1999 Gordon Research Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Combustion

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Abstract : 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).