SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
AULA CONVEGNI, CNR
08.15-09.00 Participant registration
09.00-09.30 Opening
Convener: U. Hålenius
09.30-10.00 Keynote lecture: Short-range order in rock-forming and accessory minerals: a review of the present state of affairs and some suggestions as to what to do next – F.C. Hawthorne
10.00-10.15 Shannon information and configurational entropy of crystalline solids – S.V. Krivovichev
10.15-10.30 Order-disorder phase transitions in the minerals with antiperovskite structures – M.S. Avdontceva
10.30-10.45 Combining structure refinement and spectroscopies: hints and warnings for more efficient tools to decipher the mechanisms of deprotonation in amphiboles – R. Oberti
10.45-11.00 Crystal chemistry of amphiboles by Raman spectroscopy – B. Mihailova
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
Convener: M. Koch-Müller
11.30-11-45 Reapproval of betalomonosovite as a valid mineral species: single-crystal X-ray diffraction, HRTEM, Raman and IR spectroscopy – E. Sokolova
11.45-12.00 "Chlorellestadite" Ca5(SiO4)1.5(SO4)1.5Cl, a potentially new mineral of the apatite supergroup from the Shadil Khokh volcano, Kel'sky Plateau, Southern Ossetia – D. Środek
12.00-12.15 Raman investigation of new and potentially new minerals of nabimusaite supergroup – M. Dulski
12.15-12.30 Perettiite-(Y), Y3+2Mn2+4Fe2+[Si2B8O24], a new mineral from Momeik, Myanmar – R.M. Danisi
12.30-12.45 Tourmaline from the eclogite hosting gneisses in the Tso Morari UHP metamorphic terrane (Ladakh, India): characteristics and evolution – I. Broska
12.45-13.00 Bosiite, a new member of the tourmaline supergroup – A. Ertl
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
Convener: D. Bersani
14.30-15.00 Keynote lecture: Structural control of the color of minerals and glasses using spectroscopic tools – L. Galoisy
15.00-15.15 The origin of colour of red beryl by LIBS analyses – G. Tempesta
15.15-15.30 Ni-Ti co-doped hibonite ceramic pigments by combustion synthesis: crystal structure and optical properties – M. Ardit
15.30-15.45 Precious opals from the Raduzhnoe deposit (Russia): mineralogy, geochemistry – V.B. Tishkina
15.45-16.00 High-temperature crystal chemistry of astrophyllite from Kola peninsula, Russia – E.S. Zhitova
16.00-16.15 Raman spectroscopy and the inversion degree of natural Cr-bearing spinels – D. Lenaz
16.15-16.45 Coffee break
16.45-18.00 Poster session 1