The Topical Group on Compression of Condensed Matter (GCCM) is a Unit of the American Physical Society (APS).
[2] Originally formed in 1984 as the Topical Group on the Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, the group has sponsored the Biennial International Conference on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter (SCCM)[3] and awards the George E. Duvall Shock Compression Science Award.
[4] The Topical Group changed to its current name in 2023 to reflect a broader community including static high compression experiments.
While specific topics and session names are set for each Biennial SCCM Conference, frequent topics include: Recently one-off focused sessions have been organized on topics such as: The Topical Group publishes a series of Proceeds from the conferences, with the majority of proceedings published by the American Institute of Physics (1981, 1993 to 2011.
)[8] For the 2013 conference the proceeds was published by the Institute of Physics and was Open Access for the first time.