| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PLANETARY INTERIORS |
| Discussion Leader: Bill Nellis (Harvard University) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Opening remarks by Reinhard Boehler |
| 7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | David Stevenson (Caltech )
"High Pressure Physics in Our Planets and in Extrasolar Planets" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:05 pm | Guy Masters (IGPP, San Diego)
"Understanding the deep Earth through the integration of seismology and high pressure mineral physics -- how far can we go?" |
| 9:05 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Invited Posters: Itzhak Halevy and Renata Wentzcovitch |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session / "Welcome" Social |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MELTING, AMORPHOUS AND LIQUID STRUCTURES AT HIGH PRESSURE |
| Discussion Leader: Choong-Shik Yoo (Livermore) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Guoyin Shen (Argonne Nat. Lab.)
"Structures of amorphous materials at high pressures" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:10 am | Marvin Ross (Livermore)
"Melting of Transition Metals: Role of the Liquid" |
| 10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am - 11:20 am | Tom Ahrens (Caltech)
"Shock-induced Melting of Lower Mantle Minerals" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Martin Wilding (U Wales UK)
"Pressure-induced changes in the structure of amorphous materials: neutron and X-ray studies" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Invited Posters: Anatoly Belonoshko, Craig Bull and Leonid Burakovsky |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | NEW EXPERIMENTS IN GEOSCIENCE |
| Discussion Leader: Don Weidner (Stony Brook) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:05 pm | Isabelle Daniel (U Lyon Fr.)
"In situ geochemistry at HP-HT, by synchrotron X-ray microfluorescence" |
| 8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
| 8:15 pm - 8:50 pm | Sebastien Merkel (U Lille Fr.)
"Plasticity in the diamond anvil cell: implications for deep Earth geophysics" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Invited Posters: Yang Ding, Dion Heinz, Alla Petrova and Dawn Shaw |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | NEW HIGH PRESSURE PHASES |
| Discussion Leader: Malcolm McMahon (U. Edinburgh UK) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Yuichi Akahama (U Hyogo Jp.)
"New high-pressure structures of elemental materials, O, Al, P and Sc" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:10 am | Mikhail Eremets (MPI Mainz Ger.)
"Polymeric nitrogen" |
| 10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am - 11:20 am | Stanimir Bonev (U Dalhousie Can.)
"Theory of low-Z materials under extreme conditions: Phase diagrams and emerging trends" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Olga Degtyareva (U Edinburgh UK)
"Pressure-induced complexity of elements" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Invited Posters: Patricia Alireza, James Hamlin, Dennis Klug and Nicholas Cunningham |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | INSULATOR-METAL TRANSITIONS |
| Discussion Leader: Karl Syassen (MPI Stuttgart Ger.) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:05 pm | Egor Babaev (Cornell Univ.)
"Projected novel states of matter in compressed hydrogen: from metallic superfluidity to non-Meissner electrodynamics" |
| 8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
| 8:15 pm - 8:50 pm | Ingo Loa (U Edinburgh UK)
"Transition-metal perovskites: structure, orbitals, and the insulator-metal transition" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Invited Posters: Akobuije Chijioke, William Evans, Takahiro Matsuoka and Stewart McWilliams |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | TECHNIQUES AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS |
| Discussion Leader: Stan Tozer (FSU Tallahassee)
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| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Geun Woo Lee (Livermore Nat.Lab.)
"Dynamic-diamond anvil cell: New Technology to Study Kinetics across Phase Transformations" |
| 9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
| 9:50 am - 10:20 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:20 am - 11:00 am | Yogesh Vohra (U Alabama at Birmingham)
"Basic Science and Applications of Vapor Grown Diamonds for High Pressure Research" |
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
| 11:10 am - 11:50 pm | Li Li (Stony Brook)
"Insights from measuring stress at high pressure" |
| 11:50 pm - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Invited Posters: Anne Marie Cumberlidge, Juan Escobedo, Eran Sterer and Takuo Okuchi |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | INDUSTRIAL DIAMOND PRODUCTION |
| Discussion Leader: Sergei Stishov (Troitsk) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Koen De Hantsetters (Almax Industries)
"The diamond business" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Hitoshi Sumiya (Sumitomo Electr. Industr. Jap.)
"High pressure synthesis of high-quality diamonds and ultra-high pressure applications" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Chih-Shue Yan (CI Washington)
"Prospect of large single crystal CVD diamond at rapid growth" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SHOCK COMPRESSION |
| Discussion Leader: Neil Holmes (Livermore Nat. Lab.) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Jon Eggert (Livermore Nat. Lab.)
"Diamond Melt and Reflecting Helium: Experiments at Very High Pressures and Temperatures" |
| 9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
| 9:50 am - 10:20 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:20 am - 11:00 am | Gennady Kanel (Inst. High Energy Dens. Moscow)
"Behavior of brittle materials under shock compression and the failure wave phenomena" |
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
| 11:10 am - 11:50 pm | Tsutomu Mashimo (U Kumamoto Jap.)
"An Oxide Stiffer than Diamond above 170 GPa (1.7 Mbar) Shock Pressure: Gd3Ga5O12" |
| 11:50 pm - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Invited Posters: Jeffrey Nguyen, Jeremy Patterson and Avia Melchior |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | FRONTIERS IN HIGH PRESSURE RESEARCH |
| Discussion Leader: Isaac Silvera (Harvard Univ.) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Awards |
| 7:50 pm - 8:30 pm | John Parise (State Univ. New York)
"High Pressure Science with Neutron Sources" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Neil Ashcroft (Cornell Univ.)
"The HP GRC; enduring impressions, and pressing on" |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |