WELCOME
Please join us in Halifax, Nova Scotia from August 27 - September 1, 2006 for the Twelfth International Colloquium on Dust Explosions and the Seventh Colloquium on Gas, Vapor, Liquid and Hybrid Explosions. These two colloquia jointly form the Sixth International Symposium on Hazards, Prevention, and Mitigation of Industrial Explosions (6th ISHPMIE).
The dust explosion colloquium series was initiated by and is still coordinated by Prof. Piotr Wolanski of Warsaw University of Technology, with the colloquia initially being held in Poland: Baranow (1984), Jadwisin (1986), Szczyrk (1988), Porabka-Kozubnik (1990), and Pultusk (1993). Subsequent colloquia were held in Shenyang, China (1994), Bergen, Norway (1996), Schaumburg, USA (1998), Tsukuba, Japan (2000), Bourges, France (2002), and Cracow, Poland (2004).
In 1981 Prof. John Lee of McGill University initiated the International Specialist Meeting on Fuel-Air Explosions, held in Montreal, Canada. A second and similar meeting was held in Bergen in 1996 in conjunction with the Seventh International Colloquium on Dust Explosions. The two meetings in Bergen occurred under the name of the International Symposium on Hazards, Prevention, and Mitigation of Industrial Explosions (ISHPMIE). This tradition of joint colloquia under the ISHPMIE banner has continued through the symposia in Schaumburg, Tsukuba, Bourges, Cracow, and now Halifax.
The Sixth ISHPMIE is aimed at again bringing under one roof, researchers and practitioners dealing with a variety of potential hazards that can lead to industrial explosions - dusts, gases, vapors, liquids, and hybrid mixtures. Consistent with the symposium title, the presentations will cover a range of prevention and mitigation strategies from several perspectives - experimental work, modeling efforts, fundamental studies, and practical applications.