2009 Multi Agency Coordination Committee for Combustion Research (MACCCR) Fuels Summit in Los Angeles, CA: September 15-17, 2009

该奖项支持于2009年9月15日至17日在加州洛杉矶的南加州大学（USC）举行的第二届MACCCR燃料峰会。2009年MACCCR会议是继2008年9月在美国国家标准与技术研究院（NIST）举行的一次非常成功的会议之后召开的。燃烧研究多机构协调委员会（MACCCR）是联邦政府内部一个非正式的项目管理小组。它用于协调联合倡议，并通知小组成员彼此的活动。燃料峰会的重点是对常规燃料、替代品及其性能特征的科学理解。这项活动的智力价值来自于来自美国各地和各国的燃料科学和燃烧科学专家的参与，他们的技术成果的传播，他们之间的交流，以及他们对未来研究方向的看法。应邀发言者将介绍与控制单一组分燃烧和实用燃料的科学发展有关的研究活动和结果。两个组成部分是国防部多大学研究计划（MURI）小组，他们专注于石油衍生和合成喷气燃料及其替代品的燃烧特性表征。会议的结果将解决社会和技术需求，特别是及时的，因为持续的能源挑战和国家需要推进新的能源转换技术，这些技术更科学，更基于科学。会议还将促进国际间、多学科间的合作与交流。本次会议的结果也将为美国国家科学基金会燃烧、火灾和等离子体系统项目的优先级设定提供有用的指导。

0944227 EgolfopoulosThis award supports the second MACCCR Fuels Summit meeting taking place on September 15-17, 2009, at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, California. The 2009 MACCCR meeting follows a very successful meeting that took place in September of 2008 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The Multi-Agency Coordinating Committee on Combustion Research (MACCCR) is an informal group of program managers within the Federal Government. It serves to coordinate joint initiatives and to inform the group members of each other's activities. The Fuels Summit focuses attention on scientific understanding of conventional fuels, surrogates, and their property-performance characteristics. The intellectual merit of this activity arises from the participation of fuel-science and combustion-science experts from across the United States and from various countries, dissemination of their technical findings, their communications with each other, and their visions of future research directions. Invited speakers will present research activities and results that relate to the development of science that controls the burning of single-component as well as practical fuels. Two components are Department of Defense Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI) teams, who are focused on characterization of combustion properties of petroleum-derived and synthetic jet fuels and their surrogates. Societal and technological needs will be addressed by the outcomes of the conference, especially timely because of the ongoing energy challenges and the need of the country to move forward with new energy conversion technologies that are more scientifically based more on science. The conference will also promote international, multi-disciplinary collaboration and communication. Outcomes of this meeting will also serve as a useful guide for setting priorities of the NSF Combustion, Fire, and Plasma Systems Program.