2009 COMPRES Annual Meeting

Friday, June 19
Arrival in PM

No Formal Sessions

6:00pm - Ice Breaker
(supported by industrial sponsors)

7:30pm - Dinner


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Saturday, June 20

7:00am Breakfast 

Morning Session

8:20am - Welcome & Introduction: Quentin Williams and Bob Liebermann

8:40am - Remarks by Robert Detrick, Director of Division of Earth Sciences at NSF

8:55am-Oliver Tschauner: Tribute to Malcolm Nicol

9:00am - Science & Technology Session : Keynote Talks, Wendy Panero, Chair

9:00am - Keynote #1 Arwen Deuss - Cambridge University
"Seismic Observations of Mantle Discontinuities and their Mineral Physical Interpretation"

9:30am - Discussion

9:40am - Keynote #2 John Hernlund - University of University of British Columbia
"Some Implications of Recent Progress in High P-T Mineral Physics for Earth's Deep Interior"

10:10am - Discussion

10:20am - Coffee Break

10:35am - Group Photo

10:40 am--David Mogk, Montana State University, "Teaching Mineral Physics across the Curriculum"

10:45am - Reports from Infrastructure Development Projects (Thomas Sharp, Chair)

- Inelastic X-ray Scattering at High P & T

- Multi-Anvil Cell Development

- Gas-Loading System for DACS

11:30am - Selected Graduate Student Talks (8 minutes each)

Krystle Catalli-MIT

Bin Chen--UIUC

Alisha Clark--UC Davis

Moses Ntam--Auburn

Kazuhiko Otsuka-Yale

Gregory Shofner-Univ of Maryland

Matt Whitaker--Stony Brook

Bin Xu-Auburn

12:30pm - Lunch

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, Carl Agee, Chair

7:30pm - Keynote #3 Jerry Mitrovica - University of Toronto/Harvard University
"Mantle Viscosity and Climate (Really)"

8:00pm - Discussion

8:10pm - Keynote #4 Michael Wysession - Washington University
"Seismically Imaging the Possible Presence of Water in the Mantle"

8:40pm - Discussion

Sunday, June 21 

7:00am -  Breakfast

Morning Session

8:30am - Science and Technology Session : Keynote Talks, Donald Weidner, Chair

9:50am - Coffee Break

10:15am - Community Facilities Reports (Thomas Duffy, Chair)

* X-ray Multi-anvil at the NSLS * IR DAC at the NSLS * West Coast Synchrotron at the ALS * X-Ray DAC at the NSLS

 

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

GSECARS High-Pressure Beamlines at the APS

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

12:15pm - Lunch

Afternoon Session

2:00 to 4:00 PM

"Fund Your Science!"

Proposal Writing Workshop by Barbara Ransom, Program Director, National Science Foundation

4:00 to 6:00 PM

Graduate Student/Postdoc Breakout Session

5:30pm - Banquet Dinner

Evening Session, Jay Bass, Chair

8:00pm--Keynote #7 Alex Navrotsky-University of California Davis

"The Earth is not a Spherical Chicken"

Monday, June 22

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

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR !!!!!

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