Information for participants

Name: Information for participants
Start: 2023-07-18T12:30:00+01:00
End: 2023-07-22T23:00:00+01:00
Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building

18 Jul 2023, 12:30 → 22 Jul 2023, 23:00 Europe/London

CSEC Seminar Room/Lecture Theatre A (James Clerk Maxwell Building)

CSEC Seminar Room/Lecture Theatre A

James Clerk Maxwell Building

Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD

Description

Welcome to the High Pressure Summer School web-site for participants. Please see menu on the left for information about accommodation, travel etc.

We will be updating the web-site over the next few weeks so please check here for new information about the summer school.

If you are presenting a poster, see 'Poster' tab on the left for more information.

All sessions will be held at James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) at the University of Edinburgh King's Building Campus (see 'Travel' tab for information and maps)

James Clerk Maxwell Building
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
Edinburgh EH9 3FD

If you have any queries please contact sopa.events@ed.ac.uk

Contact

sopa.events@ed.ac.uk

Registration

Registration for social activities

Tuesday 18 July
- 1
  
  Registration and Coffee Outside Lecture Theatre A
  
  Outside Lecture Theatre A
- 2
  
  Introduction - Miriam Pena-Alvarez Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
- 3
  
  Static compression - Ross Howie Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  How to prepare successful DAC experiments: different types of diamonds, bevelled diamonds, fib diamonds, relationship pressure culet size. Selection of diamond and cell- seat and gasket material for different diagnostics. Diamond failure, where how and why- strain distribution in anvils.
- 15:30
  
  Coffee Break CSEC
  
  CSEC
- 4
  
  High Volume Pressure - Elena Solana Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  Multi-anvil applications: focussing on the quench and its characterisation
  
  Large volume pressure devices: this could include interest on quenching samples, different types of presses (Belt, Conac, Walker, DIA...), their experimental limits and advantages, details on sample mounting (essential tips and things one should never do!), calibration, etc.
  
  Scientific examples. Quenched materials, synthesis, structural and physical characterisation. Phase transitions...
- 17:00
  
  Welcome Reception/Poster Session CSEC
  
  CSEC
- 18:00
  
  BBQ Magnet Cafe and area outside JCMB
  
  Magnet Cafe and area outside JCMB
Wednesday 19 July
- 5
  
  Thermodynamics 1 - Graeme Ackland Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  Thermodynamics involved in different processes.
  
  Reminder of: First order and second order transitions, differences and evidences
  
  Kinetics: Timescales, ensembles and equilibrium
- 10:00
  
  Coffee break CSEC
  
  CSEC
- 6
  
  Thermodynamics 2 - Graeme Ackland Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  Thermodynamics involved in different processes.
  
  Reminder of: First order and second order transitions, differences and evidences
  
  Kinetics: Timescales, ensembles and equilibrium
- 7
  
  Workshop
  
  Workshops in groups: tour of CSEC, Raman, high temperature, low temperature, electrical examples of the different types of cells,
- 12:30
  
  Lunch Magnet Cafe
  
  Magnet Cafe
- 8
  
  Crystallography - John Loveday Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  Crystals and symmetry
- 9
  
  X-ray diffraction - Simon Parsons Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
- 15:00
  
  Coffee break CSEC
  
  CSEC
- 10
  
  X-ray diffraction - Dominique Laniel Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
- 11
  
  X-rays and Neutrons - John Loveday Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
- 12
  
  Experimental examples of phase diagrams - Mikhail Kuzovnikov Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  Types of phase diagrams. P-T single component, binary, ternary. Main rules and experimental proves. Examples for different elements of the periodic table.
- 13
  
  Research discussions Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  Gavin Woolman - The structure of osmium under high pressure
  
  Tomas Marqueño-Villanueva - Synthesis of hydrides at high pressures
  
  Israel Osmond - Electrical Transport at Megabar Pressures
- 19:00
  
  Dinner Magnet Cafe
  
  Magnet Cafe
Thursday 20 July
- 14
  
  Phonons 1 - Ingo Loa Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  Atomic vibrations in crystals
  
  Monatomic linear chain, dispersion relations
  
  Brillouin zones
  
  Dispersion relations in 3D
  
  Multi-atom unit cells, acoustic and optical branches
  
  Phonons as a quasi-particles
  
  Phonon scattering
  
  Phonon density of states
- 10:00
  
  Coffee break CSEC
  
  CSEC
- 15
  
  Phonons 2 - Ingo Loa Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  Atomic vibrations in crystals
  
  Monatomic linear chain, dispersion relations
  
  Brillouin zones
  
  Dispersion relations in 3D
  
  Multi-atom unit cells, acoustic and optical branches
  
  Phonons as a quasi-particles
  
  Phonon scattering
  
  Phonon density of states
- 16
  
  Raman - Miriam Pena-Alvarez Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  Raman spectroscopy –principles
  
  Set up – what high pressure experiments require
  
  Spectral analysis and interpretation
  
  Example of studies at high pressure
- 12:30
  
  Lunch Magnet Cafe
  
  Magnet Cafe
- 17
  
  Workshop
  
  Workshop (TBD): tour of CSEC, Raman, high temperature, low temperature, electrical examples of the different types of cells,
- 18
  
  IR spectroscopy - Francesco Capitani Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
- 15:30
  
  Coffee break CSEC
  
  CSEC
- 19
  
  NMR - Thomas Meier Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
- 20
  
  Neutrons and liquids - Cip Pruteanu Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
- 21
  
  Research discussions Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  Umbertoluca Ranieri - Use of the QENS technique for measuring self-dynamics of fluids and application to fluid methane at high pressure
  
