Seminars

Seminars are normally held in the CSEC seminar room between 11:00 and noon on Thursdays during semester time. Coffee and biscuits are served from 10:45 in the CSEC Reading Room. Everyone is invited to attend and the door into CSEC by the JCMB Magnet cafe is open for those not having programmed access cards. The seminars are aimed at the range of CSEC participants, and regular attendence is encouraged.

Time	Event
11:00 Thu 03 Apr 2025	Exploring exotic phenomena in metal oxides using DMFT: Interplay of correlations with magnetism, doping, and strain Hrishit Banerjee University of Dundee
11:00 Thu 20 Mar 2025	TBD Marissa Parekh and Maya Khela CSEC; School of Physics and Astronomy
11:00 Thu 13 Mar 2025	A thermal pressure equation of state for NaF and it’s use for highly reactive systems Lewis Clough CSEC; School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 27 Feb 2025	Two extremes, no compromise: organic molecules and organometallic complexes under extreme conditions Alexandra Longcake Newcastle University, UK National Crystallography Service
11:00 Thu 13 Feb 2025	The first few million years: core formation in the early solar system and the role of liquid immiscibility Geoffrey Bromiley CSEC--School of Geosciences
11:00 Thu 06 Feb 2025	Opportunities at the European XFEL in the field of High-Pressure Science Ulf Zastrau European XFEL
11:00 Thu 30 Jan 2025	Orientational order/disorder in hydrogen-bonded system Keishiro Yamashita CSEC--School of Physics and Astronomy
11:00 Thu 23 Jan 2025	Ice – from snowflakes to energy storage Christoph Salzmann University College London
11:00 Thu 16 Jan 2025	AIASSE - Ab Initio Augmented Structure Solving Engine: A Hybrid Approach to Atomic and Electronic Structure Characterization of Disordered Materials Ayobami Daramola CSEC--School of Physics and Astronomy
11:00 Thu 05 Dec 2024	Forbidden chemistry at extreme pressures revealed by ab initio calculations Simone Di Cataldo Sapienza University of Rome
11:00 Thu 14 Nov 2024	Impact Cratering and the Behaviour of Geological Materials under Dynamic Loading Auriol Rae CSEC--School of Geosciences
11:00 Thu 07 Nov 2024	Illuminating the Interactions in the Quasi-2D van der Waals Ferromagnet CrSiTe3 Travis Williams ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
11:00 Thu 17 Oct 2024	When Darwin meets Mendeleev: predicting materials from evolutionary algorithms and first-principles calculations Gilles Frapper Poitiers University
11:00 Thu 10 Oct 2024	Don’t Blink! Seeing and defining high-temperature chemistry on the microsecond scale Rachel Schwind University of Edinburgh, School of Engineering
11:00 Thu 03 Oct 2024	The emptied hydrates: a new perspective for the ice landscape Leonardo del Rosso Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Fisica Applicata “Nello Carrara”
10:45 Thu 26 Sep 2024	Magnetic skyrmion strings: how they bend, twist and vibrate Markus Garst Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
11:00 Thu 06 Jun 2024	Experimental transport studies of superhydrides in weak and strong magnetic fields Dmitrii Semenok HPSTAR
11:00 Thu 06 Jun 2024	Nuclear magnetic resonance in lanthanum and cerium superhydrides Di Zhou HPSTAR
11:00 Thu 18 Apr 2024	Proton dynamics under extreme conditions: looking for exotic states in water and hydrates Maria Rescigno Sapienza University of Rome
11:00 Thu 21 Mar 2024	You'd better shape up: exploring topological magnetism with implanted muons Tom Lancaster Durham University
11:00 Thu 14 Mar 2024	Exploration of the Iodine-Nitrogen Behavior up to 120 GPa James Spender and Mylaine Holin CSEC
11:00 Thu 07 Mar 2024	30 years as a beamline responsible at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Michael Hanfland ESRF
11:00 Thu 03 Oct 2019	TBC Prof Satish Ogale IISER, Pune, India
11:00 Thu 19 Sep 2019	Introduction and Annual Safety Induction Steve Hankin CSEC
11:00 Thu 05 Sep 2019	Novel Diamond Anvil Cell designed for Transport Measurement using metallic diamond electrode Yoshihiko Tanako National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
11:00 Thu 06 Jun 2019	TBC Jan Aarts University of Leiden
11:00 Thu 30 May 2019	Creation of Functional Electronic Phases Yoshiko Okamoto Nagoya University
11:00 Thu 16 May 2019	TBC Franziska Emmerling Budesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM)
11:00 Thu 02 May 2019	New oxides based on Fe with complex structure as new electrodes in IT-SOFCs Xabier Martinez de Irujo Labalde Universidad Complutense de Madrid
11:00 Thu 25 Apr 2019	TBC Marco Cammrata University of Rennes
11:00 Thu 11 Apr 2019	Experimental Discovery of Superionic Water ice XVIII Marius Millot Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:00 Thu 04 Apr 2019	Molecular design of precursors for thin film deposition of targeted materials. From metals to metal oxides, to complex mixed metal selenides: a small overview of CVD and its technological impact in the synthesis of coatings and devices Clara Sanchez-Perez UCL
11:00 Thu 28 Mar 2019	Dynamically Compressing Hydrocarbons to Study Icy Giant Planets Nicholas Hartley Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf
11:00 Thu 28 Feb 2019	Quantum Crystallography Simon Gabrowsky University of Bremen
11:00 Thu 21 Feb 2019	Imaging magnetic materials in the transmission electron microscope Professor Stephen McVitie University of Glasgow
11:00 Thu 07 Feb 2019	Filming the structure of molecules in action from the scattering of short X-ray pulses Dr Michael Wulff ESRF
11:00 Thu 31 Jan 2019	Dynamics of phase-changing organic crystals unravelled by combining diffraction and in-silico studies Dr Anders Madsen University of Copenhagen
11:00 Thu 24 Jan 2019	The magnetic properties of MPS3 (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni): a family of model two-dimensional antiferromagnets with a honeycomb lattice Dr Andrew Wildes ILL
10:00 Thu 24 Jan 2019	Magnetic Van der Waals materials: new platform for 2D physics Professor Je-Geun Park Seoul National University
11:00 Thu 17 Jan 2019	Electronic ordering in vanadium oxide spinels at ambient and high pressures Dr Alex Browne CSEC
11:00 Thu 29 Nov 2018	"Strongly correlated ruthenates under pressure" Professor Stephen Julian University of Toronto
11:00 Thu 22 Nov 2018	Pressure and multiferroics: the case of the RMn2O5 series Professor Pascale Fourey-Leylekian Universite Paris Sud
11:00 Thu 15 Nov 2018	"Catalytic activity and diffuse scattering effects in transition metal oxides" Giuditta Perversi University of Montpellier
11:00 Thu 08 Nov 2018	Carbon nitrides: sp2- and sp3-bonded materials (11.00 - 11.30); Water Dynamics in Bacteria at High Pressure (11.40-12.10) Paul McMillan UCL
11:00 Thu 25 Oct 2018	TiPO4: Black or Green? (A scientific journey for over 30 years) Robert Glaumm University of Bonn
11:00 Thu 18 Oct 2018	Imaging at Diamond Light Source: Current activities and new opportunities with Diamond II Paul Quinn Diamond Light Source
11:00 Thu 04 Oct 2018	Non Crystalline Metal-Organic Frameworks: Liquids, Blends and A New Family of Glass Formers" Tom Bennett University of Cambridge
11:00 Thu 27 Sep 2018	The thermal conductivity of ferropericlase along Earth’s mantle geotherm Chris McGuire CSEC
11:00 Thu 20 Sep 2018	Introduction and Welcome to New Academic Year Simon Parsons and Frank Morris CSEC
11:00 Thu 13 Sep 2018	Strongly Correlated Materials and the Driving Force of Oxygen Evolution Reaction Shigeto Hirai Kitami Institute of Technology
