IUCr Commission on High Pressure 2010 Meeting

Beginning in 1987, the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) High-Pressure Group was established to represent and support high-pressure crystallography. The subsequent decade saw an extraordinary growth in the range and quality of high-pressure diffraction studies - particularly using powder methods - on both synchrotron and neutron sources. This was stimulated by the power of present-day sources, and by major developments in detectors and high-pressure technology. The High-Pressure Group maintained a high level of activity from its inception, with a series of international workshops held in Oxford, United Kingdom; Harbin, China; Saskatoon, Canada and Florence, Italy. This meeting is a continuation in this series.

Scope:

This conference will cover the whole range of activities of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Commission on High Pressure: Crystal structures and phase transitions, new materials, Earth and planetary science, soft and biological matter, physical and chemical properties, theory and computation, technique developments for high pressure studies on synchrotron, neutron and laboratory-based facilities.

The tentative list of main topics includes:

1. Crystal structures and phase transitions
2. Amorphous, liquid, non-crystalline and nanocrystalline solids
3. Magnetic and electronic phenomena at high pressure
4. Simple organic systems
5. Biological Materials
6. Materials Science
7. Chemistry
8. Geosciences and planetary sciences
9. Theory and computation
10. Techniques for high-pressure studies

Contributions in all areas within or closely related to the broad area of high-pressure crystallography will be welcome.

Financial support will be available to encourage for students and early-career scientists to attend the meeting.

Abstract Submission:

July 31, 2010

List of confirmed invited speakers:

John Parise (Stony Brook University)
Eugene Gregoryanz (University of Edinburgh)
Maik Lang (University of Michigan)
Tomoko Sato (University of Tokyo)
Stanimir Bonev (Dalhousie University)
Serena Margadonna (University of Edinburgh)
Naohisa Hirao (JASRI/SPring-8)
Timothy Jenkins (NIST Center for Neutron Research)
Kamil Dziubek (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Frédéric Datchi (UPMC – University of Paris)
Judith Peters (Université Joseph Fourier, Institut Laue Langevin, and Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble)
Chae Un Kim (Cornell University)
Oleksander Kurakevych (UPMC – University of Paris)
Maddury Somayazulu (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
Chung-Shik Yoo (Washington State University)
Ashkan Salamat (University College London)
Nadege Hilairet (University of Chicago)
Simon Redfern (University of Cambridge)
Dennis Klug (National Research Council of Canada)
Vladimir Stegailov (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Vitali Prakapenka (Advanced Photon Source, University of Chicago)
Hiroyuki Kagi (University of Tokyo)