MR21D
Matter in Planetary Interiors: Insights from High-Pressure Experiments, Computational Advances, and Extreme Petrology II

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
301 (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Marius A Millot, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Conveners:  Sebastien Merkel, Université de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, Dipta B Ghosh, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Susannah M Dorfman, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
Chairs:  Marius A Millot, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Sebastien Merkel, Université de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France and Susannah M Dorfman, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Jeffrey S Pigott, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
08:00
Laser-Based Dynamic Compression of Geological Materials to Ultrahigh Pressures (Invited) (78738)
Thomas S Duffy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
08:15
The Thermal States of Accreting Planets: From Mars-like Embryos to a MAD Earth (Invited) (58206)
Sarah T Stewart, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Simon James Lock, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
08:30
High Temperature Equation of State of Enstatite and Forsterite: Implications for Thermal Origins and Evolution (86285)
Dayne Fratanduono, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
08:45
Exploring New Phenomena in Salty Water Under Planetary Conditions (77535)
Livia Eleonora Bove, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
09:00
Equations of state and phase transitions in (Mg,Fe)SiO3 perovskite and post-perovskites, position of the phase boundary and its double crossing, by Quantum Monte Carlo (Invited) (67185)
Ronald E Cohen, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Department for Earth and Enviromental Sciences, Munich, Germany; Carnegie Institution, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
09:15
Computational Mechanics of Bridgmanite at High-Pressure, High-temperature and as a Function of Strain-Rate (68828)
Philippe Carrez, University of Lille 1, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
09:30
Importance of Heavy Elements in Giant Planet Interiors. (74123)
Francois Soubiran and Burkhard Militzer, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
09:45
Recreating the Deep Interior Conditions of Gas Giants in the Laboratory: Phase Separation in Hydrogen-Helium Mixtures at Jovian Planet Conditions (76112)
Gilbert Wilson Collins, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States