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High pressure research is nowadays
recognized as one of the worldwide priority research lines with the
recent creation of dedicated research teams in the most advanced
European countries, as well as in Japan and the
USA.
One of the most fundamental goals in high pressure research is to mimic
processes and phenomena similar to those occurring
in the interior of the Earth and other planetary objects (phase
transitions, chemical reactions, microbiological
activity, to name a few) and to understand their physical, chemical,
geological, and biological foundations and implications. However,
the development of such scientific discipline
extends the elucidation of natural processes, since it has allowed the
expansion and growth of novel applications in
diverse technological areas, from materials and mineral sciences to food
technology.
The MALTA project seeks to set up the necessary scientific
infrastructure and conditions to carry out interdisciplinary studies of
the above mentioned phenomena and to investigate their fundamental aspects
in a coordinated manner.
The success of this ambitious
scientific and technological challenge requires the development of
straight scientific strategies involving both
experimental and theoretical research groups covering a wide range of
scientific areas. For this reason, the MALTA project gathers
more than seventy scientists of twelve research
groups dedicated to the study of diverse high pressure phenomena under a
variety of different perspectives.
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The
46th
EHPRG (Spain 7-12 Sept 2008) intends to be a large scope
conference, in line with the rapid increase of high pressure
activities in all areas of Physics, Chemistry, Food Science, Geosciences,
Material Research and Biosciences. |