IXS Workshop Program

Friday, May 30th, Argonne Guesthouse

4-6pm	Registration at the Argonne Guest House
6pm	*Reception*

9:15am	*Welcome*
Chair: Wolfgang Sturhahn
9:30am	Jay D. Bass (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) Applications of inelastic X-ray scattering in Earth Sciences
10:00am	E. Ercan Alp (Argonne National Laboratory) Potential and limitations of some inelastic x-ray scattering techniques for high pressure applications
10:45am	*Coffee Break*
11:15am	Guillaume Fiquet (Université Paris) High-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering of materials of geophysical interest
11:45am	Björn Winkler (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) Hydrogen bonding in minerals studied by inelastic scattering and modelling
12:15pm	*Lunch*
Chair: Jennifer M. Jackson
1:45pm	Wolfgang Sturhahn (Argonne National Laboratory) Introduction to Nuclear Resonant Spectroscopy
2:30pm	Jung-Fu Lin (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Inelastic X-ray scattering at high pressures and temperatures: implications to mineral physics of the Earth's interior
3:00pm	Wendy Mao (Stanford University) Studying the Earth's deep interior using inelastic x-ray spectroscopy
3:30pm	*Coffee Break*
4:00pm	Jie Li (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) Sound velocities of compressed iron-rich alloys and light elements in the Earth's inner core
4:30pm	John S. Tse (University of Saskatchewan) Inelastic X-ray Scattering: Electronic and Dynamical Properties
6:30pm	*Dinner*

Chair: Jie Li
9:30am	Catherine McCammon (Universität Bayreuth) Nuclear Resonant Studies of Deep Mantle and Core Phases Using an Externally Heated Diamond Anvil Cell
10:00am	Dane Morgan (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Ab-initio Calculations of Fe Spin Crossover in Lower Mantle Phases
10:30am	Coffee Break
11:00am	Sang-Heon Shim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Nuclear forward scattering of Fe in lower-mantle phases
11:30am	Viktor Struzhkin (Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington) Insulator-Metal Transitions in d-Metal Compounds: the Case for Iron
12:00pm	*Lunch*
1:30pm	*Beam Line Tour*
Chair: Jay D. Bass
2:30pm	Jennifer M. Jackson (California Institute of Technology) Melting investigations of iron at high-pressure using synchrotron Mössbauer spectroscopy
3:00pm	Ahmet Alatas (Argonne National Laboratory) Inelastic X-ray Scattering Experiment on Liquid Indium under High Pressure
3:30pm	*Coffee Break*
4:00pm	Nico de Koker (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Liquid State Physics at Deep Mantle Pressures from First Principles Molecular Dynamics
4:30pm	Yong Cai (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Planning of IXS Capabilities and Future Potential for High-Pressure Research at NSLS-II
5:00pm	*Adjourn*