11:00 Fri 15 Jun 2018	Sound velocity and density of liquid iron-alloys under pressure:Implications for core compositions of terrestrial planets Prof Hidenori Terasaki Osaka University, Japan
11:00 Thu 17 May 2018	Structural and Magnetic Characterisation of Re, Ru and Os Scheelite and Pseudo-scheelite Type Oxides Mr Sean Injac The University of Sydney
11:00 Thu 03 May 2018	Catalytic Processes for Waste-to-Energy and Localized Intensification Prof Ying Zheng School Engineering, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 26 Apr 2018	New insights into the Verwey Transition in magnetite via Inelastic Neutron Scattering and Time-Resolved Spectroscopy and Electron Diffraction Dr Francesco Pennacchio École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
11:00 Thu 05 Apr 2018	Exploring the Conformational Space and Dynamics of Biomolecular Systems Using Pressure Perturbation Prof Roland Winter TU Dortmund University
11:00 Thu 29 Mar 2018	Anharmonic effects and optical spectra in superconducting hydrogen Dr Aitor Bergara University of the Basque Country, Spain
11:00 Thu 22 Mar 2018	On the way to NMR at mega-bar Pressures - Observation of Proton Tunneling in Ice up to 90 GPa Dr Thomas Meier University of Bayreuth
11:00 Thu 15 Mar 2018	Guest insertion and polymerization in siliceous zeolites at high pressure Dr Julian Haines University of Montpellier
11:00 Thu 08 Mar 2018	Exploiting the Pair Distribution Function for multiscale structural investigations on disordered oxides Dr Mauro Coduri European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, ESRF
11:00 Thu 22 Feb 2018	Harnessing proteins with extreme properties for new applications Prof Lynne Regan University of Yale
11:00 Thu 15 Feb 2018	Geometrical Frustration: Ice Rules and Beyond Dr Joseph Paddison University of Cambridge
11:00 Thu 08 Feb 2018	Stuffing things into water Dr John Loveday School of Physics and Astronomy, Univerity of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 01 Feb 2018	High Pressure synthesis of hydrogen selenide compounds Mr Ed Pace University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 25 Jan 2018	Protons to Planets: Materials Simulation as a Window into the Molten Earth Professor Lars Stixrude University College London
11:00 Thu 30 Nov 2017	Magnetoelastic (spin-lattice) coupling behaviour in RCo2 Laves phases, the helimagnet Cu2OSeO3 and the type II superconductor Ba(Fe0.957Co0.043)2As2: a pervasive role for strain Professor Michael Carpenter University of Cambridge
11:00 Thu 23 Nov 2017	Defects in diamonds and deducing the history of the Earth Prof Simon Kohn University of Bristol
11:00 Thu 16 Nov 2017	"Local structure studies at extreme and less-extreme conditions" Dr. Philip Chater Diamond Light Source
11:00 Thu 09 Nov 2017	Influence of structural diversity on physical properties of organic/inorganic perovskite hybrids Ms Machteld E. Kamminga University of Groningen
11:00 Thu 02 Nov 2017	The magnetism of double perovskites containing 5d transition metal ions Prof Patrick Woodward Ohio State University
11:00 Thu 26 Oct 2017	"New experimental techniques for exploring crystallization pathways and structural properties of solids" Prof Kenneth Harris Cardiff University
11:00 Thu 19 Oct 2017	New structures of high pressure hydrogen Dr Bartomeu Monserrat University of Cambridge
11:00 Thu 12 Oct 2017	Controlling polymorphism of the energetic material, 2,4-dinitroanisole Dr Dan Ward University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 05 Oct 2017	Synthesis, structures and magnetic properties of Mn2MSbO6 (M = Cr, Fe and R- Rare earth) high pressure polymorphs Dr Elena Solana Madruga University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 28 Sep 2017	Phase transformations and transport properties from dynamic measurements under static compression Dr Stewart McWilliams Universty of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 27 Apr 2017	"Molecular Cages of Paramagnetic Metal Ions" Prof. Euan Brechin University of Edinburgh
11:00 Wed 19 Apr 2017	Magnetism on the verge: the case of the helical ferromagnet PrPtAl Jean-Philippe Reid University of St Andrews
11:00 Thu 13 Apr 2017	Frustrated Magnetism and Phase Separation in Metal Oxide Perovskites Dr Eddie Cussen University of Strathclyde
11:00 Thu 06 Apr 2017	Frontiers of High Pressure Research at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Dr. Sakura Pascarelli ESRF
11:00 Thu 30 Mar 2017	Warm dense matter – probing planetary interiors Prof. Ronald Redmer Rostock University
11:00 Thu 23 Mar 2017	High pressure synthesis of novel perovskite-type oxides with unusually high valence 3d transition-metal ions Prof. Shintaro Ishiwata University of Tokyo
11:00 Thu 16 Mar 2017	"A new diffraction-based method to determine crystal size distributions and applications to crystal growth and coarsening of gas hydrates" Prof. Werner F. Kuhs University of Göttingen
11:00 Thu 09 Mar 2017	"High pressure studies of perovskites and related structures" Prof. Martin Bremholm Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University
11:00 Thu 02 Mar 2017	"Magnetic and dielectric behavior of one-dimensional frustrated quantum spin system (Rb,Cs)2Cu2Mo3O12" Prof. Yukio Yasui Meiji University
11:00 Thu 23 Feb 2017	"Pressure induced enhancement of the magnetic ordering temperature in rhenium(IV) monomers" Dr. Christopher Woodall University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 16 Feb 2017	"Unconventional magnetic order stabilised by Kitaev interactions in the Li2IrO3 polytypes" Dr Roger Johnson Oxford University
11:00 Thu 09 Feb 2017	"The challenges of engineering electronics for extreme environments" Professor Nick Wright University of Newcastle
23:00 Thu 02 Feb 2017	"Optical Diagnostics for Difficult Regions of Sprays” Professor Marke Linne School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 26 Jan 2017	"New Insights from Polyhedral Distortions" Dr. James Cumby University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 19 Jan 2017	"The ground state of lithium" Dr Miguel Martinez-Canales University of Edinburgh
23:00 Thu 08 Dec 2016	"Cryogenic Performance of Advanced Carbon Fibre Reinforced PEEK" & "Response of Composite Interfaces to Large Temperature Cycles: A Review" Prof. Conchúr Ó Brádaigh & Dr. Eddie McCarthy School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 01 Dec 2016	"Phase transitions in dynamically compressed bismuth" Dr. Martin Gorman University of Edinburgh
23:00 Thu 17 Nov 2016	"Time-resolved x-ray scattering for chemical dynamics" Dr Adam Kirrander School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
23:00 Thu 10 Nov 2016	"Minerals from 250 to 750 kilometres deep within the Earth" Professor Ben Harte School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh
23:00 Thu 03 Nov 2016	"Chemistry and Physics of Mixed Anion Compounds" Hiroshi Kageyama Kyoto
11:00 Thu 27 Oct 2016	"Topological Triplon Modes and Bound States in a Shastry-Sutherland Magnet" Dr. Frank Kruger University College London
23:00 Thu 20 Oct 2016	"Organic Molecules in Extraterrestrial Environments: The Role of High Pressure" Dr Wren Montgomery Imperial College London
23:00 Thu 13 Oct 2016	"News from carbides and silicides" Dr Sumit Konar School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
