Videos of the 2010 Princeton-CEFRC Summer School on Combustion Lectures are now available for viewing online at http://www.princeton.edu/engineering/video/combustion-2010/.

With petroleum supplies dwindling and global warming a growing concern, young scientists flocked to Princeton University this summer for a primer on the science of combustion, a key field of research for developing alternative fuels and the engines that will burn them.

The 33rd International Symposium on Combustion, organized by the Combustion Institute, will be hosted by Tsinghua University in Beijing, China on August 1- 6, 2010. At this widely-attended biennial symposium, three of the five plenary lectures will be delivered by principal investigators from the CEFRC. In the opening "Hottel Lecture", Professor Ronald K. Hanson of Stanford University will present modern techniques for studying chemical kinetics.

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CEFRC Principal Investigator Professor Yiguang Ju of Princeton University, along with five of the University's graduate students, were invited to speak at the "2nd International Forum on Multidisciplinary Education and Research for Energy Science". This forum, which is sponsored by the Global COE program "Multidisciplinary Education and Research Center for Energy Science" at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, was conducted in Okinawa, Japan on December 12-16, 2009.

In August 2009, the Combustion Energy Frontier Research Center (CEFRC) was established at Princeton University by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The CEFRC, which is funded at $20M for five years, is part of a DOE initiative to spur discoveries that lay the groundwork for an economy based on clean replacements for fossil fuels.