Nominations for Awards

Nominations for the Oppenheim and Soloukhin Awards to be presented at the 22nd ICDERS are now being accepted. Please respond to the Call for Awards (April 1, 2009)

Hosting proposals Still being accepted.

Proposals to host the 23rd ICDERS Meeting are now being accepted up to March 31. If your organization is interested in hosting the 23rd ICDERS in 2009, please respond to the Call to Host or (PDF) (March 9, 2009)

Registration for the 22nd ICDERS is open.

Information on registration can be found at the ICDERS website (March 2009)

Submissions to the 22nd ICDERS are closed.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 1, 2009.

Submissions to the 22nd ICDERS.

Submissions should follow the guidelines given on the ICDERS website and be made through the Confmaster website. (February 2009)

Proposals to host 23rd ICDERS

Proposals to host the 23rd ICDERS in the summer of 2011 are now being accepted. See the Call to Host or (PDF) for the details.

27th International Symposium on Shock Waves

The 27th ISSW will be held on July 19-24 in St. Petersburg, Russia on the week immediately preceeding the 22nd ICDERS. See the ISSW website for details. Information about travel from St. Petersburg to Minsk is provided on the ICDERS website. (August 27, 2008)

22nd ICDERS Website

The 22nd ICDERS website is now online. Information about the technical and social program, travel to Minsk, visas, accommodations, and all other aspects of the meeting are provided there and will be updated as new information is available. (July 31, 2008)

22nd ICDERS Announcement Available

The First Announcement for the 22nd ICDERS is now available. Download as (PDF) for printing. (July 31, 2008)

Anatoly N. Dremin

Anatoly Dremin promenient experimenter, theorist ("Toward Detonation Theory"), and frequent contributor to international meetings died on Jan 12. Dremin worked at the former Institute of Chemical Physics (Chernogolovka, Russia) and his scientific contributions include the development of the electromagnetic gauge method of particle velocity measurement, application to measurements of shock and detonation structure in solids, chemical synthesis with shock waves, experiments and theory for initiation and critical diameter effects in high explosives. Dremin's theory of detonation wave "breakdown" proposes that unstable detonation wave propagation in solid explosives is sustained by the collision of transverse waves creating hotspots that continuosly re-initiate reaction along the front. (Jan 20, 2008)

Antoni K. Oppenheim

Tony Oppenheim, one of the founding fathers of ICDERS, passed away in his sleep in the late morning of Saturday, January 12, 2008. Ray Bowen speaks for all of us: "We will always remember Tony for his exuberance, his zest for life, the twinkle in his eye, and his smile." (Jan 13, 2008)

Tony's Curriculum Vitae, Biographical Resume, publications. Link to Berkeley Obituary (22 January 2008). Link to Ray Bowen's appreciation of Tony and his role in founding and leadership of ICDERS. (July 2008) Photograph of Tony and participants after AK Oppenheim's 90th Birthday Seminar in Montreal, 1995.

22nd ICDERS

The 22nd International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems will be held from July 26-31, 2009 in Minsk, Belarus. (Jan 1, 2008)

Jürgen Warnatz 1944-2007

We mourn the loss of our friend and stalwart supporter of the Institute for the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems. Jürgen Warnatz was a member of the Board of Directors of IDERS and a participant in the ICDERS meetings. His contributions to our community include many contributed and invited lectures, the organization of the 1999 meeting in Heidelberg, and chairing numerous committees of IDERS. Jürgen was honored in 2001 by IDERS with the A. K. Oppenheim Prize for his numerous contributions. Despite some problems with his health, Jürgen traveled to his last ICDERS meeting at Poitiers this past June and delivered a marvelous Plenary lecture. In this lecture, he mentioned many important problems that remain to be solved with the poignant phrase "this is something for the young people", which takes on a completely different meaning today. Jürgen was a powerful force in the German and international combustion community, providing leadership and mentoring many young people that now occupy positions of responsibility. He will be greatly missed.

Donations are being accepted in Jürgen's name at the Duetsche Bank (DB) of Heidelberg, BLZ 67270003, account 0157008 for the German cancer research center in Heidelberg. (Dec 23, 2007)

7th ISHPMIE

The Seventh International Symposium on the Hazards, Prevention and Mitigation of Industrial Explosions will be held July 7-11, 2008 in Moscow, Russia. (Dec 1, 2007)