23:00 Thu 06 Oct 2016	"Ice - a material with many facets" Dr Christoph Salzmann University College London
23:00 Thu 29 Sep 2016	"Decomposed Magnetometry" Dr Calum Lithgow University of Edinburgh
23:00 Thu 22 Sep 2016	Welcome to CSEC + CSEC Safety Briefing Prof Simon Parsons and Mr Frank Morris Uni of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 15 Sep 2016	"Mechanisms of the Low Temperature Dielectric Relaxation in Lead Titanate-Relaxor Single Crystals."" Professor Andrew Bell, School of Chemical and Process Engineering University of Leeds
11:00 Thu 21 Apr 2016	"The Maximum Hardness Principle at ambient and elevated pressure" Wojciech Grochala Centre for New Technologies, The University of Warsaw
11:00 Thu 31 Mar 2016	Ab initio calculation of electrical and thermal conductivities of warm dense matter Dr Martin French University of Rostock
23:00 Thu 24 Mar 2016	Understanding Structure-Property Correlations in Metal-Organic Frameworks Dr. Wendy Queen EPFL
11:00 Thu 17 Mar 2016	High-pressure Chemistry in Innsbruck, Austria Prof. Dr. Hubert Huppertz Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck
11:00 Thu 10 Mar 2016	Iron Spin Transitions in the Earth Prof. Simon Clark Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University
11:00 Thu 03 Mar 2016	Structure/function relationships of EGF receptor complexes in the basal and activated states: Implications for cancer research of going beyond the resolution limit Dr Marisa Martin-Fernandez Central Laser Facility, Science and Technology Facilities Council
23:00 Thu 25 Feb 2016	"Modulated magnetic Structures in PrPtAl and UAu2" Dr. Chris O'Neill University of Edinburgh
23:00 Thu 18 Feb 2016	"Simple Systems – unexpected results" Brendan J. Kennedy School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney
11:00 Thu 11 Feb 2016	"Muons, and the search for superconductors with broken time-reversal symmetry” Mr. Joel Barker Department of Physics, University of Warwick
11:00 Thu 04 Feb 2016	"Superdeep Diamonds and the Deep Carbon Cycle" Prof. Michael Walter School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
11:00 Thu 28 Jan 2016	"Common sense under pressure: the case of oil and water" Mr. Ciprian Pruteanu School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 21 Jan 2016	"Probing the Phase Diagram of the Ferromagnetic Superconductor UGe2 Using High Pressure Ultrasonic Techniques" Dr Michal Kepa School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 14 Jan 2016	"Correlation Effects in Fe and FeO: Electrical conductivity in the mantle and core and implications for the geodynamo" Professor Ronald Cohen University College London and Carnegie Institute of Washington
11:00 Thu 07 Jan 2016	Studies of structure-property relations at high pressures Professor Bjoern Winkler Institut für Geowissenschaften, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
11:00 Thu 10 Dec 2015	"Electronic structure calculations on systems at extreme conditions" Andreas Hermann School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 03 Dec 2015	"Extremophilic RNA interference machines" Laura Spagnolo School of BioSciences, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 26 Nov 2015	"Liquid-liquid transitions in water: fact or fiction?" Alan Soper ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
11:00 Thu 19 Nov 2015	High pressure research as a window into planetary deep interiors Dr Geoff Bromiley School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 12 Nov 2015	Progress on developing radiation sources based on laser plasma accelerators Dino Jaroszynski University of Strathclyde
23:00 Thu 05 Nov 2015	Probing the Phase Diagram of the Ferromagnetic Superconductor UGe2 Using High Pressure Ultrasonic Techniques Mr Michal Kepa School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 29 Oct 2015	Engineering for High Pressure Research Konstantin Kamenev School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 22 Oct 2015	The Effect of Pressure on Microporous Materials Stephen Moggach School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 15 Oct 2015	Intra-unit-cell magnetic order in cuprate high temperature superconductors Lucile Mangin-Thro CEA, France
11:00 Thu 08 Oct 2015	Materials Physics at High Pressure: From Pure Elements to Thermoelectrics Ingo Loa School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 01 Oct 2015	Electric and magnetic ordering in framework materials Dr Anthony Phillips Queen Mary, University of London
11:00 Thu 24 Sep 2015	Overview of CSEC Professor Paul Attfield Director, CSEC
11:00 Thu 23 Apr 2015	Towards emergent electrodynamics in a geometrically frustrated magnet Kate Ross Colorado
11:00 Thu 16 Apr 2015	Going with the wind: how plants deal with and utilise mechanical stimuli Naomi Nakayama University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 02 Apr 2015	Neutron scattering science at next generation sources Jon Taylor ESS
11:00 Thu 26 Mar 2015	Application of polarised neutrons for magnetic structure determination Bertrand Roessli PSI
11:00 Thu 05 Mar 2015	Planetary magnetic fields and planetary deep interiors: perspectives on materials science at extreme conditions Dr. Natalia Gomez Perez Assistant Professor, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
11:00 Thu 26 Feb 2015	A spin liquid under pressure Dr Mark De Vries School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 19 Feb 2015	Applications of neutron scattering to energy materials Stewart Parker ISIS
11:00 Thu 12 Feb 2015	Diamonds and Neutrons Dr Malcolm Guthrie European Spallation Source (ESS) and CSEC
11:00 Thu 29 Jan 2015	'Symmetry-mode analysis of rigid-body rotations' Professor Branton Campbell Brigham Young University
11:00 Thu 11 Dec 2014	* Dr Florian Fusseis 4-dimensional characterisation of dynamic porosity and fluid-rock interaction in the crust
11:00 Thu 04 Dec 2014	* Professor Matthias Eschrig Royal Holloway University London
11:00 Thu 27 Nov 2014	New Infinitively Adaptive Oxychalcogenides Professor John Evans Durham University
11:00 Thu 20 Nov 2014	“Hybrid multiferroics and novel negative thermal expansion mechanisms” Dr Mark Senn Oxford University
11:00 Thu 13 Nov 2014	“Armour and protection systems - An engineering perspective on dynamic material behaviour” Filipe Teixeira-Dias University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 06 Nov 2014	"Low Dimensional Magnets Designed via Soft Chemistry" Atsushi Kitada Kyoto University
11:00 Thu 30 Oct 2014	“Structure and dynamics of organic-inorganic perovskites” Ian Swainson IAEA, Vienna
11:00 Thu 23 Oct 2014	"The Search for a Better Quantum Spin Ice: Sm2Ti2O7” Paul Sarte The University of Manitoba (Canada)
11:00 Thu 16 Oct 2014	Time-resolved 3D imaging of fluid-rock interaction using Synchrotron-based x-ray microtomography Dr Florian Fussels University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 09 Oct 2014	* Peter Gehring NIST
11:00 Thu 02 Oct 2014	* Dr Sean Giblin Cardiff University
11:00 Thu 25 Sep 2014	TBC Dr John Loveday University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 18 Sep 2014	TBC Professor Paul Attfield University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 01 May 2014	'Multiple Order Parameters in YBCO' Elizabeth Blackburn University of Birmingham
10:30 Thu 24 Apr 2014	“Diamonds in the Subduction Factory” Helene Bureau Paris
11:00 Thu 17 Apr 2014	No Speaker This Week Easter Break Have a good weekend!
