May 15-19, 2012

China National Convention Center

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The Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that the 2012 event will be held in China for the first time in the history of the symposia. The 16th EML Symposium will be held at the China National Convention Center and will start with a welcoming reception on May 15th; oral and poster sessions will be held from the 16th – 18th; and the 19^th will feature tours to the historical sites of the Great Wall and the Forbidden City.  

Overview

We are at the threshold of a new era in the applications of electromagnetic launch technology. Significant developments in hypervelocity electromagnetic launch and in hypervelocity high-G guidance and control components have provided the impetus for exploring advanced electromagnetic launchers capable of providing revolutionary new capabilities.

The ability to use electromagnetic energy to controllably propel objects to extremely high speeds has broad and important consequences for many elements of our society, including transportation, communications, energy, national defense, and space. The technology for using electromagnetic energy pulses to accelerate materials to extremely high speeds is only now sufficiently advanced that it is being exploited to evaluate the survivability of space structures and the survivability and lethality of military weapons systems. Electromagnetic launchers are now capable of accelerating objects to such high speeds that projectiles are able to travel many hundreds of kilometers or penetrate the most advanced modern armors, and electromagnetic launchers have even reached sufficiently high speeds to put objects in orbit around the earth.

TOPICS

Launchers
•       Electric light gas guns
•       EM Coilguns
•       EM Railguns
•       Electrothermal / Electrothermal-Chemical Launchers

Projectiles
•       Armatures
•       Integrated Launch Packages
•       Launch Package Components
•       High-G Sensors
•       Guidance, Navigation, and Control

Pulsed-Power Supply Technology
•       Energy Storage
•       Power Conditioning
•       Switching
•       Controls

Modeling and Simulation
•       Computational Techniques
•       Modeling / Simulation Comparison

Diagnostics
•       Diagnostic Techniques

Applications
•       Land, Sea, Air
•       EM aircraft launchers
•       Earth-to-Space Launch
•       Magnetic Levitation
•       EM Armor
•       Industrial

Directed Energy
•       High Power Microwaves
•       High Energy Lasers

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