Numerical simulations emerged over the last decades as a solid and reliable complementary approach to experiments in mineral physics. We are now able not only to study matter at extreme conditions but also compute a wide range of physical properties at these conditions, oftentimes unavailable experimentally. In this session we wish to create a framework of interaction and discussion around the use of computers in mineral sciences and the relations between computational mineral physics to other branches of geosciences. State-of-the-art contributions illustrating the use of computers in studying high-pressure and high-temperature environments, mineral spectroscopy and thermodynamics, phase diagrams and phase transitions, (thermo)elasticity and rheology, etc. are strongly encouraged.