Conference Delegates
William Proud, Director of the ISP Hosts 9th International conference on New Models and Hydrocodes for Shock Wave Processes in Condensed Matter, April 2012
On 23 – 27 April 2012, the Institute of Shock Physics at Imperial College London hosted the 9th in a series of international conferences on New Models and Hydrocodes for Shock Wave Processes in Condensed Matter, held in London Paddington. The conference was concerned with understanding more about the experimentation and modelling of high-rate events, from 7 kms-1 impacts of dust and debris on satellites, laboratory-scale experiments, to the ab initio calculation of material response under intense, Mega-Bar loading.
This year, the conference attracted just under 100 delegates from academic and industrial organisations all over the world, including the UK, USA, Russia, China and India. During the five-day meeting they presented their findings, networked, discussed a wide range of both fundamental and applied topics and decided on new collaborative research.
A full programme, including twelve plenary speakers, gave a mixture of overviews and detailed reports on sometimes counter-intuitive discoveries, for example, at very high loading rates metals increase their elastic strength as the temperature increases.
On Wednesday afternoon many of the delegates enjoyed a visit to our experimental facilities at Imperial, including the ISP’s 100 mm plate impact facility and electrically-driven pulsed power facility, the Centre for Blast Injury Studies and the newly-refurbished Structures Laboratory.
Dr Marvin A Zocher, Los Alamos National Laboratory, member of the organising committee and sponsor of the conference said:
“As I see it, perhaps the greatest benefit of a conference such as New Models and Hydrocodes (NMH) derives from the diversity of thought that is achieved by bringing together researchers from around the world to focus on challenging problems that are of common interest. By sharing ideas and debating approaches (i.e. by working together), we improve our chances of meeting the challenge. NMH serves this aim well.”
The conference was kindly supported by NMSA , Los Alamos National Laboratory, AWE Plc and DYMAT.
Further information, including how to apply for a CD of the conference proceedings, can be found at: //www3.imperial.ac.uk/shockphysics/nmh
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