The course 'Experimental petrology' covers the following subjects:

- Introduction and historical summary of experimental petrology

- Kinetics of phase change and its experimental research

- Methods of preparation of natural and synthetic starting materials

- Choice of the appropriate sample container

- Experimental buffering techniques (phase rule, buffering of partial pressures of gases and supercritical fluids, buffering of mixed volatile phases at elevated pressures, buffering of activities and solid-solid solutions in solid phases)

- Experimental methods at ambient pressure (1 bar)

- Experimental methods at moderate pressures: cold seal pressure vessel (CSPV)

- High-pressure solid-media experimental techniques (piston cylinders)

- Evaluation of petrologic experiments (preparation of run products, analytical and spectroscopic methods of examination and quantification)

- Cases study: discussion of selected experimental studies