Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Rising Trends in Experimental Energetic Materials Research
Discussion Leader: Steven Son (Purdue University, USA)
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Opening Remarks
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
Kyle Ramos (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
"In Situ Investigation of Energetic Materials Under Dynamic Loading Using X-Ray Diffraction and Imaging"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
Alexander Tappan (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
"There's Plenty of Room in the Middle - Microenergetics, the Mesoscale, and Interfaces"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Architected Energetic Materials
Discussion Leader: C. Michael Lindsay (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:45 am
H. Keo Springer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
"Modeling Architected Explosives: Overview, Gaps, and New Frontiers"
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am
Alexander Mueller (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
"It's What's Inside that Counts: Exploiting Additive Manufacturing's Control over Internal Structure"
10:25 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Carole Rossi (Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS-CNRS), France)
"Nano-Engineering of Al/CuO Multilayers: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Applications"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 11:55 am
Kerri-Lee Chintersingh-Dinnall (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
"Doping Boron for Improved Ignition and Combustion"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Power Hour
The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Leanna Minier (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) and Lori Groven (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Interweaving Energetic Materials Synthesis with Engineering
Discussion Leader: Alexander Paraskos (U.S. Army Armament, Research and Development Engineering Center (ARDEC), USA)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm
Klavs Jensen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Autonomous and Automated Systems for Chemical Synthesis"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm
Nathaniel Zuckerman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
"Continuous Flow Synthesis of High Explosives at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Benefits, Challenges, and Compromise"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
David Boruta (Indian Head EOD Technology Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, USA)
"Approaches to Energetic Material Scale-up"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Frontiers in the Chemical Synthesis of Energetic Materials
Discussion Leader: Jesse Sabatini (U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:45 am
Jacob Edwards (The Scripps Research Institute, USA)
"Radical Cross-Coupling: Methods and Synthesis"
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am
David Chavez (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
"Synthesis of Advanced Energetic Materials"
10:25 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Colin Pulham (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
"Structure-Property Relationships in Energetic Co-Crystals"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 11:55 am
Ivan Gospodinov (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
"Pyridazine Scaffold as a New Building Block for the Design of Energetic Materials"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Modeling Challenges in Energetic Materials Research
Discussion Leader: Donald Stewart (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm
John Reaugh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
"On Developing a Model to Study Ignition and Post-Ignition Violence from Impact: HERMES and Beyond"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm
Brian Barnes (U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA)
"Hierarchical Multiscale Simulation: A Path to Predictive Material Models"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
Edward Kober (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
"Formulating Reduced Order Chemistry Models from Reactive Molecular Dynamics"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Pushing the Boundaries: In Situ Studies of Energetic Materials Response
Discussion Leader: Keith Nelson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:45 am
Trevor Willey (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
"Carbon Particulate Formation in Overdriven Detonations Measured with Time-Resolved Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering"
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am
Katie Brown (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
"Picosecond to Nanosecond Spectroscopy of Shocked Reactive Materials"
10:25 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Volkan Ortalan (Purdue University, USA)
"Dynamic Investigation of Energetic Materials by Transmission Electron Microscopy"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 11:55 am
Matthew Kroonblawd (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
"Developing Accurate Semi-Empirical Quantum Models for CNHO Chemistry at Detonation Conditions"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 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
Nano and Non-Crystalline Energetic Materials
Discussion Leader: Michelle Pantoya (Texas Tech University, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm
Denis Spitzer (Nanomatériaux pour les Systèmes Sous Sollicitations Extrêmes (NS3E), France)
"The SFE Process: From Molecular Bricks to Differently Nanostructured Energetic Nano Composites and/or the Challenge to Identify the Structure of These Assemblies with the Highest Time-Space Resolution"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm
Victor Stepanov (U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, USA)
"Amorphous Energetics"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
Stephen Tse (Rutgers University, USA)
"Synthesis of Nanoenergetics with Novel Reactant Interfaces"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Emerging Predictive Methods for Energetic Materials Research
Discussion Leader: William Mattson (U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:45 am
Evan Reed (Stanford University, USA)
"Statistical Learning of Reduced Kinetic Monte Carlo Models of Complex Chemistry from Molecular Dynamics"
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am
Nir Goldman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
"Accelerating Quantum Simulations of Reactive Materials Towards Experimental Time and Length Scales"
10:25 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Peter Chung (University of Maryland, USA)
"Machine Learning of Energetic Materials"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 11:55 am
Mitchell Wood (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
"Shock Initiation at the Mesoscale: Bridging Atomistic and Continuum Simulations"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Keynote Session: Perspectives on Future Directions and Frontiers in Energetic Materials Research
Discussion Leader: Nick Glumac (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
5:30 pm - 5:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
5:35 pm - 6:00 pm
Ruth Doherty (Energetics Technology Center, USA)
"That's Never Been Done Before! (Has It?)"
6:00 pm - 6:05 pm
Discussion
6:05 pm - 6:30 pm
David Moore (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
"Elucidation of Shock-Initiation Chemistry Through Spectroscopy"
6:30 pm - 6:35 pm
Discussion
6:35 pm - 7:00 pm
Craig Tarver (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
"Chasing Exothermic Chemical Energy Release Rates in Gaseous, Liquid, and Solid Explosives"
7:00 pm - 7:05 pm
Discussion
7:05 pm - 7:25 pm
General Discussion
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Closing Remarks
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure