The funds will provide partial travel support to American graduate students and young scientists who will participate in the 29th International Symposium on Shock Waves. The meeting will be held at the Memorial Union of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from Sunday, July to 14 to Friday, July 19, 2013. There will be ten plenary lectures by national and international invited speakers. A total of 313 contributed papers have been submitted and they will be distributed among six parallel oral sessions in each of four daily periods, and a poster session. Oral sessions will include: Medical/Biological Applications; Industrial Applications; Blast Waves; Chemically Reacting Flows; Detonation and Combustion; Facilities; Flow Visualization; Hypersonic Flow; Impact and Compaction/Condensed Matter Physics; Ignition; Magnetohydrodynamics/Plasmas; Multiphase Flow; Nozzle Flow; Numerical Methods; Propulsion; Shock Waves and Rarefied Flows; Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability; Shock/Boundary Layer Interaction; Shock Propagation, Reflection; Shock Vortex Interaction. Some of the oral sessions will be reserved for a "student competition" whose winner will receive an award for best paper. The funds for the awards will be provided by the International Shock Wave Institute.
The 29th International Symposium on Shock Waves was held at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union in Madison, WI, from Sunday, July 14, 2013 to Friday, July 21, 2013. This was the first time the conference was held in the U.S. since 2001, when it was hosted in Forth Worth, TX, by the University of Texas at Arlington. A total of 225 scientists from 21 countries attended the conference. Of these, 86 were students. There were ten invited plenary lectures, including: Paul Vieille Lecture: Gabi Ben-Dor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, "Hysteresis phenomena in reflection of shock waves" Lazhar Houas, Universit´e Aix-Marseille, IUSTI-CNRS, "Ten years of shock tube research at Marseille" Kostas Kontis, The University of Manchester, "Flow diagnostics for high speed aerodynamics and shock physics" Harald Kleine, The University of New South Wales, "High-speed visualization of compressible flows - potential and limitations" Sebastian Heinz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Astrophysical Shocks and their Role in Energizing Cosmic Gas - from Supernovae to Supermassive Black Holes" Jeff Jacobs, The University of Arizona, "Vorticity and vortex models in shock accelerated gas inhomogeneities" Zoling Jiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, "Successful development of the long-test-duration hypervelocity detonation-driven shock tunnel" Gennady Kanel, Russian Academy of Sciences, "Shock waves in relaxing condensed media" Kazuyoshi Takayama Lecture: Beric Skews, University of the Witwatersrand, "Evolution of research - a case study" There were 221 contributed oral presentations, and 50 poster presentations. Up to six parallel sessions were run every day, in 21 different areas including: Blast waves, Chemically reactive flows, Detonation, Facilities, Flow visualization, Hypersonic flows, Ignition, Impact and compaction, Industrial applications, Medical and biological applications, Nozzle flows, Numerical methods, Plasmas and magnetohydrodynamics, Propulsion, Shock propagation and reflection, Shock-Boundary layer interactions, Shock-vortex interaction, Shocks in condensed matter, Shocks in multiphase fluids, Shocks in rarefied gases. Fourteen special sessions were dedicated to a student competition for the best oral presentation and one special poster session was dedicated to a student competition for best poster. The winners of the student competitions were: First Place, Student Oral Presentation Competition: Wouter Mostert, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, University of Queensland, for the paper "Characterisation of the Cylindrical Riemann Problem in Magnetohydrodynamics" Honorable Mention, Student Oral Presentation Competition: Shalan Hooseria, Flow Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, for the paper "Three-dimensional Curved Shock Wave Interactions with Slender Bodies at Incidence" First Place, Student Poster Presentation Competition: Keisuke Ouchi, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan, for the poster "Numerical and Experimental Investigations of Fluidic Thrust Vectoring with Oblique Shock Waves" Honorable Mention, Student Poster Presentation Competition: Minghu Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, for the poster "Experimental Study on Interaction of Planar ShockWave with Polygonal Helium Cylinder" The conference proceedings were distributed in digital form (USB memory sticks) to all participants. A printed version, with ISBN number, will be published by Springer&Verlag in the next few months and will be available for purchase. Eighteen authors were invited to submit extended version of their papers for a special issue of Shock Waves that will be entirely dedicated to ISSW29.
