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Host and Committee

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The 36th International Symposium on Shock Waves is hosted by the University of Central Florida.

USA Organizing Committee

  • Prof. Subith Vasu (UCF, Organizing Chair)
  • Dean Prof. Michael Georgiopoulos (UCF)
  • Prof. Zachary Ayers (USF)
  • Prof. Sivaramakrishnan Balachandar (UF)
  • Prof. Datta Gaitonde (OSU)
  • Prof. Ryan Gosse (FAMU/FSU)
  • Prof. Ronald Hanson (Stanford)
  • Prof. Sung Min Jo (UCF)
  • Prof. Alain Kassab (UCF)
  • Prof. Jayanta Kapat (UCF)
  • Prof. Rajan Kumar (FSU)
  • Prof. Nicholas Parziale (Stevens Inst.)
  • Dr. Justin Urso (UCF)

International Advisory Committee

  • Prof. Elangannan Arunan (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
  • Prof. Aamir Farooq (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia)
  • Prof. Rajesh G. (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Madras, India)
  • Prof. Santanu Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Madras, India)
  • Dr. Victor Golub (Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Moscow, Russia)
  • Prof. Jagadeesh Gopalan (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
  • Prof. Sangi Gu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong)
  • Prof. Ronald Hanson (Stanford University, California, USA)
  • Dr. Zekai Hong (National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada)
  • Prof. Hamid Hosano (Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan)
  • Dr. Chris James (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
  • Prof. In-Seuck Jeung (Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea)
  • Dr. Joseph Jewell (Washington D.C., USA)
  • Prof. Georges Jourdan (Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France)
  • Prof. S.K. Karthick (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India)
  • Prof. Huey Dong Kim (Andong National University, Andong, South Korea)
  • Prof. Harald Kleine (University of New South Wales – Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
  • Prof. Konstantinos Kontis (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland)
  • Prof. Arun Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India)
  • Prof. Ivett Levya (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas)
  • Prof. Yunfeng Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
  • Prof. Achim Lokse (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Prof. Frank Lu (UT Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA)
  • Prof. Venkat Narayanaswamy (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA)
  • Prof. Marianne Omang (University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway)
  • Dr. Pinaki Pal (Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, USA)
  • Prof. Gisu Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Daejeon, South Korea)
  • Prof. Suhyeon Park (Korean Aerospace University, Goyang, South Korea)
  • Prof. Randall Paton (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
  • Prof. Suraj Ravindran (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
  • Prof. Srisha Rao (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
  • Dr. Jonathan Sosa (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C., USA)
  • Dr. Jesse Streicher (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
  • Prof. Evgeny Timofeev (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
  • Prof. H.S. Udaykumar (University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa)