Wednesday, June 25
Arrival in PM

No Formal Sessions

Dinner with Ice Breaker Session before dinner
(supported by industrial sponsors)

6:00pm - Ice Breaker
7:30pm - Dinner

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Thursday, June 26

7:00am Breakfast 

Morning Session

8:30am - Welcome & Introduction: Quentin Williams, Robin Reichlin and Bob Liebermann

9:00am - Science & Technology Session : Keynote Talks, Carl Agee, Chair

9:00am - Rajdeep Dasgupta - Rice University
The Ongoing and the Early Differentiation of Earth and Planetary
Interiors: The role of Volatiles

9:30am - Discussion

9:40am - 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

10:10am - Discussion

10:20 am - Coffee Break

10:45am - Reports from Infrastructure Development Projects

• Multi-Anvil Cell Assembly Initiative: New Developments and Production [Kurt Leinenweber]

•  High-resolution Inelastic X-ray Scattering at High Pressure & Temperature: A New Capability for the COMPRES Community [Wolfgang Sturhahn]

•  Development of the CO2 Laser-Heated Diamond Anvil Cell [Tom Duffy]

•  Absolute Pressure and Temperature Calibration [Mark Rivers]

•  Brillouin Spectroscopy at Advanced Photon Source [Jay Bass]

•  Development of CEAD (COMPRES Environment for Automated Data Analysis) [Simon Clark]

•  Monochromatic X-ray Side Station at Beamline X17B2 of the NSLS [Jiuhua Chen]

•  Development of Next Generation Multi-Anvil Module for Megabar Research [Mark Rivers]

• Gas-loading system for DACS [Mark Rivers]

12:30pm - Lunch

Afternoon Session
1:30pm - Breakout Sessions

1:30 to 3:00pm - "How can COMPRES address the needs of graduate students and postdocs?"

3:00pm - Cameos of Posters (one minute and one slide each)

4:00pm - Official Poster Session (with lubrication)

6:00pm - Dinner

Evening Session

7:30pm - Science & Technology Session : Keynote Talks, Jiuhua Chen, Chair

7:30pm - Jie Li - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
What can high-pressure experiments tell us about the state and evolution of planetary cores?

8:00pm - Discussion

8:10pm - William McDonough - University of Maryland
Radiogenic Heat Production in the Earth: Constraints and Implications

8:40pm - Discussion

8:50am - Continuation of poster session (with lubrication)

Friday, June 27  

7:00am -  Breakfast

Morning Session

8:30am - Science and Technology Session : Keynote Talks, Wendy Mao, Chair

9:50am - Coffee Break

10:15am - Community Facilities Reports

COMPRES Facilities [15 min each]

* X-ray Multi-anvil at the NSLS [Don Weidner]

* IR DAC at the NSLS [Zhenxian Liu]

* West Coast Synchrotron at the ALS [Simon Clark]

* X-Ray DAC at the NSLS [Tom Duffy]

Other Community Resources: Current and Future [10 min each]

* GSECARS at APS [Mark Rivers]

* VLab [Cesar da Silva]

* NSLS II [Lars Ehm]

11:45am - Annual Business Meeting: Election of new Officers and Committee Members

12:15pm - Lunch

Afternoon Session

1:35pm - Breakout Sessions/Free Time

2:00 to 6:00 PM

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”

6:00pm - Dinner and Banquet

Evening Session, Steve Jacobsen, Chair

 8:00pm - Louise Kellogg - University of California Davis
Visualizing heterogeneity in Earth's mantle

8:30pm - Discussion Visualizing heterogeneity in Earth's mantle

Saturday, June 28

7:00am - Breakfast 

8:30am - Reports from Breakout Sessions

9:30am - Discussion of Strategic Planning for COMPRES

12:00pm - Lunch

1:00pm - Farewell and Departure

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Modified on 9 June 2008