11:00 Thu 10 Apr 2014	“High pressure-temperature measurements of transport properties in matter: a new generation of dynamic experiments in the diamond anvil cell.” Stewart McWilliams University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 03 Apr 2014	Low dimensional magnetism in complex transition metal oxalate networks Daniel Price University of Glasgow
11:00 Thu 27 Mar 2014	“Elements and Compounds Beyond Mbar” Miguel Martinez-Canales University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 20 Mar 2014	“Soft excitations and ferroelectricity in Lead based relaxor perovskites” Chris Stock University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 13 Mar 2014	Design and discovery of heavy fermion superconductors and semiconductors Cedomir Petrovic Brookhaven National Laboratory
11:00 Thu 06 Mar 2014	From microbes to robots: using terrestrial volcano - ice interaction to explore Mars Claire Cousins University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 27 Feb 2014	Laser shock/ramp compression of metals: From GPa to TPa. Richard Briggs University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 20 Feb 2014	SnTe a Topological Insulator & Structural Transitions in Samarium at High Pressure Chris O’Neill and Rachel Husband TBC
11:00 Thu 13 Feb 2014	Two-dimenional Electronics based on Ion-gated Nanosheets Justin Jianting Ye University of Groningen
11:00 Thu 06 Feb 2014	Exchange Potentials in Kohn-Sham Theory Nikitas Gidopoulos Durham University
23:00 Thu 30 Jan 2014	Antiferromagnetic order and Quantum criticality in Sr3Ru2O7 Chris Lester University of Bristol
11:00 Thu 23 Jan 2014	Structure – composition – property relationships in transition metal oxyselenides Emma McCabe Kent University
11:00 Thu 16 Jan 2014	Real Space Imaging of Stripe Order in FeTe Peter Wahl St Andrews
11:00 Thu 12 Dec 2013	Low Dimentional Ferromagnetic Oxides: New Topologies With Special Properties Renald David ENS Lyon
11:00 Thu 05 Dec 2013	High-Pressure Synthesis of Ruthenium Perovskites Ms Alex Sinclair Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 05 Dec 2013	High-pressure hydrogen inclusion compounds Ms Mary-Ellen Donelly Physics, University of Edinburgh
11:30 Wed 27 Nov 2013	Exploring the Antiferromagnetism of Tungstate Double Perovskites Mr. Oliver Burrows Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Wed 27 Nov 2013	Thermally Robust Anion-Chain Order in Oxynitride Perovskites Dr. Lucy Clark McMaster University, Canada
11:30 Thu 21 Nov 2013	Structure of magma at extreme conditions: A synchrotron x-ray diffraction approach Dr. James Drewitt Physics, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 21 Nov 2013	TBC Dr. Scott McKellar Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 14 Nov 2013	Phase relations of Earth's core materials Dr. Tetsuya Komabayashi Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 07 Nov 2013	Case Studies of the Periodic Table: Metal Monoxides and the Halogen Group Dr. Andreas Hermann Physics, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 31 Oct 2013	Experiments on metallic hydrogen Dr. Mikhail I. Eremets Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
11:00 Wed 23 Oct 2013	Onset of ferromagnetism in a heavy fermion metal (YbNiSn) Dr. Dmitry Sokolov Physics, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 17 Oct 2013	Magnetic Properties of Mixed-Metal Oxides Prof. Peter D. Battle School of Chemistry, University of Oxford
11:00 Thu 10 Oct 2013	B-N-O System at High Pressures and High Temperatures: Chemical Interaction and Phase Relations Dr. Vladimir L. Solozhenko LSPM-CNRS, Universite Paris 13
11:00 Mon 09 Sep 2013	Carbon-based nanostructures at extreme conditions Prof. Alexander V. Soldatov Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
11:00 Thu 22 Aug 2013	Structural and magnetic degrees of freedom in iron based superconductors Dr. Efrain Rodriguez University of Maryland
11:00 Thu 18 Jul 2013	Monopoles and Magnetricity in Spin ice Prof. Steven Bramwell University College London
11:00 Mon 20 May 2013	Chemical Bonding and 'Useful' Properties of Intermetallic Compounds Prof. Juri Grin Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden
11:00 Thu 25 Apr 2013	Spirals and helical glasses near ferromagnetic quantum criticality Dr. Frank Kruger University of St. Andrews
11:00 Thu 18 Apr 2013	How muons reveal the best-kept secrets of molecular magnets and superconductors Dr. Tom Lancaster Durham University
11:00 Thu 11 Apr 2013	Probing the ordered ground state of half-doped Pr(1-x)Ca(x)MnO3 using inelastic neutron scattering Dr. Russell Ewings ISIS
11:00 Thu 04 Apr 2013	Spin Excitations on the Pyrochlore Lattice Dr. Sarah Dunsiger TU Munich
11:00 Thu 28 Mar 2013	Matter at atomic pressures Prof. Gilbert Collins Lawrence Livermore National Labs (United States)
11:00 Thu 21 Mar 2013	Neutron diffraction studies of silicate glasses at high pressure: techniques, modeling of structures and new directions Dr. Martin Wilding Aberystwyth University
15:00 Fri 15 Mar 2013	Laser-Shocks and Laser-Heating: Probing the Boundary of the Warm Dense Matter Regime Dr. R. Stewart McWilliams Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington & Departamento de Física, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
11:00 Thu 14 Mar 2013	Investigation of multiferroics and frustrated magnets using x-ray scattering Dr. Carlo Vecchini Diamond
15:30 Thu 28 Feb 2013	Anomalous thermodynamic power laws in nodal superconductors Dr. Jorge Quintanilla University of Kent, ISIS
11:00 Thu 21 Feb 2013	High-pressure synthesis of materials via formation of new bonding patterns and unusual stoichiometries Dr. Alexander Goncharov Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie
11:30 Thu 14 Feb 2013	tba Thomas Scheler Physics, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 14 Feb 2013	Singlet Remix: The evolution of Magnetic order in the singlet driven ferromagnet PrPtAl Gino Jamal Abdul-Jabbar Physics, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 07 Feb 2013	Understanding the english - a giant anomalous hall effect in a kagome metal Prof. Andrew Wills UCL
11:00 Thu 31 Jan 2013	Frustrated magnetism in two new Cu2+-based kagomé minerals Dr. Goran Nilsen ILL
11:30 Thu 24 Jan 2013	An exploration of 5d transition metal oxides Emily Hunter Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 24 Jan 2013	A short history of superconductivity Michal Kepa Physics, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 10 Jan 2013	Trace elements and noble gases in minerals and interfaces Professor Neil Allan School of Chemistry, University of Bristol
11:00 Thu 13 Dec 2012	COSMIC -- Advanced Optical Techniques for Complex Materials Dr. Jochen Arlt Physics, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Sun 09 Dec 2012	Laser-driven dynamic compression: a path to high pressure solid system Dr. A. Higginbotham Department of Physics, Oxford University
11:30 Thu 06 Dec 2012	Listening to Magnetism: Using ultrasound at high pressures as a probe to study uranium intermetallics. Michal Kepa Physics, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 06 Dec 2012	URhGe: A very unusual superconductor Mark Barraclough Physics, University of Edinburgh and St. Andrew’s
11:00 Sun 02 Dec 2012	New Concepts in Multiferroics and Magnetoelectrics Prof. Paolo Radaelli Department of Physics, Oxford University
11:00 Thu 29 Nov 2012	Quantitative in-situ powder diffraction of porous materials Dr. Matt Hudson NIST Center for Neutron Research
11:00 Thu 22 Nov 2012	Bacterial DNA restriction systems: structure, function and evolution Dr. David Dryden Chemistry, UoE
11:30 Wed 21 Nov 2012	Pressure induced dehydration and the Structure of AHH II Craig Wilson Physics, University of Edinburgh
11:30 Wed 21 Nov 2012	High-Pressure Low-Temperature Study of Mn12-Acetate Chris Cameron Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 08 Nov 2012	Molecular-like order in the solid state Dr. Mark Senn Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 01 Nov 2012	sm of RCo2 compounds under high pressure Dr. Martin Misek Physics, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 25 Oct 2012	Redox reactions in silicate melts: new insights from in-situ spectroscopic experiments Dr. Benjamin Cochain Physics, Univ. Paris 06
