Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute

The Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, one of the largest sections in the Institute, has been involved in a variety of regional and national activities. The constant binding elements have been the style and spirit of our section meetings.

Eli Dabora was the Chair of the Eastern Section at our Silver Anniversary and, with the help of Combustion Institute staff members Marge Salomony and Sue Terpack, compiled some history for our section. An updated version of his description is given below, expanding with records of past Executive Committee members and meeting locations.

The move to create U.S. sectional meetings was initiated in the west and advanced eastward, the Central Section preceding us by two or three annual meetings. In March of 1967, an organizational committee met for the purpose of starting an Eastern Section. Unlike the other two sections, the committee included a Canadian representative to formalize the inclusion of the Eastern Provinces in the Eastern Section. Our Canadian colleagues spun off to be part of a national Canadian section about 20 years ago.

The first meeting of the section took place in November 1967 under provisional status in Pittsburgh, the site of our parent organization. On July 6th, the Board of Directors of the Combustion Institute approved the formation of the section during the 12th Combustion Symposium in Poitiers, France. The second meeting, held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in October 1968, was in effect the first one as a formally established section. This meeting had fewer attendees (116), than the first (128), with the numbers of presentations being 25 and 32, respectively.

These “Fall Technical Meetings” grew and continued annually until 1997, adopting the theme and proceedings-volume name Chemical & Physical Processes in Combustion in 1973. The meeting format has come to be 2-1/2 to three parallel sessions lasting from Monday through Wednesday. There are typically over 110 contributed papers per meeting, plus invited plenary talks that precede each morning and afternoon’s sessions.

In 1997, we began a new pattern of meetings with the Technical Meeting in the fall of odd-numbered years, the International Symposium in the following summer (even-numbered years), and the Joint Meeting of the US Sections in the following spring (odd-numbered years). Thus, the three meetings for the section members are spread out over a two-year cycle. We hosted the initial Joint Meeting of the US Sections in 1999 at George Washington University, and in the spring of 2005, we hosted the Fourth Joint Meeting at Drexel University.

Student participation is an important part of the meetings, which we encourage and support. In 1978, we reduced registration fees for students and shortly thereafter initiated a program to provide honoraria to student presenters. Frequently, payment of the honoraria has been facilitated by corporate supporters, to whom we are deeply indebted. Recently, we’ve been able to extend this support to student presenters at the international meetings. The new talent, creativity, and fresh ideas brought to this community by these younger members are invaluable. In return, our community can promise a complex, interdependent, interdisciplinary science that will continue to offer challenges and opportunities.

In the last twelve years, we have made increasing use of a section Web site to share information. There is potential for a much expanded role, specifically in its use as an educational and information center for combustion-related issues. We hope to join increasingly with other sections to share information with each other and the public.

Med Colket and Phil Westmoreland

June 2006

MEETING THEMES AND LOCATIONS

Year	Theme	Location
1967	Scientific Aspects of Fire	Mellon Inst., Pittsburgh, PA
1968	Heterogeneous Combustion	U. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
1969	Air Pollution from Combustion	U. of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV
1970	Mathematical Modeling of Flames	Georgia Inst. of Tech., Atlanta, GA
1971	Fire Research	U. of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
1972	Fire Safety	Princeton U., Princeton, NJ
1973	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	McGill U., Montreal, Quebec
1974	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	APL/Johns Hopkins U., Silver Spring, MD
1975	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY
1976	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Drexel U., Philadelphia, PA
1977	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	United Tech. Res. Ctr, E. Hartford, CT
1978	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Eden Roc Hotel, Miami Beach, FL
1979	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Georgia Inst. of Tech., Atlanta, GA
1980	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Princeton U., Princeton, NJ
1981	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Carnegie-Mellon U., Pittsburgh, PA
1982	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Caesars Hotel, Atlantic City, NJ
1983	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Biltmore Plaza/Brown U., Providence, RI
1984	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Holiday Inn, Clearwater Beach, FL
1985	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Sheraton Hotel/Drexel U. Philadelphia, PA
1986	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Hotel Condado Beach, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1987	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Nat. Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
1988	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Holiday Inn, Clearwater Beach, FL
1989	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Desmond America Hotel/RP I, Albany, NY
1990	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Delta Orlando Resort, Orlando, FL
1991	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Cornell U., Ithaca, NY
1993	Central/Eastern Joint Meeting	New Orleans, LA
1993	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Princeton U., Princeton, NJ
1994	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Clearwater Beach, FL
1995	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Worcester Polytechnic Inst., Worcester, MA
1996	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Hilton Head, SC
1997	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Sheraton Hartford, Hartford CT
1999	1^st Joint Meeting of the U.S. Sections	George Washington U., Washington, D.C.
1999	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	North Carolina State U., Raleigh, NC
2001	2^nd Joint Meeting of the U.S. Sections	Oakland/LBNL, CA
2001	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Hilton Head, SC
2003	3^rd Joint Meeting of the U. S. Sections	U. Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL
2003	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	Penn State University, University Park, PA
2005	4^th Joint Meeting of the U. S. Sections	Drexel U., Philadelphia PA
2005	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	U. Central Florida, Orlando FL
2007	5^th Joint Meeting of the U. S. Sections	U. California San Diego, San Diego CA
2007	Chem. & Phys. Proc. in Combustion	U. Virginia, Charlottesville VA

