Intro video (Spanish)

The Matter at High Pressure (MALTA) initiative has born to address frontier questions related to high pressure research and technology.

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 46^th 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.