SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm | Welcome by 2014 Energetic Materials GRC and GRS Organizing Team |
7:55 pm - 9:30 pm | Science Underlying Initiation: Critical Chemical and Physical Phenomena |
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion Leader: Eric Welle (Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB, U.S.) |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Margo Greenfield (Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.)
"Towards Controlled Optical Initiation of Energetic Materials"
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8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Ryan Wixom (Sandia National Laboratories, U.S.)
"Things I Want to Say About Initiation"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Advancing Measurements of Reactive and Dynamic Phenomena for Discovery and Model Validation |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Colin Pulham (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.) |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Joseph Hooper (Naval Postgraduate School, U.S.)
"Mapping Hot Spots and Dynamic Fracture in Energetic Composites Using Thermo- and Mechanochromic Polymers"
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9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:35 am | Keith Nelson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.)
"New Dynamic Stimuli for Energetic Materials"
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10:35 am - 10:45 am | Discussion |
10:45 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | Laura Smilowitz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.)
"There's No Substitute for Looking Inside the Thing: Advances in X-Ray Radiographic Measurements of Deflagration to Define Reaction Violence" |
11:35 am - 11:45 pm | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Joe Zaug (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U.S.)
"Ultrafast Shock Wave Experiments to Improve High Explosives Reactive Flow"
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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 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Chemical Reactions Controlled by Organized Complexity - Seeking New Fundamental Concepts |
| Discussion Leader: Richard Behrens (Sandia National Labs, U.S.) |
7:40 pm - 8:15 pm | C. Michael Lindsay (Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB, U.S.)
"The Promise and Coy of Nanoenergetics"
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8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 9:20 pm | Keynote: Stuart Kauffman and Vattay Gabor (Sante Fe Research Institute, U.S. and Eotvos University, HUN)
"A Different Perspective Towards Addressing Challenges with Predicting Energetic Material Behavior" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Identifying and Characterizing Critical Material/Physical Properties Underlying EM Behavior (Safety, Sensitivity, Reliability, Performance) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: James Parker (Army Research Laboratory, U.S.) |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Scott I. Jackson (Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.)
"Characterization of Energetic Material Behavior with Detonation Performance Scaling Measurements"
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9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:35 am | Joseph Clubb (Navair Weapons Center, Weapons Division, China Lake, U.S.)
"On the Anomalous Shock Behavior of 1,1-Diamino-2,2-Dinitroethylene (FOX-7)"
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10:35 am - 10:45 am | Discussion |
10:45 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | Darla Graff Thompson (Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.)
"TATB Texture Effects in Compacted PBX"
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11:35 am - 11:45 pm | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Robert Hatch (ATK, U.S.)
"Prediction of Energetic Material Mechanical Response, Damage/Void Formation, and Sensitivity from Meso-Level Structure"
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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 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Engineering Next-Generation EM: Synthesis, Morphological Control, and New Techniques |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Michael Hiskey (University of Colorado) |
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | Peter Portius (University of Sheffield, U.K.)
"Synthesis and Characterization of New Nitrogen-Rich Azides and Energetic Poly-Tetrazolato and Poly-Nitrato Complexes"
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8:10 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | Adam Matzger (University of Michigan, U.S.)
"Energetic Cocrystals"
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8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Alan DeHope (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U.S.)
"Tailoring EM Synthesis: Ongoing Search for Outlier Materials"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Advances in Theoretical and Computational Techniques for Predicting EM Properties and Behavior |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Laurence (Larry) Fried (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U.S.) |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Aleksandr Smirnov (State Scientific Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering, RU)
"Energy of Explosive Transformation and Its Implementation in the Performance of Explosion Products"
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9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:35 am | Betsy Rice (Army Research Laboratory, U.S.)
"Modeling the Multiscale Response of Energetic Materials"
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10:35 am - 10:45 am | Discussion |
10:45 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | John Brennan (Army Research Laboratory, U.S.)
"Bottom-Up Dissipative Particle Dynamics: Addressing a Critical Gap Within the
Multiscale Framework of Modeling Energetic Material Response"
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11:35 am - 11:45 pm | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Jean-Bernard Maillet (Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA), FR)
"Multiscale Techniques for Predicting Energetic Materials Behavior Under Extremes Conditions"
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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 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Detonation Theory and Modeling: Advances in Modeling Physics Across Multiple Scales |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Jennifer Jordan (Air Force Office of Scientific Research, U.S.) |
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | Min Zhou (Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.)
"Prediction of Ignition Probability of EM from Meso-Scale Tracking of Hotspot Dynamics"
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8:10 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | Matei Radulescu (University of Ottowa, CAN)
"Progress on Simplified Models for the Reactive Dynamics in Weakly or Strongly Compressible Media"
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8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Ralph Chamberlin (Arizona State University, U.S.)
"Adapting Monte Carlo Simulations to Obey the Laws of Thermodynamics on Intermediate Lengths"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Combustion Theory, Phenomena, and Modeling: Building Our Understanding of Physics Across Multiple Scales |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Cliff Bedford (Office of Naval Research, U.S.) |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Stefan Kelzenberg (Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology, ICT, GER)
"Various Combustion Phenomena Described by a Hot-Spot Model"
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9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:35 am | Gregory Fritz (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
"Effects of Power Density and Energy Density on Ignition of Reactive Multilayers"
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10:35 am - 10:45 am | Discussion |
10:45 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | David P. Adams (Sandia National Laboratories, U.S.)
"Wavefront Instabilities in Reactive Metal Multilayer Films"
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11:35 am - 11:45 pm | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Kibong Kim (Advanced Energetics Research, U.S.)
"Promise and Challenges of Reactive Material Structures"
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12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session |
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Overviews of Needs in EM R&D to Address Global Issues |
5:30 pm - 5:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Ruth Doherty (Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division, U.S.) |
5:40 pm - 6:10 pm | Suhithi Peiris (C-WMD Basic Research Program, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, U.S.)
"Energetic Material Needs for Global Counter-Weapons of Mass Destruction"
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6:10 pm - 6:15 pm | Discussion |
6:15 pm - 6:45 pm | Antoine van der Heijden (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), ND)
"Future R&D Needs for Energetic Materials: Asking for the Impossible?"
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6:45 pm - 6:50 pm | Discussion |
6:50 pm - 7:20 pm | Jimmie Oxley (University of Rhode Island, U.S.)
"Energetic Materials Needs and R&D Goals"
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7:20 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |