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 - 7:35 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:35 pm - 9:30 pm | Opportunities and Needs |
7:35 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Suhithi Peiris (Defense Threat Reduction Agency) |
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Cliff Bedford (Office of Naval Research)
"Are We There Yet? Explosives through the Centuries or How to Make that Last Calorie of Energy Mean Something"
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8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:50 pm | Wing Tsang (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
"Uncertainties in the Simulation of Complex Chemical Processes" |
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:25 pm | Rich Behrens (Sandia National Laboratories)
"Understanding Reactions of Energetic Materials: Challenges for Scientists and Engineers" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Synthesis |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Thomas Klapötke (Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
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9:15 am - 9:45 am | Karl Christie (University of Southern California)
"Energetic High-Oxygen Carriers" |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am - 10:25 am | Robert Chapman (Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division)
"Energetic Potpourri IV"
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10:25 am - 10:35 am | Discussion |
10:35 am - 11:00 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Stefan Schnieder (AFRL)
"Ionic Liquids As Hypergolic Bipropellant Fuels"
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11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:10 pm | Jesse Sabatini (ARDEC)
"Green Chemistry in Pyrotechnics: Environmentally Sustainable Illuminants with Enhanced" |
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Clusters to Nanoparticles Based Materials |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Puru Jenna (Virginia Commonwealth University) |
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Will Castleman (Penn State University)
"The Interplay Between Superatoms and the Design of Energetic Materials"
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8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:50 pm | Kit Bowen (Johns Hopkins University)
"Discovery and Photoelectron Spectroscopic Characterization of the Structures, Bonding, and Stabilities of Energetic Molecules and Clusters"
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8:50 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:25 pm | Bryan Eichhorn (University of Maryland, College Park)
"Low oxidation state Al clusters: From gas phase discovery to condensed phase isolation and characterization"
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9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Reactive Materials |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Ed Dreizin (New Jersey Institute of Technology) |
9:15 am - 9:45 am | Steve Son (Purdue University)
"Tailored Reactive Materials Using Mechanical Activation"
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9:45 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am - 10:25 am | Florence Baras (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, France)
"Nucleation and growth of NiAl intermetallic compound in Ni-Al reactive multilayers:a molecular dynamics approach"
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10:25 am - 10:35 am | Discussion |
10:35 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Alex Rogachev (Russian Academy of Sciences)
"Nanostructured gasless energetic materials: global behavior, reaction mechanisms and roots of extreme reactivity"
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11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:10 pm | Arvind Varma (Purdue University)
"Solution Combustion Synthesis of Advanced Materials: Principles and Applications"
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12:10 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Advanced Diagnostics |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Joel Carney (NSWC-IH) |
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Marcia Cooper (Sandia National Laboratories)
"ORVIS interferometry for shock studies" |
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:50 pm | Tom Lagrange (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
"Progress Towards Understanding of Self-sustained Reactions in Reactive Multilayer Films using Ultrafast Electron Microscopy" |
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:25 pm | Peter Weber (Brown University)
"Fast reactions of hot molecules: Probing ultrafast structural dynamics using Rydberg Fingerprints"
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9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Computational Chemistry |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Priya Vashishta (University of Southern California) |
9:15 am - 9:45 am | Adri van Duin (Penn State University)
"Overview of past and current applications of ReaxFF reactive force fields to high-energy and hypergolic materials"
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9:45 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am - 10:25 am | Don Thompson (Missouri State University)
"Energy transfer and reactions of energetic materials"
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10:25 am - 10:35 am | Discussion |
10:35 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Ed Byrd (Army Research Laboratory)
"Advances in Multiscale Modeling: Nanometer to Micron" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:10 pm | Riad Manaa (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
"Simulations of Chemical Reactivity of Energetic Materials Under Thermal and Shock Conditions"
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12:10 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
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 | Simulation |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Mel Baer (Sandia National Laboratories) |
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Hugh James (AWE - England)
"Fast Simulations of the Shock Initiation Threshold for a Variety of Explosives"
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8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:50 pm | S. "Bala" Balachandar (University of Florida)
"Modeling and Simulation of shock/detonation interaction with particles - Explosive Dispersal of Particles" |
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:25 pm | John Brenan (ARL)
"Dissipative Particle Dynamics Simulations of Energetic Materials" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Shock Physics |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Dana Dlott (University of Illinois) |
9:15 am - 9:45 am | Naresh Thadhani (Georgia Tech)
"Configurational Effects on Shock-initiation of Chemical Reactions in Reactive Mixtures" |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am - 10:25 am | Andrew Higgins (McGill University)
"Discreteness Effects in Flames, Shock Waves, and Detonations in Heterogeneous Media"
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10:25 am - 10:35 am | Discussion |
10:35 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | David Williamson (Cambridge University)
"A physical approach to understanding the thermo-mechanical behavior of Polymer Bonded Energetic Materials"
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11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:10 pm | Mike Armstrong (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
"Ultrafast chemistry under shock compression" |
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Combustion |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Richard Yetter (Penn State University) |
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Fan Zhang (Defense Research and Development Canada)
"Hybrid Detonation and Deflagration" |
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:50 pm | Luigi Deluca (Politecnico)
"Combustion of Metallized Fuels for Solid and Hybrid Rocket Propulsion"
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8:50 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:25 pm | Stephan Thynell (Penn State University)
"Studies of reactions in either hypergolic applications or energetic ionic liquids" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |