The Twenty-Fourth Biennial International Conference of the International Association for the Advancement of High Pressure Science and Technology (AIRAPT) with be held in conjunction with the Eighteenth Biennial International Conference of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter (APS-SCCM) in Seattle, Washington, from July 7th through July 12th, 2013. The chairs for this conference will be Choong-Shik Yoo, Rip Collins, and David Moore.