  Bernhard Massani - Laser-heating transparent samples: CO2-lasers, melts and viscosity
  
  Jinwei Yan - Dynamic Pressure in Diamond Anvil Cells
- 19:00
  
  Dinner Magnet Cafe
  
  Magnet Cafe
Friday 21 July
- 22
  
  High pressure and high temperature - Tetsuya Komabayashi Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  High-temperature and –pressure experiments in DAC (Resistive heating, IR- and CO2 laser heating). Determination of experimental temperatures. Textural observation of post-mortem recovered samples. Applications to Geosciences: phase transition (post-spinel, post-perovskite, melting of iron), Clausius-Clapeyron slope and mantle dynamics.
- 10:00
  
  Coffee break CSEC
  
  CSEC
- 23
  
  Engineering for high pressure experiments - Konstantin Kamenev Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  Engineering approach to designing and selecting materials for construction of high-pressure equipment
- 24
  
  Electrical/magnetic measurements - Andrew Huxley Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  Electrical and magnetic field dependent measurements
- 25
  
  Group Photo Weather Dependent'
  
  Weather Dependent'
- 12:30
  
  Lunch Magnet Cafe
  
  Magnet Cafe
- 26
  
  Workshop
  
  Workshop (TBD): tour of CSEC, Raman, high temperature, low temperature, electrical examples of the different types of cells,
- 27
  
  Dynamic compression - Stewart McWilliams Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  Fundamentals of dynamic compression
- 15:30
  
  Coffee break CSEC
  
  CSEC
- 28
  
  Synchrotron characterization methods 1 - Hanns-Peter Liermann Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  Introduction to diffraction methods for high-pressure research
  
  Applications of diffraction methods in dynamic and static compression studies
  
  At synchrotrons facilities
- 29
  
  Synchrotron characterization methods 2 - Sakura Pascarelli Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  Applications of diffraction methods in dynamic and static compression studies
  
  At XFEL facilities
  
  Introduction to spectroscopy methods for high-pressure research
  
  Applications in of spectroscopic methods in dynamic and static compression studies at SR & XFEL facilities
- 30
  
  Research discussions/Poster award Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
- 19:00
  
  Dinner Magnet Cafe
  
  Magnet Cafe
Saturday 22 July
- 31
  
  What one can extract and expect from theory - Andreas Hemann Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  What one can extract and expect from theory
  
  Things DFT can do (relatively easily)
  
  Crystal structure optimisation and prediction
  
  Harmonic vibrations, simulated Raman/IR
  
  Electron-phonon coupling, estimated superconducting Tc
  
  Things DFT cannot do (easily)
  
  Entropy, free energies (disorder, mixing, melting)
  
  Anharmonicity
  
  Kinetics of phase transitions
  
  Transport properties
  
  What do theorists think? Gibbs free energy, and definition of equilibrium phase diagrams.
  
  What to experimentalists measure? Diffraction and spectroscopy.
  
  What do computationalists compute? DFT approximations and ouptuts. challenges of entropy and anharmonicity.
- 10:00
  
  Coffee break Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
- 32
  
  Density functional theory - Andreas Hermann Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
  
  What one can extract and expect from theory
  
  Things DFT can do (relatively easily)
  
  Crystal structure optimisation and prediction
  
  Harmonic vibrations, simulated Raman/IR
  
  Electron-phonon coupling, estimated superconducting Tc
  
  Things DFT cannot do (easily)
  
  Entropy, free energies (disorder, mixing, melting)
  
  Anharmonicity
  
  Kinetics of phase transitions
  
  Transport properties
  
  What do theorists think? Gibbs free energy, and definition of equilibrium phase diagrams.
  
  What to experimentalists measure? Diffraction and spectroscopy.
  
  What do computationalists compute? DFT approximations and ouptuts. challenges of entropy and anharmonicity.
- 33
  
  Molecular dynamics - Miguel Martinez Canales Lecture Theatre A
  
  Lecture Theatre A
- 12:30
  
  Lunch Magnet Cafe
  
  Magnet Cafe
- 13:30
  
  Excursion to Stirling
- 18:45
  
  Dinner Magnet Cafe
  
  Magnet Cafe
- 20:00
  
  Ceilidh Greyfriars Charteris Centre
  
  Greyfriars Charteris Centre

Information for participants

CSEC Seminar Room/Lecture Theatre A

James Clerk Maxwell Building

Outside Lecture Theatre A

Lecture Theatre A

Lecture Theatre A

CSEC

Lecture Theatre A

CSEC

Magnet Cafe and area outside JCMB

Lecture Theatre A

CSEC

Lecture Theatre A

Magnet Cafe

Lecture Theatre A

Lecture Theatre A

CSEC

Lecture Theatre A

Lecture Theatre A

Lecture Theatre A

Lecture Theatre A

Magnet Cafe

Lecture Theatre A

CSEC

Lecture Theatre A

Lecture Theatre A

Magnet Cafe

Lecture Theatre A

CSEC

Lecture Theatre A

Lecture Theatre A

Lecture Theatre A

Magnet Cafe

Lecture Theatre A

CSEC

Lecture Theatre A

Lecture Theatre A

Weather Dependent'

Magnet Cafe

Lecture Theatre A

CSEC

Lecture Theatre A

Lecture Theatre A

Lecture Theatre A

Magnet Cafe

Lecture Theatre A

Lecture Theatre A

Lecture Theatre A

Lecture Theatre A

Magnet Cafe

Magnet Cafe

Greyfriars Charteris Centre