1. COMPRES Annual Meeting, June 2011 COMPRES is funded by Cooperative Agreements with the NSF Division of Earth Sciences [2002-2012] COMPRES at Kingsmill Resort Jay Bass June 2011, Williamsburg VA

2. COMPRES Annual Meeting, June 2011 Welcome to our Special Guests NSF David Lambert - IF Program Director, National Science Foundation Keynote Speakers Rick Carlson - DTM, Carnegie Institution of Washington Peter van Keken - University of Michigan Wenlu Zhu - University of Maryland Colleen Dalton - Boston University Guoyin Shen - CIW, HPCAT Chris Tulk - Oak Ridge National Laboratory Quentin Williams - Univ of California Santa Cruz

3. COMPRES Annual Meeting, June 2011 Advisory Council of COMPRES Current Members Edward Garnero, Arizona State University [2008-2011]] Peter Heaney, The Pennsylvania State University [2009-2012] Andrew Jephcoat, University of Oxford [2009-2012] Chi-Chang Kao, Brookhaven National Laboratory [2003-2011] Louise Kellogg, University of California at Davis [2007-2013] Peter van Keken, University of Michigan [2010-2013] New Members Barbara Romanowicz, University of California Berkeley (2011-2014) Thorne Lay, University of California Santa Cruz (2011-2014)

4. COMPRES Annual Meeting, June 2011 So Where is Bob? DAC lab of Abby Kavner at UCLARock physics lab of Harry Green at UCR DAC lab of Jennifer Jackson at Caltech Shock-wave lab of Paul Asimow at Caltech

5. COMPRES Annual Meeting, June 2011 In attendance at Skamania Bruker-- Michael Ruf Technodiamant -- Dave Slaperud easyLab -- Marcio Siqueira \ Special thanks and welcome to our industrial sponsors for their contributions to the social activities

6. COMPRES Annual Meeting, June 2011 Thanks to YOU!! Record attendance! >35 student abstracts

7. COMPRES Annual Meeting, June 2011 Travel Reimbusements See Chong-Hwey Fee at COMPRES desk Mail with receipts in self addressed envelope

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9. Many POSTERS this year. Thursday, June 16, PM Session 1:30 to 2:45 PM Basics of Neutron Scattering: Chris Tulk 3:00 - 4:30 International Experiences for Students, Postdocs: Panel Discussion 4:30 to 6:00 PM: Breakout Sessions Graduate Student/Postdocs Beamline Scientists and New Developments on Beamlines

10. COMPRES Annual Meeting, June 2011 The Mission and Activities of COMPRES A COnsortium that provides facilities for your Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences. Provide access to facilities Develop new technologies and infrastructure, Driven by community needs. Community activities

11. COMPRES Annual Meeting, June 2011 COMPRES Membership Institutional Members 56 Institutions Voting Affiliated International Members 39 Institutions Non-voting National and International visibility

12. COMPRES Annual Meeting, June 2011 56 U. S. Members

13. COMPRES Annual Meeting, June 2011 Advanced Light Source at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Advanced Photon Source at the Argonne National Laboratory At the Brookhaven National Laboratory

14. COMPRES Annual Meeting, June 2011 Activities of COMPRES Support Facilities (mainly synchrotron) for high-pressure research –National Synchrotron Light Source: Multi-anvil, deformation, X17B2 (Stony Brook) Diamond Anvil Cell (DAC) X-ray,X17B3 & X17C (Princeton & Stony Brook) Infra-Red DAC, U2A (Carnegie Inst. Washington) –West Coast Synchrotron Facility: Advanced Light Source, Berkeley CA: DAC (Now managed by UC Santa Cruz) Reports from Facilities on Wednesday Morning

15. COMPRES Annual Meeting, June 2011 Activities of COMPRES Infrastructure Development Projects (Wed., AM) –Multi-Anvil Cell Development (ASU) –Inelastic X-Ray Scattering (UIUC/APS sector 3) –Mossbauer spectroscopy (UIUC/APS sector 3) –Portable Paris-Edinburgh Cells (Carnegie/GSECARS) –Gas-loading at GSECARS, sector 13 APS –Educational Modules, UNLV –Resistive Heating in the DAC, UC Santa Cruz/ALS Community Activities –Annual Meeting –Workshops (Brillouin at APS, NSLS-II (2) –Beamline Housing for COMPRES users –Workshops on Community Priorities (Tempe, 2009)

16. COMPRES Annual Meeting, June 2011 Use of COMPRES Facilities and Technologies >450 Publications in the Second Funding Cycle of COMPRES (2007-present) ~100 Posters on COMPRES science at this meeting Attendance of 140 at the 2012 Annual Meeting

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18. COMPRES Central office at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) jaybass@illinois.edu or jaybass@uiuc.edujaybass@illinois.edu

19. COMPRES Annual Meeting, June 2011 Biggest Challenges for the Coming Year: Renewal Proposal, July 2011 To fund COMPRES 2012-2017 We welcome your input on the content, form, and emphasis of this proposal. Open discussion on the content of the proposal on Friday morning