Most of the Earth’s interior is inaccessible. So how do we know about the interior of the
Earth? A part of the answer comes from high pressure-temperature laboratory experiments
and first principle calculations that are the realm of high-pressure research. The ability to
address the fundamental issues of phase transitions in various materials at extremely high
pressures and temperatures and relate them to the deep earth conditions critically depends on
novel experimental techniques to test their behaviour in the laboratory and study their
physical properties. One can obtain elastic constants of these materials from these laboratory
experiments, which are extremely important for Seismological studies. Equally important are
new theoretical methods to advance our understanding of the electron and ion interaction
processes to explain the experimental results. The National Centre for High Pressure
Studies at IISER Kolkata, with experimental facilities capable of creating pressures up to 200
GPa and temperatures up to 3000 K, and a high end computing facility opens up a wide
opportunity space for young researchers to formulate creative ways of addressing exciting
scientific questions.
Following this, a one and half-day national workshop on "Studies at Extreme
Conditions on Pressure and Temperature" will be organized at Indian Institute of
Science Education and Research Kolkata during 29-30th March 2018. The aim of this
workshop is to bring together mineral physicists and, seismologists, experimental petrologists
and geologists in general to have discussion on issues related to measure the properties of
minerals under high pressure and temperature conditions. This workshop will be designed to
catalyze these possibilities by maximizing productive interaction and discussion among a
carefully identified interdisciplinary active young research groups.
Programme Schedule
List of Speakers
Prof V K Gaur - CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute
Prof Shyam Sundar Rai - IISER Pune
Prof. Somnath Dasgupta - IISER Kolkata
Prof. N V Chalapathi Rao - BHU
Prof. Pulak Sengupta - Jadavpur University
Prof. Prasenjit Ghosh - IISC Bangalore
Prof. Tanushri Saha Dasgupta - IACS
Dr. Swastika Chatterjee - IIT Kharagpur
Prof A Sundaresan - JNCASR
Dr. sujoy Ghosh - IIT Kharagpur
Dr. Nachiketa Rai - IIT Roorkie
Prof Goutam Dev Mukherjee