March 5th - 9th, 2018 - Los Angeles, CA
Abstracts presented by the Wentzcovitch Group:
- Ab initio study of water speciation in forsterite
- Importance of van der Waals interaction on structural, vibrational, and thermodynamics properties of NaCl
- Pre-melting hcp to bcc Transition in Beryllium
- Thermoelastic properties of the “new aluminous” (NAL) phase
- Evolutionary Optimization of PAW Data-sets for Ultra-high Pressure Simulations
- Breakdown of Minimal Mean Free Path Theory in MgSiO3 Perovskite
- Post-perovskite transition in (Al,Fe)-bearing bridgmanite
- Ab initio search for low-pressure analogs of MgSiO3 post-perovskite at ultrahigh pressures