Officers of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, 1967-2009
	Chair	1st Vice Chair	2nd Vice Chair	Secretary	Treasurer	Program Chair	Papers Chair	Arrangements Chair
1967-69	R. Levine	A.L. Thompson	R. Friedman	R.H. Essenhigh	R. Roberts	H.G. Wolfhard	R. Fristrom	B.T. Wolfson/W. May
1969-71	R. Friedman	A.L. Thompson	H.G. Wolfhard	R.H. Essenhigh	R. Roberts	F. Wright	B.T. Zinn	C. Wm. Shipman
1971-73*	R. Friedman	A.L. Thompson	H.G. Wolfhard	F. Wright	R. Roberts	C. Wm. Shipman	I. Glassman	H.F. Sullivan
1973-75	H.G. Wolfhard	A.L. Thompson	B.T. Zinn	L. Kurylko	R.H. Long, Jr.	I. Glassman	R.S. Magee	W. Bartok/H.A. Becker
1975-76	B.T. Zinn	L. Kurylko	T.A. Brzustowski	Wm. Bartok	R.H. Long, Jr.	A. Fontijn	W.A. Sirignano	John deRis/H.A. Becker
1977-79	T.A. Brzustowski	Wm. Bartok	W.A. Sirignano	G.M. Faeth	E.K. Bastress	T.Y. Toong	J. Quintiere	F.A. Williams/H. Sullivan
1979-81	W.A. Sirignano	G.M. Faeth	D.J. Seery	Franco Tamanini	R.S. Sheinson	J. Quintiere	F. Williams	F.L. Dryer
1981-83	G.M. Faeth	D.J. Seery	F. Williams	M. Sibulkin	R.S. Sheinson	I. Glassman	H.F. Calcote	F. Tamanini
1983-85	D.J. Seery	F. Williams	W.C. Strahle	J.J. Sangiovanni	R.S. Sheinson	G.M. Faeth	K.K. Kuo	F. Tamanini
1985-87	F. Williams	E.K. Dabora	F. Tamanini	J.J. Sangiovanni	R.S. Sheinson	R.G. Gann	R.J. Santoro	C. Proctor
1987-89	F. Tamanini	E.K. Dabora	J.J. Sangiovanni	R.S. Sheinson	R.G. Gann	R.J. Santoro	B.J. McCaffery	P.A. Tatem
1989-91	E.K. Dabora	J.J. Sangiovanni	R.J. Santoro	R.S. Sheinson	R.G. Gann	F.C. Gouldin	C.K. Law	P.A. Tatem
1991-93	J.J Sangiovanni	R.J. Santoro	R.G. Gann	K. Brezinsky	C.E. Hermance	K. Kailasanath	F.C. Gouldin	P.A. Tatem
1993-95	R.J. Santoro	R.G. Gann	-	K. Brezinsky	C.E. Hermance	M.D. Smooke	K. Kailasanath	M.B. Colket
1995-97	R.G. Gann	F.C. Gouldin	-	Brezinski/Rawlins	C.E. Hermance	P.R. Westmoreland	M.D. Smooke	M.B. Colket
1997-99	F.C. Gouldin	M.B. Colket	-	T. Rawlins	C.E. Hermance	W.M. Pitts	P.R. Westmoreland	J.H. Miller
1999-01	M.B. Colket	P.R. Westmoreland	-	T. Rawlins	B.M. Cetegen	N.P. Cernansky	W.M. Pitts	J.H. Miller
2001-03	P.R. Westmoreland	M.D. Smooke	-	T. Rawlins	B.M. Cetegen	J.H. Miller	N.P. Cernansky	W.L. Roberts
2003-05	M.D. Smooke	N.P. Cernansky	-	T. Rawlins	B.M. Cetegen	S.R. Turns/ L.D. Pfefferle	J.H. Miller	W.L. Roberts
2005-07	N.P. Cernansky	J.H. Miller	-	T. Rawlins	B.M. Cetegen	W.L. Roberts	-	D.L. Miller
2007-09	J.H. Miller	B.M. Cetegen	-	D.L. Miller	H.K. Chelliah	W.L. Roberts	-	A. Trouvé
*Derived from incomplete records and may be inaccurate.