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

- Professor K.T. Ramesh, Director of the Johns Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute

HEMI News

HEMI Fellows Present at 2018 CMEDE Fall Meeting

The Materials in Extreme Dynamic Environments Collaborative Research Alliance (MEDE CRA) conducted its Fall Meeting on October 10th, 2018. As...

Prof. Daniel Viete from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Joins HEMI

Please join us in welcoming the newest HEMI Fellow, Prof. Daniel Viete! Prof. Viete is an assistant professor with the...

New Video Showcases HEMI’s Research, Programs, and Collaborations

We are pleased to unveil the most recent informational video for HEMI. Shot mainly over the course of the past...

Events

Special Seminar – “Geomechanics of Blast”

Wednesday, October 17 | 4:00pm

HEMI Seminar: Chris Wohl (NASA)

Friday, October 19 | 3:30pm

HEMI/MICA 2018 Artist in Residence Introduction: Prof. Jenna Frye

Monday, October 22 | 12:00pm

Student Spotlight

HEMI Fellows

Project Spotlight

MICA professor Kimberley Hall (MFA Illustration Practice) served as the 2017 HEMI/MICA Artist in Residence. Prof. Hall worked with HEMI faculty member Prof. Lori Graham-Brady and her students to create textiles and wallpaper depicting both the intricacies of their work and her time at JHU.

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

HEMI cuts across three divisions within Johns Hopkins University: the Whiting School of Engineering, the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, and the Applied Physics Laboratory.

11 universities partner with Johns Hopkins to create the Institute.

HEMI is made possible by collaborations between
Johns Hopkins University and the following organizations:

Army Educational Outreach Program California Institute of Technology Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (UK) Defense Threat Reduction Agency Drexel University Goddard Space Flight Center Ernst Mach Institut (Germany) 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

Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow Maryland Advanced Research Computing Center Maryland Institute College of Art 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 US Army Research Laboratory 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.”