The 35th International Combustion Symposium, the premier conference on combustion science and application held on August 3–8 in San Francisco, was a resounding success thanks to Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility (CRF). More than 1,500 researchers gathered from around the world to discuss the latest innovations in understanding and predicting combustion-related phenomena, approximately 250 more than…
Facing increasing evidence of climate change, scientists around the world are working to improve climate modeling, hoping to provide decision makers solid projections to guide the development of mitigating policies. Khachik Sargsyan is leading a Sandia effort to strengthen climate models through uncertainty quantification (UQ) for the Accelerated Climate Model for Energy (ACME) program. The…
Sandia National Laboratories scientist Robert Barlow was awarded the Alfred C. Egerton Gold Medal at the 35th International Symposium on Combustion in San Francisco on August 6. Given every two years by the Combustion Institute, the award recognizes “distinguished, continuing, and encouraging contributions to the field of combustion.” Lawrence Harding of Argonne National Laboratory won…