Focus Session: High Pressure II - Earth and Planetary Materials

Presentations

• High-pressure investigations of Earth's interior

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 5, 2007, 9:15 AM – March 5, 2007, 9:51 AM

  Authors

  • Jennifer Jackson

    • Caltech

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• Infrared Reflectance of Magnesiowustite(Mg$_{1-x}$Fe$_{x}$O): Experiment and Theory

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 9:51 AM – March 5, 2007, 10:03 AM

  Authors

  • Tao Sun

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY at Stony Brook

  • Philip B. Allen

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY at Stony Brook

  • David G. Stahnke

    • Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego

  • Steven D. Jacobsen

    • Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University

  • Christopher C. Homes

    • Condensed Matter Physics \& Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory

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• Dynamical mean-field theory study of the high pressure behavior of FeO

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 10:03 AM – March 5, 2007, 10:15 AM

  Authors

  • A.C. Kollias

    • Carnegie Institution of Washington

  • R.E. Cohen

    • Carnegie Institution of Washington

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• Elastic Signature of the High-Spin to Low-Spin Transition in Magnesiow\"{u}stite

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 10:15 AM – March 5, 2007, 10:27 AM

  Authors

  • Cesar da Silva

    • CEMS and MSI, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

  • Renata Wentzcovitch

    • CEMS and MSI, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

  • Taku Tsuchiya

    • Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  March 5, 2007, 10:27 AM – March 5, 2007, 10:39 AM

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• \textit{Ab initio} Study of the Composition Dependence of the Pressure-Induced Spin Transition in Perovskite (Mg,Fe)SiO$_{3}$

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 10:39 AM – March 5, 2007, 10:51 AM

  Authors

  • Amelia Bengtson

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Kristin Persson

    • MIT

  • Dane Morgan

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

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• First-principles investigation of the spin state of ferrous iron in MgSiO$_3$ under pressure

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 10:51 AM – March 5, 2007, 11:03 AM

  Authors

  • Yonggang Yu

    • CEMS, University of Minnesota

  • Ryan Requist

    • Friedrich Alexandre University Erlangen 91058, Germany

  • Koichiro Umemoto

    • MSI and CEMS, University of Minnesota

  • Renata Wentzcovitch

    • MSI and CEMS, University of Minnesota

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

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 11:03 AM – March 5, 2007, 11:15 AM

  Authors

  • Lars Stixrude

    • University of Michigan

  • Bijaya Karki

    • Louisiana State University

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• Consequences of the Quasiharmonic Approximation: Tests and Predictions

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 11:15 AM – March 5, 2007, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Pierre Carrier

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

  • Jun Tsuchiya

    • Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan

  • Renata M. Wentzcovitch

    • University of Minnesota
    • Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, Department od Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota
    • Minnesota Supercomputing Institute and Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Ave SE
    • Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota

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• Quantum Monte Carlo Benchmarks Functionals for Silica Polymorphs

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 11:27 AM – March 5, 2007, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • K.P. Driver

    • Ohio State U.

  • J.W. Wilkins

    • The Ohio State University
    • Ohio State University
    • Ohio State U.

  • R.G. Hennig

    • Cornell University
    • Cornell U.

  • C.J. Umrigar

    • Cornell
    • Cornell U.

  • G. Scuseria

    • Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005
    • Rice University
    • Rice U.

  • Burkhard Militzer

    • Carnegie Institution of Washington

  • R.E. Cohen

    • Carnegie Institution of Washington

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• Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of the Quartz to Stishovite Transition in SiO$_2$

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 11:39 AM – March 5, 2007, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • R.E. Cohen

    • Carnegie Institution of Washington

  • Mike Towler

    • TCM, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambrigde, U.K

  • Pablo Lopez Rios

    • TCM, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambrigde, U.K

  • Neil Drummond

    • TCM, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambrigde, U.K

  • Richard Needs

    • University of Cambridge
    • TCM, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambrigde, U.K

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• First-principles calculations of thermodynamic properties and phase transitions in Al$_{2}$O$_{3}$ and Ga$_{2}$O$_{3}$ at high temperature and high pressure

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 11:51 AM – March 5, 2007, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Bin Xu

    • Auburn University

  • Jianjun Dong

    • Auburn University
    • Physics Department, Auburn University

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• Proton behaviour, structure and elasticity of serpentine at high-pressure

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 12:03 PM – March 5, 2007, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Mainak Mookherjee

    • Yale University

  • Lars Stixrude

    • University of Michigan

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