Focus Session: Earth and Planetary Materials II

Presentations

• The melting curve of MgSiO3 perovskite from ab initio molecular dynamics using the coexistience method

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 11, 2008, 10:15 AM – March 11, 2008, 10:51 AM

  Authors

  • John Brodholt

    • Dept. of Earth Sciences, UCL

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• First-Principles Molecular Dynamics of Melts in the MgO-SiO$_{2}$ System

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 10:51 AM – March 11, 2008, 11:03 AM

  Authors

  • Bijaya Karki

    • Louisiana State University
    • Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA

  • Nico de Koker

    • University of Michigan

  • D. Bhattarai

    • Louisiana State University

  • Lars Stixrude

    • University of Michigan

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• A New look into the spin transition in Fe$_2$O$_3$

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 11:03 AM – March 11, 2008, 11:15 AM

  Authors

  • Dipta Bhanu Ghosh

    • SISSA and DEMOCRITOS

  • Stefano de Gironcoli

    • Intl School for Adv Studies (SISSA), Trieste Italy
    • SISSA and DEMOCRITOS

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• Prediction of an ultrahigh-pressure form of Al$_2$O$_3$

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 11:15 AM – March 11, 2008, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Koichiro Umemoto

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

  • Renata Wentzcovitch

    • University of Minnesota
    • Minnesota Supercomputing Institute and Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota
    • Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455.
    • U of Minnesota

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• Models of Giant Planet Interiors Derived from First-Principles Simulation

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 11:27 AM – March 11, 2008, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Burkhard Militzer

    • UC Berkeley
    • University of California, Berkeley
    • Earth and Planetary Science Department, University of California, Berkeley.

  • Jan Vorberger

    • University of Warwick
    • Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.

  • William Hubbard

    • University of Arizona

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• Titan's Interior Chemical Composition: Possible Important Phase Transitions

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 11:39 AM – March 11, 2008, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Bishun Khare

    • NASA Ames

  • Michael Howard

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Joseph Zaug

  • Christopher McKay

    • NASA Ames

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• Extended-Solid Phases of Carbon Dioxide at High Pressures

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 11:51 AM – March 11, 2008, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Valentin Iota

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Zsolt Jenei

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Jae-Hyun Klepeis

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Choong-Shik Yoo

    • Washington State University, Pullman

  • William Evans

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• High-pressure Neutron Powder Diffraction and Inelastic Neutron Scattering Studies on the Mineral Jarosite KFe$_{3}$(SO$_{4})_{2}$(OH)$_{6}$

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 12:03 PM – March 11, 2008, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Kim Tait

    • Royal Ontario Museum

  • Monika Hartl

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory, LANSCE-LC
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Alice Acatrinei

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory, LANSCE-LC
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Luke Daemen

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory, LANSCE-LC
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Hongwu Xu

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Yuejian Wang

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Sven Vogel

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Jianzhong Zhang

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Yusheng Zhao

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Lattice Dynamics and Thermal Equation of State of Platinum

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 12:15 PM – March 11, 2008, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Tao Sun

    • Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University

  • Koichiro Umemoto

    • Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota

  • Zhongqing Wu

    • Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota

  • Jincheng Zheng

    • Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory

  • Renata Wentzcovitch

    • Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota

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• Ultrafast shock wave propagation at high ambient pressure in a diamond anvil cell

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 12:27 PM – March 11, 2008, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Michael Armstrong

    • Lawrence Livermore National Lab

  • Jonathan Crowhurst

  • Joseph Zaug

  • William Howard

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