Preface: EMPG XI

Abstract

The Eleventh International Symposium on Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry was held in Bristol, UK from September 11th–13th, 2006, and was organized by Patrice Hornibrook, Simon Kohn and Bernie Wood. The conference consisted of 156 presentations over three full days of oral presentations and two poster sessions. The meeting was attended by around 150 scientists from 16 different countries. Although this number was lower than other recent EMPG meetings, the quality of presentations was very high, and the reduced attendance is attributed to the number of competing meetings in the summer of 2006 rather than any reduction in the vitality of our subject. EMU Medallist lectures were given by Martin Kunz (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) and David Dobson (University …