Oct. 3, 2008
Friday

17:30 – 20:30

Reception
Berkner Hall Lobby

17:30 –19:30

Full Open Bar

19:30 – 20:30

Soda & Coffee

Oct. 4, 2008 Saturday

NSLS Seminar Room

8:30 – 9:00

Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 9:15

Opening Session

9:00

Opening
Tom Duffy (Princeton University)

9:05

Welcome
Chi-chang Kao (BNL)
Bob Liebermann (COMPRES, Stony Brook University)

9:15 – 11:00

Session 1
Chair: Tom Duffy (Princeton University)

9:15

The legacy of X17
Dave Mao (Carnegie Institution of Washington)

10:00

R & D towards X-ray free electron laser
Li Hua Yu (BNL)

10:30

Some new directions for high-pressure research?
Gene Ice (ONRL)

11:00 – 11:20

Coffee Break

11:20 – 12:30

Session 2
Chair: Haozhe Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology)

11:20

Opportunities for high-pressure research at advanced synchrotron facilities Qun Shen (BNL)

11:50

X-ray kinoform optics for high pressure science: Status and opportunities
Ken Evans (BNL)

12:10

Laser heating in the DAC: New pulsed techniques and recent results
Alex Goncharov (Carnegie Institution of Washington)

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch
NSLS Seminar Room

13:30 – 15:10

Session 3
Chair: Lars Elm (Stony Brook University)

13:30

Seeding the future: The high pressure program at Texas Tech
Yanzhang Ma (Texas Tech)

13:50

Anomalous scattering study of crystal and amorphous materials under high pressure
Wenge Yang (HPCAT)

14:10

Bridging stage from amorphous Se to crystal under compression
Luhong Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology)

14:30

Combining high pressure and heavy-ion irradiation: A novel approach
Maik Lang (University of Michigan)

14:50 – 15:10

Coffee Break

15:10 – 17:50

Session 4:
Chairs: Jiuhua Chen (Florida International University)
Zhenxian Liu (Carnegie Institution of Washington)

15:10

Density and sound velocity of iron-rich alloys and nature of Earth's core
Jie Li (University of Illinois at UC)

15:30

Geochemical applications of high pressure, high temperature equations of state of metals and oxides
Andy Campbell (University of Maryland)

15:50

Viscoelasticity of rocks at mantle P-T
Li Li (Stony Brook University)

16:10

High-pressure X-ray diffraction and Raman study on BaCrO4 and SrCrO4
Sean Shieh (University of Western Ontario)

16:30

Using X17C to study ultra-incompressible superhard materials
Michelle Weinberger (Carnegie Institution of Washington)

16:50

Progress on P-V-T measurements of solids using synchrotron X-ray diffraction techniques
Yingwei Fei (Carnegie Institution of Washington)

17:10

Application of synchrotron-based high-pressure techniques to understand strongly correlated transition metal oxides
Trevor Tyson (New Jersey Institute for Technology)

17:30

Pressure induced phase transition in ammonia borane
Jiuhua Chen (Florida International University)

17:50

Closing Remarks
Dave Mao (Carnegie Institution of Washington)

18:45 – 21:30

Dinner
King’s Buffet
655 Long Island Ave, Medford, NY 11763
Long Island Express (Rt. 495) west, Exit # 65. Tel: 631 207 1100