SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | SYNTHESIS OF ENERGETIC MATERIALS |
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion Leader: Jean'ne Shreeve (University of Idaho) |
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm | Phil Pagoria (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) "Synthesis and Formulation of New Energetic Compounds" |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Thomas Klapotke (Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich) "New Nitrimino and Poly-Nitro High-Nitrogen Compounds with Possible Application as High Explosives" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CRYSTALLIZATION AND SURFACE CHEMISTRY |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Jennifer Swift (Georgetown University) |
9:10 am - 9:45 am | Yong Han (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) "Crystallization of Energetic Materials" |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am - 10:30 am | Antoine van der Heijden (TNO) "Initiation of Low-Order Reactions in High Explosives: The Role of Crystal Quality" |
10:30 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | Colin Pulham (University of Edinburgh) "Putting the Squeeze on Energetic Materials - High-Pressure Structural Studies of Nitramines and Azides" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Bryan Henson (LANL) "The role of metastable surface phases in the thermal decomposition and ignition of solid organic explosives" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | MOLECULAR MODELING |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Alejandro Strachan (Purdue University) |
7:40 pm - 8:25 pm | Tommy Sewell (University of Missouri) "Theoretical Studies of Energy Transfer" |
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | Christine J. Wu (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) "Discovering Novel Processes in Energetic Materials from Atomistic Simulations" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | EXPERIMENTATION |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Laura Smilowitz (Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
9:10 am - 9:45 am | Rick Albro (NAVAIR) "Optical Methods for Cloud Combustion" |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am - 10:30 am | Shawn McGrane (Los Alamos National Laboratory) "Spectroscopy and Ellipsometry of Energetic Materials under Ultrafast Laser Shock Loading" |
10:30 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | Dana Dattelbaum (Los Alamos National Laboratory) "Role of hot spots in the initiation of heterogeneous explosives" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | James M. Lightstone (Indian Head Division - NSWC) "Novel Diagnostics and Materials for Future Advanced Energetic Systems" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | MICRO AND NANOENERGETIC MATERIALS |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Carole Rossi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) |
7:40 pm - 8:25 pm | Alex Tappan (Sandia National Laboratories) "Detonation in Deposited Explosives Near the Minimum Critical Thickness" |
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | Curtis Johnson (NAVAIR) "Nanothermite Combustion" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ADVANCED DIAGNOSTICS & HE DETECTION |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Mario Fajardo (AFRL) |
9:10 am - 9:45 am | David S. Moore (Los Alamos National Laboratory) "Optimal Dynamic Detection of Explosives" |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am - 10:30 am | Robert B. Silver (Wayne State University) "Sentinel Cells' Response to NO-based Energetic Materials" |
10:30 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | Nick Glumac (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) "Where and When Aluminum Burns in Metallized Explosives" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Michael Hargather (Penn State University) "Laboratory-Scale Explosive Blast Testing and Research" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session III |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | COMPUTATION AND SIMULATION |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Scott Stewart (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
7:40 pm - 8:25 pm | Tariq Aslam (Los Alamos National Laboratory) "The Effects of Diffusion on the Role of Pulsating 1D Detonation with Detailed Kinetics" |
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | Purusottam Jena (Virginia Commonwealth University) "Design and Dynthesis of a New Class of Superhalogens as Building Blocks for High Energy Density Materials" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | NOVEL ENERGETIC MATERIALS |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Jan Puszynski (South Dakota School of Mines & Technology) |
9:10 am - 9:45 am | William Woodward (Penn State University) "Insights into Cluster Reactions" |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am - 10:30 am | Chris Bunker (Propulsion Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory) "Synthesis and Characterization of Sonochemically Prepared Aluminum Nanoparticles: Application to Fuels and Propellants" |
10:30 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | Choong-Shik Yoo (Washington State University) "High Energy Density monolithic Extended Solids" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Ralph Nuzzo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) "Materials for the 3D Integration of High Energy Density Electrochemical Systems" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session IV |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | MICRO AND NANOENERGETIC MATERIALS |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Timothy Weihs (John Hopkins University) |
7:40 pm - 8:25 pm | Alex Mukasyan (Notre Dame University) "Reaction Initiation in Gasless Heterogeneous Reactive Systems" |
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | Karen Martirosyan (University of Houston) "Nanoenergetic Gas Generators: Fundamentals and Applications" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |