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CDAC Webinar/Talks

Please join us for this CDAC Zoom talk/webinar: 

    Upcoming Webinars:        

Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Joint Seminar With the NNSA/SSAA Center for Matter Under Extreme Conditions (CMEC)
Speaker: Burkhard Militzer (University of California-Berkeley)
Title: Phase Separation of Planetary Ices Explains Magnetic Disorder on Uranus and Neptune

Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Krzysztof Wozniak (University of Washington)
Title: TBA


   Past Webinars: 

View Recorded CDAC talks HERE

Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Renata Wentzcovich (Columbia University)
Title: Quantum Phenomena in Iron in the Earth’s Mantle and their Macroscopic Manifestation

Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Thomas Albrecht-Schoenzart (Colorado School of Mines)
Title: Extremes of the Periodic Table Under Extreme Conditions

Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Suxing Hu (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester)
Title: Toward Accurate Simulation of Warm Dense Matter

Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Andrew Campbell (University of Chicago / SEES)
Title: SEES :  New Opportunities and Developments in Synchrotron Earth and Environmental Science

Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Gilberto Fabbris (Argonne National Laboratory)
Title: Probing Magnetism at Extreme Conditions at the APS-U POLAR Beamline

Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Robert Suter (Carnegie Mellon University)
Title: Developments and Applications of 3D Nondestructive Tracking of Microstructures

Date: Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Adam Denchfield (University of Illinois Chicago)
Title: Potential High-Tc Superconductivity at Modest Pressures in Doped Rare-Earth Hydrides

Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Stanimir A. Bonev (Quantum Simulations Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title: In Search of High-Pressure Energetic Materials Metastable at Ambient Conditions

Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Dana Dlott (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Title: Adventures in Tabletop Shock Compression: More Powerful Detonations and Tiny Hypersonic Missiles

Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Zach Geballe (Carnegie Institution of Science)
Title: High-Pressure Melting of Fe, Pt, and H2O using Joule-Heating Calorimetry in Diamond Anvil Cells

Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Innocent Ezenwa (HPCAT / Argonne National Laboratory)
Title: Electrical Resistivity and Impedance Spectroscopy: A Probe of Phase Transformations in Materials at High P-T Conditions

Date: Wednesday, June 5, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Reeju Pokharel (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Title: Enabling Dynamic Multiscale 3D Materials Characterization with Machine Learning

Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Maarten Goesten (Aarhus University)
Title: Symmetry-Shaped Singularities in the High Temperature Superconductor H3S

Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Harry Radousky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title: Ultrafast X-Ray Diffraction of Zirconium and Aluminum — Observing Phase Transitions, Ablation Depths, and Residual Temperatures

Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Guoyin Shen (High-Pressure Collaborative Access Team, Argonne National Laboratory)
Title: New Opportunities for High-Pressure Research in the APS-U Era

Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Mohana Shivanna (Sandia National Laboratories)
Title: Nano Confinement of Metal Hydrides Inside the Functionalized Host Materials

Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Camille Bernal-Choban (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Title: Towards Understanding the Thermodynamic Origin of the Latent Heat of Melting

Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Patrick Cordier (Université de Lille/Institut Universitaire de France)
Title: Stress-induced amorphization of olivine: a new deformation mechanism

Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Samad Hajinazar (University at Buffalo)
Title: Learning from Nature: Accelerating Materials Discovery Through Bio-inspired Approaches

Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Arun Devaraj (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Title: Dynamic Microstructural Evolution Mechanisms of Materials during High Speed Shear Deformation

Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Valery I. Levitas, (Iowa State University)
Title: Recent Advances in Severe Plasticity, Strain-Induced Phase Transformations, and Microstructure Evolution at High Pressure with Applications to Material Synthesis, Nanograined Materials, and Earthquakes

Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Malcolm McMahon, (The University of Edinburgh)
Title: Recent Advances in Static Compression Science at Synchrotrons and XFELs

Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Shuai Zhang, (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester)
Title: Turning up the Heat on High Energy Density Materials in Silico — Case Studies

Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Rachel Huber, (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Title: X-ray Diffraction of Polymers Under Dynamic Compression

