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CISMMS and JAM2 join HEMI

The Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) is thrilled to welcome the Center for Integrated Structure-Material Modeling & Simulation (CISMMS) and...

HEMI Appoints Co-Deputy Directors

We are thrilled to announce that HEMI fellows Ryan Hurley and Vicky Nguyen have accepted co-Deputy Directors roles for HEMI....

Tim Rupert named HEMI director

MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN, SENT TO WHITING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING FACULTY AND STAFF 6/24/2024 Dear WSE faculty and staff, It...

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The impact energy in an asteroid 1km in diameter can be equal to 30 billion Hiroshima atom bombs.

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Army Educational Outreach Program California Institute of Technology CCDC Army Research Laboratory Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (UK) Defense Threat Reduction Agency Drexel University Goddard Space Flight Center Ernst Mach Institut (Germany) ETH Zurich HEMI Corporate Partners Imperial College of London Institute of Shock Physics (UK) Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory - Planetary Impact Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lehigh University Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow Maryland Advanced Research Computing Center Maryland Institute College of Art Materials Research Data Alliance Missile Defense Agency Morgan State University NASA National Institutes of Health New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology North Carolina A&T State University Protection Engineering Consultants Purdue University

Rutgers University Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute Southwest Research Institute Texas A&M University University of California, Santa Barbara University of Delaware University of Houston University of North Carolina at Charlotte University of Texas at San Antonio US Army Aberdeen Test Center United States Advanced Ceramics Association Washington State University Washington University in St. Louis Wilmer Eye Institute

“We Take Apart the very First Instants of Destruction and Use Themto Make the World a Safer Place.”