The conference program is expected to consist of 90 oral and poster presentations accepted for the conference.  A list of these papers is included with this announcement.  A full program schedule will be distributed when it is finalised. The program comprises the following:

28 papers on high explosives including:

• The influence of ultrafine aluminium upon detonation parameters, by Patrick Brousseau, Mathew Cliff and Helen Dorsett.

• Viscous energetic liquid explosive formulations sensitized with glass microballoons IV. Revised analysis of the detonation data, by James L. Austing.

• Nanomaterials and nanostructures as components for high energy condensed systems, by Yu Frolov, A. Pivkina, S. Zavyalov and P. Ulyanova

34 papers on pyrotechnic compositions, devices and applications including:

• Chemical and physical aspects of a pyrotechnic torch in penetrating and non-detonatively neutralizing all UXO, by Allen Tulis.

• The development of an underwater flare for the Olympic torch relay, Sydney 2000, by Mike Wilson.

• Pyrotechnic heater compositions for use in thermal batteries, by James Calloway, Nigel Davies and Michael Stringer.

• Variables affecting the output of low brisance percussion primers, by Frank J. Valenta.

• Some novel formulations and their application in film industry special effects, by C. Murray, A. Payne and S. Courtley.

20 papers on combustion and propellants including:

• Gas generating propellants for ducted rockets, by I. Komai and N. Kubota.

• Understanding the true driving force in the auto-ignition of single and doublebase propellants using microcalorimetry, by Daniel Ellison and Anton Chin.

• Propellant grains with similar material coatings – The effect of their low temperature sensitivity and the laboratory prediction method, by Fuming Xu, Zeshan Wang and Weidong He.

8 papers on obscurant smokes and red phosphorus including:

• Overview of the United Kingdoms’s low toxicity obscurants research program, by Peter Collins, Grahame Poulson and W. Fletcher.

• Thermal and sensitivity behaviour of phosphorus based smoke compositions, by M.R. Somayajulu, G.K. Gautam, S. Jayaraman and J.P. Agrawal.

• Investigation of  the combustion of red phosphorus and the effect of sample morphology, by Victoria Norris.

The proceedings of the Seminar will be published in two formats – in book form and on CD – and these will be distributed at the Seminar.  To be published, papers must be presented at the seminar, ideally by the author.