REVISED PROGRAM FOR FORMAL SESSIONS AT MOHONK

Thursday, June 16.
No formal sessions.

Thursday, June 16:
Arrival in PM
Dinner at 8PM, with Ice Breaker Session(s) before and/or after dinner. ( supported by industrial sponsors)

Friday, June 17:
7:00 Morning Coffee
8:00 to 9:00 Full breakfast (buffet)

AM Session

8:50 Opening Chair: Green
8:50 Intro on status of COMPRES by Liebermann

Geochemical Evolution Focus Session
Chair: Karato

9:10: Keynote talk

Albrecht Hoffman, Max Planck Institut fur Chemie, Mainz
"The One-layer vs Two-layer dilemma: the Tolstikhin-Hofmann solution for a two-layer mantle (Where is the second layer?)"

9:40 Keynote talk
Kei Hirose--Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
"Chemical evolution of the lowermost mantle: Slab accumulation and reaction with the core"

10:10 Discussion of issues on geochemical evolution

10:30 Coffee Break

10:50 Infrastructure Reports [8 min plus 2 min discussion MAX]
Introduction and Chair: Ross
Absolute T-Getting
Brillouin spectroscopy-Bass
CEAD: COMPRES Environment for Autmated Data Analysis-Clark
Laser-heated DAC-Duffy
Multi-anvil cell development-Leinenweber
Nuclear resonant scattering-Sturhahn

12:00 Cameo presentations by poster presenters [1 minute and 1 transparency MAX each]
Session Chair: Williams

12:30-2:00 PM Lunch (buffet)

Friday, June 17

PM Session

2:00 Break-out sessions and free time
4:00-5:00 Tea time at Mohonk [NOT Tee time]

5:00 Poster Session [with lubrication]

6:30 Dinner (served, but without requiring formal dress)

Evening Session
Mantle Focus Session
Chair--Kavner

8:30 Keynote talk

Barbara Romanowicz-University of California at Berkeley
"Superplumes at the base of the mantle: the cutting edge"

9:00 Keynote talk
Guillaume Fiquet-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France
"Mineral physics perspectives for the Earth's mantle"

9:30 Discussion

10:00 Continuation of poster session--[with lubrication]

Saturday, June 18:

7:00 Morning Coffee
8:00 to 9:00 Full breakfast (buffet)

AM Session
Core Focus Session
Chair--Duffy

9:00 Keynote talk by Ishii

Miaki Ishii--University of California at San Diego
"The Earth's Core: Seismological View"

9:30 Keynote talk by Stixrude
Lars Stixrude--University of Michigan
"Mineral physics of the core: origins and recent progress"

10:00 Discussion

10:30 Cofee Break

10:50 Community Facilities Reports [8 min plus 2 min discussion MAX]
Introduction and Chair--Rivers
DAC at NSLS-Liu
MAC at NSLS-Weidner or designee
West Coast-Clark
Neutron studies-Ross
SNAP-Parise

11:50 Annual Business Meeting of COMPRES: Green in Chair
Election of new officers and committee members

12:30-2:00 Lunch (buffet)

Saturday, June 18:

PM Session
2:00 Break-out sessions and free time
4:00-5:00 Tea time at Mohonk [NOT Tee time]

4:00 Mini-Workshop on Calorimetry-on-a-Chip [Conveners: Navrotsky and Hellman]

6:30 Dinner/Banquet (served but without requiring formal dress)
Evening Session
8:30 Special Lecture by guest speaker: Introduction--Green


Wang-Ping Chen--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"The mantle transition zone: Seismic properties, deep subduction, earthquakes, and petrology"


9:30 Discussion or free time


Sunday, June 19:
7:00 Morning Coffee
8:00 to 9:00 Full breakfast (buffet)

AM Session
Plenary Session for all attendees
9:00 Open Forum for reports from breakout groups, discussion of current and future Grand Challenges
Session Chair--Bass
10:00 Future of COMPRES: Renewal proposal due July 2006 if funding desired beyond April 30, 2007.
Session Chair--Green
12:30 Lunch

2:00 Departure

The Program Committee [Harry Green, Tom Duffy, Shun Karato, Abby Kavner, Mark Rivers, Nancy Ross] has planned a fine schedule with scientific focus sessions on the mantle, geochemical evolution, and the core; these will include 30-min oral keynote talks by both non-mineral physicists and mineral physicists and ample time for discussion. There will also be oral and poster presentations from the Community Facilities and Infrastructure Development projects that COMPRES supports, poster sessions on the most exciting science being done using these facilities, etc., and special evening lecture following the banquet on Saturday night.