Description: 1. Crystal structures at extremes of pressure and temperature.- 2. Equations of state.- 3. Introduction to Raman spectroscopy at extreme pressure and temperature conditions.- 4. Thermodynamic properties of minerals at high pressures and temperatures from vibrational spectroscopic data.- 5. Introduction to the application of neutron spectroscopy in the Earth Sciences.- 6. Synchrotron radiation and solid state science.- 7. In situ structural and kinetic powder diffraction studies of aluminosilicates.- 8. Mineral synthesis by flux-growth methods.- 9. Bonding and electronic structure of minerals.- 10. Crystal chemistry of metal sulfide minerals.- 11. Introduction to the theory of lattice dynamics.- 12. Disorder and defects in solids.- 13. The modelling of bulk diffusion in solids.- 14. Classical computer simulations.- 15. Ab initio LCAO periodic simulations of crystal properties. Phase transitions, magnetic and electronic behaviour, X-ray diffraction.- 16. Atomic structure of disordered materials.- 17. Principles of solid state NMR spectroscopy and applications to determining local order in minerals.- 18. Introduction to the theory of displacive phase transitions.- 19. Order/disorder phenomena in minerals: ordering phase transitions and solid solutions.- 20. Phase transitions and Equations of State.- 21. IR spectroscopy and hydrogen bonding in minerals.- 22. Water in nominally anhydrous minerals.- 23. Contribution of IR spectroscopy to the problem of water in the Earth's mantle.- 24. Solubility and diffusion of 'water' in silicate minerals.- 25. The theory and simulation of the melting of minerals.- 26. Molecular dynamics computer simulations of silicate glasses.- 27. Mineral surface science: principles, applications and case studies.- 28. Atomistic simulation ofmineral surfaces and interfaces.

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