11:00 Thu 18 Oct 2012	"Hard-soft" chemistry in SrCrO3 and possible skyrmion in LiNbO3-type MnTiO3 Dr. Angel Alvaro Lopez Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 11 Oct 2012	Quantum critical fluctuations and mesoscopic resonance in YbRh2Si2 Dr. Chris Stock Physics, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 04 Oct 2012	Overview of CSEC Prof. Paul Attfield Director of CSEC/Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 27 Sep 2012	Thermoelectric Materials: Multi-Anvil High Pressure Investigations Dr. Matthew Jacobsen Engineering/CSEC, University of Edinburgh
14:00 Thu 05 Jul 2012	The Benefits of James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge Expedition to Hadal Microbiology Prof. Douglas H. Bartlett Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
11:00 Thu 19 Apr 2012	Static and Dynamic Compression of the Alkali Elements Ms E. McBridge CSEC & School of Physics and Astronomy
11:00 Thu 19 Apr 2012	Complex New Crystal Structure Type in High-Pressure Europium Ms R. Husband CSEC & School of Physics and Astronomy
11:30 Thu 05 Apr 2012	Synthesis and Study of Frustrated Magnetism in Oxide and Oxynitride Pyrochlore Ms Lucy Clark CSEC & School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 05 Apr 2012	Advances in multi-megabar studies of hydrogen Mr. R. Howie CSEC & School of Physics & Astronomy
11:00 Thu 29 Mar 2012	The quest for a charge density wave in cerium at high pressure Dr. Ingo Loa CSEC & School of Physics and Astronomy
11:00 Thu 22 Mar 2012	Frameworks, Flexibility, and Frustration Dr. A. Goodwin Department of Chemistry, Oxford University
11:00 Thu 15 Mar 2012	Proteins under extreme conditions - what the gas phase can tell us about biology Prof. C. Macphee School of Physics and Astronomy
11:00 Thu 16 Feb 2012	Single crystal diffraction at extreme pressures Dr. M. Hanfland Dynamics and Extreme Conditions Group, ESRF
11:00 Thu 26 Jan 2012	Novel electronic and magnetic materials - pressure-driven transformation Dr. Anna Kusmartseva CSEC & School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 01 Dec 2011	Slater transition and electronic phase separation at the metamagnetic transition in FeRh Dr. Mark de Vries CSEC & School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 24 Nov 2011	Magmas at Depth: an Experimental study at extreme conditions Dr. Chrystele Sanloup CSEC & School of Physics and Astronomy
11:00 Thu 17 Nov 2011	In Extremis Mr. Julian Wagstaff The Composer in Residence, University of Edinburgh
11:00 Thu 10 Nov 2011	Astrobiology - In Search of Life's Boundaries Prof. Charles Cockell CSEC & School of Physics and Astronomy
11:00 Thu 03 Nov 2011	Life under pressure: a quantitative proteomics study Dr. Laura Spagnolo CSEC & School of Biological Sciences
11:00 Thu 27 Oct 2011	Structure of liquids and glasses at high temperature and high pressure Dr. James Drewitt CNRS, Orleans, France
11:00 Thu 20 Oct 2011	Polymorphism and polymerisation of acrylic and methacrylic acid Dr. Iain Oswald Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde
11:00 Thu 13 Oct 2011	Liquids, (melts, fluids) & solid state synthesis Prof. John Parise Stony Brook University, USA
11:00 Thu 06 Oct 2011	Overview of CSEC Prof. Paul Attfield CSEC and School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 14 Apr 2011	Onset of ferromagnetism in a heavy fermion metal Dr. Dmitry Sokolov School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 07 Apr 2011	Interplay between H bonds, structure and proton disorder in Ammonia ice under extreme P-T conditions Prof. Frederic Datchi Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
11:00 Thu 24 Mar 2011	Investigating the Molecular Basis of High Pressure- & Cold Temperature-Loving Growth in Deep-Sea Bacteria Dr. Gail Ferguson Institute for Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen
11:00 Thu 10 Mar 2011	Post-perovskite, hcp iron and their connections to magnetic fields in the Earth's outer core Prof. Kathryn Whaler School of GeoSciences
11:00 Thu 03 Mar 2011	Communicating science in the media Ms Catriona Kelly Edinburgh Press and PR office
11:00 Thu 17 Feb 2011	Peaceful Productivity for Creative Types Dr. Olga Degtyareva CSEC and School of Physics & Astronomy
11:00 Thu 03 Feb 2011	School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews Prof. Ulrich Schwarz MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden
11:30 Thu 27 Jan 2011	Low temperature measurements on URhGe Mr. Jack Barraclough School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews
11:00 Thu 27 Jan 2011	Mixed Singlet Magnetism of PrPtAl Mr. Gino Abdul-Jabbar CSEC and School of Physics and Astronomy
11:45 Thu 20 Jan 2011	Synthesis and Characterization of Platinum Hydride at High Pressure Mr. Thomas Sheller CSEC and School of Physics and Astronomy
11:15 Thu 20 Jan 2011	Optical Properties of Dense Sodium Mr. Ross Howie CSEC and School of Physics and Astronomy
11:00 Thu 20 Jan 2011	Investigation of the FexOy H2O CO2 system at high Pressures and Temperatures Mrs. Donna Morton CSEC and School of Physics and Astronomy
11:00 Thu 13 Jan 2011	The Layered Perovskite Sr3Ru2O7 - A Correlated Electron Metal With An Unconventional Phase Diagram Dr. Andreas Rost Physics Department, University of St. Andrews
11:00 Thu 16 Dec 2010	Simple cubic and post-simple cubic structures in compressed phosphorus and calcium: electronic origin Dr. Valentina Degtyareva Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka
11:00 Thu 25 Nov 2010	Pressure tuning of hydrogen storage materials Dr. Petra Ágota Szilágyi AXA Research Fellow, CSEC and School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 18 Nov 2010	Magnets under pressure Dr. Alessandro Prescimone CSEC and School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 11 Nov 2010	Science issues in CO2 storage Dr. habil. Chris McDermot CSEC and School of GeoSciences
11:00 Thu 04 Nov 2010	A rotator for single-crystal neutron diffraction at high pressure Mr. Junwei Fang CSEC and School of Engineering
11:00 Thu 28 Oct 2010	Electride behaviour of the alkali metals under pressure Dr. Miriam Marques CSEC and School of Physics and Astronomy
11:00 Thu 21 Oct 2010	Barium-IVc: A Truly complex elemental crystal structure Dr. Ingo Loa CSEC and School of Physics and Astronomy
11:00 Thu 07 Oct 2010	Pressure-induced complexity of simple elements Dr. Olga Degtyareva CSEC and School of Physics and Astronomy
11:00 Thu 30 Sep 2010	Overview of CSEC Prof. Paul Attfield CSEC and School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 15 Apr 2010	Beyond the Bragg Peaks: From Nanopatterning to Magnetic Monopoles Dr. J. Morris Helmholtz-Zentrum, Berlin
11:00 Thu 25 Mar 2010	Beamline I19: A facility for small-molecule single-crystal diffraction at Diamond Light Source Dr. David Allan Diamond and STFC
11:00 Thu 18 Mar 2010	High-power lasers and the extraordinary conditions that they can produce Prof. Steven Rose Imperial College London
11:00 Thu 11 Mar 2010	High pressure studies of "simple" systems Dr. Christophe Guillaume CSEC and School of Physics
11:00 Thu 04 Mar 2010	New pnictide superconductors (Ru,Rh)As and APt3P (A=Ca,Sr,La) Mr. Daigorou Hirai Department of Advanced Materials, University of Tokyo
11:00 Thu 25 Feb 2010	Raman of single and double walled nanotubes - pressure on nanoscale Dr. Andrei Sapelkin Queen Mary, The University of London
11:00 Thu 18 Feb 2010	Neutron scattering studies of ferromagnetic superconductor UGe2 under pressure Dr. Dmitry Sokolov School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 11 Feb 2010	Revisiting the PbCrO3 and something more... Dr. Angel Arevalo Lopez School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 04 Feb 2010	Overview of the ISIS facilities and the recent developments at the neutron source Dr. Andrew Taylor Director of the ISIS Neutron Facility
11:00 Thu 28 Jan 2010	Inclusions in natural diamonds from depths of 300 to 800 kms in the Earth Prof. Ben Harte Grant Institute of Earth Science and CSEC
