(Only preliminary data are presently available)

 

Selected speakers who had accepted to lecture two years ago

Anatoly Balagurov, JINR, Dubna, RU
Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, University of Bayreuth, DE
Natalia Dubrovinskaia, University of Heidelberg, DE
Francesca Fabbiani, University of Goettingen, DE
Roger Fourme, Synchrotron Soleil, FR
P.T.C Freire, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, BR
Fernando Rodriguez Gonzalez, University of Cantabria, ES
Giovanni Hearne, University of Witwatersrand, ZA
Kei Hirose, Yokohama Institute of Technology, JP
Jennifer Jackson, CalTech, Pasadena, CA, US
Andrzej Katrusiak, University of Poznan, PL
Paul McMillan, University of London, UK
Mohamed Mezouar, ESRF, Grenoble, FR
Artem Oganov, ETH Hoenggerberg, Zurich, CH
Moshe Paz Pasternak, Tel Aviv University, IL
Nancy Ross, Virginia Polytechnic, VA, US
Crystelle Sanloup, University of Edinburgh, UK
Mario Santoro, INFM, Sesto Fiorentino, IT
Vladimir Solozhenko, Institute for Superhard Materials, Kiev, UA
Heidrun Sowa, University of Goettingen, DE
Renata Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, US
Bjorn Winkler, University of Frankfurt/Main, DE
Roland Winter, University of Dortmund, DE

Additional speakers - invited more recently ONLY for bureaucratic reasons - who have accepted to lecture

Vladimir Dmitriev, SNBL, ESRF, FR
Leonid Dubrovinsky, University of Bayreuth, DE
Lars Ehm, State University of New York, US
Antonio Gomes Souza Filho, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, BR
Alexandra Friedrich, Frankfurt/Main University, DE
Wojciech Grochala, University of Warsaw, PL
Denis Kozlenko, JINR, Dubna, RU
Paul Loubeyere, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, FR
Piero Macchi, Milan University, IT
Vitalij Pecharsky, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, US
Alain Polian, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, FR
Colin R. Pulham, University of Edinburg, UK

 

Topics

TECHNIQUES

Devices for pressure generation
Pressure measurement / calibration
High-pressure experiments at variable temperature
Single-crystal and powder diffraction with X-rays and neutrons
Spectroscopy
Electric and magnetic measurements
Calorimetry
High-pressure techniques at large facilities
Theoretical methods for high-pressure science

PHENOMENA AND PROPERTIES

Strain, compressibility, equation of state
Phase transitions
Amorphous and crystalline solids
Planetary sciences and mineral physics
Synthesis and solid-state reactivity
Materials (ferroelectrics, super-hard materials, nanomaterials, etc.)
Explosives and energetic materials
Soft matter, biomolecules, drugs and biomimetics
Food processing
High-pressure crystallization