• Cleveland meeting summary

  A very successful spring meeting of the Central States Section of The Combustion Institute was held at the Marriott Downtown hotel in Cleveland, Ohio on May 21–23. The meeting was attended by 136 participants, including 58 students. The Monday morning James E. Peters plenary lecture entitled “The Clean Fuel Initiative” was given by William Harrison of the Air Force Research Laboratory. The Tuesday morning invited speakers were Margaret Wooldridge of the University of Michigan who gave a talk entitled “Chemical kinetics of HCCI and other low-temperature combustion strategies”, and John Buckmaster of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who spoke on “The modeling of heterogeneous propellant combustion”. The conference consisted of the three invited lectures and 87 technical presentations arranged in 15 technical sessions.

  The Outstanding Student Presenter award went to Jignesh D. Maun of the University of Maryland. Maun's advisor is Peter Sunderland, and the title of the presentation was “Thin film pyrometry with a digital still camera”. The winner of the James E. Peters Student Fellowship is Michelle L. Somers of Louisiana State University. Her co-authors are Jennifer W. McClaine and advisor M. Julia Wornat. The paper is titled “The formations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the supercritical pyrolysis of 1-methylnapthalene”. Somers will receive $1500 for this award. Eight other students from the section who will be presenting accepted papers at the 31st International Combustion Symposium in Heidelberg will receive $750 each.

  The winner of the 2006 Combustion Art Competition was a montage of microflames arranged in a sunflower pattern by Mellish, Miller, Dietrich, Struk, and T'ien. Second place was a color schlieren image of a methane/air flame impinging on a cylinder by Stroud, Branch, and Hertzberg. Third place was Feier's depiction of radiative heat flux contours on a tunnel wall from a three-dimensional flame spread model.

  Elections were held to replace departing board members. Appreciation was expressed to Nader Rizk and Robert Lucht, who completed their term of service on the board. Hukam Mongia was elected to a second term on the board, and James Seaba and John Abraham were unanimously approved for their first term on the board.

  We greatly appreciate the dedicated efforts of Dennis Stocker and his coworkers in hosting the spring meeting of the Central States Section of The Combustion Institute. We also wish to thank Indrek Wichman who served as Program Chairperson and Hukam Mongia who served as Papers Review Chairperson. Additionally, we wish to thank the many students from Case Western Reserve University who assisted with the audio-visual equipment in the various session rooms. [2006-06-15]

• New officers
  Following the Philadelphia meeting, Lea-Der (LD) Chen (University of Iowa) has assumed the position of Chairperson, and Dennis Stocker (NASA Glenn Research Center) has moved to the position of Past Chairperson. At the business meeting in Philadelphia, the membership elected Clark Midkiff (University of Alabama) as Chairperson-elect, Thomas Briggs (University of Wisconsin) as Treasurer (for another term), and Robert Hancock (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) as Secretary. [2005-03-21]
• New Papers Review Chair
  At the Detroit meeting of the Board of Advisor on 2003-09-28, H. Mongia was appointed as the Papers Review Chair. This position is held for two meetings (Austin and Cleveland). D.L. Reuss formerly held this position. [2003-09-29]
• New officers and board member
  Following the Chicago meeting, Mr. Dennis Stocker (NASA Glenn Research Center) has assumed the position of Chairperson, and Prof. Jay Gore (Purdue University) has moved to the position of Past Chairperson. At the business meeting in Chicago, the membership elected Prof. Lea-Der Chen (University of Iowa) as Chairperson-elect. The terms of these positions extend until 2005. Additionally, Prof. Nick Glumac (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) was elected to the Board of Advisors as a member at large for a term extending until 2008. At the Board meeting held in Chicago, Prof. Indrek Wichman (Michigan State University) was named as the Program Chair. This position is held for two meetings (Austin and Cleveland). [2003-03-19]
• Final Program for Joint Meeting
  The Final Program for the Third Joint Meeting of the U.S. Sections of The Combustion Institute has been released. [2003-02-19]
• Student-stipend clarification
  For travel to the Third Joint Meeting of the U.S. Sections of The Combustion Institute in Chicago, only one stipend per student or paper will be issued. For example, a single student presenting multiple papers is eligible for only one stipend; for multiple student presenters of a single paper, only a single student is eligible to receive a stipend for that paper. [2002-11-19]
• Meeting dates announced
  Dates have been set for the Third Joint Meeting of the U.S. Sections of The Combustion Institute for 2003 March 16-19 and the Thirtieth International Combustion Symposium for 2004 July 25-30. Both meetings will be held in Chicago. The 2004 Spring Technical Meeting of the Central States Section will be held 2004 March 21-23; the University of Texas at Austin will host. The 2006 Spring Technical Meeting will be held in Cleveland, with dates to be announced. For more information, see the Meetings section of this site. [2002-10-09; 2002-05-01]
• Chicago 2003 Web site available
  This Web site will provide information about the Chicago meeting. Up-to-date information is also available at the meeting page on this site. [2002-10-24; 2002-10-09; 2002-08-12]
• Travel award recipients announced
  Recipients of the James E. Peters Student Fellowship and the Student Travel Award for the Twenty-Ninth International Combustion Symposium in Sapporo have been announced. They are listed in the Travel fellowships section. [2002-07-10]
• Photos from the Knoxville meeting
  Photos from the Knoxville meeting are available from the meeting page. [2002-05-01]
• Guidelines for travel fellowships
  Students presenters wishing to apply for Section support to travel to the International Symposium should use forms available on this site. See the Travel Fellowships section for details. [2002-04-10]
• Knoxville proceedings available
  This year's proceeding contain 81 papers digitally published on CD-ROM. The CD may be ordered from the Section Treasurer, Thomas Briggs, while supplies last. For information, please contact Mr. Briggs via email at <tbriggs @@ erc.wisc.edu> (link not active to discourage spam). [2002-04-10]
• New CSS Web site in place
  The Section Web site has moved from NASA to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Charles Finney is the new site maintainer. [2002-04-08]

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