High Pressure Science Society of America, (HiPSSA) will host the sixth meeting of the Study of Matter at Extreme Conditions (SMEC). The focus of the meeting will be to promote interdisciplinary research in the fields of geophysics, solid state physics, high pressure physics and chemistry and materials science. The meeting will be held from March 27 to April 2nd 2011 on a cruise ship sailing from the port of Miami.
- Conference Symposia Panel Titles
- Registration Procedure
- Conference Fee
Conference organizing committee:
Surendera K. Saxena (Florida International University, Miami, USA) saxenas@fiu.edu
Naurang Saini (Università degli Studi di Roma"La Sapienza", Roma Italy) naurang.saini@roma1.infn.it
Jiuhua Chen (Florida International University, Miami, USA) Jiuhua.Chen@fiu.edu
Andriy Durygin (Florida International University, Miami, USA) andriy.durygin@fiu.edu
Haozhe Liu ( Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China ) haozheliu@hotmail.com
SMEC 2011 Conference Symposia Panel Titles
If you wish to organize a symposium, please send a title and description before Oct. 31. After receiving all the possible themes, we will organize them in various categories.
Symposia suggested so far (the list will be updated as additional titles are received until Oct 31)
List of symposia titles and organizers:
1. Melting at high P - experimental and theoretical studies Anatoly Belonoshko and Leonid Burakovsky
2. Electronic-Structural related high-pressure phenomena in transition metal compounds Moshe Pasternak
3. Structural and electronic phase
transformations of materials under pressure that lead to unusual electronic, magnetic and optical properties.
Richard Henning and Sven Rudin
4. Hydrides under pressure Duck Young Kim (Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Cavendish
Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK) dyk26@cam.ac.uk
Ralph H. Scheicher (Condensed Matter Theory Group, Department of Physics and Materials Science, Uppsala University, Sweden)ralph.scheicher@fysik.uu.se
5. Solar Energy, Hydrogen Storage Production & Usage Rajeev Ahuja (Condensed Matter Theory Group, Department of Physics, Uppsala University)
6. Predicting new phenomena at high pressure, unusual behaviour of matter at extreme conditions, crystal structure prediction and determination, structural
transition under pressure.
Andriy O. Lyakhov (Stony Brook University) Artem R. Oganov (Stony Brook University) Salah Eddine Boulfelfel (Stony Brook University)
7. Life under high pressure/ Biophysics and chemistry at extreme conditions.
Fumihisa Ono
8. Nanostructured systems and materials at high pressure A. Soldatov
10. Novel supercoducting materials
researches at extreme conditions Changqing Jin (Beijing, China)
11. Hydrogen Storage: Elucidation of Reversible Hydriding Pathways through High Pressure Studies Craig Jensen (University of Hawaii)
Registration Procedure
Please, remember that the registration procedure requires 2 steps:
1. registration and abstract submission on the conference web page
(http://hipssa.org/smec2011/)
2. reservation of the ship cabin by the travel agent (detailed instruction on http://www.regonline.com/SMEC_2011)
Conference Fee
Regular registration fee: $150 ($200 after Feb 15, 2011)
Students: $70 ($100 after Feb 15, 2009)
Accompanying person: Free
Conference fees are full-refundable before Feb 15, 2011
Conference fees are non-refundable after Feb 15, 2011, except under extenuating circumstances.
Please contact Dr. Andriy Durygin (durygina@fiu.edu or by phone 786 239 0935) to discuss questions about conference fee and refunds.
On-line conference fee payment