Qingyang Hu Received the Alvin Van Valkenburg Award

Dr. Duckyoung Kim, a staff scientist of HPSTAR was awarded the 2021 “Tianhe_sqlquote_s award” for the outstanding work on superionic iron oxide-hydroxide (FeO2H) in Earth’s deep mantle. This award is given by National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou, annually to the teams who did the most excellent work of great importance to the science, engineering, and society using"Tianhe"supercomputer.

Science, Nature两刊今日同步发表三篇文章报道下地幔重要矿物"Davemaoite"（“毛钙硅石”）— CaSiO3-perovskite 的地质发现

CC讲坛 － 胡清扬：高压下的魔法，“地球大氧化”时代

李强书记赴北京高压科学研究中心上海分中心，调研人才工作，并与中心主任毛河光院士深入交谈

2020年12月18日，高科中心主任毛河光院士应邀来到浙江大学，接受浙江大学名誉教授聘任并进行了海外名师大讲堂讲座。浙江大学副校长何莲珍，浙江大学国际合作与交流处处长李敏、地球科学学院院长夏群科，副院长程晓敢等以及200余名师生代表共同参加了此次聘任仪式。

近日，北京高压科学研究中心缑慧阳研究员（洪堡学者）课题组博士后唐虎博士获得2020年“德国洪堡研究基金”资助(Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers)，将于2021年赴德国与拜罗伊特大学BGI研究Tomoo Katsura教授开展研究合作。

日前，中国矿物岩石地球化学学会公布第18届侯德封矿物岩石地球化学青年科学家奖（简称“侯德封奖”）获奖名单，北京高压科学研究中心刘锦研究员入选。

9月25日，2020年度“科学探索奖”获奖名单正式公布，北京高压科学研究中心胡清扬研究员榜上有名。未来五年内获得的经费资助将用于胡清扬研究员团队在北京高压科学研究中心地学学科的发展。

Jin Liu, a geoscientist at the Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 MSA Award — a top award from the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA), as well as a Life Fellow of the Society. The medal is given annually to just one person who has outstanding published contributions to the science of mineralogy by relatively young individuals or those near the beginning of their professional careers.

为加强博士后学术交流，促进高压等极端条件下科学与技术的前沿研究，由全国博士后管委会办公室、中国博士后科学基金会及四川省人力资源和社会保障厅联合主办，中国工程物理研究院承办，北京高压科学研究中心协办的“2019年高压等极端条件科学与技术全国博士后学术论坛”于11月8-10日在北京高压科学研究中心（以下简称：高科中心）成功举办。来自北京大学、中国科学技术大学、吉林大学、四川大学、南京大学、中国地质大学等24所院校，以及中国科学院、中国工程物理研究院的多个研究院所的共41家单位170多位代表参会。

近日，科学技术部下发《科技部关于公布2018年创新人才推进计划入选名单的通知》，北京高压科学研究中心成功入选国家创新人才培养示范基地，创新人才培养示范基地的获批彰显了中心突出的科研特色和较强的科研实力，同时将对中心人才培养与科技创新工作起到重要推动作用。

2019年8月4日至9日，第27届国际高压科学技术大会（The International Conference on High Pressure Science & Technology，简称“AIRAPT”）在巴西举办，来自中国、美国、法国、德国、日本等24个国家的专家学者出席本次大会。大会由国际高压科学技术促进会（www.airapt.org）自1965年发起组织，每两年举办一届，是全球范围内高压科学技术领域规模最大、影响最广的系列学术盛会。大会颁布了2019 AIRAPT Jamieson Award奖，北京高压科学研究中心刘锦研究员获得此殊荣，用于表彰其在地球深部水与新型铁氧化合物等方面做出的杰出成果。

应中国科学院上海硅酸盐研究所的邀请，1月17日，高科中心主任毛河光院士和夫人以及高科上海分中心主任陈斌研究员等访问中国科学院上海硅酸盐研究所，毛河光院士还作为“东生论坛”的主讲嘉宾，为上海硅酸盐所科研人员和研究生作了题为“物质科学崛起之捷径——高压下的新世界”的学术报告。上海硅酸盐所所长宋力昕，高性能陶瓷和超微结构国家重点实验室主任陈立东等出席了讲坛。

中国化学会第31届学术年会于2018年5月5日至8日在杭州举行。大会颁发了2017年度青年化学奖，高科中心李阔研究员与其他9名青年学者共同获此殊荣。

2018年3月13-14日，以“地球深部挥发物与能源环境”为主题的2018国际工程科技高端论坛在上海光源成功召开。论坛由中国工程院、国际深碳观测联合会主办，中国工程院能源与矿业工程学部、北京高压科学研究中心共同承办。论坛执行主席为孙承纬院士和毛河光院士。

The international magazine, Superconductor Week, just highlighted the recent work of Feng Ke et al. on In2Se3 [Douglas Neumann, Superconductor Week, Vol. 31, No. 8, 8-10 (2017)]. The news title is "HPSTAR Team Sees SC Enhancement with Decompression".

Dr. Qingyang Hu's recently published JACS paper was selected to be featured in JACS Spotlights "Tracking Hydrogen Deep in the Earth’s Mantle".

On Sept. 9, HPSTAR director, Dr. Ho-Kwang Mao met with Prof. Heping Xie, President of Sichuan University at Wangjiang Campus. Lin Haiqing, Director of Beijing Research Center of Computing Science, Vice President Liang Bin as well as other related personnel of the SCU participated in the meeting.

HPSTAR's joint PhD student Fei Zhang received Excellent Poster Award at the 26th AIRAPT international conference on on high pressure science and technology in Beijing.

Dr. Li Zhang, staff scientist of HPSTAR won the 2017 Shen-su Sun Award at the 2017 Goldschmidt international coference. The Shen-su Sun Award is to recognize exceptional geoscientists younger than 40 years, who work in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in commemoration of late Dr. Shen-su Sun for his pioneering and tremendous contributions to the geochemistry of the solid Earth and mantle dynamics, and for his unselfish and boundless mentorship to younger generations of scientists in the field of Geochemistry. This Award is presented by the Shen-Su Sun Foundation.

HPSTAR postdoctoral fellow PHILIP DALLADAY-SIMPSON will be given the prestigious Jamieson Award from the International Association for the Advancement of High Pressure Science and Technology. The Jamieson Award is “bestowed to an early-career scientist who has just completed outstanding PhD thesis research or given a single exceptional contribution in the field of high-pressure research as a postdoc.” This medal is given biannually to just one person. The winner will be recognized as the single brightest young star during the two-year period by the highest authoritative high-pressure society.

On January 20, visiting foreign scientists Eugene Gregoryanz and Alex Goncharov of HPSTAR, were invited to the Great Hall of Peoples to meet Premier Li Keqiang.

Invited by HPSTAR scientist Dr. Wenge Yang, Prof. Daniil Khomskii of II.Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet zu Koeln, Germany, visited HPSTAR on Nov.1, 2016.

Prof. Daniil Khomskii delivered a talk about high-pressure strongly correlated systems with strongly correlated electrons display astonishing variety of properties, which in addition can be strongly modified by external factors such as change of composition, temperature etc.

The IUCr is an International Scientific Union. Its objectives are to promote international cooperation in crystallography and to contribute to all aspects of crystallography, to promote international publication of crystallographic research, to facilitate standardization of methods, units, nomenclatures and symbols, and to form a focus for the relations of crystallography to other sciences.