CANCELLED – The 2020 Spring Technical Meeting of the Central States Section

The 2020 Spring Technical Meeting of the Central States Section of The Combustion Institute has been cancelled. This decision was made after considering several elements of current and projected activities and actions taken by the US federal government, national laboratories, corporations, universities, and municipalities in response to COVID-19.

In spite of the cancellation of this meeting, the organizers will continue to do the following:

1. Assemble an electronic collection of those papers that would have been presented at the 2020 Spring Technical Meeting of the Central States Section of the Combustion Institute. This collection of papers will be made available via the Central States Section website using a special web link and password (similar to what is done now for distributing paper proceedings for when a Central States Section meeting is held). This weblink and password will be distributed to all authors submitting a paper and all members of the Central States Section at no cost. As in past practice of the Central States Section, authors retain copyright of their papers and are free to publish their papers elsewhere. 
   • We’ve reopened the abstract submission portal, and abstracts may now be submitted up to March 31, 2020. Deadline for papers is extended to June 2, 2020. The intent is to make this electronic collection of papers available on or around the time the 2020 Spring Meeting was to take place (mid-May).
2. Explore the possibility of holding a technical meeting in Fall 2020 where authors could present what would have been presented at the Spring 2020 meeting, or new / modified content. More information on this subject should follow in the next few months.
3. Explore the possibility of holding our Section Business Meeting either virtually or in-person at a possibly-scheduled Fall technical meeting (see #2). More information on this subject should follow in the next few months.

You will receive a full refund on your registration within the next few weeks, if you’ve already registered. Likewise, the designated conference hotel with room blocks will cancel your registration without penalty (but, you must contact the hotel yourself to cancel this registration).

Colloquia Topics:

• Industrial and applied combustion
• Fire research
• Droplet and sprays
• Novel combustion techniques
• Diagnostics
• Turbulent combustion
• Internal combustion engines
• Alternative fuels and emissions
• Reaction kinetics
• Combustion theory and modeling
• Laminar flames
• Particulates and multiphase flows     
        

Manuscript Information:

Please note the following details regarding submission of abstracts and papers.

• 18 February – Abstract submission opens
  • Abstract submissions information
• 31 March – Abstract submissions deadline (23:59 EDT)
• 7 April – Abstract acceptance/rejection notification
• 2 June – Paper submission deadline (23:59 EDT)
  • Paper submissions information
              

Undergraduate Student Research Competition:

• 21 February – Abstract submissions deadline (23:59 EST)
• 29 February – Abstract acceptance/rejection notification
• 7 April – Full submission deadline (23:59 EDT)
• 17 April – Email notifications to the winners
        

Undergraduate student researchers are invited to apply for the inaugural CSSCI Undergraduate Research Competition. Students will produce a short educational video summarizing their research, and two award recipients will be invited to present their research at the 2020 Spring Technical Meeting in Huntsville. See the competition announcement for full details

    
For more information, please consult the meeting Website, which is updated frequently, or contact Babak Shotorban (hosts2020@cssci.org) with more specific inquiries. For inquiries related to the technical program and papers, please contact Albert Ratner (program2020@cssci.org).

Click here to visit the official meeting website. 
     
      

• Alternative fuels and emissions
• Combustion theory and modeling
• Diagnostics
• Droplet and sprays
• Fire research
• Industrial and applied combustion
• Internal combustion engines
• Laminar flames
• Novel combustion techniques
• Particulates and multiphase flows
• Reaction kinetics
• Turbulent combustion