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Carnegie Neighborhood Lecture Given By Cohen Ronald Cohen presented a public lecture entitled, "Ferroelectrics: Materials That Do Things, From Medical Ultrasound to Green Energy," at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road campus. For more information, follow this link. ______________ Dedication of Boyd Conference Room The Geophysical Laboratory recently dedicated its new conference room in honor of the late Francis R. (Joe) Boyd. He and Joe England of Carnegie invented the piston-cylinder apparatus, a high-pressure device used throughout the world. For photos of Dr. Boyd and of the dedication party, follow this link. ______________ Hemley Elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) has announced that Russell Hemley has been elected to Corresponding Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy of science and letters. ______________ CDAC Student Research Support CDAC supports graduate student research and training in the area of high pressure materials science, broadly defined. We accept proposals on a continuing basis from faculty interested in joining the CDAC team as academic partners. Student support consists of salary, tuition/fees and some travel to CDAC facilities for experiments. Please send a one-page statement of research interests and plans to Steve Gramsch, CDAC Coordinator. _________________ High School Summer Research Fellowship A summer research fellowship for a high school student is available at the Geophysical Laboratory. For more information, please follow this link. More People Highlights

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Carnegie Neighborhood Lecture Given By Cohen

Ronald Cohen presented a public lecture entitled, "Ferroelectrics: Materials That Do Things, From Medical Ultrasound to Green Energy," at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road campus.
For more information, follow this link.
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Dedication of Boyd Conference Room

The Geophysical Laboratory recently dedicated its new conference room in honor of the late Francis R. (Joe) Boyd. He and Joe England of Carnegie invented the piston-cylinder apparatus, a high-pressure device used throughout the world.
For photos of Dr. Boyd and of the dedication party, follow this link.
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Hemley Elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh

The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) has announced that Russell Hemley has been elected to Corresponding Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy of science and letters.

______________ CDAC Student Research Support

CDAC supports graduate student research and training in the area of high pressure materials science, broadly defined. We accept proposals on a continuing basis from faculty interested in joining the CDAC team as academic partners. Student support consists of salary, tuition/fees and some travel to CDAC facilities for experiments. Please send a one-page statement of research interests and plans to Steve Gramsch, CDAC Coordinator.
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High School Summer Research Fellowship

A summer research fellowship for a high school student is available at the Geophysical Laboratory. For more information, please follow this link.

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Meetings & Symposia
The Sciences of Solar System Ices: A Cross Disciplinary Workshop ScSSI 2008 Oxnard, CA May 5-8, 2008 Scottish Universities Summer School SUSSP 2008: High Pressure Physics Isle of Skye, Scotland May 26-June 6, 2008 7th Conference on Cryocrystals & Quantum Crystals CC2008 Wroclaw, Poland July 31-August 6, 2008 More Meetings & Symposia

CDAC Welcomes Eight New Academic Partners

CDAC is pleased to announce the addition of eight new academic partner groups. This addition brings to 19 the number of academic partners supporting graduate student research in high pressure materials science by CDAC.

Graduate students will be supported in groups led by: Robert Downs (University of Arizona), Steven Jacobsen (Northwestern University), Raymond Jeanloz (University of California-Berkeley), Abby Kavner (University of California-Los Angeles), Jie Li (University of Illinois), Wendy Mao (Stanford University), Wendy Panero (Ohio State University) and James Schilling (Washington University-St. Louis).

With the addition of our new academic partners, the total number of graduate students receiving support through CDAC for work toward the PhD degree will increase to 25 students per year.

Follow this link for more information on the work of CDAC academic partners.


Aberg, D., B. Sadigh, J. C. Crowhurst, and A. F. Goncharov, Thermodynamic ground states of platinum metal nitrides, Phys. Rev. Lett., 100, 095501 (2008). Singh, A. K., H. P. Liermann, Y. Akahama, S. K. Saxena, and E. Proupin-Menendez, Strength of polycrystalline coarse-grained platinum to 330 GPa and of nanocrystalline platinum to 70 GPa from high-pressure x-ray diffraction data, J. Appl. Phys., 103, 063524 (2008). Emmons, E. D., N. Velisavljevic, J. R. Schoonover, and D. M. Dattelbaum, High-pressure Raman spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction studies of a terpolymer of tetraflouroethylene-hexaflouropropylene-vinylidene flouride: THX 500, Appl. Spectr., 62, 142-148 (2008). Ponsov, Y. S., V. V. Struzhkin, S. V. Strel'tsov, and I. N. Goncharenko, Light scattering effect by electrons in osmium: Effect of pressure, JETP Lett., 86, 398-403 (2008).

Aberg, D., B. Sadigh, J. C. Crowhurst, and A. F. Goncharov, Thermodynamic ground states of platinum metal nitrides, Phys. Rev. Lett., 100, 095501 (2008).

Singh, A. K., H. P. Liermann, Y. Akahama, S. K. Saxena, and E. Proupin-Menendez, Strength of polycrystalline coarse-grained platinum to 330 GPa and of nanocrystalline platinum to 70 GPa from high-pressure x-ray diffraction data, J. Appl. Phys., 103, 063524 (2008).

Emmons, E. D., N. Velisavljevic, J. R. Schoonover, and D. M. Dattelbaum, High-pressure Raman spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction studies of a terpolymer of tetraflouroethylene-hexaflouropropylene-vinylidene flouride: THX 500, Appl. Spectr., 62, 142-148 (2008).

Ponsov, Y. S., V. V. Struzhkin, S. V. Strel'tsov, and I. N. Goncharenko, Light scattering effect by electrons in osmium: Effect of pressure, JETP Lett., 86, 398-403 (2008).

More Research Highlights
Novelty in the Noble Metal Nitrides Carnegie Hosts 4th Annual SSAAP Symposium CDAC Papers in Nature, Science, and Physical Review Letters Spins under Pressure Metallic Glasses under Pressure First User Meeting for NSLS II X-ray Studies Uncover Deformation Behavior of Post-perovskite High-Pressure Studies on Nitrogen Yield New Results and Predictions CDAC Research Presented at SMEC 2007 Meeting CDAC Students Explore a Broad Range of Materials and Techniques More...

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Welcome
CDAC is an interdisciplinary center headquartered at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Our goals are to advance and perfect an extensive set of high P-T techniques and unique facilities, to perform key studies on a broad range of important materials in newly-accessible P-T regimes, and to integrate and coordinate static, dynamic and theoretical results for Stewardship Science applications.

Welcome

CDAC is an interdisciplinary center headquartered at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Our goals are to advance and perfect an extensive set of high P-T techniques and unique facilities, to perform key studies on a broad range of important materials in newly-accessible P-T regimes, and to integrate and coordinate static, dynamic and theoretical results for Stewardship Science applications.