Final Conference Program & Registration List.

The Gordon Research Conference on Laser Diagnostics was held at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley MA on 1-6 July 2001. The conference included 130 participants. Research discussed at the conference included quantitative measurements to test combustion chemistry, picosecond measurements to quantify collisional effects, infrared diagnostics, velocity measurements, measurement techniques for fuel distributions, diagnostics to understand turbulent flow, innovative optical measurement techniques, practical measurements in harsh engine environments, and quantitative measurements to understand soot formation.

The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on LASER DIAGNOSTICS IN COMBUSTION was held at Mount Holyoke College from 7/31/2005 thru 8/5/2005. The Conference was well-attended with 121 participants (attendees list attached). The attendees represented the spectrum of endeavor in this field coming from academia, industry, and government laboratories, both U.S. and foreign scientists, senior researchers, young investigators, and students. In designing the formal speakers program, emphasis was placed on current unpublished research and discussion of the future target areas in this field. There was a conscious effort to stimulate lively discussion about the key issues in the field today. Time for formal presentations was limited in the interest of group discussions. In order that more scientists could communicate their most recent results, poster presentation time was scheduled. Attached is a copy of the formal schedule and speaker program and the poster program. In addition to these formal interactions, ''free time'' was scheduled to allow informal discussions. Such discussions are fostering new collaborations and joint efforts in the field. I want to personally thank you for your support of this Conference. As you know, in the interest of promoting the presentation of unpublished and frontier-breaking research, Gordon Research Conferences does not permit publication of meeting proceedings. If you wish any further details, please feel free to contact me.

The tenth Gordon Research Conference on Laser Diagnostics for Combustion was partially supported by this ARO Grant. An extremely successful meeting was held at II Ciocco in Barga Italy, June 20-25, 1999. In addition to the 22 invited oral presentationas, more than 110 contributed posters were presented in four sessions. The meeting was oversubscribed; attendance was limited to 140 participants, and more than 175 applications were received. The Geographical distribution of the attendees was 45% from Europe, 45% from the USA, and 10% representing Russia, Israel, Korea, Japan, and Australia. The attendees also represented a wide range of professional affiliations. The academic community provided 62% of the attendees; of these 56% were faculty and 44% were graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. The remaining 44% of the attendees were nearly equally divided between government research laboratories and industry. Of the non-academic participants 20%(9 individuals) were program managers or research directors and 80% were active research scientists. Fifty-six of the 140 participants received partial support of their meeting and/or travel expenses. This included 23 speakers and discussion leaders, 25 graduate students and post-doctoral researchers, and 8 other special cases.(small college faculty, third world and eastern block participants).