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2008 Carnegie Summer Scholar Symposium The Carnegie Institution held its annual Summer Scholars Research Symposium on Wednesday, August 6th. The ten students participating in the program this year presented the results of their work for the entire Broad Branch Road campus community. The presentations covered a wide range of topics, including mineral physics, organic geochemistry, astrobiology, petrology, seismology and astronomy. More... ______________ Hemley Elected Honoris Causa of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russell Hemley has been elected Honoris Causa Professor for Energetics, Mechanics, Machinery, and Control Systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The academy is the leading scientific body in Russia. Founded in 1724, it is one of the oldest such organizations in the world. The degree is awarded to the most eminent foreign scientists. ______________ Mao Elected to Royal Society of London Ho-kwang Mao has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London, the National Academy of the United Kingdom. The induction ceremony will take place July 11, 2008. This is the fourth national academy to which Mao has been elected. ______________ 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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2008 Carnegie Summer Scholar Symposium

The Carnegie Institution held its annual Summer Scholars Research Symposium on Wednesday, August 6th. The ten students participating in the program this year presented the results of their work for the entire Broad Branch Road campus community. The presentations covered a wide range of topics, including mineral physics, organic geochemistry, astrobiology, petrology, seismology and astronomy.
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Hemley Elected Honoris Causa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Russell Hemley has been elected Honoris Causa Professor for Energetics, Mechanics, Machinery, and Control Systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The academy is the leading scientific body in Russia. Founded in 1724, it is one of the oldest such organizations in the world. The degree is awarded to the most eminent foreign scientists.
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Mao Elected to Royal Society of London

Ho-kwang Mao has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London, the National Academy of the United Kingdom. The induction ceremony will take place July 11, 2008. This is the fourth national academy to which Mao has been elected.

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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
Workshop on Advances in High-Pressure Science using Synchrotron X-rays NSLS, Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY October 4, 2008 4th Asian Conference on High Pressure Research 4th AHP Seoul, Korea October 14-17, 2008 More Meetings & Symposia

Boyd Conference Room Dedication

On Friday, April 4, the Geophysical Laboratory dedicated its new conference room in honor of the late Francis R. (Joe) Boyd. Among his many accomplishments, Boyd co-invented the piston-cylinder apparatus, a high-pressure device used throughout the world. He was on the staff of the Geophysical Laboratory for over 50 years. The new Boyd Conference Room is used for many CDAC activities.


Citroni, M., R. Bini, P. Foggi, and V. Schettino, Role of electronic states in the high-pressure amorphization of benzene, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 105, 7658-7663 (2008). Struzhkin, V. V., A. F. Goncharov, R. Caracas, H. K. Mao, and R. J. Hemley, Synchrotron infrared spectroscopy of the pressure-induced insulator-metal transitions in glassy As₂S₃ and As₂Se₃, Phys. Rev. B. 77, 165113 (2008).

Citroni, M., R. Bini, P. Foggi, and V. Schettino, Role of electronic states in the high-pressure amorphization of benzene, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 105, 7658-7663 (2008).

Struzhkin, V. V., A. F. Goncharov, R. Caracas, H. K. Mao, and R. J. Hemley, Synchrotron infrared spectroscopy of the pressure-induced insulator-metal transitions in glassy As₂S₃ and As₂Se₃, Phys. Rev. B. 77, 165113 (2008).

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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.