As the seasons change for many of us, there is much that remains the same. The CI office is hard at work preparing for the opening of submissions for the 40th International Symposium in Milan! The Technical Program Co-Chairs are working tirelessly to produce an exceptional technical program and stellar line-up of invited speakers. The Local Host Team continues to plan for an amazing week in the truly international city of Milan. While combustion scientists and researchers around the world continue to produce innovative and seminal results. This quarter's newsletter is packed with information about various opportunities, achievements, and events related to the CI and the field of combustion science.

 

As always, the CI office exists to serve the CI members. If you have any questions or news to share, please feel free to reach out to any of us. We will continue to do our best to represent your interests and achievements. We wish you the best as we head into this final quarter of the year and look forward to filling our next newsletter with all your newest events and achievements!

 

Best regards,

The Combustion Institute

Including calls for papers and nominations, CI awards, highlights of past events, and more

Call for Nominations: 2024 Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award

The Call for Nominations has been released for the eighth annual Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award. Sponsored by The Combustion Institute and Elsevier, the award recognizes up to two early career researchers who have made a significant contribution to advance their field of research within four to ten years of completing their doctoral degree or equivalent. Nominations must be received by 23:59 EST on 15 November 2023 through the CI's Account Management System (AMS) portal.

Be Wary of Emails and Phishing Attempts

This is a reminder to everyone to be safe when opening or clicking links in emails. All valid Combustion Institute emails will come from the domain "@combustioninstitute.org". If you doubt the validity of an email, reach out to office@combustioninstitute.org to verify it.

Check in on Our Job Opportunities Page

The CI website's job opportunities page is consistently updated with a wealth of opportunities for members of the combustion community. If you are seeking employment,  take a look. If you have a position to fill, let us know, we are happy to help.

Celebrating the 2023 Combustion Institute Summer Schools (CI-SS)

The popularity and success of the CI-SS program continued in 2023. The programs served over 870 attendees and featured world-renowned researchers and lecturers. More information about the CI-SS events can be found in the News section of the CI website. 

• King Abdullah University of Science and Technology CI-SS on Carbon Free Combustion, Saudi Arabia

• University of Maryland CI-SS on Fire Safety Science, United States
• Princeton University CI-SS on Combustion and the Environment, United States
• The 9th International Combustion Institute Winter School on Combustion, Brazil
  
• Tsinghua University-Princeton University CI-SS on Combustion, China
• University of California, Irvine CI-SS: "Experimental Combustion: Past, Present, & Future", United States

2023 Distinguished Paper Award (DPA) in the Low Emission Combustion Technologies Colloquium

Congratulations to Guillaume Vignat, Bassem Akoush, Edna Rebeca Toro Garza, Emeric Boigné, and Matthias Ihme for winning the DPA in the Low Emission Combustion Technologies colloquium. The research for their distinguished paper, “Combustion of lean ammonia-hydrogen fuel blends in a porous media burner," began in the summer of 2021 and still continues today, exploring new materials and developing more advanced simulation methods. Read more about their study here.

2023 Distinguished Paper Award (DPA) in the Diagnostics Colloquium

Congratulations to Leonardo Castellanos, Francesco Mazza, and Alexis Bohlin for winning the DPA in the Diagnostics colloquium. Dr. Bohlin and the members of his team authored their distinguished paper, "Water vapor in hydrogen flames measured by time-resolved collisional dephasing of the pure rotational N₂ CARS signal," because they believe that further development and refinement of sustainable hydrogen technologies will play an important role in achieving a smooth energy transition and more climate-friendly propulsion and power systems. Read more about their study here.

Updates on the 19th International Conference on Numerical Combustion (ICNC2024) The list of accepted Mini-Symposia for ICNC2024 has been released. Additionally, abstract submissions are now open, and are being accepted through 15 December 2023. Details are available here.

Assembling a list of upcoming CI and CI-affiliated events

2023 Annual Meeting of the Spanish Section of The Combustion Institute

To be held at the University of Zaragoza in Spain from 7-8 November, the 2023 meeting of the Spanish Section of the CI is open to contributions by combustion scientists from any country. More information is available here.

Nordic Flame Days 2023

The Combustion Institute Scandinavian-Nordic Section (CINS) and Swedish Flame Research Committee (SFRC) will host this event in Trondheim, Norway from 29-30 November 2023. The program will combine social and technical activities, including keynotes and technical presentations. Read more here.

40 Under 40: E-Lecture Series on Combustion

This informative lecture series, hosted by the Belgium Section of the CI, has returned. Featuring 40 young scientists and engineers who have performed high-quality research in combustion, these lectures serve as a valuable opportunity to learn about past and current research activities of each session's unique invited speaker, as well as their vision about the future of combustion research. More information is available here.

Providing updates about the upcoming International Symposium on Combustion

Submission Portal to Open

The portal for submissions to the CI's 40th International Symposium - Emphasizing Energy Transition will open 31 October 2023. All manuscripts must be submitted through Editorial Manager (EM) and follow the prescribed formatting guide. Information about the revised colloquia, paper format, and submission steps can be found on the Authors page of the 40th ISOC website. Submissions will remain open through 4 December 2023 (23:59 PST). Please note: the “time” of submission is determined by the time you “Approve Submission” in Editorial Manager. 

Colloquium Teams Announced

The Program Co-Chairs have assembled an impressive and diverse group to serve as colloquium coordinators and co-chairs for the 40th Symposium. A complete listing of the colloquium teams can be found on the 40th ISOC website.

Editorial Manager Account Update Instructions
As we approach the opening of submissions for the next Symposium, it is important that  users have up to date information in Elsevier’s EM system. Please take a moment to review your account in EM to confirm that it is correct. If you need to make updates, or create a new account, please follow these instructions.

Elsevier's Diversity and Inclusion Questionnaire
If you are logging into EM for the first time, or after a long period of inactivity, you may be prompted to respond to the system's diversity and inclusion questions. Self-reporting is  voluntary and optional. While the questions cannot be skipped, you can select “I prefer not to disclose” for any and all questions. Additional information can be found here.

Featuring Milan in #MilanFactFridays

We are excited to launch our social media series, #MilanFactFridays. Starting soon, we will post interesting information about the site of the 40th Symposium, Milan. We invite you to contribute to this series with your own interesting facts by using the above hashtag. Please remember to tag the CI and the Symposium in your posts and use the following hashtags: #CI, #combustion, #combustioninstitute, #40thISOC, #energytransition.

Call for Site Bids for 42nd Symposium

Site proposals for the 42nd International Symposium on Combustion are still being collected through 31 January 2024. We encourage all Section Leaders and CI members to submit site proposals in accordance with the defined guidelines. More information can be found on the Resources page of the CI website. Questions regarding the procedure can be directed to office@combustioninstitute.org.

Highlighting combustion resources and the accomplishments of CI members

With the drastic uptick in destructive wildfires, renewed focus has been placed on the study of wildland fires and our need to better prevent, predict, and suppress unwanted wildfires. An exciting opportunity has recently arisen for the combustion community to participate in: the $11 million XPRIZE Wildfire. Registration for the competition closes on 31 October 2023. Read more here.

As the scale and devastation of wildland fires and wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires continue to increase, there is an ever-growing urgency for researchers, including those in combustion research, to work to alleviate this issue. To this end, two CI members, Prof. Sayaka Suzuki and Prof. Samuel L. Manzello, recently served as guest editors for a special issue of Combustion Science and Technology on this topic. More information can be found here.