2008 COMPRES Annual Meeting

Cheyenne Mountain Resort
Colorado Springs, Colorado
June 25 - 28, 2008

Powerpoint Presentations

Welcome and Introduction:  Quentin Williams, Robin Reichlin, and Bob Liebermann

     Science & Technology Session

      Keynote Talks

      Rajdeep Dasgupta - Rice University

            The Ongoing and the Early Differentiation of Earth and Planetary Interiors: The Role of Volatiles

      Rebecca Lange – University of Michigan

            Topological Mechanisms of Decompression in Silicate Liquids from 5-0 GPa: Their Critical, yet often overlooked, Role in Promoting Partial Melting of the Upper Mantle

      Reports from Infrastructure Development Projects

1. Multi-Anvil Cell Assembly Initiative: New Developments and Production [Kurt Leinenweber]
2. High-resolution Inelastic X-ray Scattering at High Pressure & Temperature: A New Capability for the COMPRES Community [Wolfgang Sturhahn]
3. Development of the CO2 Laser-Heated Diamond Anvil Cell [Tom Duffy]
4. Absolute Pressure and Temperature Calibration [Mark Rivers]
5. Brillouin Spectroscopy at Advanced Photon Source [Jay Bass]
6. Development of CEAD (COMPRES Environment for Automated Data Analysis) [Simon Clark]
7. Monochromatic X-ray Side Station at Beamline X17B2 of the NSLS [Jiuhua Chen]
8. Development of Next Generation Multi-Anvil Module for Megabar Research [Mark Rivers]
9. Gas-loading system for DACS [Mark Rivers]

     Breakout Sessions/Free Time

      "How can COMPRES address the needs of graduate students and postdocs?"

     Science & Technology Session

     Keynote Talks

      Jie Li,  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne

                        What Can High-pressure Experiments Tell Us About the State and Evolution of Planetary Cores?

      William McDonough, University of Maryland

            Radiogenic Heat Production in the Earth:  Constraints and Implications

     Science & Technology Session

     Keynote Talks

      Justin Revenaugh, University of Minnesota

            Mantle Discontinuities:  Too Many Reflectors, Too Few Explanations

     Community of Facilities Reports

1. X-ray Multi-anvil at the NSLS [Don Weidner]
2. IR DAC at the NSLS [Zhenxian Liu]
3. West Coast Synchrotron at the ALS [Simon Clark]
4. X-Ray DAC at the NSLS [Tom Duffy]

Other Community Resources: Current and Future

1. GSECARS at APS [Mark Rivers]
2. VLab [Cesar da Silva]
3. NSLS II [Lars Ehm]

Annual Business Meeting: Election of new Officers and Committee Members

Mini Workshop on Software for High-Pressure Crystallography

Speakers:

Robert Downs (University of Arizona):
“Software from the RRUFF project databases, Raman and powder X-ray search/match routines for mineral identification.”

Przemek Dera (University of Chicago):
"GSE_shell, a free tool for quick semi-automatic evaluation and analysis of powder
X-ray diffraction data."

Lars Ehm (State University of New York, Stony Brook):
“Analysis of X-ray total scattering data: from raw data to pair distribution functions”

Steve Jacobsen (Northwestern University):
“Software for Fitting Equations of State”

Barbara Lavina (University of Chicago):
"Processing High-Pressure Monochromatic Single Crystal Diffraction data"

Michael Vaughan (Stony Brook University)
"Plot 85-A Program to display and analyze energy-dispersive data"

Oliver Tschauner (University of Nevada Las Vegas):
“Pathways of ab initio structure solution from powder diffraction data”

     Keynote Talk

      Louise Kellogg, University of California Davis
Visualizing Heterogeneity in Earth’s Mantle

     Reports from Breakout Sessions

Discussion of Strategic Planning for COMPRES

Closing Remarks