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June 13, 2007
 Wednesday
Location: Robert Purcell Conference Center,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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Wednesday- June 13th        Organizer: Zhongwu Wang,
Sr. Research Associate, CHESS
Workshop I:
"Peeking into High-Pressure Worlds through a Small Diamond Window"
 9:30 Neil Ashcroft (Department of Physics, Cornell University) - "Pressure, and Inorganic Complexity"
10:15 Bill Bassett (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University) - "Structure of Aqueous Zinc Bromide Solutions by XAFS and Raman to 500°C and 900 MPa in a Hydrothermal Diamond Anvil Cell"
11:00 BREAK
11:15 Peter Lazor (Department of Earth Science, Uppsala University, Sweden) - "Precise Optical Interferometry in DAC: Application to dielectric and equation-of-state studies"
12:00 Poster Awards
12:15 LUNCH
 1:15 Joe Zaug (Chemistry and Materials Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) - "A Study of an Amorphous to Amorphous Phase Transition in Red Phosphorus: The importance of using synchrotron x-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopic results to constrain computationally derived amorphous structures"
 2:00 Oliver Tschauner (High Pressure Center and Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas) - "High Pressure Phase Transitions Constrain Shock Conditions in Meteorite Parent Bodies"
Workshop II      Tuesday Agenda       Main Agenda      

2008 Run

Nov 19th - Dec 22nd

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