Date: Wednesday, November 1, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Peter Sharma, (Sandia National Laboratories)
Title: Non-Equilibrium Phase Formation for Realizing Supervalent Hydrides at Low Pressures

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Eva Zurek, (University at Buffalo)
Title: Theoretical Design of Light-Element Superconductors (and Other Quantum Materials)

Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Nicholas Butch, (University of Maryland)
Title: Unconventional Superconductivity at High Fields and Pressures in UTe2

Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Philip Myint, (Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title: A Scaling Law for Solidification Under Quasi-Isentropic Compression

Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Jinhyuk (Isaiah) Lim, (University of Florida)
Title: Pressure: A Pathway to Advanced Materials

Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Christian Mailhiot, (Materials Research, Sandia National Laboratories)
Title: New Insight into the Disordering Mechanism in Fluorite-Related Compounds

Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Maik Lang, (Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Title: New Insight into the Disordering Mechanism in Fluorite-Related Compound

Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Sobhit Singh, (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester)
Title: Vibrational Fingerprinting and Structural Purification of Hafnia Phases via Pressure Cycling

Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Joint Seminar With the NNSA/SSAA Center for Matter Under Extreme Conditions (CMEC)
Speaker: Tanja Kovačević, (University of California, Davis)
Title: Mixing Matters: Revealing Rock-Ice Miscibility in Massive Water World Interiors

Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Sally June Tracy, (Carnegie Institution for Science)
Title: Investigations of Phase Transitions and Metastability using Ultrafast Diffraction under Dynamic Loading

Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Steven Jacobsen, (Northwestern University)
Title: The Future of Mineral Sciences

Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Joint Seminar With the NNSA/SSAA Center for Matter Under Extreme Conditions (CMEC)
Speaker: Kaitlyn Amodeo, (University of California, Davis)
Title: Thermodynamics of Planetary Building Blocks

Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Joint Seminar With the NNSA/SSAA Center for Matter Under Extreme Conditions (CMEC)
Speaker: Alex Li, (University of California, San Diego)
Title: Simulating Shock in Silicon and Diamond Carbon

Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Francesco Belli, (Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo)
Title: Characterization of Hydrogen-based Superconductors from First Principles

Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Jason L. Baker, (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title: Static Compression Experiments on Energetic Materials

Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Scott Crockett, (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Title: Equation of State Modeling of Bismuth

Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Patricia Kalita, (Sandia National Laboratories)
Title: Extreme Material Dynamics Experiments on SNL’s Z Machine

Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Brent Fultz, (Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology)
Title: Origin of the Invar Effect

Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Saniya LeBlanc, (Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, George Washington University)
Title: Laser-based Additive Manufacturing of Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Materials

Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Kurt Leinenweber, (Arizona State University)
Title: Science from the Multi-anvil Press: Past, Present, and Future

Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Samantha Couper, (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Title: Texture Evolution and Plasticity Modeling of High-Pressure Deformation Mechanisms in Earth Materials and Metals

Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Anna Olejniczak, (Department of Materials Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University)
Title: High-pressure studies of high-nitrogen organic compounds

Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Danna Freedman, (Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Title: Bismuth Under Pressure

Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Anthony Rollett, (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Title: High Energy X-ray Microscopy Insights into Additive Manufacturing

Date:  Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Busheng Wang, (Research Assistant at University at Buffalo Department of Chemistry)
Title: Topological Electride Phase of Sodium at High Pressures and Temperatures
Speaker: Nisha Geng, (Postdoctoral Research Associate at University at Buffalo Department of Chemistry)
Title: High-Temperature Superconductivity in XYB6C6 Systems

Date:  Wednesday, September 14, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Jorge Munoz, (University of Texas-El Paso)
Title: Mechanical Instabilities in Fe and FeV at High Pressures and Temperatures

Date:  Wednesday, August 31, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Timothy Jenkins, (Army Research Laboratory)
Title: Stereochemistry, Pressure, and Energetics

Date:  Wednesday, August 3, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Joint Seminar With the NNSA/SSAP Center for Materials at Extreme Conditions
Speaker: Sebastien Hamel, (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title: Phase Behavior of Water and Hydrocarbons at Planetary Extreme Condition

Date:  Wednesday, July 13, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Manuel Recio, (University of Oviedo)
Title: Chemical Pressure and Physical Pressure: More Than Atomic Radii

