IAFSS 2023 Symposium

Invited Plenary Speakers

• Yuki Akizuki, University of Toyama, Japan, “Evacuation Route Design based on Visibility for Reducing Evacuation Delays”
• Naian Liu, University of Science and Technology of China, China, “Wildland Surface Fire Spread: Behavior and Mechanism Transformation”
• Eulalia Planas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, “Fires at the Wildland-Industrial Interface: Is There an Emerging Problem?”
• Stanislav Stoliarov, University of Maryland, USA, “Pyrolysis Model Parameterization and Fire Growth Prediction: The State of the Art”
• Jennifer Wen, University of Surrey, UK, “Fire Modelling: the Success, the Challenges, and the Dilemma”

Invited Awardees

• The Howard W. Emmons Invited Plenary Lectureship: David Purser, Hartford Environmental Research, UK, “Assessment of Pre-Warning, Pre-Movement and Travel Behavior Interactions with Smoke and Toxic Gases during Fire Incidents”
• Proulx Early Career Award: Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, NIST, USA, “The Equivalence Ratio Concept in Fire Safety Science”
• Magnusson Early Career Award: Thomas Gernay, Johns Hopkins University, USA, “Performance-Based Design for Structures in Fire: Advances, Challenges, and Perspectives”
• Best Thesis Award in Asia/Pacific: Xiepeng Sun, USTC, China, joint PhD with Ghent University, Belgium, “Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Ejected Facade Flame Behavior from Compartment Fires under Different Ventilation Conditions”
• Best Thesis Award in Europe/Africa: Li Ma, Aix-Marseille University, Électricité de France (EDF), France, “Large-Eddy Simulation of Purely Buoyant Diffusion Flames”
• Best Thesis Award in Americas: Parham Dehghani, University of Maryland, USA, “Using a Gas-Supplied Burner to Obtain Flammability Maps of Solids and Liquids in Microgravity in a Quiescent Ambient without External Radiation”