"Mineral Physics Quest to the Earth's Core"
Leonid Dubrovinsky and Jung-fu Lin
EOS, January 20, 2009

 


www.compres.us

COnsortium for Materials
Properties Research
in Earth Sciences


COMPRES is a community-based consortium whose goal is to enable Earth Science researchers to conduct the next generation of high-pressure science on world-class equipment and facilities. It facilitates the operation of beam lines, the development of new technologies for high pressure research, and advocates for science and educational programs to the various funding agencies.





Workshop on Long Range Plan for
High Pressure Earth Sciences
Fiesta Resort and Conference Center
March 2 - 5, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

Overview of COMPRES including Bylaws, Stony Brook Area Information, Original Proposal, and Overview
Contact info for COMPRES members and committees
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COMPRES is supported by the Division of Earth Sciences at the
National Science Foundation
 via a Cooperative Agreement for the 5-year period
from 2007 to 2012 [EAR06 -49658].

2009 COMPRES Annual Meeting
June 19 - 22, 2009

Mount Washington Resort - Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

 



 

 

 

 

WORKSHOP: On-line Brillouin Spectroscopy at GSECARS: Basic Principles and Application for High Pressure Research
September 23-25, 2009
Advanced Photon Source Argonne National Laboratory Chicago, IL
PDF

 

May, 2009 Newsletter



Jackie Li and Harry Green selected as COMPRES Distinguished Lecturers for 2009-2010

 

 

COMPRES: Recent Science Highlights

Discovery of a new partially ionic phase of boron
A. R. Oganov et al. from ETH-Zurich (now at Stony Brook University) and a team of co-authors
[in Nature, 2009]
Reporting work done at U2A and X17C at the NSLS

Summary (Word doc)
Article (pdf)
Posted 4/15/2009

Protean Magnetic Properties of Magnetic Oxide
S.-H. Dan Shim et al. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-authors
[in PNAS, 2009]
Reporting work done at XOR-3 at the APS with support from the NRIXS project at UIUC and ANL, and the GSECARS beamline at Sector 13.

 

 

Summary (Word doc)
Article (pdf)
Posted 4/15/2009


Archive of Science Highlights

Modified on June 30, 2009