Workshop 4

"Future Directions in High-Pressure Research"

Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Organizer(s):
Lars Ehm (Stony Brook University) lars.ehm@stonybrook.edu
Jiuhua G. Chen (Florida International University) jiuhua.chen@fiu.edu
Baosheng Li (Stony Brook University) baosheng.li@sunysb.edu
Zhenxian Liu (Carnegie Institution of Washington) zxliu@bnl.gov

Location: Berkner Hall, Bldg. 488, Auditorium

Description:

High-pressure is used in a large variety of scientific disciplines as a parameter to modify the atomic structure of materials and to understand microscopic and macroscopic phenomena. The research topics span from the structure of earth and planetary interiors over the design and synthesis of new materials to the understanding of the collective phenomena that yield to high-temperature superconductivity. The workshop will focus on recent results on structural phase transitions, elasticity, plasticity, melts properties and new materials at high pressure and high temperature. Novel technical developments at the NSLS and other synchrotron radiation sources will be part of the presentations as well. The workshop will also emphasize on future developments and applications, beamline design and potential opportunities at NSLS-II for high pressure research.

TimeList of Speakers
9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m. Welcoming Remarks -- Organizers
9:10 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. Don Weidner, Stony Brook University
"Stress - Strain - Time Relationships at High Pressure and Temperature"
9:40 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. Yanbin Wang, University of Chicago
"Large-Volume High Pressure Research at GSECARS"
10:10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.

Andrew Campbell, University of Maryland
"X-ray Diffraction Studies of Iron Alloys at High Pressures and Temperatures"
10:40 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Sang-Heon Dan Shim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"X-ray Diffraction and Nuclear Forward Scattering Measurements of Mantle Phases up to 150 GPa"
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Heather Watson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
"Synchrotron FTIR Studies of Hydrogen in MgSiO3 Perovskite"
12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Oliver Tschauner, University of Nevada
"On the Water Content of the Lower Mantle"
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch at Berkner Hall
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Chris Benmore, Argonne National Laboratory
"Amorphous to Amorphous Transitions at High Pressure"
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Wendy Mao, Stanford University
"Hydrogen Storage in Molecular Compounds"
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Ron Cohen, Carnegie Institution of Washington
"Joint Theoretical and Experimental Studies for Developing New Electromechanical Materials"
2:30 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. Science Snapshots
3:10 p.m. - 3:25 p.m. Coffee Break
3:25 p.m. - 3:55 p.m. Viktor Struhzkin, Carnegie Institution of Washington
"Synchrotron Spectroscopy Methods at High Pressure"
3:55 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Tom Duffy, Princeton University
"New Frontier in High-Pressure Research at the NSLS-II"
5:00 p.m. Workshop Adjourns