This volume is a collection of lectures
presented during the 2009 International
School on High-pressure Crystallography,
which took place at the Ettore
Majorana Center for Scientific Culture,
between June 4 and 14, 2009, in the
very picturesque Sicilian town of Erice.
The 2009 school was the 41st course
of the “International School of Crystallography”
organized at the Majorana
Center and was directed by Elena
Boldyreva (Novosibirsk University)
and Przemyslaw Dera (University of
Chicago). Unmatched support and
excellent on-site organization was provided by the expert team consisting of
Prof. Paola Spadon (Uniersity of Padova), Prof. Lodovico Riva di San
Severino (University of Bologna), Elena Papinutto and Prof. John Irvin
(University of California, San Franciso), aided by great team of young local
organizers (“orange scarfs”).