Mao

9:15

The Chemical Imagination at Work in Very Tight Places
Roald Hoffmann

9:45

Electronic Structure of Materials under High Pressure
Chi-Chang Kao

10:15

Planetary High Pressure Physics Inside and Outside Our Solar System
David J. Stevenson

10:45 – 11:00

Coffee break

 

 

11:00 – 12:30

APS Auditorium

Session 2: Dense Condensed-Matter Physics - I

Chair: Malcolm F. Nicol

11:00

Current Problems in High-Pressure Science
Russell J. Hemley

11:30

Phonon Thermodynamics in Materials under Extreme Conditions
Brent Fultz

11:45

Interfaces at High Pressure

Dana D. Dlott

12:00

Optical Spectroscopy under Extreme Conditions

Alexander Goncharov

12:15

Magnetism and Superconductivity at High Pressures

Viktor V. Struzhkin

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch at Guest House

 

 

14:00 – 15:45

APS Auditorium

Session 3: Dense Condensed-Matter Physics-II

Chair: Russell J. Hemley

14:00

Understanding Condensed Matter at Extreme Conditions: How to Integrate Dynamic and Static Compression Methods

Yogendra Gupta

14:30

Grand Challenges in f-Electron Metals Research at High Pressures and Low Temperatures Using Designer Diamond Anvils
Yogesh Vohra

14:45

On Some Not-So-Sharp Phase Transitions
Malcolm F. Nicol

15:00

Spectroscopies to Aid in the BP/T Exploration of Condensed Matter Physics
Stan Tozer

15:15

Inelastic X-Ray and Nuclear Resonant Scattering

Wolfgang Sturhahn

15:30

Metallization of Structural Distortion under High Pressure

Ji Feng

15:45 – 16:00

Coffee break

 

 

16:00 – 18:00

APS Auditorium

Session 4: Chemical Bonding under Compression
 

Chair: Ross Angel

16:00

Gigabar Pressures and Kilovolt Chemistry
Raymond Jeanloz

16:30

Electronic Structure of Materials under High Pressure
Choong-Shik Yoo

16:45

Electron Density of Materials at High Pressure

Nancy Ross

17:00

Structural Transformations in Liquids and Glasses under Extreme Conditions
Jeff L. Yarger

17:15

Neutron's Prospects on the Future Hydrogen Economy

Yusheng Zhao

17:30

Experimental Opportunities at the High-Pressure Beamline 12.2.2 of the ALS
Martin Kunz

 

 

19:00 – 20:30

Dinner at Guest House

 

 

20:30 – 21:30

Facility Tour at APS

 

April 30

Sunday

Workshop on Synergy of HP – Day 2 

 

Breakfast at Guest House

 

 

8:30 – 10:15

APS Auditorium

Session 5: High Pressure Seismology and Elasticity
 

Chair: Jay Bass

8:30

Seismic Tomography and Mineral Physics: Questions to Be Answered

Adam M. Dziewonski

9:00

Review of Lower Mantle Seismic Complexity

Donald V. Helmberger

9:30

Towards Direct Seismic Waveform Inversion for Thermal and Compositional 3D Structure of the Mantle: What We Need From Mineral Physics

Barbara Romanowicz

10:00

The Role of High Pressure Mineral Physics in Geodynamics

David A. Yuen

10:15

Measuring Stress at High Pressure

Donald Weidner

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee break

 

 

10:45 – 12:15

APS Auditorium

Session 6: Mission to the Earth’s Core
 

Chair: J. Michael Brown

10:45

Evolution and dynamics of the Earth's core: Current questions and new opportunities

Bruce A. Buffett

11:15

Elasticity of Fe-rich Silicate Post-Perovskite

Wendy Mao

11:30

Thermal Expansion of Iron-Rich Alloys and the Light Element Composition of the Core 

Jie Li

 11:45

Experimental Studies of Core Materials at Core Conditions

Dion L. Heinz

12:00

Experimental Studies of Phase Diagram of Iron

Guoyin Shen

12:15

Group Picture

 

 

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch at Guest House

 

 

