Final reminder! On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 9:26 AM Tim Strobel wrote:

Dear all,

A reminder to submit award nominations by Feb 28th.

We noticed that AIRAPT emails may be sensitive to some spam filters and would appreciate you forwarding the nomination information below to any appropriate parties.

Sincerely, Tim, Karen, Ray & Chris

On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 4:28 PM Tim Strobel wrote:

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Dear Colleagues,

The 2026 Gordon Conference on Research at High Pressures will be held from July 19-24, at the Holderness School, Holderness, New Hampshire, USA.

https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.grc.org/research-at-high-pressure-con...

The high-pressure community is fortunate to have two awards that are given at this conference to recognize contributions to this field by young researchers. The J.C. Jamieson Award and the Alvin Van Valkenburg Award are given to promote the memory of two pioneers in high-pressure research.

John Calhoun Jamieson was formerly a Professor of Geophysics at the University of Chicago and made far-reaching contributions to scientific research. Alvin Van Valkenburg, was the inventor of the diamond anvil cell, and was one of the most important early pioneers in the field of high-pressure research.

Traditionally we have honored a young scientist working in high pressure, or a scientist new to the area of high pressure, with the Alvin Van Valkenburg Award. In addition, the J.C. Jamieson Award has been given to an outstanding graduate student working in this area.

We would like to solicit nominations from the high-pressure community for these two awards and ask that you send to us a supporting letter and CV in PDF format for anyone whom you would like to elect. The recipients of these awards will be given invited talks at the GRC to present their work.

Please email your nominations to the Conference Chair, Tim Strobel ( tstrobel@carnegiescience.edu), the Vice Chairs Ray Smith (smith248@llnl.gov) & Karen Appel ( karen.appel@xfel.eu) and the Chair of the Awards Committee Chris Pickard (cjp20@cam.ac.uk), to arrive no later than ****midnight GMT on February, 28th, 2026****.

Please see the conference website for the current list of speakers: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.grc.org/research-at-high-pressure-con...

Sincerely,

Tim Strobel, Karen Appel, Ray Smith and Chris Pickard

Chair and Vice-Chairs, 2026 GRC Conference on Research at High Pressure Chair of the Awards Committee