HPCAT Workshop on Advances in Matter under Extreme Conditions

October 10-12, 2012, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne national Lab, Argonne, IL, USA

An HPCAT workshop will be held at the Advanced Photon Source on October 10-12, 2012, to highlight the benchmark of the 10th year operation of HPCAT and discuss the recent advances in high-pressure synchrotron techniques and in extreme
conditions science. The workshop will also identify both scientific and technical challenges and research directions in the next decade through discussions in the following breakout panels:

·        Structure, bonding and thermodynamic properties reaching 0.5 TPa and beyond
·        Time-dependent transformations and off-Hugoniot processes
·        New materials discoveries and applications
·        Novel states of matter and new chemistry 
·        Mechanical and transport properties: strength, failure, rheology, transport properties
·        Liquids and amorphous materials
·        Advanced technologies and instruments 

The objectives of the HPCAT workshop are (1) to articulate foremost scientific challenges in the field of extreme conditions science; (2) identify the science and technology gaps to address these challenges; and (3) define research
directions in the area of high-pressure synchrotron science to advance the exploration of matter under extreme conditions.

We encourage you to participate in the workshop and join the discussions in the breakout sessions. There is no registration fee. Further details, including registration and poster presentation, about the HPCAT workshop can be found at: http://www.aps.anl.gov/Users/Workshops/HPCAT2012

The Workshop Organizing Committee:
  Christian Mailhiot (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
  David Funk (Los Alamos National Lab) 
  Thomas Duffy (Princeton U)
  Chi-Chang Kao (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource)
  Choong-shik Yoo (Washington State U)
  Guoyin Shen (HPCAT, Carnegie Institution of Washington): gshen@ciw.edu