CRF researcher Rob Barlow co-chaired the 34th International Combustion Symposium with Frederique Battin-Leclerc from CNRS, France and Kaoru Maruta from Tohoku University, Japan. The symposium, which was attended by a strong contingent of CRF staff, was held in Warsaw, Poland from July 29 through August 3, 2012 and is a leading meeting for the combustion community. Fellow CRF researcher Chris Shaddix hosted a two-day Sooting Flame Workshop at the symposium while Nils Hansen, also at the CRF, served on the organizing committee for the symposium’s First International Workshop on Flame Chemistry.