Elastic and Anelastic Properties.<br>Direct measurements of the elastic properties of iron and cobalt to 120 GPa - implications for the composition of Earth's core (J.C. Crowhurst, A.F. Goncharov, J.M. Zaug).<br>A gigahertz ultrasonic interferometer for the diamond anvil cell and high-pressure elasticity of some iron-oxide minerals (S.D. Jacobsen et al.).<br>Simultaneous equation of state, pressure calibration and sound velocity measurements to lower mantle pressures sing multi-anvil apparatus (B. Li et al.).<br>Simultaneous determination of elastic and structural properties under simulated mantle conditions using multi-anvil device MAX80 (H.J. Mueller, C. Lathe, F.R. Schilling).<br>Laboratory measurement of seismic wave dispersion and attenuation at high pressure and temperature<br>(I. Jackson).<br>Rheology.<br>High-temperature plasticity measurements using synchrotron X-rays (D.J. Weidner et al.).<br>Stress and strain measurements of polycrystalline materials under controlled deformation at high pressure using monochromatic synchrotron radiation (T. Uchida et al.).<br>Development of a rotational drickamer apparatus for large-strain deformation experiments at deep earth conditions (Y. Xu, Y. Nishihara, S. Karato).<br>Melt and Glass Properties.<br>Density measurements of molten materials at high pressure using synchrotron X-ray radiography: Melting volume of FeS (J. Chen et al.).<br>Viscosity and density measurements of melts and glasses at high pressure and temperature by using the multianvil apparatus and synchrotron X-ray radiation (E. Ohtani et al.).<br>The effect of composition, compression, and decompression on the structure of high-pressure aluminosilicate glasses: An investigation utilizing <SUP>17</SUP>O and <SUP>27</SUP>Al NMR (J.R. Allwardt et al.).<br>The application of <SUP>17</SUP>O and <SUP>27</SUP>Al solid-state (3QMAS) NMR to structures of non-crystalline silicates at high-pressure (S.K. Lee et al.).<br>Structural and Magnetic Properties.<br>Decompression of majoritic garnet: an experimental investigation of mantle (L.F. Dobrzhinetskaya et al.).<br>Chemistry at extreme conditions: Approaching the earth's major interface (L. Dubrovinsky et al.).<br>Pressure dependence on the magnetic properties of titanomagnetite using the reversible susceptibility method (S.A. Gilder, M. LeGoff).<br>Diffraction and Spectroscopy.<br>High-pressure angle-dispersive powder diffraction using an energy-dispersive setup and white synchrotron radiation (Y. Wang et al.).<br>Methods and application of the Paris-Edinburgh press to S-ray diffraction structure solution with large-volume samples at high pressures and temperatures (W.A. Crichton, M. Mezouar).<br>High-pressure structure determination and refinement by X-ray diffraction (R.J. Angel).<br>Nuclear resonant inelastic X-ray scattering and synchrotron Mössbauer spectroscopy with laser-heated diamond anvil cells (J.-Fu Lin et al.).<br>In situ raman spectroscopy with laser-heated diamond anvil cells (M. Santoro et al.). <br>Pressure Calibration and Generation.<br>Calibration based on a primary pressure scale in a multi-anvil device (H.J. Mueller et al.).<br>High-pressure generation in the Kawai-type apparatus equipped with sintered diamond anvils: Application to the wurtzite-rocksalt transformation in GaN (E. Ito et al.).<br>Development of high P-T neutron diffraction at LANSCE - Toroidal Anvil Press, TAP-98, in the HiPPO diffractometer (Y. Zhao et al.).<br>A new optical capillary cell for spectroscopic studies of geologic fluids at pressures up to 100 MPa (I-M. Chou, R.C. Burruss, W. Lu).<br>Internal and external electrical heating in diamond anvil cells (N. Dubrovinskaia, L. Dubrovinsky).<br>A new gasket material for higher resolution NMR in diamond anvil cells (T. Okuchi, H. Mao, R.J. Hemley).
