2018年5月10日，俄罗斯科学院Vladimir Evgenievich Fortov院士到访高科中心，并做了以Plasma in Extreme States in the Universe and in the Laboratory: Correlations and Degeneracy为题的学术报告。

中国化学会第31届学术年会于2018年5月5日至8日在杭州举行。大会颁发了2017年度青年化学奖，高科中心李阔研究员与其他9名青年学者共同获此殊荣。

2018年3月13-14日，以“地球深部挥发物与能源环境”为主题的2018国际工程科技高端论坛在上海光源成功召开。论坛由中国工程院、国际深碳观测联合会主办，中国工程院能源与矿业工程学部、北京高压科学研究中心共同承办。论坛执行主席为孙承纬院士和毛河光院士。

In September-October 2018 Prof. Soldatov of Lulea university of technology (LTU), Sweden will be visiting HPSTAR, Shanghai.

The international magazine, Superconductor Week, just highlighted the recent work of Feng Ke et al. on In2Se3 [Douglas Neumann, Superconductor Week, Vol. 31, No. 8, 8-10 (2017)]. The news title is "HPSTAR Team Sees SC Enhancement with Decompression".

Dr. Qingyang Hu's recently published JACS paper was selected to be featured in JACS Spotlights "Tracking Hydrogen Deep in the Earth’s Mantle".

On Sept. 9, HPSTAR director, Dr. Ho-Kwang Mao met with Prof. Heping Xie, President of Sichuan University at Wangjiang Campus. Lin Haiqing, Director of Beijing Research Center of Computing Science, Vice President Liang Bin as well as other related personnel of the SCU participated in the meeting.

HPSTAR's joint PhD student Fei Zhang received Excellent Poster Award at the 26th AIRAPT international conference on on high pressure science and technology in Beijing.

Dr. Li Zhang, staff scientist of HPSTAR won the 2017 Shen-su Sun Award at the 2017 Goldschmidt international coference. The Shen-su Sun Award is to recognize exceptional geoscientists younger than 40 years, who work in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in commemoration of late Dr. Shen-su Sun for his pioneering and tremendous contributions to the geochemistry of the solid Earth and mantle dynamics, and for his unselfish and boundless mentorship to younger generations of scientists in the field of Geochemistry. This Award is presented by the Shen-Su Sun Foundation.

HPSTAR postdoctoral fellow PHILIP DALLADAY-SIMPSON will be given the prestigious Jamieson Award from the International Association for the Advancement of High Pressure Science and Technology. The Jamieson Award is “bestowed to an early-career scientist who has just completed outstanding PhD thesis research or given a single exceptional contribution in the field of high-pressure research as a postdoc.” This medal is given biannually to just one person. The winner will be recognized as the single brightest young star during the two-year period by the highest authoritative high-pressure society.

On January 20, visiting foreign scientists Eugene Gregoryanz and Alex Goncharov of HPSTAR, were invited to the Great Hall of Peoples to meet Premier Li Keqiang.

Invited by HPSTAR scientist Dr. Wenge Yang, Prof. Daniil Khomskii of II.Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet zu Koeln, Germany, visited HPSTAR on Nov.1, 2016.

Prof. Daniil Khomskii delivered a talk about high-pressure strongly correlated systems with strongly correlated electrons display astonishing variety of properties, which in addition can be strongly modified by external factors such as change of composition, temperature etc.

The IUCr is an International Scientific Union. Its objectives are to promote international cooperation in crystallography and to contribute to all aspects of crystallography, to promote international publication of crystallographic research, to facilitate standardization of methods, units, nomenclatures and symbols, and to form a focus for the relations of crystallography to other sciences.

Prof. Thomas S. Duffy, professor at the Princeton University, Department of Geosciences visited HPSTAR from Aug. 8 to Aug.11, 2016. Duffy's research focuses on understanding the large-scale physical and chemical behavior of the Earth and other planets through experimental study of geological materials under extreme conditions of pressure and temperature.

Prof. Surendra Saxena, professor of Florida International University, visited HPSTAR on Aug. 4, 2016.

A bi-laboratory workshop co-hosted by HPSTAR and State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials in Jilin University was held on June 20 – 21, 2016 in Changchun. As a coherence event for celebration of the 70th anniversary of Jilin University, the scope of the workshop is to share the latest progress in frontier high pressure research, celebrate the partnership and broaden further collaborations between the two laboratories.

At the invitation of HPSTAR director,Ho-Kwang(Dave) Mao, Prof. David Yuen visited HPSTAR on June 13, 2016.Yuen is the director of the key laboratory of dynamic and geodesy(KLDG), and professor of the department of geology and geophysics and supercomputing center of University of Minnesota.

Prof. Takamitsu Yamanaka, a professor in the Department of Earth and Space Science and Professor at the Center for Quantum Science and Technology under Extreme Conditions in Osaka University, visited HPSTAR from May 10 to Jun. 15, 2016. Prof. Yamanaka is Emeritus Professor of Osaka University, a Member of National Science Council of Japan belonging to Japanese cabinet since 2003, and President of International Mineralogical Association (IMA).

Prof. Juri Grin, a distinguished scientist in the field of intermetallic materials and a Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik, visited HPSTAR on May 25, 2016.

Prof. Wendy Mao visits HPSATR

Dr. Qingyang Hu, from HPSTAR, was awarded IUCr prize at the 9th IXS International Conference at NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan on November 24, 2015.

Professor Paul C. W. Chu, the professor of Physics, T. L. L. Temple Chair of Science, and Founding Director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, visited HPSTAR on September 4, 2015.

HPSTAR offered Summer Camp 2015 for college students from July 13 to 17 in Shanghai laboratory.

Director Ho-kwang Mao participated at The 8th World Chinese Geosciences Conference (June 15-21, 2015), hosted by the Institute of Earth Sciences of Academia Sinica (Taiwan), a proud member of the world Chinese geoscientist community.

Dr. Ho-kwang Mao, director of HPSTAR, was invited to the Third International Workshop on Nanostructured Materials-Properties and Characteristics & Nature Materials in Beijing from June 12 to 15, 2015.

HPSTAR Annual Conference 2015 was successfully held in Shanghai from June 3rd to June 5th, 2015.

The 2015 “New Frontier in Studying Chemistry under Extreme Conditions: Applications of FIB (Focused ion beam) Technology” workshop was successfully held in Shanghai from May 21st to 22nd, 2015 at HPSTAR.

The 2015 Workshop on “Texture Analysis Using the Rietveld Method from Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Data” was held at HPSTAR (Shanghai) on May 19th to 20th, 2015. It’s the second international workshop of texture studies since 2012.