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Theme1：Applied Mineralogy

1.1 Mineralogy of construction materials, environmental aspects, and sustainability description 

1.2 Medical mineralogy: state of the art and future trends in the study of hazardous natural materials

1.3 Gem Materials-New Technology and Progress in Identification

1.4 Clay Minerals and Its Applications

Theme2：Carbon Neutral Mineralogy

2.1 Sustainable Minerals and Mineral-based Materials Toward Carbon Neutrality 

Theme3：Critical Mineralogy

3.1 Critical Metal Mineralization of Carbonatite-Alkaline Rocks 

3.2 The Mineralogy of Critical Minerals 

3.3 Chalcophile and highly siderophile elements in ore-forming systems:  a mineralogical perspective 

3.4 Rare-metal mineralogy from crust to atomic-scale: New Frontiers in Tomorrow’s Technology Metals 

3.5 Critical Metals and Minerals in Coal Basins: Genesis, Distribution, and Recovery 

Theme4：'Deep' Mineralogy (Extraterrestrial Mineralogy, Planetary interiors)

4.1 Mineral Physics: a Key to Understanding the Interior of Earth and Planets 

4.2 Mineralogy in Earth’s deep mantle

4.3 The Cores: Insight into the Earth and exoplanetary cores from theory, experiment and seismology

4.4 Minerals under dynamic compression - from giant impacts to interiors of super-Earths

Theme5：Environmental Mineralogy

5.1 Nanoscale Mineral-Organic Interactions in Biogeochemical Processes 

5.2 Biominerals and the Environment 

5.3 Airborne Particulates: Mineralogy, Provenance, and Environmental Impacts 

5.4 Interfacial processes at the mineral-fluid boundary

5.5 Mineral Evolution and Ecology: Recent advances in understanding the diversity, distribution, and patterns of co-occurrence in mineral systems

5.6 Mineral-light interactions on Earth and Mars: Coatings, photochemistry, and surface reactivity

Theme6：Metamorphic Mineralogy

6.1 Multi-Scale Shock Metamorphism: Insights from Atoms, Minerals, Rocks, and Global Scales

6.2 Metamorphism toward extreme conditions of UHP and UHT: Petrology, experiments, geodynamic consequences

Theme7：Mineral Evolution

7.1 Co-evolution of mineral and microbe through Precambrian era to Present: Environments and Geological Depositions

7.2 Mineral Informatics: A Key to Deep-Time Discovery in Earth and Planetary Sciences

7.3 Recent Mineral Discoveries and Geological Processes 

7.4 Genetic Mineralogy and Prospecting Mineralogy: Bridging Theoretical Mechanisms to Exploration Practice

7.5 Mineral Evolution in Ore-forming Systems: Insights from Stage-spanning Minerals

Theme8：Minerals in Magmatic and Geothermal Systems

8.1 Fluids and melts in planetary interiors: properties, generation, transport and consequences - a session in honor of Bjorn Mysen

8.2 Magma and melts under extreme conditions

8.3 Geological Melts and Fluids Across Scales: Properties, Processes, and Planetary Implications

8.4 Volatiles in Minerals

Theme9：Minerals in Subduction Zone

9.1 Jadeitites and their record of subduction-zone processes: Advances since IMA 2010

9.2 Tracking subduction-zone fluids via minerals: Advances in natural and experimental approaches 

Theme10：Societal Mineralogy

10.1 Mineralogy and Archaeology: What can we learn from each other? 

10.2 Field Gemmology: From discovery to community impact 

10.3 Mineralogy Education

10.4 Geographic Origin of Gems: Traceability Technology and Its Applications

10.5 Mineralogy and Museums

Theme11：Theoretical and Systematics Mineralogy

11.1 Advances in crystal chemistry and mineral systematics

11.2 Solid Solutions in Minerals: Mechanisms, Environmental Roles, and Metallogenesis

11.3 Computational and Theoretical Studies of Earth and Planetary Materials

11.4 Mechanisms and Kinetics of Mineral-Fluid Interactions: From Atomic-scale Processes to Field-scale Systems

11.5 Fe-oxide and Fe-oxyhydroxide minerals: from molecules to mountain building

11.6 Volcanic systems: deciphering mineral, ore and rock-forming processes through the study of minerals, new mineral species and varieties 

11.7 From Soil to Stardust: Advances in Multiscale Computational Mineralogy

For oral presentations in each session, keynote and invited talks are allocated 25 minutes and contributed presentations are allocated 15-20 minutes.