Focus Session: Planetary Materials III

Presentations

• Dissociation of CaIrO$_3$-type MgSiO$_3$ in the gas giants

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 11:15 AM – March 15, 2006, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Koichiro Umemoto

    • University of Minnesota

  • Renata Wentzcovitch

    • Minnesota Supercomputing Institute and Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota

  • Philip Allen

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University

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• Thermal Electrons and Thermal Conductivity in Oxide Minerals at P and T Relevant to Terrestrial Exoplanets

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 11:27 AM – March 15, 2006, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Philip B. Allen

    • Stony Brook University

  • Koichiro Umemoto

    • University of Minnesota

  • Renata M. Wentzcovitch

    • University of Minnesota

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• Elasticity of MgO Under Direct Pressure Measurement: Insights on Current Pressure Scales.

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 11:39 AM – March 15, 2006, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Baosheng Li

    • Stony Brook University

  • Kelly Woody

    • Division of Water Supply, The State of Tennessee

  • Robert Liebermann

    • Department of Geosciences, SUNY Stony Brook

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• A high PT scale based on density functional calculations of MgO

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 11:51 AM – March 15, 2006, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Z. Wu

  • R.M. Wentzcovitch

    • Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

  • B. Li

    • Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

  • K. Umemoto

    • Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

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• Phase stability and elasticity of CaSiO$_3$ perovskite at high pressure and high temperature from Ab inito molecular dynamic calculations

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 12:03 PM – March 15, 2006, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Donald Weidner

    • Stony Brook University

  • Li Li

    • Stony Brook University

  • John Brodholt

  • Dario Alfe

  • David Price

    • University College London
    • Universtiy College London

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• Computational study of the pressure behavior of post-perovskite phases

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 12:15 PM – March 15, 2006, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Razvan Caracas

    • Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington

  • Ronald Cohen

    • Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington

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• Thermodynamics of Mg$_2$SiO$_4$ liquid from first principles molecular dynamics simulations

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 12:27 PM – March 15, 2006, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Nico De Koker

  • Lars Stixrude

    • University of Michigan

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• Dissociation of Ringwoodite investigated by first principles

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 12:39 PM – March 15, 2006, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Yonggang Yu

  • Renata M. Wentzcovitch

    • University of Minnesota

  • Taku Tsuchiya

  • Koichiro Umemoto

    • University of Minnesota

  • Jun Tsuchiya

    • Minnesota Supercomputing Institute and Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota

  • Donald Weidner

    • Center for High Pressure Research and Department of Geosciences, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

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• Structure and freezing of MgSiO$_3$ liquid in Earth's interior

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 12:51 PM – March 15, 2006, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Bijaya Karki

    • Louisiana State University

  • Lars Stixrude

    • University of Michigan

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• A laboratory method for modeling synthesis of coesite in the earth's surface by combining local mechanical collision with shear stress and high static pressure.

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 1:03 PM – March 15, 2006, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Wen-Hui Su

  • Shu-E Liu

    • Center for the Condensed-Matter Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P. R. China

  • Da-Peng Xu

  • Wei-Ran Wang

    • Center for Rare-Earth Solid State Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, P. R. China

  • Xiao-Mei Liu

    • Center for the Condensed-Matter Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P. R. China

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• Novel Perovskite Compounds Synthesized under Elevated High Pressure.

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 1:15 PM – March 15, 2006, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • C.Q. Jin

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • C.Q. Jin

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • C.Q. Jin

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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• Structure of MgO(MgSiO$_{3})_{n}$ in Earth's Lower Mantle: ab initio calculations

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 1:27 PM – March 15, 2006, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Patric Oulevey

    • Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland

  • Mohammed Sahnoun

    • Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland

  • Simonpietro Di Pierro

    • Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, UMR CNRS 5570, Ecole Normale Sup\'{e}rieure de Lyon, France

  • Bernard Grob\'{e}ty

    • Department of Mineralogy, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland

  • Claude Daul

    • Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland

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• Heat capacity measurements of sub-milligram quantities of mantle minerals

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 1:39 PM – March 15, 2006, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • David W. Cooke

  • F. Hellman

    • University of California at Berkeley

  • A. Navrotsky

  • M. Dorogova

  • C.E. Lesher

    • University of California at Davis

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• Carbon under extreme conditions: phase boundaries from first-principles theory

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 1:51 PM – March 15, 2006, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Alfredo A. Correa

    • Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley

  • Stanimir A. Bonev

    • Department of Physics, Dalhousie University, Halifax

  • Giulia Galli

    • University of California, Davis
    • University of California, Davis and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • UC Davis and LLNL
    • Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550 and University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616

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• Synthesis of New Cubic C$_{3}$N$_{4}$ Phase under High Pressure and High Temperature

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 2:03 PM – March 15, 2006, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Li Chung Ming

  • Pavel Zinin

    • University of Hawaii

  • Yue Meng

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Xiu-Ru Liu

  • Shi Ming Hong

    • Southwest Jiaotong University, China

  • Yi Xie

    • University of Science and Technology of China

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