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Session A11: Earth and Planetary Materials I

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Sponsoring Units: DMP DCMP GSCCM
Chair: Taku Tsuchiya, University of Minnesota
Room: LACC 153C


Monday, March 21, 2005
8:00AM - 8:36AM

 A11.00001: Theoretical and experimental evidence for a post-perovskite phase of MgSiO$_3$ in Earth's D$''$ layer.
Invited Speaker: Artem R. Oganov

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Monday, March 21, 2005
8:36AM - 8:48AM

 A11.00002: Vibrational and thermodynamic properties of MgSiO$_3$ post-perovskite
Jun Tsuchiya , Taku Tsuchiya , Renata Wentzcovitch

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Monday, March 21, 2005
8:48AM - 9:00AM

 A11.00003: MgSiO3 post-perovskite at D'' conditions
Renata Wentzcovitch , Taku Tsuchiya , Jun Tsuchiya

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Monday, March 21, 2005
9:00AM - 9:12AM

 A11.00004: On the stability of perovskite and post-perovskite polymorphs of MgSiO$_3$
Jose Martins , Yaowen Liu , Renata Wentzcovitch

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Monday, March 21, 2005
9:12AM - 9:24AM

 A11.00005: First principles study of liquid MgSiO$_3$ at conditions of the Earth's deep mantle
Jones Tsz-Kai Wan , Roberto Car , Sandro Scandolo , Thomas S. Duffy

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Monday, March 21, 2005
9:24AM - 9:36AM

 A11.00006: {\it Cmcm} post-perovskite: a new alumina polymorph
Jun Tsuchiya , Taku Tsuchiya , Renata Wentzcovitch

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Monday, March 21, 2005
9:36AM - 9:48AM

 A11.00007: Total energy and linear response computations for perovskite and post-perovskite phases in the MgSiO$_3$-FeSiO$_3$-Al$_2$O$_3$ system
Razvan Caracas , Ronald Cohen

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Monday, March 21, 2005
9:48AM - 10:00AM

 A11.00008: Sub-lattice melting in hydrogen-rich alloys
Simon Gravel , Neil Ashcroft

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Monday, March 21, 2005
10:00AM - 10:36AM

 A11.00009: X-ray spectroscopy studies of liquid water
Invited Speaker: Anders Nilsson

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Monday, March 21, 2005
10:36AM - 10:48AM

 A11.00010: Pressure-induced Phase Transition of Confined Water from ab initio Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Sheng Meng , E.G. Wang , Shiwu Gao

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Monday, March 21, 2005
10:48AM - 11:00AM

 A11.00011: First principles investigation of the ice VII-VIII (order-disorder) phase boundary
Koichiro Umemoto , Renata Wentzcovitch , Stefano de Gironcoli , Stefano Baroni

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Monday, March 21, 2005
11:00AM - 11:12AM

 A11.00012: Dissociation of planetary ices at high P,T
Jae-Hyun Klepeis , Magnus Lipp , Bruce Baer , Choong-Shik Yoo

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