Dear Colleague:

We would like bring you up to date on the 2010 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Research at High Pressure, which will be held at Holderness School, Holderness, New Hampshire, USA from June 27 to July 2, 2010.

The first Research at High Pressure GRC took place in 1955, and it is therefore one of the longest running Gordon Conferences. This longevity is due to the exciting and diverse nature of this area of research which spans areas such as deep-earth geophysics and geochemistry; multi-megabar dynamic and static techniques; dense fluids and disordered solids; novel high-pressure structure and properties measurements and predictions; and the synthesis of novel chemical compounds with ultra-hard or unusual superconducting properties. All of these areas rely upon coordinated theoretical and experimental efforts which will be highlighted in this conference.

We will have sessions that include the following topics:
Structural Predictions at Extreme Conditions: An Alternative to Experiment?
Ultra Dense Hydrogen
Novel Dense Structure and Properties for Material Science
From QMC to Disordered Solids
Dynamic Compression – From Lasers to DACs
Chemistry and Biology at High Pressure
Geophysics and Geochemistry at High Pressure
 
Talks will be given by the leaders in the fields, as well as new members of the high- pressure research community. The invited speakers include:  Artem Oganov, Chris J. Pickard, Valentina M. Giordano, Anat Shahar, Emmanuel Soignard, Timothy A. Strobel, Paul Loubeyre, Haruki Kawamura, Yuichi Akahama, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Eugene Gregoryanz, Kazuyuki Matsubayshi, Alexander Goncharov, David Ceperley, Vobumasa Funamori, Jon Eggert, Marcus Knudson, Xianming Zhou, Michael R. Armstrong, Roald Hoffmann, Paul McMillan, Vitali Prakapenka, Sarah Stewart, Jie Li, and Neil W. Ashcroft.

The session chairs are: Roman Martonak, John Loveday, Serge Desgreniers, James Schilling, Chris A. Tulk, Gilbert Collins, Choong-Shik Yoo, Bob Liebermann, and Malcolm McMahon.

In addition, we will have “Invited Posters” sessions where important late-breaking posters will be described in brief (5 minute) presentations. So if you are planning to present a poster, please register and submit your poster abstract as soon as possible so that it can be considered for an “Invited Poster” presentation. We strongly encourage attendance by students and post-docs, who are often the presenters of “Invited Posters”.  Our NSF application for support for students, post-docs, and junior faculty is currently pending.

The complete conference program can be found on our website: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=highpress

 
Please forward this announcement to your fellow high-pressure researchers. We are certain that you will find that this Gordon Conference will be an exciting five days of presentations and discussions on the latest research in our field.   

Best Regards,

Dennis Klug, Chair and Malcolm McMahon, Vice Chair