11:00 Thu 10 Dec 2009	Biology, high pressure and 101 things a clever boy might do Prof. Lindsay Sawyer School of Biological Sciences and CSEC
11:00 Thu 03 Dec 2009	Synthesis and physical properties study on Mixed Metal Oxynitrides Mr. Minghui Yang School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 26 Nov 2009	Interesting (new) materials: some produced and studied at high pressure Prof. J. Parise Stony Brook and Brookhaven
11:00 Thu 19 Nov 2009	Gas-loading apparatus for Paris-Edinburgh cells Mr. Artur Bocian School of Engineering and CSEC
11:00 Thu 19 Nov 2009	Lattice Dynamics Studies of High-Pressure Phases Using TDS Mrs. Jenny Jeppsson School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 05 Nov 2009	Molecular Crystals at High Pressure Prof. Simon Parsons School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 29 Oct 2009	Diffraction and disordered crystals: probing fluctuations via total scattering Prof. Martin Dove Cambridge University
11:00 Thu 15 Oct 2009	Ice and other hydrogen-bonded systems at high pressure Dr. J. S. Loveday School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 01 Oct 2009	Introduction to Extreme Conditions Science Prof. J. P. Attfield School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 10 Sep 2009	Problematic Pyrochlore Oxides Prof. John Greedan McMaster university , Canada
11:00 Thu 02 Apr 2009	Identification of Driving Forces in High Pressure Phase Transitions Using the Pixel Method Mr. Russell Johnstone School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 19 Mar 2009	LiCl-doped ice under pressure Dr. Stefan Klotz Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
11:00 Thu 12 Mar 2009	Few-layer-graphene under hydrostatic pressure Dr. John Proctor School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 05 Mar 2009	High Pressure Synthesis of New Oxypnictide Superconductors Mr. George Penny School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 26 Feb 2009	Superconductivity without phonons Dr. Phillipe Monthoux School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 12 Feb 2009	Electron microscopy studies of macromolecular machines Dr. Laura Spagnolo ISMB and CSEC
11:00 Thu 05 Feb 2009	Structural studies of pure elements at high pressure Dr. Lars F. Lundegaard School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 29 Jan 2009	High Pressure Effects on Nanoporous Zeolites - Changes in Structures, Water Contents and Ion-Exchange Behaviour Dr. Joe Hriljac School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham
11:00 Thu 22 Jan 2009	Synthesis and Characterization of Noble Metal Nitrides Dr. Eugene Gregoryanz School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 18 Dec 2008	Superconductivity in dichalcogenides under pressure Dr. Anna Kusmartseva School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 11 Dec 2008	Properties of the interior of the Moon Mirjam van Kaan Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam
11:00 Thu 04 Dec 2008	Single-Molecule Magnets and Magnetic Refrigerants Dr. Euan Brechin School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 27 Nov 2008	Nitrogen -- Single-crystal structure determination at high pressure Dr. Graham Stinton School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 20 Nov 2008	Compression-Tuning of Porous Materials Dr. Stephen Moggach School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 13 Nov 2008	High pressure capability development at IRL NZ - a review Dr. Suresh Narayanaswamy School of Engineering & Electronics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 30 Oct 2008	Functional mixed anion nitrides: synthesis, ordering and properties Dr. Amparo Fuertes Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
11:00 Thu 23 Oct 2008	Hydrogen incorporation in Earth's deep interior Dr. Geoffrey Bromiley School of GeoSciences and CSEC
11:00 Thu 16 Oct 2008	Coherent x-ray imaging and microscopy Mr. Samuel Flewett University of Melbourne
11:00 Fri 10 Oct 2008	Multiferroics: different ways to combine magnetism and ferroelectricity Prof. Daniel Khomskii University of Cologne
11:00 Thu 02 Oct 2008	Focused Ion Beam Technology and its Applications to Diamond Anvil Cells Dr. Simone Magni School of Physics and CSEC
11:30 Thu 25 Sep 2008	Safety in CSEC Mr. Frank Morris CSEC Superintendent
11:00 Thu 25 Sep 2008	High-pressure Science and Current Trends Prof. J. P. Attfield School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 03 Jul 2008	Disentangling High Temperature Evolution of Thermal Barrier Coatings Prof. Emily Carter Princeton University, USA
11:00 Mon 30 Jun 2008	High-Tc superconductivity - from fundamental science to manufacturing Prof. Jeffery Tallon MacDiarmid Institute, Industrial Research Ltd and Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
11:00 Thu 20 Mar 2008	Magnetic breakdown, correlations and superconducting apparitions: lots going on in an organic superconductor Prof. Stephen J. Blundell Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
11:00 Thu 13 Mar 2008	Optical spectroscopy in the diamond-anvil high-pressure cell Prof. David J. Dunstan Queen Mary, University of London, Physics Department
11:00 Thu 06 Mar 2008	Prussian Blue Analogues As Molecular Building Blocks Ms Lindsay Egan CSEC, School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 28 Feb 2008	Magnetism on the small scale - mesoporous metal oxides Mr. Adrian Hill CSEC, School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 14 Feb 2008	Solid-State MAS NMR Spectroscopy in Inorganic Materials Science: Heterogeneous Catalysts and Portland Cement-Based Materials Jørgen Skibsted Instrument Centre for Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus
11:00 Thu 07 Feb 2008	Watching cement set: an eight year obsession Dr. Nicola Meller CSEC, School of Engineering and Electronics
11:00 Thu 31 Jan 2008	Structure and magnetic properties of doped BaMnO3 Mr. Congling Yin CSEC, School of Chemistry and Peking University, China
11:00 Thu 24 Jan 2008	Emerging electronic ground states near Quantum Critical Point in a model Itinerant metal Dr. Dmitry Sokolov School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 17 Jan 2008	Sample Environment in ISIS Spallation Neutron Source Dr. Oleg Kirichek ISIS Facility, STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
11:00 Thu 10 Jan 2008	High-pressure studies of energetic materials Dr. Colin R. Pulham Dr. Colin R. Pulham
11:00 Thu 06 Dec 2007	School of Engineering & Electronics and CSEC Dr. Javier Sanchez-Benitez School of Engineering & Electronics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 22 Nov 2007	Developing tools for sciences at extreme conditions Dr. Konstantin Kamenev School of Engineering & Electronics and CSEC
11:00 Wed 14 Nov 2007	Opportunities for high-pressure large-volume experiments at the ESRF: Historical background, current status and future applications Dr. Wilson Crichton ESRF, Grenoble
11:00 Thu 08 Nov 2007	New chemistry to generate novel electronic and magnetic states of solids Dr. Serena Margadonna School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 01 Nov 2007	Crystalline solids at high pressure - Theoretical models and quantum mechanical simulation Dr. Miriam Marques School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 25 Oct 2007	Putting the pressure on 'disappearing' or 'elusive' polymorphs Dr. Iain Oswald School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 18 Oct 2007	Synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements of liquid As and Sb under pressure up to 17 GPa Dr. Ayano Chiba Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK and Keio University, Japan
11:00 Thu 04 Oct 2007	Structures and Dynamics of Elements to above 100GPa using X-ray Scattering Prof. Malcolm McMahon School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 27 Sep 2007	Overview and recent results of high-pressure research on solids of small molecules Dr. John Loveday School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 13 Sep 2007	High pressure methods in chemistry and synthesis Prof. Paul Attfield School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Tue 11 Sep 2007	Synthesis under extreme conditions of new transition metal nitrides Dr. Alexander Goncharov Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution, Washington, USA
