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International Symposium on Fireworks Society
Board of Directors
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Ettore Contestabile
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Roger Schneider
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Fred Wade
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International Advisors |
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Julie HeckmanJulie is the Executive Director of the American Pyrotechnics Association, the leading trade association of the fireworks industry in the United States. Ms. Heckman directs the overall regulatory affairs of the APA, including the Association's Safety Program. She is frequently cited in the media (doing some 300 interviews a year) relating to her expertise in workplace safety, consumer products and hazardous materials regulations, as well as other fireworks-related issues. Ms. Heckman has worked closely with the fireworks industry for the past 16 years. Her accomplishments include authoring "An Analysis of United States Fireworks-Related Injuries" (1996), published in the proceedings of the 3rd International Fireworks Symposium. She has served on the Technical Committee on Pyrotechnics of the National Fire Protection Association since 1990, and she serves on the Advisory Boards of the International Symposium on Fireworks Society, and The American Tribute Foundation. |
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Professor Takamura• Guest Professor of Yokohama National University
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Alexander von OertzenDr. von Oertzen was born in 1967 in Heidelberg, Germany. After starting school in California, USA, he received most of his academic education in Berlin, Germany. He completed his doctoral thesis work in 1992 at a Max-Planck-Institute in Berlin in the field of Physical Chemistry. In the following years he worked part-time on numerical simulations of oscillatory chemical reactions and part-time on teaching natural sciences. In 2001 Dr. von Oertzen came into touch with pyrotechnics, and is since then as scientist at the German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) involved in various issues of pyrotechnics, fireworks testing, and participates in international expert committees. Currently Dr. von Oertzen is leading the BAM contribution to the European research project on hazards related to bulk storage of fireworks (CHAF). |
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Bert von RosenBert von Rosen is the Head of the Explosion Effects Group at the Canadian Explosives Research Laboratory where he has the enviable job of blowing things up and calling it research. Bert has been involved in the Symposium since Naples, 2000. His primary role has been to ensure that Ettore has sufficient coffee and chocolate at all times. |





