The 2010 Gordon Conference on Research at High Pressures will be held from June 27 to July 2 at the Holderness School, Holderness, New Hampshire, U.S.A. The high pressure community is fortunate to have two awards that are given at this conference to recognize contributions to this field by young researchers.  The J.C. Jamieson Award and the Alvin Van Valkenburg Award are given to promote the memory of two pioneers in high pressure research. John Calhoun Jamieson was formerly a Professor of Geophysics at the University of Chicago, and made far reaching contributions to scientific research.  Alvin Van Valkenburg, was the inventor of the diamond anvil cell, and was one of the most important early pioneers in the field of high pressure research.

Traditionally we have honored a young scientist working in high pressure or a scientist new to the area of high pressure with the Alvin Van Valkenburg Award.  In addition, the J.C. Jamieson Award has been given to an outstanding graduate student working in this area.  We would like to solicit nominations from the high pressure community for these awards and ask that you send to us a supporting letter and CV for anyone whom you would like to elect.   The recipients of these awards will be given invited talks to present their work at the GRC.

See our website for the current list of speakers: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=highpress . This will be updated with more details very soon.

Dennis Klug (Dennis.klug@nrc.ca) and Malcolm McMahon (mim@ph.ed.ac.uk)
Chair and Vice-Chair, 2010 GRC Conference on Research at High Pressure