High-Pressure Research Applications Seminar

The United States‐Japan seminar on "High‐Pressure Research Applications in Geophysics and Geochemistry" was held in Honolulu, Hawaii, January 13–16, 1986, under the auspices of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The seminar, the third in a series, was cocovened by Murli H. Manghnani (University of Hawaii, Honolulu) and Syun‐iti Akimoto (University of Tokyo). Coming together for this symposium were 25 researchers from Japan, 22 from the United States, and four others, from Australia, the People's Republic of China, the Netherlands, and the Federal Republic of Germany. Of the 52 papers presented, 38 were presented orally at seven scientific sessions, and the rest were displayed at a poster session.