11:45 Fri 25 May 2007	Pyrochlore oxide superconductors: rattling good materials Prof. Zenji Hiroi Institute for Solid State Physics, Tokyo University
11:00 Fri 25 May 2007	New high pressure oxide materials with ordered perovskite structures Prof. Yuichi Shimakawa Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University
11:00 Tue 17 Apr 2007	Using Shocks to Study the Impulse Response of Condensed Matter Neil Holmes Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
11:00 Thu 05 Apr 2007	Precise Measurements Under High Pressure: A Gateway to New Physics Dr. Alexander T. Holmes Center for Quantum Science and Technology under Extreme Conditions, Osaka University, Japan
11:00 Thu 15 Mar 2007	Geosciences and CSEC Geosciences and CSEC Geosciences and CSEC
11:00 Thu 08 Mar 2007	How to get the structure and density of non-crystalline materials at extreme conditions : example of suplhur Dr. Chrystele Sanloup Geosciences and CSEC
11:00 Thu 22 Feb 2007	Identifying novel components involved in the growth and survival of the cold- and pressure-loving marine bacterium, Photobacterium profundum Dr. Theodora Tryfona School of Biological Sciences and CSEC
11:00 Thu 15 Feb 2007	Pressure and Temperature dependence of the Raman spectrum of the A2FeMoO6 double-perovskite systems Mr. Dario Marrocchelli CSEC and Chemistry
11:00 Thu 08 Feb 2007	High Pressure Materials Synthesis Dr. Jenny Rodgers CSEC and Chemistry
11:00 Thu 01 Feb 2007	Bridging the gap between powder and single crystal diffraction Dr. Jon Wright ESRF
11:00 Thu 25 Jan 2007	Crystallographic and magnetic characterisation of low dimensional transition metal oxides Mr. Simon Kimber CSEC and Chemistry
11:00 Thu 18 Jan 2007	Iron-nickel alloy at conditions of deep Earth interiors Dr. Leonid Dubrovinsky Bayerisches Geoinstitut (BGI), Bayreuth, Germany
12:00 Mon 08 Jan 2007	Recent studies on liquids under high-pressure at SPring-8 Dr. Y. Katayama Spring-8 facility, Japan
11:00 Thu 14 Dec 2006	Simple metals at high pressure: the Fermi sphere - Brillouin zone concept Dr. Valentina F. Degtyareva Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Chernogolovka, Russia
11:00 Thu 30 Nov 2006	Modulation, charge-density wave and superconductivity in compressed Sulphur: a perspective from first principles calculations Dr. Jorge Kohanoff Atomistic Simulation Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, The Queen's University of Belfast
11:00 Thu 23 Nov 2006	Coordination changes in magnesium silicate liquids and glasses: neutron and high energy diffraction studies at high pressures and temperatures Dr. Martin Wilding University of Aberystwyth
11:00 Thu 16 Nov 2006	Crystal structure determination of high pressure modifications in the alumina-water system Dr. Kazuki Komatsu CSEC and Institute of Mineralogy, Petrology and Economic Geology, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
11:00 Thu 09 Nov 2006	Instrumentation development for high-pressure sciences in CSEC Dr. Konstantin Kamenev School of Engineering and Electronics, CSEC
11:00 Thu 02 Nov 2006	Structural and magnetic features in double perovskites Ms. Maria Retuerto Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
11:00 Thu 26 Oct 2006	Methane and methane-clathrates under extreme conditions Ms. Helen Maynard School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 19 Oct 2006	High pressure methods in chemistry and synthesis Prof. Paul Attfield School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 12 Oct 2006	Vibrational dynamics and stability of chain and ring phases in S and Se at high pressure Dr. Olga Degtyareva School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 05 Oct 2006	Zn-paratacamite - a semi-classical- or a quantum spin liquid? Mr. Mark de Vries School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 28 Sep 2006	Ab-initio calculation of superconductivity in some elements under pressure Prof. H. Nagara Osaka University
10:30 Wed 27 Sep 2006	Determining the structure of phosphorus in phase IV Dr. T. Ishikawa Osaka University
16:00 Fri 22 Sep 2006	Life in Deep-Sea Hadal and Abyssal Environments: Multiple Comparative Genome Studies Prof. Doug Bartlett Scripps Institute of Oceanography
11:00 Fri 15 Sep 2006	High pressure techniques: Efficient tools to pile and dope oxide layers into functional materials Prof. Hisao Yamauchi and Prof. Maarit Karppinen Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan and Laboratory of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (respectively)
11:00 Thu 08 Jun 2006	Negative pressures in water and salt solutions - possible applications for geology Dr. Kirill Shmulovich Institute of Experimental Mineralogy, Russia
11:00 Thu 01 Jun 2006	Ultra high pressure inclusions in diamonds from the Earth's interior -exsolution in garnet crystals from depths of ca 450 km Prof. Ben Harte School of GeoSciences and CSEC
11:00 Thu 18 May 2006	Carbon and nitrogen effects during HTHP diamond crystallization: can we read diamond's biography? Dr. Vadim N. Reutskiy School of GeoSciences
11:00 Thu 11 May 2006	Single crystal studies of pure elements at high pressure Mr. Lars F. Lundegaard School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 04 May 2006	Molecular arrangement and electronic properties of low-dimensional fullerene systems Dr. Anna Tamai School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 27 Apr 2006	Diamonds in the sky? Simulation studies of the crystal nucleation of diamond from molten carbon at high temperature and pressure Dr. Chantal Valeriani FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
11:00 Thu 20 Apr 2006	Extreme conditions in giant stars Dr. Maria-Rosa Cioni School of Physics
11:00 Thu 13 Apr 2006	Lanthanides under pressure Mr. Sean Evans CSEC & School of Physics
11:00 Thu 30 Mar 2006	Atomistic Simulation of Minerals and Melts at High Temperatures and Pressures Dr. Sandro Jahn GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany
11:00 Thu 23 Mar 2006	What's hot and what's not: How microwave fileds transfer energy to materials for heating and even strange effects Prof. John Booske University of Wisconsin
11:00 Wed 22 Mar 2006	Stability and structures of low-Z materials Amy Lazicki University of California at Davis and LLNL
11:00 Thu 16 Mar 2006	Scandium: the first incommensurate transition metal Dr. Malcolm McMahon CSEC and School of Physics
11:00 Thu 09 Mar 2006	Cation Ordering in Ruddlesden-Popper Phases Dr. Jennifer Rogers CSEC and School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 02 Mar 2006	The wierdness of water - New insights from high pressure studies of amorphous ice Dr. John Loveday CSEC and School of Physics
11:00 Thu 23 Feb 2006	Structural phase transitions and magnetic properties of the ordered double perovskites Sr2B1-xMgxTeO6 (B=Fe, Mn, Ni and Co) Dr. Luis Ortega San Martín CSEC and School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 16 Feb 2006	Molecular Dynamics Simulations of water-methane interfaces under hydrate forming conditions Dr. Stewart Reed School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 09 Feb 2006	Properties of the peculiar magnetoresistive CaCu3Mn4O12 derivatives Dr. Javier Sanchez Benitez CSEC and School of Engineering & Electronics
11:00 Thu 02 Feb 2006	Potassium di-hydrogen phosphate, KH2PO4 (KDP), at pressure - a neutron diffraction study Dr. Craig Bull CSEC and School of Physics
11:00 Thu 26 Jan 2006	Glass transition of molecular liquids and polymers: how high pressure studies can bring a new twist Prof. Christiane Alba-Simionesco Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Universite de Paris-Sud, France
11:00 Thu 19 Jan 2006	Orbital physics - transition metal oxides under pressure Dr. Ingo Loa CSEC and School of Physics
13:00 Thu 01 Dec 2005	Synthesis and ultra high pressure sintering of nanopowders on the example of doped ZrO2¸ZnO, YAG Dr. Witold Lojkowski Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
