Professor James Sutherland in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah organized the US National Meeting of the Combustion Institute (combustion2013.utah.edu). The US National meeting represents one of the largest meetings of the Combustion Institute, an international organization founded in 1954 to promote research in combustion science and applications. The eighth such meeting was be held in Park City, Utah May 19-22, 2013 and was be hosted by the University of Utah and the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute. This meeting brings together researchers from around the United States and Canada who are engaged in all aspects of combustion research to share recent advances in the field. The meeting featured 330 paper presentations with about 420 participants.