SATURDAY |
1:00 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 | Keynote Session |
| Discussion Leader: Greg Fritz (IBM) |
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Melvin Baer (Sandia National Laboratories)
"What Mesoscale Studies of Initiation Behavior of Heterogeneous Energetic Materials Has Suggested, Thus Far, and Beyond" |
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Studies on the Chemistry and Phase of Energetic Materials |
| Discussion Leaders: Nick Glumac (University of Illinois) and Devon Swanson (University of Rhode Island)
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7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Kyle Sullivan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
"Understanding the Role of Micro and Meso Length Scales on the Reactivity of Nanocomposite Thermites"
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7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Uzi Geiger (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Photochemical and Subsequent Reactions of Para-Hydroxyphenyl Pentazole and Its Anion"
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8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Patrick Bowden (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Compression-Driven Evolution of the Vibrational Density of States of 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene (TNT)"
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8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Jeffery DeLisio (University of Maryland)
"Simultaneous Time Resolved Speciation and Calorimetry at High Heating Rates"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
SUNDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Combustion and Reaction Mechanisms in Reactive Materials |
| Discussion Leaders: Su Peiris (Defense Threat Reduction Agency) and Yasmine Aly (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
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9:00 am - 9:20 am | Michael Soo (McGill University)
"Combustion of Metal Suspensions in Energetic Compositions"
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9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Qing Peng (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
"A First-Principles Investigation of the Crystal Structure, Elastic Properties, and Equation of States of β-Cyclotetramethylene Tetranitramine (HMX)"
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9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Mathew Cherukara (Purdue University)
"Shock Induced Chemistry in Granular Ni/Al Composites"
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10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | General Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| 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 | Initiation of Energetic Materials at Multiple Length Scales |
| Discussion Leaders: Eric Welle (Air Force Research Laboratory) and Michelle Skaggs (Sandia National Laboratories)
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1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Walter Casper (Auburn University)
"Spectroscopic Studies of UV Laser Ignition/Non-Ignition of RDX"
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1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Jacqueline Beckvermit (University of Utah)
"Computational Modeling of DDT in Large Arrays of Energetic Materials"
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2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |