Saturday |
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Nanostructured Materials |
| Discussion Leaders: Christopher Molek (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA) and William Shaw (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) |
3:45 pm - 3:50 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
3:50 pm - 4:05 pm | Rachel Huber (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) "The Role of Atmosphere in Nanocarbon Formation Under Extreme Conditions for Detonation of Composition B" |
4:05 pm - 4:10 pm | Discussion |
4:10 pm - 4:25 pm | Christopher Shuck (University of Notre Dame, USA) "Quantitative 3D Analysis of the Ni-Al System: Nanostructure-Reactivity Relationship" |
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Combustion and Ignition |
| Discussion Leaders: Brian Barnes (U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA) and Will Bassett (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:35 pm - 7:50 pm | Vincent Baijot (Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems, CNRS, France) "A Bottom-Up Micro-Kinetic Approach to the Al Combustion Modeling in an Oxidizing Atmosphere" |
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion |
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm | Kerri-Lee Chintersingh (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) "Oxidation Kinetics and Combustion of Boron Particles with Functionalized Surfaces" |
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Jeffery DeLisio (University of Maryland, USA) "Reaction Mechanisms of Air Sensitive Aluminum Clusters at High Heating Rates" |
8:30 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm | Michael Soo (McGill University, Canada) "Combustion Regimes of Aluminum Particles in Dense Suspensions" |
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:10 pm | Michael Grapes (Johns Hopkins University, USA) "Fundamentals of Ignition in Reactive Materials" |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
Sunday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Novel and Unexpected Energetic Materials |
| Discussion Leaders: Devon Swanson (University of Rhode Island, USA) and Daniel Ward (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) |
9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:05 am - 9:20 am | Jonathan Bennion (University of Michigan, USA) "The Quest for a Better Boom: Cocrystallization of Energetic Materials" |
9:20 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
9:25 am - 9:40 am | Tomasz Witkowski (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) "5,5'-Bis(2,4,6-Trinitrophenyl)-2,2'-Bi(1,3,4-Oxadiazole): The Novel Heat Resistant Explosive" |
9:40 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:00 am | Matthew Schmitt (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) "Shock-Driven Reactions in Nano-Sized Aluminum and Dilute Hydrogen Peroxide" |
10:00 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
10:05 am - 10:20 am | Brad Steele (University of South Florida, USA) "Novel High-Nitrogen Energetic Materials" |
10:20 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
10:25 am - 10:40 am | Min Sheng (The Dow Chemical Company, USA) "Reactive Chemical Hazards of Azide Compounds: A Case Study and Lessons Learned" |
10:40 am - 10:45 am | Discussion |
10:45 am - 11:00 am | General Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Mentorship Component: Careers in Energetic Materials Research |
| Discussion Leaders: Rachel Huber (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) and Philip Myint (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) |
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Daniel Hooks (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) "Explosive Careers at U.S. National Laboratories" |
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |