Program | FCWS

Day 1 Saturday, 25^th July 2026

Time	Moderator	Session / Talk
8.00–8.30		Registration
Joint Session — RCM & Flame Chemistry Workshops
8.30–8.40	Matteo Pelucchi Scott Goldsborough	Introduction
8.40–9.05		"Community-driven Collaboration: Scientific Advances via the RCM Workshop Initiatives" Scott Goldsborough — Argonne National Laboratory, USA
9.05–9.20		"Highlights from the 7^th Flame Chemistry Workshop: challenges and objectives in chemical kinetics modeling of combustion and plasma combustion" Matteo Pelucchi — Politecnico di Milano, Italy
9.20–9.35		"Combining Theory, Modeling, and Experiment: An Example from DME Research" Markus Köhler — German Aerospace Center, Stuttgart, Germany
9.35–10.00		Open Discussion
10.00–10.30		Coffee Break & Group Picture
Opening FCWS
10.30–10.45	Matteo Pelucchi Bin Yang	Welcome, summary and agenda
Topic 1 — Sustainable Fuels Combustion LFS, IDT, pollutants: H₂, NH₃, SAFs
10.45–11.30	Liming Cai	"Theoretical kinetics of reactions between molecular oxygen and nitrogen centered radicals formed during alkylamine oxidation" Yasuyuki Sakai — Ibaraki University, Japan "Multiscale physics-based, data-driven studies of combustion and emissions of hydrogen and Ammonia" Mike Burke — Columbia University, USA "Combustion chemistry of SAF and supercritical autoignition of H₂" Song Cheng — Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
11.30–12.15		Open Discussion
12.15–13.30		Lunch
Topic 2 — Advanced Diagnostics for Combustion Measurements
13.30–14.15	Andrea Comandini	"Simultaneous multi-species sensing in shock tubes through variable-pathlength laser absorption" Ron Hanson — Stanford University, USA "Synchrotron-based diagnostics for chemical kinetic experiments" Tina Kasper — Paderborn University, Germany "Structured combustion data and databases for kinetic mechanism development and validation" Tibor Nagy — Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungary
14.15–15.00		Open Discussion
15.00–15.30		Coffee Break
Topic 3 — Plasma Combustion: Experiments and Modelling
15.30–16.15	Bin Yang	"Theoretical study and cross section calculation of electron-molecule scattering" Xianwu Jiang — Wuhan University of Technology, China "Laser diagnostics methods for plasma systems" Wei Ren — The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong "Low temperature combustion and plasma-assisted combustion" Nicholas Tsolas — Auburn University, USA
16.15–17.00		Open Discussion
17.00–17.30	Organizers	Summary from Day 1
17.30–19.30		Poster Session & Reception

Day 2 Sunday, 26^th July 2026

Time	Moderator	Session / Talk
8.00–8.50		Registration
8.50–9.00	Matteo Pelucchi	Welcome, summary and agenda
Topic 4 — AI-TST-ME: Automation, Benchmarking and Knowledge Transfer
9.00–9.45	Feng Zhang	"Edge migration of aromatic rings by radical reactions — kinetics and directionality: can the outcome of an aromatic edge migration be predicted on the fly?" Alexander Mebel — Florida International University, USA "Transforming combustion chemistry workflows to handle the big data deluge" William H. Green — Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA "Automated kinetic data generation for combustion models using the tabulated model of transition states (TMTS) method" Baptiste Sirjean — Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
9.45–10.30		Open Discussion
10.30–11.00		Coffee Break
Topic 5 — Chemical Kinetics Mechanisms: Progress in Accuracy and Details
11.00–11.45	Brandon Rotavera	"Speciation experiments in kinetics: what do we learn from modeling?" Guillaume Dayma — Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France "Details in elementary kinetics: setting the foundations for combustion kinetics modeling" Raghu Sivaramakrishnan — Argonne National Laboratory, USA "Developing detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms for fuel combustion" Henry Curran — University of Ireland, Ireland
11.45–12.30		Open Discussion
12.30–13.45		Lunch
Discussion and Actions
13.45–15.30	Matteo Pelucchi Bin Yang	Open discussion on challenges Feasible joint actions and initiatives for Topics 1–5 Feedback and suggestions from participants