This Friday!

The last FORCE Seminar of the semester will be given by incoming FORCE faculty member Sibo Chen on December 5 #forceasu

Guests enjoyed lab tours and refreshments, and CLAS Dean of Natural Sciences Daniel Cox, FORCE Science Director Tom Sharp, and incoming FORCE assistant professor Sibo Chen gave remarks. Thank you to everyone for visiting FORCE!
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FORCE's Open House introduced the lab and the experimental apparatuses to the research community at @arizonastateuni.bsky.social. #forceasu

FORCE Seminar 2025.10.23 Leah Shteynman Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

The recording of Leah Shteynman's seminar is live on YouTube! bit.ly/FORCEseminar_1023watch #forceasu

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On Friday, FORCE students Jose Avila, Akshat Jain, and Maxwell Queener participated in the SESE Open House. They teamed up with FORCE Co-PI Dan Shim's lab to introduce high pressure science, techniques, and research opportunities to the community #forceasu

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Come see FORCE at the SESE Open House, happening now at ISTB4! #forceasu

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Thursday!

The next FORCE Seminar will be on ▶️ THURSDAY ◀️ Oct. 23 at noon AZ/Pacific #forceasu

• If you need additional dates or any further assistance please contact Debra Miles, Director of Sales, at 480-219-5753 or via email, debra.miles@hyatt.com

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The hotel block for the 4th Winter Workshop (Jan. 7–9, 2026) is open! See booking instructions below.

Hyatt Place - ASU FORCE Winter Workshop
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FORCE Seminar 2025.09.26 Klaus-Dieter Liss Title: Metals under extremes: Characterization, physical behavior and structural design under high pressure and after high-pressure torsion processing Abstract: The development of advanced technologies requires metals and materials that can withstand extreme environments, including ultra-high temperatures, pressures, and radiation damage. Conversely, such extreme conditions can also be exploited to design new materials with unprecedented properties. Central to both aspects is the characterization of materials — particularly their defect structures — under in-situ conditions at high temperature. This talk will present advanced neutron and synchrotron diffraction techniques for probing structural states, their evolution, anisotropy, and inhomogeneity at room temperature and during heating. Following a brief introduction to modern diffraction methods and their complementarity in studying thermo-mechanical processes, an example of in-situ high-pressure and high-temperature experiments on titanium aluminides will be given. The focus will then shift to materials processed by high-pressure torsion, where the mapping reveals inhomogeneities, residual stresses, and textures. Heating experiments further elucidate microstructural evolution, stress relaxation, dislocation density, grain size changes, recovery, recrystallization, and grain growth. Some systems additionally undergo phase transformations, such as the precipitation of secondary phases, which may be accelerated by the high stored energy in the material. Finally, an outlook will be provided on future applications using FORCE equipment — especially the Twister — for the design of next-generation structural and functional materials.

The recording of today's seminar is live at bit.ly/FORCEseminar_926watch

Today!

The first FORCE Seminar of the semester is in two weeks! Read the abstract and speaker bio here: bit.ly/FORCEseminar_926_abstract #forceasu

Mark your calendars! The 4th annual FORCE Winter Workshop will be held at Arizona State University on January 7–9, 2026. Stay tuned for more info including invited speakers and registration info.

Join our mailing list (force.asu.edu/contact) to be the first to know more. #forceasu

Today research scientist Kara Brugman @karabrug.bsky.social will be discussing the setup of the FORCE lab at #Goldschmidt2025:

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My poster is up at #IAVCEI2025! Come through and get a free sticker while you learn about the US’s new IHPV #forceasu @forcehighp.bsky.social @iavcei.bsky.social

We’re at #IAVCEI2025 this week to introduce our internally heated pressure vessel #IHPV to the international volcanology community. Check out @karabrug.bsky.social’s poster Tuesday, no. 128 ❤️🌋@iavcei.bsky.social #forceasu

FORCE's Nicolet iS50 FTIR with RaptIR+ in high speed mapping mode! #forceasu #FTIR

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FORCE has purchased a new micro FTIR that will be housed in Eyring Materials Center. This Nicolet iS50 FTIR with RaptIR+ allows for characterization and quantification of materials at extremely small scales 📷 Kurt Leinenweber

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At the end of this semester, FORCE said farewell to our Research Technician, Logan Leinbach. Logan is an expert in large volume high P experiments and also managed the COMPRES resale. We all miss him but are excited for his new adventure as a PhD student at Stockholm University/ESRF. #forceasu

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All of the FORCE Seminar recordings for the semester are live! bit.ly/FORCEYouTube

In half an hour!

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This Friday!

FORCE Seminar 2025.03.28 Rebecca Fischer Title: The light element composition of Earth’s core Abstract: The Earth’s Fe–Ni core is known to contain ~10% “light elements” (e.g., Si, O, S, C, H) whose identities and abundances are controversial. Many different approaches can provide insights into Earth’s core composition, including those based on cosmochemistry/geochemistry, physical properties of the core, and metal–silicate reactions during core formation. In this talk, I will review the available constraints on core composition from high pressure experiments, synthesizing previous results from our group and many others. In particular, I will focus on comparisons between seismic data and high P–T experimental measurements of the densities, sound velocities, and phase relations of Fe-rich alloys, as well as high P–T metal–silicate partitioning experiments and the incorporation of their results into core formation models. While Earth’s exact core composition remains elusive, this type of integrative approach is particularly useful for placing bounds on light element abundances and identifying which types of future high pressure measurements will be the most helpful in constraining the core’s composition.

The recording of Dr. Fischer's seminar is live! See it at bit.ly/FORCEseminar...