Date:  Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Michael Armstrong, (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Title: Ultrafast X-Ray Diffraction of the Pressure-Induced Graphite to Hexagonal Diamond Transition

Date:  Wednesday, June 15, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Weiwei Xie, (Rutgers University)
Title: Exploring Novel Quantum Materials From Chemistry Perspectives

Date:  Wednesday, June 1, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Nilesh Salke, (Department of Physics, University of Illinois Chicago)
Title: Synthesis of Novel Materials at Ultrahigh Pressures

Date:  Wednesday, May 18, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Tadashi Ogitsu, (Quantum Simulation Group / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title: Quantum Simulations of Matter Under Extreme (and Not-so Extreme) Conditions

Date:  Wednesday, April 20, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Amy Hixon, (Actinide Center of Excellence (ACE) / University of Notre Dame)
Title: Overview of Research in the Actinide Center of Excellence

Date:  Wednesday, April 6, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Joint CMEC/CDAC Seminar
Speaker: Ryan Rygg, (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester)
Title: Plasma Waves and the Compressibility of Warm Dense Hydrogen

Date:  Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Stefano Racioppi, (Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo)
Title: Quantum Stabilization of Helium Intercalated A-site Vacant Perovskites Under Pressure

Date:  Wednesday, March 9, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Matthew Diamond, (Department of Physics, University of Illinois Chicago)
Title: Experimental Visualization of Electron Density Changes Across the High-Pressure Fe(II) Spin Transition

Date:  Wednesday, February 23, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Fatemah Safari, (Department of Materials Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Title: High-Pressure Polymorphs Stabilized by Rational Doping under Ambient Conditions

Date:  Wednesday, February 9, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Pinwen Guan, (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University)
Title: Computational Thermodynamics: Applications to Pressure-Electrochemical Synthesis of Superhydrides and Deep Learning

Date:  Wednesday, February 2, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Joint Seminar With the NNSA/SSAP Center for Materials at Extreme Conditions
Speaker: Debra Callahan, (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title: Achieving a Burning and Igniting Plasma on the National Ignition Facility Laser

Date:  Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Richard Kraus, (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title: Measuring the Melting Curve of Iron at Super-Earth Core Conditions

Date:  Wednesday, December 15, 2021 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Maosheng Miao, (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University - Northridge)
Title: Toward a Universal Theory of the Structures of Elemental Metals

Date:  Wednesday, December 1, 2021 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Joint Seminar With the NNSA/SSAP Center for Materials at Extreme Conditions
Speaker: Annie Kersting, (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Student, Postdoc, and Faculty Research and Job Opportunities

Date:  Wednesday, November 17, 2021 - 1:30 pm (CST)
Speaker: Sergey Savrasov, (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California - Davis)
Title: Where to Find Good Conductors

Date:  Wednesday, November 3, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Kim Budil, (Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title: Innovation and Impact – Science at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Date:  Tuesday, October 19, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Jane Herriman, (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title:Phonon thermodynamics and elastic behavior of GaN and GaAs at elevated temperatures and pressures

Date:  Wednesday, October 6, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Gaia Righi, (Materials Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego)
Title:Dynamic Failure in Laser Shock-loaded Iron

Date:  Wednesday, July 28, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Jorge Munoz, (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at El Paso)
Title: Electronic Structure and Dynamical Stability of the B2 phase of Binary Iron and Titanium Alloys at High Pressure and Temperature

Date:  Wednesday, July 21, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Janice Musfeldt, (Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Title: Novel Spectroscopy of Quantum Materials under External

Date:  Wednesday, July 14, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: M. Brian Maple, (Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego)
Title: Novel Electronic Phases and Competing Interactions in the Correlated f-electron Compound URu2Si2

Date:  Wednesday, July 7, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Dayne Fratanduono, (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title: Establishing Gold and Platinum Standards at Terapascal Pressures

Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Paul J. Steinhardt (Department of Physics, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University)
Title: The Discovery of Quasicrystals Formed in the First Atomic Bomb Test and Other Extraordinary Circumstances

Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Sergey L. Bud'ko, (Materials Sciences and Engineering, Ames Laboratory)
Title: Ferromagnetic Quantum Phase Transitions Under Pressure

