Detailed Program
2014 COMPRES Annual Meeting
Skamania Lodge Stevenson, Washington
June 16, 2014 to June 19, 2014
Program Committee: Nancy Ross (chair), Andrew Campbell, Przemek Dera, Chris Cline/Jeffrey Pigott (Student Representatives)
Monday, June 16 (Day 1)
4:00 PM Check-in (Conference Center Lobby)
Setup Posters (Stevenson C & D)
7:30 PM Dinner (Cascade Dining Room)
Students and postdocs to mingle afterwards
Tuesday, June 17 (Day 2)
7:30 AM Breakfast (Cascade Dining Room)
Morning Session (Main Meeting Room: Stevenson A & B)
Session Chair – Nancy Ross (Virginia Tech)
Jay Bass (President of COMPRES) and Pamela Burnley (Chair of COMPRES Exec Committee)
"High-pressure synthesis: novel materials and approaches"
9:30 AM Contributed talks(10-15 min each)
9:30 AM Alexandra Navrotsky (UC Davis)
"Carbon substitution for oxygen in silicates in planetary interiors"
9:45 AM Zhixue Du (Yale University)
"Experimental studies on melting Earth’s lower mantle minerals"
9:55 AM Dongzhou Zhang (Caltech)
"Melt detection of candidate core materials at high pressures using atomic dynamics measurements and a fast temperature readout system"
10:05 AM Yingxia Shi (Stanford University)
"Visualizing Earth’s core formation using nanoscale x-ray tomography"
10:30 AM Planning for COMPRES IV
Jay Bass (President of COMPRES) and Pamela Burnley (Chair of COMPRES Exec Committee)
Abby Kavner (Infrastructure Chair) - Overview with selected presentations
11:20 AM Facilities projects
Andrew Campbell (Facilities Chair) - Overview
Presentations:
Matt Whitaker - COMPRES Synchrotron-based multi-anvil research: Where we are and where we are going?
Donald Weidner - BM-6 LVP project at APS
Przemyslaw Dera - PX^2/APS 13-BM-C and COMPTECH
Zhenxian Liu IR-DAC facility at NSLS and FIS at NSLS-II
Mark Rivers - GSECARS status
Afternoon Session (Main Meeting Room: Stevenson A & B)
Session Chair – Andrew Campbell (University of Chicago)
"Seismological imaging of Earth’s inner core"
3:00 PM Keynote Talk – Alessandro Forte (Université du Québec à Montréal)
"Importance of Mineral Physics for Modeling the 3-D Structure and Dynamics of the Mantle"
6:30 PM Dinner (Cascade Dining Room)
After dinner - Return to Posters
Wednesday, June 18 (Day 3)
Morning Session (Main Meeting Room: Stevenson A & B)
Session Chair – Przemyslaw Dera (University of Hawaii)
"Snowflakes in volcanic rocks: evidence for diverse mechanisms of crystal growth in basaltic magma reservoirs"
"The Role of Water in Subduction Zone Processes: Constraints from Flat Slabs"
10:10 AM Contributed talks
10:10 AM Harry Green (UC Riverside)
A Universal Sliding Mechanism for earthquakes?
10:25 AM Anne Pommier (Arizona State)
Experimental Investigation of the Electrical Anisotropy of the Asthenosphere
10:35 AM Xuebin Wang (Stony Brook)
P and S wave velocities of New Mexico peridotite KLB-1 under pressure and its comparison with seismic model of western North America
10:45 AM Alisha Clark (UC Davis)
Pressure dependent elastic properties of basalt by GHz frequency ultrasonic interferometry and high pressure X-ray microtomography
10:55 AM Mark Rivers (APS)
The APS Multibend Achromat Upgrade: New Opportunities for the COMPRES Community
12:00 PM Lunch (Cascade Dining Room)
Afternoon Session (Main Meeting Room: Stevenson A & B)
Session Chair – Jeffrey Pigott (Ohio State University)
"Chadwick's gift: an increasing role for neutrons in the Earth Sciences"
3:00 PM COMPRES long range/strategic planning, grand challenges and opportunities
Przemyslaw Dera, Donald Weidner co-chairs - COMPRES Long-Range Planning Workshop Committee
Topic – Establishing an Independent Research Program (panelists - Jennifer Jackson, Joseph Smyth, Julia Hammer, Lara Wagner)
5:00 PM Breakout Discussions
Grad Students/Postdocs (Washington Meeting Room)
New ID projects for COMPRES - Abby Kavner, and Pamela Burnley (Jefferson Meeting Room)
6:30 PM Banquet Dinner (Cascade Locks Ballroom)
"Celebration the International Year of Crystallography"
Thursday, June 19 (Day 4)
Morning Session (Main Meeting Room: Stevenson A & B)
Session Chair – Andrew Campbell, University of Chicago
8:30 AM Contributed Talks
8:30 AM Jung-Fu Lin (University of Texas)
Recent Advances in Understanding Elasticity of the Earth’s Mantle and Core
8:45 AM Ting Chen (Stony Brook University)
Anomalous Shear Properties of Coesite at High Pressure and Implications for the X-discontinuity in the Earth’s Upper Mantle
8:55 AM Jin Zhang (University of Illinois)
Single-crystal Laser Heating Brillouin Spectroscopy & Brillouin Spectroscopy with variable q: Design & Demostration
9:05 AM Wenli Bi (APS)
Nuclear Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering under High Pressure and at Low Temperature
9:20 AM Moshe Pasternak (Tel Aviv)
The dilemma of the high-spin persistence into the Mbar range of some ferric-metal oxides
9:35 AM Breakout reports
10:30 AM Coffee Break (Conference Center Lobby)
10:45 AM COMPRES Address - Jay Bass (President of COMPRES)
11:30 AM Working groups for final thoughts and preparation for October Meeting
1:30PM Departure
See you next year!
