The aims of the Workshop were to review the  status of U. S. high- pressure research and  to identify future grand challenges in the following nine thrust areas:
* Integrated high pressure science
* Dense condensed-matter physics
* Chemical bonding under compression
* High-pressure materials research
* High-pressure petrology and mineralogy
* Deep Earth geochemistry
* Mission to the Earth’s core
* High pressure seismology and elasticity
* Biological and organic systems under pressure
 

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