Detailed Program

2011 COMPRES Annual Meeting

Kingsmill Resort, Williamsburg, VA

June 14, 2011 to June 17, 2011

Tuesday, June 14 (Day 1):

Arrival (PM) and reception plus dinner. No formal sessions.
6:00pm - Ice Breaker - (supported by industry sponsors)

7:30pm - Dinner (James River Ballroom C&D)

Wednesday, June 15 (Day 2): 

7:00am Breakfast (Meeting Prefunction Area)

Morning Session (James River Ballroom)
Session Chair - James Tyburczy, Arizona State University

8:30am - Welcome and Introduction: Jay Bass and Tom Duffy
 
9:00am  
Rick Carlson (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
 
 
9:40am - Grad Student talks (10 min each)
Shu Huang , Li Zhang , Han Hsu , Rebecca Fisher , Emma Rainey
 
10:30am - Coffee Break
  
10:45am - Infrastructure Development Projects (15 min each)
Pamela Burnley (Infrastructure Development Committee Chair)
 
Inelastic X-Ray and Nuclear Resonant Scattering Caoabilities at the APS for High Pressure Research
Ercan Alp (Argonne National Lab)
 
The Paris-Edinburgh Press for Studying Structure and Properties of Melts at High Pressure at APS
Yanbin Wang (University of Chicago
 
11:30am - Facilities Projects
Wendy Panero (Facilities Committee Chair) Overview of COMPRES Facilities
 
COMPRES at Advanced Light Source
Quentin Williams (University of California, Santa Cruz)
 
COMPRES Infra-red Facility at NSLS Beamline U2A
Zhenxian Liu (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
 
Upcoming Activities at GSECARS and Argonne National Lab
Mark Rivers (University of Chicago)
 
12:30pm - Lunch (Bray Room)

Afternoon Session (James River Ballroom)
Session Chair - Kanani Lee, Yale University

2:00pm
Keynote Talk and Discussion
Dynamics of subduction zones and the transport of volatiles to the deep Earth
Peter van Keken (University of Michigan)
 
2:40pm - Coffee Break 
 
3:00pm - Keynote Talk and Discussion
Microtomography of partially molten rocks: three-dimensional melt distribution in mantle peridotite
Wenlu Zhu (University of Maryland) 
 
3:40pm - Poster Cameos (1 minute presentations)
 
4:30pm - Poster Session (with lubrication)
 
6:30pm Dinner (Burwell Plantation Ballroom)

Evening Session (James River Ballroom)

7:45pm - Return to Posters
 

 Thursday, June 16 (Day 3):  

7:00am - Breakfast (Meeting Prefunction Area)

Morning Session (James River Ballroom C&D)
Session Chair - Andrew Campbell, University of Chicago

8:30am - Keynote and Discussion
Estimating the temperature and composition of the mantle from seismic attenuation and velocity

Colleen Dalton (Boston University) 

 

9:10 - Keynote and Discussion
An outlook on high pressure research using synchrotron facilities

Guoyin Shen (APS HPCAT)

 

Group Photo

 

9:50am - Coffee Break

 

10:10am - Grad Student and/or Post-Doc/Beamline Scientist talks (10 min each)
Caroline Bollinger , Jennifer Girard , Antonio Buono , Susannah Dorfman , Amartya Sengupta

 

11:00 Noon - Annual Business Meeting: Election of New Officers and Committee Members

 

12:00 Lunch (Bray Room)

Afternoon Session (James River Ballroom)
Session Chair - Andrew Campbell, University of Chicago

1:30pm

Workshop/Tutorial: Neutron Scattering at SNS and Tutorial on Basics on Neutron Scattering

Chris Tulk (Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

 

2:45 - Coffee Break 

 
 
3:00pm

Panel/Discussion for/with Students - International Experiences
Panel Members: Oliver Tschauner(UNLV), Haozhe Liu(Harbin Institute of Technology), Matthew Whitaker (Ehime University),Yuejian Wang (Yale),Shun-ichiro Karato (Yale) ,Marcio Siqueira (easyLab Technologies), Yue Meng (HPCAT, CIW)

 

4:30pm - Breakout Discussions

Groups: Grad Students and Post-Docs (Tazewell Room), Beamline Scientists (James River C&D)

6:00pm - Banquet Dinner (Burwell Plantation Ballroom)

7:15PM Keynote/Banquet Talk
Session Chair - James Tyburczy, Arizona State University

Quentin Williams
Developing the Crossroads of Solid Earth Studies: The High Pressure Geosciences and COMPRES

 

 

Friday, June 17 (Day 4):

 

7:00am - Breakfast (Meeting Prefunction Area)

Morning Session
Session Chair - Kanani Lee, Yale University

8:30am - Grad Student and/or Post-Doc/Beamline Scientists talks (10 min each)
Zhicheng Jing , Christopher Seagle , Katherine Crispin , Liwei Deng , Jeffrey Pigott

 

9:20am - Breakout Reports

 

9:55am - Announcement of Joint Meeting in 2012 of COMPRES and HPMPS (new)

 

10:00am - Coffee Break

 

10:20am - Jay Bass, Tom Duffy - COMPRES Renewal Proposal - Status and Issues

 

11:00am - General Discussion of COMPRES - Proposal, etc..

 

12:30 noon - Lunch

 

1:30pm - Farewell and Departure

 

See you next year!