Programme

1st day Monday

General introduction to the mineral physics

14.00 -14.30 / Lucchetti, Major of Brixen – Bressanone, Quartieri, Comodi / Welcome
14.30-16.00 / Ross Angel (Virginia Tech, USA) / HP-HT general overview
16.00 - 16.30 / Coffee break
16.30 - 17.30 / Nancy Ross (Virginia Tech, USA) / HP-HTcrystal chemistry
17.30 - 18.30 / Sergio Speziale (GeoForschungsZentrum, Germany) / Mineral physics of the deep Hearth

AFTER CLASS: 20.00 – 20.30get together for dinner!

2nd day Tuesday

Experimental techniques: X-ray / neutron diffraction and spectroscopy

9.00 – 10.00 / Ross Angel(Virginia Tech) / HP single crystal X-ray diffraction
10.00 – 11.00 / Fernado Camara(CNR, Pavia) / HT single crystal X-ray diffraction
11.00 -11.30 / Coffee break
11.30-12.30 / Nancy Ross(Virginia Tech) / IR and Ramanspectroscopy under HP-HT
12.30-14.30 / Lunch
14.30-15.30 / Jennifer Jackson
(California Institute of Technology) / Nuclear resonant spectroscopy at extreme
conditions
15.30-16.30 / Alessandro Pavese
(Università di Milano) / HP powder diffraction
16.30-17.00 / Coffee break
17.00-19.30 / Angel, Nestola, Ross, Speziale, Camara / Practice

AFTER CLASS: 20.00 welcome party!

3rd day Wednesday

Computational vs experimental mineral physics

9.00 -10.30 / Sandro Scandolo(InternationalCenter for Theoretical Physics, Italy) / Computational mineral physics I
10.30 – 11.00 / Coffee break
11.00 -12.30 / Sandro Scandolo(InternationalCenter for Theoretical Physics, Italy) / Computational mineral physics II
12.30 - 14.00 / Lunch
14.00-15.00 / Ross Angel (Virginia Tech)
Nancy Ross(Virginia Tech) / HP-HT neutron diffraction
15.00 - 15.30 / Assing/Oxford / Modern analytical techniques in EBSD for mineralogy
15.30-16.30 / Paolo Ballirano
(Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. Italy) / HT powder diffraction
16.30-17.00 / Coffee break
17.00 - 17.30 / Assing/Rigaku / Modern analytical techniques in XRD and XRF for mineralogy
17.30-19.30 / Scandolo, Fumagalli / Practice

AFTER CLASS: 20.00 – 20.30 dinner together!

4th day Thursday

Mineral physics and geosciences: application to petrology and geophysics

9.00 -10.00 / Sergio Speziale(GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam) / Brillouin scattering and application
10.00-11.00 / Patrizia Fumagalli
(Università di Milano) / Experimental phase equilibria
11.00 -11.30 / Coffee break
11.30-12.30 / Jennifer Jackson
(California Istitute of Technology) / Geophysical applications of synchrotron Mössbauer spectroscopy
12.30 – 14.00 / Lunch
14.00 -15.30 / Taras Gerya(ETH) / Numerical modelling of the Earth
15.30 – 16.00 / Coffee break
16.00 – 18.00 / Gerya(ETH),
Fumagalli(Università di Milano) / Practice

AFTER CLASS: 19.00 leaving for the Social Dinner in a mountain shelter

5th day Friday

Open session: the participants are invitedto present their recent results

8.30 - 9.00 / Andrea Lausi
(ELETTRA Syncrotron, Trieste, Italy) / HP at Electra
9.00 – 10.30 / Open session
10.30 – 10.45 / Coffee break
10.45 - 13.30 / Open session

Notes: GNM booked restaurants for all lunches and dinners (from Monday dinner to Thursday dinner)for all participants. Moreover, there will be available some free tickets for the largest swimming pool of Europe at Brixen – Bressanone opened until 10.30 p.m.