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We are excitied to announce that the 2025 FM Fire Modeling Workshop will be held at the Four Points by Sheraton in Norwood MA from May 13th to 14th.
Prospective participants are invited to register and submit abstracts for oral or poster presentation. The abstracts will be evaluated based on their quality and suitability for the objectives of the workshop.
Invitations to attend the workshop without presentation will be extended on the basis of available space. There is no registration fee for the workshop. Invited participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodations. A block of rooms will be reserved at discount rates at the Four Points Hotel by Sheraton, Norwood.
Depending on the level of interest, we may run a FireFOAM training/demo session on the afternoon of Monday 12th May. Please indicate if you are interested in attending when completing your registration form.
- Registration deadline - February 25th 2025
- Abstract submission deadline (oral presentation) - February 25th 2025
- Abstract submission deadline (poster presentation) - February 25th 2025
- Notification of acceptance and invitations to workshop - March 11th 2025
- Technical Program released - March 28th 2025
- (Optional) FireFOAM training/demo session - May 12th 2025
- Conference dates - May 13th to 14th 2025
Registration is free and required for all attendees. Capacity is limited and while we endevour to accept all registrations, priority will be given to presenters.
Submissions are welcomed for both oral and poster presentations, in the form of an abstract under 300 words. For multiple submissions per corresponding author, please complete the submission form once per item. Notification of acceptance will be communicated to authors following a review process.
Each oral presentation has a 25 minute time slot for a 20 minutes presentation with 5 minutes for discussion.
The posters sizes should be approximately of 594 x 841 mm (24 x 33 inches) in vertical (portrait) orientation. Please prepare a short (1-2 slide) presentation for the poster session.
Upon completion of the workshop, authors may provide a compressed PDF (<20MB) of their presentation/poster if they wish for it to be archived on this website. Further instructions will be provided during the workshop.
The technical program will be announced by March 28th.
The conference will be held at the Four Points by Sheraton Norwood. Details for booking at a discount rate will be released after notifications of acceptance and invitations sent out.
Alternatively, there are several hotels within a short walking distance from the workshop hotel:
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Courtyard Boston Norwood/Canton - 300 River Ridge Dr, Norwood, MA 02062
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Holiday Inn Express & Suites Norwood - 225 Norwood Park S, Norwood, MA 02062
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Residence Inn by Marriott Boston Norwood/Canton - 275 Norwood Park S, Norwood, MA 02062
- Sergey Dorofeev (committee chair)
- Yi Wang
- Dong Zeng
- Alex Krisman
Note: no workshops from 2020-2022 due to COVID-19 pandemic
FM hosts this annual workshop as a forum for experts from industry, government, and academia worldwide to discuss, cooperate and improve open source software for fire modeling. The goal of the workshop is the development of predictive fire models targeting real world applications. Fire modeling is a highly interdisciplinary field with theoretical and experimental contributions needed from combustion scientists, fire protection engineers, software developers, and many others. Workshop contributors will present recent findings in model development and validation on a range of topics, such as material flammability, fire dynamics, flame spread, heat and mass transfer, radiation, sprinkler sprays, water mist, and fire suppression. Presentations are selected based on their quality and suitability for the objectives of the workshop. Invitations to attend the workshop without presentation are extended based on available space.
Established nearly two centuries ago, FM is a mutual insurance company whose capital, scientific research capability and engineering expertise are solely dedicated to property risk management. Mitigating risk is the mark of resilient companies. And one-third of Fortune 1000 companies choose to partner with FM.