SMEC 2007

Miami Beach, April 15-20, 2007


SMEC 2007 Conference Symposia Panel Titles

1. Hydrogen storage Rajeev Ahuja rajeev.ahuja@fysik.uu.se (Uppsala University, Sweden)

2. Molecular systems under high compression Alexander Goncharov (Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington) goncharov@gl.ciw.edu

3. Structural consequences of pressure-induced electronic phase transition in iron-oxides and related minerals Moshe Paz-Pasternak (School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University) moshepa@tau.ac.il

4. High-pressure materials science: Synchrotron x-ray scattering studies Haozhe Liu (HPCAT, Carnegie Institution of Washington) hliu@hpcat.aps.anl.gov Martin Kunz (Advanced Light Source) mkunz@lbl.gov

5. Superhard Nanocrystalline Materials Leonid Dubrovinsky (Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics University of Bayreuth.)Leonid.Dubrovinsky@uni-bayreuth.de,
Natalia Dubrovinskaia Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics University of Bayreuth.) Natalia.Dubrovinskaia@uni-bayreuth.de

6. Chemistry and Physics of the Earth's Deep Interior Yingwei Fei (Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington) y.fei@gl.ciw.edu

7. Inhomogeneous and Strongly Correlated Materials with Advanced Functions Prof. N.L. Saini (Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy) saini@roma1.infn.it

8. Biology and biological materials at high pressures Anurag Sharma (The Hyperbug Laboratory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) anurag_sharma@rpi.edu

9. Ab initio simulations at extreme conditions Artem R. Oganov ( Laboratory of Crystallography, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland) a.oganov@mat.ethz.ch

10. Theory and Experiments on Ferroelectrics and Other Active Materials Ronald Cohen (Geophysical Laboratory Carnegie Institution of Washington) r.cohen@gl.ciw.edu

11. Minerals at high temperature and pressure: phase transitions, EoS, and applications Gilberto Artioli (Padova: gilberto.artioli@unipd.it)
Fabrizio Nestola (Padova: fabrizio.nestola@unipd.it)

12. The future of LVP research Yanbin Wang, University of Chicago, wang@cars.uchicago.edu

13. Mechanical properties under extreme conditions Hyunchae Cynn (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) cynn1@llnl.gov,
Peter Liermann (HPCAT, Carnegie Institute of Washington, Geophysical Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory)pliermann@hpcat.aps.anl.gov

14. Earth's Mantle: Properties and Processes J. Ganguly, University of Arizona, Tucson, e-mail: ganguly@geo.arizona.edu
S. K. Saxena, FIU

15. High-pressure studies of amorphous materials, liquids and melts. S.M. Clark Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Earth and Planetary Science University of California, Berkeley and School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK. smclark@lbl.gov

16. Laser heating of materials at high pressure Reini Boehler, Max-Planck Institute, Mainz

17. Light atoms and molecules Isaac F. Silvera (Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University) silvera@physics.harvard.edu

18. Extreme Materials Research Choong-Shik Yoo (Lawrence Livermore National Lab) yoo1@llnl.gov

19. Miscellaneous SMEC topics