The COMPRES 2017 Pre-Meeting Workshops will be held on July 9, 2017 from 8am to 4pm at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort, New Mexico, USA.  Breakfast, lunch, AM and PM coffee breaks will be provided.

The Tamaya Resort is located within the Santa Ana Pueblo and is situated on the Rio Grande River at the base of Sandia Mountains. The Tamaya is 50 miles from Santa Fe, 26 miles from Albuquerque International Airport, and 23 miles from Downtown Albuquerque.

Workshop registration deadline: June 26, 2017

Single and double-occupancy lodging at Tamaya Resort is available for the workshops beginning July 8, 2017 at the discounted COMPRES meeting lodging rate of $119 per night + 14.74% tax (resort fees have been waived).  We are increasing the level of support for students and Post docs this year.  Due to the increase in support for students and Post docs, regular attendees are asked to pay for their own lodging.  To make a reservation for a hotel room click here.

COMPRES Workshop: "Ab Initio Tools for Hypothesis Testing", July 9, 2017
Check-in:  July 8, 2017
Registration Fee: $50

Organizers: Wendy Panero (Ohio State) and Razvan Caracas (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Raman vibrational spectroscopy is one of the most used techniques of analysis and characterization of minerals. As an optical method, it has the advantage of being non-destructive and remote. The analysis can be performed in situ, in the field or laboratory; even Mars will have its own Raman spectrometers landed in a 2020.
We invite participants for a one-day school on computational vibrational spectroscopy targeted towards experimentalists. We will introduce the basic concepts of the ab initio simulations with a focus on the calculation of Raman spectra to facilitate analysis of experimentally observed phase transitions.  The workshop will be structured in foundational lectures in the morning, with hands on demonstration exercises in the afternoon.  The focus of the hands on demonstration will be to assess the likelihood of structural transitions from vibrational spectra.
Click here to view the workshop program

To register for COMPRES Workshop: "Ab Initio Tools for Hypothesis Testing" click here 

Bold indicates student/Post-doc attendee

	Last Name	First Name	Institution	Email
1	Arveson	Sarah Marie	Yale University	sarah.arveson@yale.edu
2	Caracas	Razvan	Ecole Normale Superior de Lyon	razvan.caracas@gmail.com
3	Creasy	Neala	Yale University	neala.creasy@yale.edu
4	Daviau	Kierstin	Yale University	kierstin.daviau@yale.edu
5	Deng	Jie	Yale University	jie.deng@yale.edu
6	Dong	Tiannong	University of Texas at Austin	dongt@utexas.edu
7	Dorfman	Susannah	Michigan State University	dorfman3@msu.edu
8	Girard	Jennifer	Yale University	jennifer.girard@yale.edu
9	Kavner	Abby	UC Los Angeles	akavner@ucla.edu
10	Kim	Joonseok	University of Texas at Austin	jskhan87@gmail.com
11	Mueller	Hans J.	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	hans-joachim.mueller@partner.kit.edu
12	O'Bannon	Earl	UC Santa Cruz	eobannon@ucsc.edu
13	Panero	Wendy	Ohio State University	panero.1@osu.edu
14	Park	Sulgiye	Stanford University	sulgiye@stanford.edu
15	Qin	Tian	University of Minnesota	qinxx197@umn.edu
16	Roberts	Richard H.	University of Texas at Austin	rhroberts@utexas.edu
17	Rowland II	Richard L.	University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Jacobs JETS	rowlan31@unlv.nevada.edu
18	Rucks	Melinda	Stony Brook University	melinda.rucks@stonybrook.edu
19	Santos	Alison	University of New Mexico	asantos5@unm.edu
20	Shieh	Sean	University of Western Ontario	sshieh@uwo.ca
21	Tao	Renbiao	Carnegie Institution	rtao@ciw.edu
22	Thompson	Lily	University of Chicago	ecthompson@uchicago.edu
23	Valencia	Juan J.	University of Minnesota	valen167@umn.edu
24	Vander Kaaden	Kathleen	Jacobs Technology/NASA Johnson Space Center	kathleen.e.vanderkaaden@nasa.gov
25	Vennari	Cara	UC Santa Cruz	cvennari@ucsc.edu
26	Wenz	Michelle	Northwestern University	michelle@earth.northwestern.edu
27	Weldon	Nicholas C	UC Davis	ncweldon@ucdavis.edu
28	Zou	Qin	Carnegie Institution for Science	zq@ysu.edu.cn

