Chemistry and Physics of Energetic Materials

1. Fundamental Principles of Thermal Explosions and Recent Applications.- 2. Modelling Isothermal Waves of Chemical Reaction.- 3. Thermochemical Modeling: I. Application to Decomposition of Energetic Materials.- 4. Thermochemical Modeling: II. Application to Ignition and Combustion of Energetic Materials.- 5. Fundamental Physics and Chemistry Behind Molecular Crystal Detonations at a Microscopic Level.- 6. On the X? Local Spin Density Approximation in the Study of Organic Molecules.- 7. On the Dissociation of Chemical Bonds.- 8. Structure-Sensitivity Relationships in Energetic Compounds.- 9. Computational Studies of Energetic Nitramines.- 10. Molecular Dynamics Approach to Detonation Studies and Related Problems in the Condensed Phase.- 11. Molecular Dynamical Studies of Energy Transport and Energy Sharing in Molecular Dissociation.- 12. Fast Thermolysis-Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Methods to Study Energetic Materials.- 13. Structure-Thermolysis Relationships for Energetic Materials.- 14. The Application of Simultaneous Thermogravimetric Modulated Beam Mass Spectrometry and Time-of-flight Velocity Spectra Measurements to the Study of the Pyrolysis of Energetic Materials.- 15. Thermal Decomposition of HMX and RDX: Decomposition Processes and Mechanisms Based on STMBMS and TOF Velocity-Spectra easurements.- 16. The Diamond Anvil Cell for Physical and Chemical Investigations of Energetic Materials at High Pressures.- 17. Effects of Pressure on the Thermal Decomposition Rates, Chemical Reactivity, and Phase Behavior of HMX, RDX and Nitromethane.- 18. Mechanistic Investigations of Condensed Phase Energetic Material Decomposition Processes using the Kinetic Deuterium Isotope Effect.- 19. Mechanistic Relationships of the Decomposition Process to Combustion andExplosion Events from Kinetic Deuterium Isotope Effect Investigations.- 20. KIVA Reactive Hydrodynamics Code Applied to Detonations in High Vacuum.- 21. Detonation Chemistry Studies of Energetic Materials using Laboratory Scale Samples.- 22. Analysis of Reaction Products of Propellants and High Explosives.- 23. Chemical Sensitisation in Nitro, Nitramine, and Nitrate Explosives.- 24. The Response of Energetic Materials to Projectile Impact.- 25. Fundamentals of X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) and its Applications to Explosives and Propellants.- 26. XPS Study of Hot Spots and Sensitization Centers in Energetic Materials.- 27. Sensitivity Relationships in Energetic Materials.- 28. Molecular Architecture Versus Chemistry and Physics of Energetic Materials.- 29. Emission Spectroscopy as a Tool to Detect Decomposition Products of Laser Irradiated Explosives.- 30. Tandem Mass Spectrometry (MS/MS) and Collision Induced Dissociation (CID) — An Introduction.- 31. MS/MS of Energetic Compounds: Collision Induced Dissociation (CID) Studies of Fragmentation Processes in Energetic Molecules.- 32. NQR/NMR Studies of Solid Phase Energetic Materials.- List of Participants.