Detailed Program

2013 COMPRES Annual Meeting

The Abbey Resort Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

June 17, 2013 to June 20, 2013

Program Committee:

Andrew Campbell, Rebecca Fischer (Student Representative), William McDonough, Yanbin Wang

Monday, June 17 (Day 1):

4:00 PM Check-in (Harbor Ballroom Foyer)

Setup Posters (Harbor Ballroom I)  

6:00 PM Icebreaker (Sand Bar)

Generously supported by our industrial sponsors

7:30 PM Dinner (Harbor Ballroom II)

Students and post-docs to mingle afterwards

 

Tuesday, June 18 (Day 2): 

7:30 AM Breakfast (Harbor Ballroom II)

Morning Session (Harbor Ballroom III/IV)
Session Chair – Andrew Campbell, University of Chicago

8:30 AM Welcome and Introduction – Jay Bass &Tom Duffy 

9:00 AM Keynote #1 Elizabeth Cottrell (Smithsonian Institution)
 
 
9:40 AM Contributed talks – (5 @ 10 min each
Gregory Finkelstein; Yun-Yuan Chang; Daniel Hummer; Xuebing Wang; June Wicks)

10:30 Coffee Break (Harbor Ballroom Foyer)

10:45 AM Infrastructure Development projects
Abby Kavner (Infrastructure Chair) gives overview
Przemyslaw Dera, Advanced Photon Source Sector 13 Gas Loading
Dongzhou Zhang, Advanced Photon Source Sector 3 Inelastic X-ray Scattering
 Helene Craigg, COMPRES Multianvil Press Assembly

11:30 AM Facilities projects – Andrew Campbell (Facilities Chair) gives overview
Quentin Williams, Advanced Light Source DAC X-rays
Thomas Duffy, National Synchrotron Light Source DAC X-rays

12:30 PM Lunch (Harbor Lawn Patio)

Afternoon Session (Harbor Ballroom III/IV)
Session Chair – Abby Kavner, UCLA
 
 
2:00 PM Keynote #2 – John Tarduno (University of Rochester)

2:40 PM Coffee Break (Harbor Ballroom Foyer)

3:00 PM Keynote #3 – Renata Wentzcovitch (University of Minnesota)

3:40 PM Poster Cameos by Graduate Students (1-minute presentations)

4:30 PM Poster session with lubrication (Harbor Ballroom I)

6:30 PM Dinner (Harbor Ballroom II)

After dinner - Return to Posters

 

Wednesday, June 19 (Day 3): 

7:30am Breakfast (Harbor Ballroom II)

Morning Session (Harbor Ballroom III/IV)
Session Chair – Rebecca Fischer, University of Chicago
 
8:30 AM Keynote #4 – Ulrich Faul (Boston University)
 
Physical mechanisms of transient viscoelastic behavior of polycrystalline olivine 
 
9:10 AM Keynote #5 – Vedran Lekic (University of Maryland)
 

9:50 Coffee Break (Harbor Ballroom Foyer)

10:10 AM Contributed talks – 5 @ 10 min each

11:00 AM Business Meeting & Election of New Officers

12:00 PM Lunch (Harbor Lawn Patio)

Afternoon Session (Harbor Ballroom III/IV)
Session Chair – Yanbin Wang, University of Chicago

1:40 PM Group Photo

2:00 PM Keynote #6 – Sujoy Mukhopadhyay (Harvard University)
 

2:40 PM Coffee Break (Harbor Ballroom Foyer)

3:00 PM Panel Discussion with students (North Shore) - Finding a Job
Panelists: Kanani Lee (leader), Andrew Campbell, Przemyslaw Dera, Elizabeth Cottrell, Yuejian Wang

Short CV's , Jobs Panel Presentation

 
4:30 PM Breakout Discussions (see Thurs AM for reports)
EarthCube (North Shore) - Led by Elizabeth Cottrell  (North Shore)
Graduate students/Post Docs – Led by Rebecca Fischer (South Shore) 

6:30 PM Banquet Dinner (Sand Bar)

7:30 PM Banquet talk – Robert Liebermann (Stony Brook University)
The Role of Serendipity in My Career in Mineral Physics

 

Thursday, June 20 (Day 4):

7:30am Breakfast (Sand Bar)

Morning Session (Harbor Ballroom III/IV)
Session Chair – Nancy Ross, Virginia Tech
 
8:30 AM New and Planned Facilities

9:20 AM Breakout reports

Student Breakout Report

Earthcube Breakout Report

10:00 AM Coffee Break (Harbor Ballroom Foyer)

10:20 AM Contributed talks – 5 @ 10 min each
 
‘COMPRES Status and Issues’ + Discussion

12:30 PM Lunch (Harbor Lawn Patio)

  1:30PM Departure

 

See you next year!