11:00 Thu 17 Nov 2005	Isostructural transformation and polymorphism of thiourea dioxide at high pressure Mr. Alistair Davidson School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 10 Nov 2005	A high pressure study of (EDT-TTF-CONH2)6[Re6Se8(CN)6], a metallic Kagome-Type Compound Ms. Sandra Carlsson Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 03 Nov 2005	Journal Club talk: review of 'Crystalline water ice on the Kuiper belt object (50000) Quaoar' by D.C. Jewitt and J.Luu, Nature, vol 432, p731 (2004) Ms. Helen Maynard Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 20 Oct 2005	High pressure and High Temperature synthesis of Sr-Cr oxides Elizabeth Castillo Martinez Departamento de Química Inorgánica I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
11:00 Thu 13 Oct 2005	Ruthenocuprates: Recent developments Mr. Simon Kimber Chemistry & CSEC
11:00 Thu 06 Oct 2005	Exploring the Configurational Landscape of Biomolecules under Extreme Conditions: From Lipid Membranes to Proteins in Solution Prof. Roland Winter Biophysical Chemistry, University of Dortmund
11:00 Thu 22 Sep 2005	Deformation Micromechanics of Cellulose Fibres Using Raman Spectroscopy and Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Dr. Stephen Eichhorn UMIST Materials Science
11:00 Thu 15 Sep 2005	X-ray diffraction study in liquids at high pressure: the case of Cs Dr. Sara Falconi Physics & CSEC
11:00 Thu 08 Sep 2005	In situ x-ray studies of Earth's materials: Physical properties of liquid Fe-alloys and Chemistry of xenon Dr. Chrystèle Sanloup Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
11:00 Thu 01 Sep 2005	Inelastic neutron scattering of single molecule magnets and antiferromagnetic wheels Prof. Hans U. Güdel Department of Chemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland
11:00 Thu 09 Jun 2005	The attraction of magnetic bacteria Dr. Bruce Ward Inst. of Cell & Molecular Biology
11:00 Thu 02 Jun 2005	High-pressure crystallographic study of amino acids, and related compounds Mr. Stephen Moggach CSEC and School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 19 May 2005	High-pressure structural and computational studies of small organic and biological molecules Ms. Patricia Lozano-Casal CSEC and School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 12 May 2005	High pressure and temperature synthesis of old and new oxides Prof. J. Paul Attfield CSEC and School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 05 May 2005	High-Pressure NMR Dr. Malcolm Robertson School of Physics
11:00 Thu 28 Apr 2005	Plasma growth of diamond Prof. Phil John Chemistry, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
11:00 Thu 21 Apr 2005	A high-P high-T study of the incommensurate composite phase Rb-IV Mr. Lars Fahl Lundegaard CSEC & School of Physics
11:00 Thu 07 Apr 2005	Crystal Growth from the melt or from solution at high pressure: generating new small-molecule polymorphs Dr. David Allan CSEC & School of Chemistry
17:15 Mon 04 Apr 2005	Developing Hypotheses for the Basis of Life at Depth: Genomic and Functional Studies of Photobacterium profundum Prof. Doug Bartlett Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD (via Access Grid)
15:00 Fri 01 Apr 2005	Plastic properties of minerals at high pressure and temperature Prof. Don Weidner The State University of New York at Stonybrook
11:00 Thu 17 Mar 2005	Computational and Experimental Studies of Elements and Magnetic Materials Dr. Hitose Nagara Division of Materials Physics, Osaka University, Japan
11:00 Thu 10 Mar 2005	Bacterial Life at High Pressure Prof. Lindsay Sawyer BioSciences and CSEC
11:00 Thu 03 Mar 2005	From First Principles to Material Properties under Extreme Conditions Prof. Paul Madden School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 24 Feb 2005	First principles theory of the complex crystal structures of the sp-elements Prof. Graeme Ackland School of Physics and CSEC
11:00 Thu 17 Feb 2005	Understanding the High Tc Cuprates - Recent Advances and Prospects for High Pressure Research Michael Sutherland Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
11:00 Thu 10 Feb 2005	Techniques for high pressure and high temperature materials synthesis Christophe Guillaume Engineering and CSEC
11:00 Thu 03 Feb 2005	Oxygen diffusion in silicates: the 'Water Problem' Dr. Stephen Elphick GeoSciences and CSEC
11:00 Thu 27 Jan 2005	Prussian Blue analogues: schizophrenic materials Dr. Serena Margadonna School of Chemistry and CSEC
11:00 Thu 20 Jan 2005	Amorphous diffraction at high pressure: network collapse and coordination change in GeO2 Malcolm Guthrie Physics and CSEC (via Access Grid)
11:00 Thu 09 Dec 2004	Analysing the effects of pressure on molecular organic systems Simon Parson CSEC and School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 25 Nov 2004	Role of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide in Stress Resistance and Infection Gail Ferguson CSEC and Biosciences
11:00 Thu 18 Nov 2004	Amorphous diffraction at high pressure: network collapse and coordination change in GeO2 Malcolm Guthrie CSEC and School of Physics and Astronomy
11:00 Thu 11 Nov 2004	Magnetism at High Pressure - Volume dependence of Superexchange Mr Gaetan Giriat CSEC and School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 04 Nov 2004	Designing a fusion power plant: behaviour of metals under extreme irradiation Dr. Graeme Ackland CSEC & Physics
11:00 Thu 28 Oct 2004	Latest results on sulfur, another element with an incommensurate modulated structure at high pressure Clivia Hejney CSEC and Physics
11:00 Thu 21 Oct 2004	Charge Order in Manganese Oxides Richard Goff CSEC and School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 14 Oct 2004	High pressure synthesis, crystal structure and properties of mixed cation perovskites A2MM'O6" Dr. Anthony Williams CSEC & Chemistry
11:00 Thu 07 Oct 2004	High-Pressure Neutron Diffraction: What is this Paris-Edinburgh thing anyway? Dr. John Loveday CSEC & Physics
11:00 Thu 17 Jun 2004	High pressure cells for magnetic measurements Somchai Tancharakorn CSEC & Engineering
11:00 Thu 10 Jun 2004	Microbiology at high hydrostatic pressures Dr. J. Grant Burgess School of Life Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
17:30 Thu 03 Jun 2004	Magnetism: Pressure and Frustration Fiona Coomer CSEC & Chemistry
10:15 Tue 01 Jun 2004	High Pressures: New Trends in Materials Chemistry Prof. Gerard Demazeau ICMCB, University of Bordeaux (France)
11:00 Thu 27 May 2004	Overview of methods for studying small organic molecules at high pressure Francesca Fabbiani CSEC & Chemistry
17:30 Thu 20 May 2004	High Pressure Crystallographic Study of Cysteine and Serine, the route to new polymorphs Stephen Moggach CSEC & Chemistry
11:00 Thu 13 May 2004	Colossal Magnetoresistances in Doped Sr2FeMoO6 Double Perovskites Falak Sher CSEC and School of Chemistry
11:00 Thu 06 May 2004	High Pressure Modifications of the Elements Dr. Malcolm McMahon CSEC & Physics
11:00 Thu 15 Apr 2004	Phase diagrams and liquid phases in single component systems - the cases of phosphorus and caesium Dr. Sara Falconi CSEC & Physics
11:00 Thu 15 Apr 2004	Molecular Electronics Materials Dr. Neil Robertson CSEC & Chemistry
11:00 Sun 14 Mar 2004	Diamond formation Tim Ivanic CSEC & GeoSciences
11:00 Thu 04 Mar 2004	Salt of the Earth: H2O-CO2-chloride systems at high P and T Prof. Colin Graham CSEC & GeoSciences
11:00 Thu 26 Feb 2004	Exotic Superconductivity Dr. Philippe Monthoux CSEC & Physics
11:00 Thu 19 Feb 2004	Iron in the Core: An approach from first princples Prof. David Price UCL
11:00 Thu 12 Feb 2004	Structural and Computational Studies of L-glutamine and L-asparagine monohydrate Patricia Lozano-Casal CSEC & Chemistry
11:00 Thu 05 Feb 2004	From planetary interiors to advanced materials using extreme conditions Dr. George Serghiou CSEC & Engineering
11:00 Thu 29 Jan 2004	Heated diamond anvil cells for high-P high-T crystallography Lars Fahl Lundegaard CSEC & Physics
11:00 Thu 22 Jan 2004	ssDNA-binding proteins Lynsey Mack CSEC & Biosciences

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