Date:  Wednesday, June 16, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Peter J. Pauzauskie, (University of Washington / Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Title: Synthesis and Laser-cooling of Point Defects at Gigapascal Pressures

Date:  Wednesday, June 9, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Jung-Fu Lin, (Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin)
Title: Transport Properties of Iron Alloys and the Geodynamo

Date:  Wednesday, June 2, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Tom Duffy (Department of Geosciences, Princeton University)
Title: Dynamic Compression of Planetary Materials to Terapascal Pressures

Date:  Wednesday, May 26, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Michael Hu (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory) 
Title: Mossbauer Isotope Probes of Condensed Matter

Date:  Wednesday, May 19, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Wenli Bi (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Title: Magnetic Studies Under High Pressure

Date:  Wednesday, May 12, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Iskander Batyrev (Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground)
Title: Calculations of Energetic Materials and Extended Solids under Pressure

Date:  Wednesday, May 5, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker 1: Alison Altman (Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University) 
Title: Computationally Directed Discovery of MoBi2
Speaker 2: Alexandra Tamerius (Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University) 
Title: Formation and Stability of Ni3Pb2

Date:  Wednesday, April 28, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Ryan Klein (National Renewable Energy Laboratory/NIST Center for Neutron Research
Title: Pressure-Induced Collapse of Magnetic Order in Jarosite

Date:  Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Patricia Kalita (Sandia National Laboratories)  
Title: Hurry Up or Take Your Time: Kinetics of Shock-driven Phase Transitions and Dynamic X-ray Diffraction

Date:  Wednesday, April 14, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Przemyslaw Dera (Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii at Manoa) 
Title: Static Compression and Mechanochemical Investigations of Structural Phase Changes and Chemical Reactions in Silicate and Oxide Mineral

Date:  Wednesday, April 7, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Ronald Cohen (Extreme Materials Initiative, Carnegie Institution for Science)
Title: Reexploration of High Pressure Ferroelectricity in PbTiO3

Date:  Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Fei Wang (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University)
Title: Crystal Structure and Ordering of Hydrogen-related Defects and Ferric Iron in High-Pressure Silicates of the Mantle Transition Zone

Date:  Wednesday, March 24, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Dana D. Dlott (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Title: Watching Solids and Liquids through the Ultrafast Shock Compression Microscope

Date:  Wednesday, March 17, 2021 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Yogesh K. Vohra (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Title: Perspectives on Nanocrystalline and Toroidal Diamonds in Ultrahigh Pressure Materials Research

Date:  Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 1pm (CST)
Speaker: James Walsh (UMass Amherst)
Title: Experimentally accessing novel structural and magnetic phases with pressure

Date:  Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 1pm (CST)
Speaker: Thomas Mattsson (Sandia National Laboratories)
Title: Material Physics with Pulsed Power at Sandia
Abstract

Date:  Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - 1pm (CST)
Speaker: Shanti Deemyad (University of Utah)
Title: Symmetry Breaking Transitions and Light Alkalis Under Pressure

Date:  Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - 1pm (CST)
Speaker: Brent Fultz (California Institute of Technology)
Title: Phonon entropy at high temperatures and pressures

Date:  Wednesday, February 3, 2021 - 1pm (CST)
Speaker: Maosheng Miao (California State University Northridge)
Title: Novel Chemistry at High Pressures

Date:  Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - 1pm (CST)
Speaker: Natalia Dubrovinskaia  (University of Bayreuth)
Title: Chemistry at High Pressures Revealed by Single-Crystal X-Ray Diffraction

Date:  Wednesday, January 13, 2021 - 1pm (CST)
Speaker: Roald Hoffmann (Cornell University)
Title: Looking for Conceptual Connections Between Bonding at 1 Atmosphere and Elevated Pressures

Date:  Wednesday, January 6, 2021 - 1pm (CST)
Speaker: Reini Boehler (Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Title: Unsolved Phase Diagrams of Simple Materials

Date:  Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - 1pm (CST)
Speaker: Tiange Bi (Buffalo University)
Title: To Superconduct or Not?  A Tale of Four Hydrides under Pressure

