This is a tentative detailed program. Details are subject to change.

*Indicates student/post-doc presenter

Thursday, August 1

Pre-Meeting Field Trip to Yellowstone National Park

Friday, August 2 (Day 1)

Pre-Meeting Workshop "Inelastic X-ray and Nuclear Resonant Scattering and Applications in Earth Sciences"

Arrival (PM) and check-in (No formal sessions)

Big Sky Resort
50 Big Sky Resort Rd
Big Sky , Montana, USA 59716

Tel: +1.800.548.4486

4:00 PM Check-in, Setup Posters (Missouri Ballroom-Jefferson)

4:45 PM Welcome Reception & Poster Session Preview (sponsored) (Missouri Ballroom-Jefferson)

7:00 PM Dinner (Huntley Dining Room)

Saturday, August 3 (Day 2)

7:00 AM Breakfast (Huntley Dining Room)

MORNING SESSION

Session Chair – Tom Sharp (Arizona State University)

(Missouri Ballroom-Madison/Gallatin)

8:30 AM Welcome and Introduction


Carl Agee – President of COMPRES (University of New Mexico)

9:00 AM Keynote Talk – Going Inside Mars with InSight
Suzanne Smrekar - NASA JPL

9:30 AM Discussion

9:45 AM Reports from Facilities Projects Overview

Mark Rivers (Facilities Chair, University of Chicago)

Facilities Project Presentations

10:00 AM Nuclear Resonant and Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Facility (Ercan Alp, Argonne National Laboratory)

10:15 AM Recent upgrades at the Partnership for eXtreme Xtallography (PX^2) Project (Dongzhou Zhang, APS)
10:30 AM Facility improvements on beamline 12.2.2 at the ALS: A COMPRES facility update (Bora Kalkan, University of California, Santa Cruz)

10:45 AM Coffee Break (Lower Atrium)

Facilities Project Presentations continued

11:05 AM COMPRES Multi-Anvil Cell Assembly Project (Tom Sharp, Arizona State University)

11:20 AM APS 6BM-B Beamline: A Dedicated Large Volume High Pressure Facility for Mineral Properties Research in Earth and Planetary Science (Haiyan Chen, APS)

11:35 AM MAXPD: Multi-Anvil X-ray Powder Diffraction at NSLS-II (Matthew Whitaker, MPI Stony Brook University)

11:50 AM COMPRES IR-DAC Facilities at NSLS-II: New Light and New Opportunities (Zhenxian Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12:05 PM Gas Loading at APS (Mark Rivers, University of Chicago)
12:20 PM GSECARS 
(Mark Rivers - GSECARS, APS)

12:30 PM Lunch (Huntley Dining Room)

Saturday, August 3 (Day 2)

AFTERNOON SESSION

Session Chair – Heather Watson (Union College)

(Missouri Ballroom-Madison/Gallatin)

2:00 PM Keynote Talk – Taking the Temperature of Earthquakes
Heather Savage - Columbia University

2:30 PM Discussion

2:45 PM Contributed Talk - Toward Multi-Grain Brillouin Scattering (Miaki Ishii, Harvard University)
3:00 PM Contributed Talk - The extreme acoustic anisotropy and fast sound velocities of cubic high-pressure ice polymorphs at Mbar pressure (Jin Zhang, University of New Mexico)

3:15 PM Coffee Break (Lower Atrium)

3:35 PM Poster Cameos I: 1-minute, 1 slide each
 (last names N-Z)
To be emailed to Beth Ha (beth3ha@unm.edu) by 11:59 PM on July 30 in pdf format.


4:15 PM Poster Session (sponsored)
 (Missouri Ballroom-Jefferson)
Judging for posters Session I (last names N-Z)

6:15 PM Announcements

6:30 PM Group Photo

7:00 PM Dinner (Huntley Dining Room)

Sunday, August 4 (Day 3)

7:00 AM Breakfast (Huntley Dining Room)

MORNING SESSION

Session Chair – Baosheng Li (Stony Brook University)

(Missouri Ballroom-Madison/Gallatin)

8:30 AM Keynote Talk – Consequences of giant impacts
Miki Nakajima, University of Rochester

