2026 Spring Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of The Combustion Institute

March 15, 2026 - March 18, 2026
8:00 AM - 2:15 PM Eastern

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The 2026 Spring Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of The Combustion Institute will be held 15 - 18 March in Raleigh, NC. The meeting will be hosted by North Carolina State University.
 
The event will consist of an opening reception, plenary seminars, technical talks, and a banquet event. Attendance at the 2026 Spring Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of The Combustion Institute shall be governed by the Code of Conduct found on the ESSCI event website.

If you are interested in presenting a poster, please fill out the Google Form. Responses are due on March 6, by 5 pm (EST). Further instructions on the format of the posters will be communicated with interested participants. Depending on the response rate, the posters will be available from 1 to 3 days of the meeting.

The Technical Program for the ESSCI Spring Technical Meeting is available here. 

And to stay up to date on all information related to this meeting, make sure to monitor the 2026 Spring Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of The Combustion Institute official website, here.

Setting: In-Person
North Carolina State University
Engineering Building III
1840 Entrepreneur Dr
Raleigh, NC 27606
UNITED STATES

Prof. Tarek Echekki and Prof. Phil Westmoreland

Colloquia Topics:

• Computationally and Data-Intensive Research
• Detonations and Supersonic Combustion
• Diagnostics
• Fire Research
• Flame-based Synthesis and Nanomaterials
• Heterogeneous Combustion/Spray and Droplets
• IC Engines, Gas Turbines, and Rockets
• Laminar Flames
• Novel Energy Conversion Techniques
• Reaction Kinetics and Fuels
• Soot and Other Combustion-Generated Aerosols
• Turbulent Flames

The 2026 Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute meeting, will provide poster-display space. 
The top priority will be researchers who may not have submitted an abstract by the deadline but are interested in displaying their work in poster format. Presenters must register, and they can be available for discussion during breaks. If there is available space, we will also display posters from students and post-docs who have podium presentations but wish to have additional exposure for their work. This may be helpful to students and post-docs who are interested in teaming with other peers within the new Research Fellowship Program. 

Please note that presenting a poster is optional. The initiative is designed simply to increase the interactions between participants at the meeting.
 
If you are interested in presenting a poster, please fill out the Google Form. Responses are due on March 6, by 5 pm (EST). Further instructions on the format of the posters will be communicated with interested participants. Depending on the response rate, the posters will be available from 1 to 3 days of the meeting.
 
ESSCI Extended Abstract Template can be found here. 

ESSCI Research Fellows Program
The Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute (ESSCI) is pleased to announce the inaugural Research Fellows Program. The Program will support collaboration between two ESSCI graduate students or postdoctoral researchers at academic institutions. Each Fellow will spend time at the other institution working on a collaborative research project of mutual interest. Proposals are due May 1, 2026 to Prof. Michael E. Mueller, Chair of the Eastern States Section of The Combustion Institute, via email (muellerm@princeton.edu)

The full call for proposals can be found here.

11 March 2026 – Online registration deadline (23:59 EDT)

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