1. COMPRES at Age 2 Bob Liebermann Introductory Talk on State of COMPRES Third Annual Meeting of COMPRES Granlibakken Conference Center Lake Tahoe, California June 20, 2004

2. Outline History of COMPRES COMPRES Organizational Chart Membership in COMPRES Policies and Procedures of COMPRES Committees Awards for Mineral Physicists Community Facilities Infrastructure Development Projects COMPRES Other Activities COMPRES-related Workshops COMPRES Communications Technology and Facilities Progress Scientific Highlights

3. History of COMPRES February 2001: Mineral Physics Planning Workshop, La Jolla August 2001: COMPRES Proposal submitted to NSF-EAR May 2002: Collaborative Agreement signed with EAR and COMPRES September 2002: First Annual Meeting at Stony Brook March 2003: Workshop on High Pressure Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Future, Miami June 2003: Second Annual Meeting in Santa Cruz December 2003: COMPRES Exhibition Booth at Fall AGU Meeting Spring 2004: COMPRES-related Workshops June 2004: Third Annual Meeting in Lake Tahoe

4. COMPRES Organizational Chart

5. Membership – June, 2004 39 U.S. Institutions 11 Foreign Affiliates

6. COMPRES Worldwide Membership June, 2004

7. Policies and Procedures for COMPRES Committees - 2004 COMPRES Executive Committee COMPRES Community Facilities Committee COMPRES Infrastructure Development Committee

8. Awards for Mineral Physicists MSA/GSA-2003 Charles Prewitt: Roebling Medal Guillaume Fiquet: MSA Award George Harlow: Distinguished Service Award Michael Manga: Donath Medal of the GSA Michael Carpenter: New President of MSA AGU-2003 David Kohlstedt: Hess Medal New Fellows: William Durham Eiji Ito Ian Jackson Outstanding Student in Mineral and Rock Physics: Annette Kleppe AGU-2004 Mervyn Paterson: Bucher Medal Adolphe Nicolas: Hess Medal New Fellows: Brian Evans David Green David James Peter Kelemen Michael O’Hara Allan Rubin Ernest Rutter National Academy of Sciences-2004 Donald Helmberger Raymond Jeanloz Dennis Kent David Stevenson

9. COMPRES – June, 2004

10. Facilities Megabar Synchrotron Center at the NSLS Operated by Carnegie Institution of Washington [H-k. Mao and R. J. Hemley] Multi-anvil High Pressure Facility at the NSLS Operated by Stony Brook University [D. J. Weidner and M. T. Vaughan] West-Coast Synchrotron Facilities Operated by University of California at Berkeley [R. Jeanloz] Neutron Studies at National Facilities Operated by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University [N. L. Ross] GeoSoilEnviroCARS Operated by University of Chicago [M. L. Rivers and S. Sutton] under grants and contracts from NSF and DOE. Not formally under COMPRES.

11. Community Facilities

12. Infrastructure Development Development of Laser Heated Diamond Cells Project at Princeton University [T. S. Duffy, D. Heinz, G. Shen] Multi-anvil Cell Assembly Development and Production Project at Arizona State University [K. Leinenweber and J. A. Tyburczy] Pressure Calibration at High Temperature Project at Carnegie Institution of Washington [Y. Fei] Absolute Temperature and Pressure Calibration Project at the University of Colorado at Boulder [I. Getting] Brillouin Lab at Advanced Photon Source: A Community Resource Project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [J. D. Bass and G. Shen] Nuclear Resonance Scattering Project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [J. D. Bass and W. Sturhahn]

13. Infrastructure Development Projects

14. Overall COMPRES Budget

15. Community Facilities

16. Infrastructure Development

17. Other COMPRES Activities

18. COMPRES-Related Workshops Spring 2004 20 March 2004 “Future Directions for the Laser-Heated Diamond Anvil Cell at the Advanced Photon Source” 27/28 March 2004 Focused Ion Beam Workshop 1-2 May 1-2 2004: Rheology Grand Challenge Workshop on: "Ultra-High Pressure Rheology" 8 May 2004: Elasticity Grand Challenge Workshop

19. COMPRES Communications Website at http://compres.us Newletters Monthly Messages from President Fall 2003 AGU Meeting “Current and Future Directions in High-Pressure Mineral Physics” Listserv Electronic Distributions Visits to Government Agencies

20. COMPRES Home Page

21. Newsletters

22. Current and Future Ditections in High Pressure Mineral Physics

23. Relations with Other Consortia CSEDI CSEDI Science Plan Workshop 12 attendees from COMPRES IGPP/Univ of Calfornia at San Diego 22-23 February 2004 SCEC Co-sponsor Workshop on Rock Deformation Facilities Mt Holyoke College Amherst, Massachussetts 12-13 August 2004

24. Technological and Facilities Progress SNAP proposal funded by DOE at $11.9M over 5 years Upgrade of beamline at ALS for high-pressure research. Growth of CVD diamonds DOD grant for monochromatic X-ray side station at X17B2 at NSLS IF grant to GSECARS for side-station at APS

25. Post-Perovskite Phase of MgSiO 3 Crystal structure of the newly discovered post-perovskite phase of MgSiO 3 [Murakami, Hirose, Kawamura, Sata and Ohishi, Science, Vol 304, pp. 855-858, 2004]. Confirmed by theoretical first-principles computations [see paper by T. Tsuchiya, J. Tsuchiya, Umemoto and Wentzcovitch, in press, Earth Planet,. Sci. Letters, 2004]

26. New Paradigms for Core-Mantle Boundary From E.J. Garnero, Perspectives [Science, 304, pp. 834-836, 2004

27. U.S. Synchrotron Light Sources From G. Brown

28. Geotherm with P-T Ranges Diagram from G. Shen

29. Clathrate on Fire www.geomar.de

30. Ultrasonics in T-25 From Y. Wang and B. Li

31. P-T Condition Diagram from S. Karato

32. Deformation DIA [D-DIA] Diagram from W. Durham

33. Conceptual Diagram of DIA-type Cubic-Anvil Apparatus From Y. Wang, W.B. Durham, I.C. Getting and D.J. Weidner [RSI, 74, 3002-3011, 2003]

34. Cutaway View of D-DIA Apparatus

35. Details of D-DIA Apparatus

36. Actual testing of D-DIA apparatus at APS

37. Shimomura Poster from W. Utsumi, May, 2004