COMPRES Workshop: "Software Toolkit",  July 9, 2017
Check-in: July 8, 2017
Registration Fee: $50

Organizers: S.-H. Dan Shim, Cayman Unterborn (ASU), Przemyslaw Dera, Bin Chen (Univ. Hawaii), and Christopher McGuire (UCLA)
Invited Speakers: Mark Ghiorso (OFM Research) and Cayman Unterborn (ASU)
Recent developments in the COMPRES user facilities have dramatically improved the quality of the data collected and the efficiency of the measurements. New techniques have enabled us to measure multi-dimensional data, such as 2D mapping and 3D tomography. As a result, data volume has increased significantly and the data structure has become much more complicated. However, existing approaches are not sufficiently adaptive enough for such rapid evolution of data.
In this one-day workshop, we will introduce data science and computational approaches for the analysis, processing, and interpretation of the mineral physics data.  The workshop includes talks on the community software toolkit approach and existing tools (Burnman and Melt).  The workshop will also offer hands-on tutorials on python scripting combined with Jupyter notebook (S.-H. Shim), BurnMan (C. Unterborn), and Melt (M. Ghiorso).  We encourage the participation of graduate students and early-career researchers who are interested in learning basic skills in computational and data-science approaches for large datasets using Python and taking advantage of existing tools.
Click here to view the workshop program

To register for COMPRES Workshop: "Software Toolkit" click here

Bold indicates student/Post-doc attendee

	Last Name	First Name	Institution	Email
1	Chen	Bin	University of Hawaii	binchen@hawaii.edu
2	Chen	Huawei	Arizona State University	hchen156@asu.edu
3	Chen	Ting	Stony Brook University	cting007@gmail.com
4	Davis	Anne	University of Chicago	ahdavis@uchicago.edu
5	Dera	Przemyslaw	University of Hawaii	pdera@hawaii.edu
6	Duncan	Megan	Carnegie Institution	mduncan@carnegiescience.edu
7	Ghiorso	Mark S.	OFM Research	mduncan@carnegiescience.edu
8	Kim	Taehyun	Yonsei University	ppower306@yonsei.ac.kr
9	Lai	Xiaojing	University of Hawaii	laixiaoj@hawaii.edu
10	Lazarz	John	Northwestern University	johnlazarz2012@u.northwestern.edu
11	Leinenweber	Kurt	Arizona State University	kurtl@asu.edu
12	Liang	Xue	CeSMEC, Florida International University	xlian002@fiu.edu
13	Liu	Jin	Stanford University	JinLiu6@stanford.edu
14	Lv	Mingda	Michigan State University	lyumingd@msu.edu
15	Martin	Joshua	Ohio State University	martin.2373@osu.edu
16	McGuire	Christopher	UC Los Angeles	cpmcguire@ucla.edu
17	Mohiuddin	Anwar	Yale University	anwar.mohiuddin@yale.edu
18	Ross	Nancy L.	Virginia Tech	nross@vt.edu
19	Shim	Sang-Heon	Arizona State University	shdshim@asu.edu
20	Sims	Melissa	Stony Brook University	melissa.sims@stonybrook.edu
21	Tyburczy	James	Arizona State University	jim.tyburczy@asu.edu
22	Walsh	James	Northwestern University	james.walsh@northwestern.edu
23	Wang	Fei	Northwestern University	feiwang@earth.northwestern.edu
24	Whitaker	Matthew	Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook University	matthew.whitaker@stonybrook.edu
25	Wu	Ye	Wuhan University of Technology	lilywuye@gmail.com
26	Zhang	Jin	University of New Mexico	jinzhang@unm.edu