14:00 – 15:45

APS Auditorium

Session 7: High Pressure Mineral Sciences - I

Chair: Hans-Rudolf Wenk

14:00

Orogenic UHP Garnet Peridotite: A New Window for Mantle Petrochemical Processes
Juhn G. Liou

14:30

Hydrothermal Diamond Anvil Cell, the Value of Visual Observations
William A.  Bassett and Kenji Mibe

14:45

Determining Intersite Cation Partitioning at High Pressure
Ross Angel

15:00

Whither Mineral Physics?
J. Michael Brown

15:15

Challenges in Studying the Chemistry of Deep Interior of the Earth
Yingwei Fei

15:30

Elastic Properties of Hydrous Minerals and Implications for Seismic Studies of the Upper Mantle
Thomas S. Duffy

15:45 – 16:00

Coffee break

 

 

16:00 – 17:30

APS Auditorium

Session 8: High Pressure Mineral Sciences - II

Chair: Thomas S. Duffy

16:00

Some Recent Advances in Velocity Measurements at High Pressures and Implications for the Earth

Jay Bass

16:15

Characteristics of Thermal and Chemical Heterogeneities in the Lower Mantle

  Baosheng Li

16:30

Deformation Experiments at Ultrahigh Pressure: Where We Are and Where We Should Be Going

Hans-Rudolf Wenk

16:45

Ultrasonic Measurements of Sound Velocities in Minerals under Mantle P & T Conditions in Conjunction with Synchrotron X-Radiation

Robert C. Liebermann

17:00

High P - T Structural Refinement of CaSiO3 (±Al2O3) Perovskite
Yanbin Wang

17:15

Physical Properties of Minerals and Melts under High-Pressure

Jennifer M. Jackson

 

 

17:30 – 18:00

APS Auditorium

Session 9: Biological and Organic Systems under Pressures

Chair: Thomas S. Duffy

17:30

Opportunities at Ultra Low High Pressures
Keith Brister

17:45

Organic Synthesis and Biology at High Pressures
Anurag Sharma

18:30 – 21:00

Workshop Banquet

Bus leaves at 18:30 in front of the Guest House

 

May 1

Monday

Workshop on Synergy of HP – Day 3

 

Breakfast at Guest House

 

 

8:30 – 10:15

Room A1100

Session 10: Deep Earth Geochemistry, Petrology and Mineralogy-I

Chair: Robert C. Liebermann

8:30

Theory of Iron at High Pressure and Temperature

Ronald E. Cohen

8:45

Dissociation of MgSiO3 in the Cores of the Giants and in Terrestrial Exoplanets

Renata M. M. Wentzcovitch

9:00

The Way Frameworks Respond to Pressure

John B. Parise

9:15

High Pressure Thermal Conductivity

Anne M. Hofmeister

9:30

Effects of Hydration on Physical Properties of Mantle Minerals

Joseph Smyth

9:45

Phase Transition in the Earth's Mantle

Sang-Heon (Dan) Shim

10:00

Experimental High Pressure Mineral Physics in 3-Di

Abby Kavner

10:15

Identifying Hydration in the Mantle Transition Zone: Emerging Constraints from Mineral Physics and Seismology

Steven D. Jacobsen

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee break

 

 

10:45 – 11:45

Room A1100

Session 11: Deep Earth Geochemistry, Petrology and Mineralogy-II

Chair: Anne M. Hofmeister

10:45

Shearing Instabilities at High Pressure, Application to Deep Earthquakes, and Progress Toward Experiments In-Situ

Harry W. Green

11:00

Deep Mantle Melting and Geochemical Tests of the Transition-Zone Water-Filter Model

Shun-ichiro Karato

11:15

Melts Density Study at High Pressures Using X-Ray Absorption and Diffraction Enhanced Imaging

Jiuhua Chen

11:30

A Look Inside of Diamond-Growing Fluid: Observations From Natural Samples and Experiments
Larrisa Dobrzhinetskaya

11:45

High-Pressure Rheology: Challenges and Challenges
William B. Durham

12:00 – 12:15

Closing Remarks

12:15 – 13:30

Lunch at APS Gallery

13:30 – 16:00

Facility Tours at APS

16:00

Adjourn

 

 Updated: April 26, 2006 by H. Liu