Fifty years of the Korzhinskii institute of experimental mineralogy, Russian academy of sciences

A speical issue of Petrology journal dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Korzhinskii Institute of Experimental Mineralogy, Russian Academy of Sciences is presented. This special issue includes brief review of the latest scientific papers of the researchers of the Institute.

A report on the 2018 All-Russian Annual Seminar on Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry

On April 18–19, 2018, the regular All-Russian Annual Seminar on Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry was held in Moscow. It was organized by the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry and the Korzhinsky Institute of Experimental Mineralogy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The seminar reviewed the latest experimental results in several main areas: phase equilibrium at high pressure and high temperatures; the processes of formation and differentiation of magmas; interactions between fluid-melt and crystals; hydrothermal equilibria and the formation of ore; synthesis of mine­rals; thermodynamic properties of minerals, melts, and fluids; problems with our current models of planets, meteorites, and the cosmos; physics and chemical properties of geomaterials; experimental geoecology; and methods and techniques of experimentation. Participation in the seminar included 340 specialists from 50 Russian scientific institutes and 11 foreign organizations, and more than 180 reports were presented.