Date:  Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - 1pm (CST)
Speaker: Dan Sun (LANL)
Title: High Pressure / High Magnetic Field Research at the Los Alamos MagLab: Recent Studies of Hydride Superconductors

Date:  Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 1pm (CST)
Speaker: Amy Jenei (LLNL)
Title: Extending X-ray Diffraction Measurements to 20 Mbar (2 TPa)

Date:  Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 1pm (CST)
Speaker: Michael Demkowicz (Texas A&M University)
Title: Solid-state interfaces and their effect on the properties of multiphase metals

Date:  Wednesday, November 4, 2020 - 1pm (CST)
Speaker: Elissaios Stavrou (LLNL)
Title: The Quest for a Novel Periodic Table Under Pressure

Date:  Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Kierstin Daviau (Univ. of Waikato) 
Title: Exploring the Stability of SiC at High Pressures and Temperatures

Date:  Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Bianca Haberl (ORNL) 
Title: High-Pressure Neutron Scattering: Hydrides and Group IVa Materials

Date:  Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Chen Li (UC Riverside) 
Title: Inelastic X-ray Scattering Studies of Lattice Dynamics in 2D and Chiral Materials

Date:  Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Priscila Rosa (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Title: Strongly Correlated Materials Under Pressure

Date:  Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Martin Rahm (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology
Gothenburg, Sweden)
Title: Van der Waals Radii of the Atoms Under Compression

Date:  Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker: Max Amsler (Material Science and Engineering, Cornell University)
Title: Rapid Assessment of High-Pressure Phase Stability from High-Throughput DFT Calculations

Date:  Wednesday, September 16, 2020  - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker:  Valery Levitas (Iowa State/Ames) 
Title: Plastic Strain Induced Phase Transformations under High Pressure

Date:  Wednesday, September 9, 2020  - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker:  Barbara Lavina (Argonne National Laboratory, XSD, APS) 
Title: The Transformative Power of High Pressure Micro-Diffraction Techniques: New Examples

Date:  Wednesday, August 26, 2020  - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker:  Elif Ertekin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Mechanical Properties of Shape Memory Alloys: Controlling Structural Transformations and Elastocaloric Response With Pressure

Date:  Wednesday, August 19, 2020  - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker:  Daniel Haskel (Argonne National Laboratory, XSD, APS) 
Title: Magnetism at High Pressures and Search for Quantum Liquids

Date:  Wednesday, August 12, 2020  - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker:  Katerina Hilleke (University at Buffalo) 
Title: Visualizing Atomic Sizes With Chemical Pressure

Date:  Wednesday, July 29, 2020  - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker:  Susannah Dorfman (Michigan State University) 
Title: Strength, compressibility and grain size to Megabar Pressures

Date:  Wednesday, July 22, 2020  - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker:  Ercan Alp (Argonne National Laboratory, XSD, APS) 
Title: Mossbauer Resonance and High Pressure Science

Date:  Wednesday, July 8, 2020  - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker:  Kanani Lee (LLNL) 
Title: Reconciling Discrepant High Pressure Melting Curves

Date:  Wednesday, July 1, 2020  - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker:  Lowell Miyagi (University of Utah) 
Title: Deformation Mechanisms at Extreme Conditions

Date:  Wednesday, June 17, 2020  - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker:  Jon Belof (LLNL) 
Title: Phase Kinetics for Extreme Conditions at LLNL

Date:  Wednesday, June 10, 2020  - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker:  Maik Lang (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) 
Title: Structural Transformations at Extreme Conditions: Coupling High-Pressure Cells with Energetic Ion Beams

Date:  Wednesday, June 3, 2020  - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker:  Sakun Duwal (Sandia National Laboratories) 
Title: Shock Compression of Pre-Compressed H2-He Mixtures 

Date:  Wednesday, May 20, 2020  - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker:  Larissa Huston (Los Alamos National Laboratory) 
Title: Dynamic compression of titanium

Date:  Thursday, May 7, 2020  - 1pm (CDT)
Speaker:  Dmitry Popov (Argonne National Laboratory, XSD, APS) 
Title: Current and Future Capabilities for Measurements of Material Properties Under extreme Conditions at High Pressure Collaborative Access Team (HPCAT)