The Turbo Expo 2026 has come to a close after a successful and productive week for the Georgia Tech combustion team. The team had several noteworthy accomplishments, some of which include:

• Best paper award from the Electric Power Committee for 2025 Turbo Expo paper: Emerson, B., Wu, D., Avila Jimenez, C., Cole, R., Park, J.-K., Lee, S., Harper, J., Noble, D. Development of a Full Scale Retrofittable Ammonia Combustor for Can Annular Frame Engine Implementation. 2025. ASME Turbo Expo. Memphis, TN.
• TEECE travel award presented to Aravind Chandh
• Outgoing chair award presented to Benjamin Emerson
• Vice Review Chair award presented to Benjamin Emerson
• Cutting edge technical paper presentations by Robert Bond, Ananth Srinivas Nayak, Natalie King, Reid Fly, Renee Cole, Jeremiah Juergensmeyer, Shivam Patel, and Parth Patki.
• Ben Emerson and Vishal Acharya presented the Combustion Dynamics tutorial to a room of 75 attendees.
• 10th combustion lab conference reunion dinner
• Countless collaborator interactions