2007 COMPRES Annual Meeting – Powerpoint Presentations

• Welcome & Introduction: Harry Green & Bob Liebermann

Science & Technology Session: Seismology & Geodynamics

Keynote Talks

• Rob van der Hilst "Inverse scattering of broad-band (seismic) data: New opportunities for detecting and imaging interfaces in Earth's deep interior"
• Magali Billen "Integrating High Pressure Experimental Constraints into Subduction Dynamic Simulations: Which 'Unknown' Parameters Could Have the Largest Effects?"

Reports from Infrastructure Development Projects

• On-line Brillouin spectroscopy at GSECARS - V. Prakapenka
• CEAD The COMPRES Environment for Automated Data analysis CEAD 524.avi – video clip - S. Clark
• CO 2 Laser DAC - A. Kuznetsov
• DDIA 30 - Y. Wang
• Gas Load DAC - M. Rivers
• Johnson Noise Thermometry at High Pressure - Y. Wang
• COMPRES Multi-Anvil Cell Assembly Project - K. Leinenweber
• Monochromatic Side Station at X17-B2 of the NSLS - J. Chen
• Nuclear Resonant Scattering at High P & T - W. Sturhahn

Science and Technology Session: Nanoscience and Planetary Science

Keynote Talks

• Michael Hochella "How Nanoscience Has Changed the Way We Look at the Earth"
• Francis Nimmo "Moving beyond the Earth: What use is mineral physics to planetary scientists?"

Science and Technology Session: Rock Physics & Materials Physics

Keynote Talks

• Andrea Tommasi "Linking deformation and anisotropy in the mantle"
• Malcolm Nicol "Diffraction, Explosives, and Dynamics at High Pressures."

Community Facilities Reports

• Infrared DAC Operations at the NSLS - Z. Liu
• X-Ray DAC Operations at the NSLS - J. Chen
• BNL/NSLS Facility - J. Chen
• X-Ray MAC at NSLS - D. Weidner
• West Coast Activity at the ALS - S. Clark
• Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) at CHESS - W. Bassett
• GSECARS Update - M. Rivers

Banquet Speaker

• Harry Green "Rocks and earthquakes from deep subduction zones: What can
  they tell us about water recycling, planform of mantle convection, and ocean island basalts?"

Reports from Breakout Sessions

• Graduate Student Breakout Session
• Laser-heating in diamond-anvil cells