ISSW35: Shock Waves Down Under
July 5–14, 2025 | Brisbane, Australia
Santa Cruz, CA – The chairs of the 35th International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW35) are proud to be hosting the 2025 session of the Shock Waves Symposia ‘Shock Waves Down Under’. The main event will be held on the St Lucia Campus of The University of Queensland from July 6 to 11. It will be preceded by a one day workshop on Saturday 5 July on shock tube technology on the UQ Campus, and followed by one day workshops on wind tunnel free-flight testing and re-entry emission signatures on the UniSQ Toowoomba campus on Monday 14 July. A full program of distinguished plenary speakers will present material on selected topics of special interest and relevance to current and future global activities. A program of activities for partner registrants will be organized during the week around popular local locations and infrastructure.
About ISSW
The International Symposia on Shock Waves (ISSW) are the meetings of the scientific community devoted to the study and the use of shock-wave related phenomena and their applications. Since the inception of the ISSW in 1957, ISSW has served as an authoritative platform for the international scientific community to meet and exchange ideas on the study of shock-wave related phenomena and their applications. The ISSW is held once every two years, frequently at venues in close proximity to centers of activity in the field.
Shock waves are generated in various media such as gases, liquids, and solids, and are often accompanied by interesting yet complicated interactions. The extensive range of topics covered by the presentations at ISSW may be divided into numerous applications, such as combustion, high-speed flight, detonations, propulsion, physical chemistry, materials, medicine, biology, and geology; the use and development of devices and facilities that generate shock waves, such as shock tubes and shock tunnels, with the associated technology including measurement and diagnostic techniques, as well as fundamental studies such as reflection and refraction of shocks, their interaction with vortices, Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities, chemical kinetics, and many other important phenomena.