9:00 AM Discussion


9:15 AM Contributed Talk - Laser-Shock Compression, the Phase Diagram of Cu at Extreme Conditions (*Melissa Sims, Johns Hopkins University)
9:30 AM Contributed Talk - Carbon chemistry in Early Earth's Magma Ocean (*Natalia Solomatova, ENS de Lyon)
9:45 AM Contributed Talk - Density of Fe-Ni-C liquids at high pressures and implications to liquid cores of Earth and Moon (*Feng Zhu, University of Hawaii)

10:00 AM Coffee Break (Lower Atrium)

Reports from recent COMPRES workshops
10:20 AM Overview (Susannah Dorfman, EOID Committee Chair - Michigan State University)
10:30 AM Envisioning the Next Generation of In-situ Synchrotron X-ray Techniques in Large-Volume High Pressure Apparatus for Mineral and Rock Physics (Donald Weidner, Stony Brook University)
10:40 AM Nuclear Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering and Data Analysis; Inelastic X-ray and Nuclear Resonant Scattering and Applications in Earth Sciences (Ercan Alp, Argonne National Laboratory)

11:00 AM Business Meeting & Election of New Officers

11:00 AM Students/Postdocs Business Meeting (Gibbon/Lamar)

12:30 PM Lunch (Huntley Dining Room)

Sunday, August 4 (Day 3)

AFTERNOON SESSION
Session Chair – Mingda Lv (Michigan State University)

(Missouri Ballroom-Madison/Gallatin)

2:00 PM Keynote Talk – Microstructural evolution during the deformation of polymineralic rocks
Phil Skemer - Washington University in St. Louis

2:30 PM Discussion



2:45 PM Contributed Talk - Geochemistry and Petrology, Nitrogen Partitioning Between Metal-Silicate (Colin Jackson, Tulane University)

3:00 PM Poster Cameos II: 1-minute, 1 slide each
 (last names A-M)
To be emailed to Beth Ha (beth3ha@unm.edu) by 11:59 PM on July 30 in pdf format.

3:30 PM Coffee Break
 (Lower Atrium)

3:50 PM Tribute to Orson Anderson (Bob Liebermann, Stony Brook University)

4:05 PM Breakout Sessions

Panel discussion for students and postdocs: Academic/Research Job Hunting (Gibbon/Lamar)
Panel Members: Christine Beavers (Diamond Light Source), Tom Duffy (Princeton University), Colin Jackson (Tulane University) and Sally June Tracy (Carnegie Institution for Science)

Discussion of plans for COMPRES GSECARS (Missouri Ballroom-Madison/Gallatin)
Led by Carl Agee (President, University of New Mexico) and Mark Rivers (Director of GSECARS, University of Chicago)

5:00 PM Continuation of Poster Session (sponsored) (Missouri Ballroom-Jefferson)

Judging for Poster Session II (last names A-M)

7:00 PM Banquet Dinner (Huntley Dining Room)

Monday, August 5 (Day 4)

7:00 AM Breakfast (Huntley Dining Room)

MORNING SESSION

Session Chair – Tom Sharp (Arizona State University)

(Missouri Ballroom-Madison/Gallatin)

8:30 AM Contributed talk - Experimental constraints on the fate of MgCO₃ and CaCO₃ subducted into Earth’s lower mantle (*Mingda Lv, Michigan State University)
8:45 AM Contributed Talk - Potential Impact of Icosahedral Short-Range Ordering on Transport Properties of Liquid Fe-Alloys at Core Conditions (*Reynold Silber, Yale University)
9:00 AM Contributed Talk - Shear wave velocity of hot dense iron at Earth’s inner core conditions (*Hong Yang, Stanford University)

Reports from EOID Projects
9:15 AM Overview
Susannah Dorfman (EOID Chair, Michigan State University)

9:30 AM  Externally-Heated Diamond ANvil Cell Experimentation EH-DANCE
Bin Chen (University of Hawaii)
9:45 AM Mineral Elasticity Database
Tom Duffy - Princeton University
10:00 AM Career Path for Underrepresented Minority Students from Universities to National Laboratories
Bob Liebermann - Stony Brook University
10:15 AM Deep-Earth Large-Volume Experimentation (DELVE)
Bin Chen - University of Hawaii

10:30 AM Coffee Break (Lower Atrium)

10:50 AM Announcement of Presentation Awards

11:00 AM Reports from breakout sessions

11:15 AM Closing remarks

Carl Agee – President of COMPRES (University of New Mexico)

12:00 PM Departure. 
See you next year!