This fall, CDAC members participated in two workshops held at COMPRES sponsored facilities.

The Workshop on Rheology and Elasticity Studies at Ultra-High Pressures and Temperatures was sponsored by COMPRES and held on October 21-23, 2005 at HPCAT. It was organized by Haozhe Liu (HPCAT), Rudy Wenk (University of California, Berkeley) and Thomas Duffy (Princeton University). 60 scientists attended this workshop and heard talks from some 19 speakers, including:
 

• William A. Bassett (Cornell University)
• Jiuhua Chen (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
• Agnès Dewaele (DIF/DPTA, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, France)
• Robert Dinnebier (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany)
• Thomas Duffy (Princeton University)
• William B. Durham (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
• Harry W. Green (UC Riverside)
• Shun-ichiro Karato (Yale University)
• Abby Kavner (UC Los Angeles)
• Haozhe Liu (HPCAT, Carnegie Institution of Washington)
• Yanzhang Ma (Texas Tech University)
• Ho-kwang Mao (Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington)
• Yue Meng (HPCAT, Carnegie Institution of Washington)
• Sébastien Merkel (UC Berkeley)
• Sean Shieh (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
• Yanbin Wang (GSECARS, University of Chicago)
• Donald J. Weidner (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
• Rudy Wenk (University of California, Berkeley)
• Takehiko Yagi (University of Tokyo, Japan)

The Synchrotron Infrared Spectroscopy for High Pressure Geoscience and Planetary Science workshop, sponsored by COMPRES and the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), was held on November 3-5, 2005 at NSLS, . It was convened by Zhenxian Liu (NSLS) and Russell J. Hemley (Geophysical Laboratory). More than 50 scientists attended the workshop and heard talks from the following speakers:
 

• L. Car (NSLS, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• S. Clark (Advanced Light Source)
• L. Dobrzhinetzkaya (University of California, Riverside)
• A. Goncharov (Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington)
• A. Hoffmeister (Washington University, St. Louis)
• S. Jacobsen (Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington)
• D. Klug (Canadian Research Council)
• M. Koch-Muller (GeoforschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany)
• Y. Lee (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• L. Miller (NSLS, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• G. Rossman (California Institute of Technology)
• H. Scott (Indiana University, South Bend)
• V. Struzhkin (Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington)
• J. Tse (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
• L. Wang (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
• Q. Williams (University of California, Santa Cruz)