COMPRES Annual Meeting
Lake Morey, Vermont - June 17-20, 2007
Program of events
Sunday, June 17
Arrival in PM
No Formal Sessions
Dinner with Ice Breaker Session(s) before & after dinner
(supported by industrial sponsors)
6:00 PM - Ice Breaker
6:30 PM - Dinner
8:00 PM - Continue Ice Breaker
Monday, June 18
7:00 AM Breakfast
Morning Session
8:30 AM Welcome & Introduction: Harry Green & Bob Liebermann
9:00 AM Science & Technology Session: Seismology & Geodynamics
Keynote Talks - Thomas Duffy, Chair
9:00 • Rob van der Hilst "Inverse scattering of broad-band (seismic) data:
New opportunities for detecting and imaging interfaces in Earth's deep interior"
9:30 Discussion
9:40 • Magali Billen 'Integrating High Pressure Experimental Constraints
into Subduction Dynamic Simulations:
Which 'Unknown' Parameters Could Have the Largest Effects?"
10:10 Discussion
10:20 Coffee Break
10:45 Reports from Infrastructure Development Projects
12:30 PM Lunch
Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:30 Breakout Sessions
1. Graduate Student Breakout Session
2. Laser-heating in diamond-anvil cells
6:00 PM Dinner
Evening Session
7:30 PM Science and Technology Session: Nanoscience and Planetary Science
Keynote Talks - James Tyburczy, Chair
7:30 • Michael Hochella "How Nanoscience Has Changed the Way We Look at the Earth"
8:00 • Francis Nimmo "Moving beyond the Earth:
What use is mineral physics to planetary scientists?"
8:30 Discussion
8:50 Preview of poster session [with lubrication]
Tuesday, June 19
7:00 AM Breakfast
Morning Session
8:30 AM Science and Technology Session: Rock Physics & Materials Physics
Keynote Talks - William Durham, Chair
8:30 • Andrea Tommasi "Linking deformation and anisotropy in the mantle"
9:00 Discussion
9:10 • Malcolm Nicol "Diffraction, Explosives, and Dynamics at High Pressures."
9:40 AM Discussion
9:50 AM Coffee Break
10:15 AM Community Facilities Reports
11:45 AM Annual Business Meeting: Election of new officers and committee members
12:15 PM Lunch
Afternoon Session
3:00 Cameos of Posteers (one minute and one slide each)
4:00 Official Poster Session (with lubrication)
6:00 PM Dinner and Banquet
Evening Session
• 8:00 PM After Dinner 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?"
8:30 PM Discussion
Wednesday, June 20
7:00 AM Breakfast
Morning Session
8:30 Reports from Breakout Sessions
9:30 AM Discussion of Strategic Planning for COMPRES in period 2007 - 2012
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Farewell and Departure