| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 - 9:00 | Arrival & check-in |
| 6:00 | Dinner |
| 7:30 | Welcome, Dennis Reich and Paul McMillan |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | New Frontiers in High Pressure Research |
| Session Chair: Richard Nelmes |
| 7:45 | Rus Hemley (GL-CIW)
New Physics and Chemistry at High Pressure |
| 8:35 | Paul Loubeyre (CEA)
Pushing Back the Frontiers of High Pressure Physics: Motivating Issues and Suitable Techniques |
| 9:30 | Poster Session I |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:45 | Photo Session |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Shock Waves, Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs |
| Session Chair: Neil Holmes |
| 9:00 | Ricky Chau (LLNL)
Electrical Conductivity of Shocked Dense Fluids |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:20 | Marcus Knudson (Sandia National Laboratories)
Materials Dynamics Experiments at High Pressure using the Sandia Z Accelerator |
| 11:20 | Tristan Guillot (Nice)
Hydrogen and Helium at High Pressures: Consequences for the Interiors of Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 6:00 | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | New Geophysics and Geochemistry |
| Session Chair: Mike Brown (Washington) |
| 7:30 | Denis Andrault (Paris)
Deep Earth Geophysics - HPHT Experimental Constraints |
| 8:10 | Ben Harte (Edinburgh)
Inclusions from Deep Diamonds |
| 8:50 | John Holloway (Arizona State University)
Neptune's forge: Organic synthesis in experimental "Black smokers" |
| 9:30 | Poster Session I |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | High Pressure Biochemistry and Nanomaterials |
| Session Chair: Jim Schilling (St. Louis) |
| 9:00 | Roland Winter (Dortmund)
Studies of Biomolecules at High Pressure |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:20 | Roger Fourme (LURE, Paris)
High Pressure Macromolecular Crystallography |
| 11:20 | Sarah Tolbert (UCLA)
Understanding the Behavior of Periodic Nanostructured Composite Materials Under Pressure |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 6:00 | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Liquids at High Pressure |
| Session Chair: Vadim Brazhkin (Moscow) |
| 7:30 | Y. Katayama (Spring-8)
In Situ Synchrotron Studies of Density-Driven Phase Transitions in Liquids |
| 8:10 | Mohamed Mezouar (ESRF)
Liquids Studies at the ESRF |
| 8:50 | Peter Poole (Western Ontario)
Liquid State Polymorphism: Thermodynamics and Simulation |
| 9:30 | Poster Session II |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Superhard Materials |
| Session Chair: Reini Boehler (Mainz) |
| 9:00 | Minoru Akaishi (NIMS, Japan)
Synthesis Of Diamond Under Ultrahigh Pressure Hydrothermal Conditions And Its Application To Materials |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:20 | Vladimir Solozhenko (Kiev)
Boron Carbon Nitrides: A New Class of Superhard Materials |
| 11:20 | Andreas Zerr (Mainz)
New Nitrides Prepared at High Pressure in the Laser-Heated Diamnd Cell |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 6:00 | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | "Young Scientists" Awards |
| Paul McMillan (Chair) |
| 7:30 | Presentation of the Van Valkenburg award |
| 7:55 | Presentation of the J.C. Jamieson award |
| 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Molecular-Solid State Chemistry at High Pressure |
| Session Chair: Stan Tozer (National Magnet Lab, Florida) |
| 8:00 | Jianjun Dong (Auburn)
Theory and Simulation of High-Pressure Polymerization of Small Molecules |
| 8:45 | Roberto Bini (Florence)
Chemistry and Photochemistry of Simple Molecules at High Pressure |
| 9:30 | Poster Session II |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Metals, Superconductivity and Neutrons |
| Session Chair: Karl Syassen (Stuttgart) |
| 9:00 | Malcolm McMahon (Edinburgh)
Incommensurate Structures in Elemental Metals |
| 9:50 | Coffee Break |
| 10:10 | Katsuya Shimizu (Osaka)
A New Periodic Table for Superconductivity |
| 11:00 | Wei Bao (LANL-LANSCE)
Neutron scattering studies on correlated electron materials under pressure |
| 11:50 | Elections and Assessment |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 6:00 | Dinner |
| 3:00 | Soccer Match: "Kilobars" vs. "Megabars" Match Organised by A. Chopelas, Vice Chair |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | New Challenges and Opportunities |
| Session Chair: Anastasia Chopelas (Vice Chair) |
| 7:30 | Giulia Galli (LLNL)
Warm Dense Molecular Fluids: What Can We Learn From Computer Simulations? |
| 8:30 | Dave Mao (CIW)
New Windows on High Pressure Experimentation |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Depart |
