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ITP Conference on
         Physics of Hydrodynamic Turbulence
        February 7-11, 2000
               Organizers:  P. Constantin, I. Procaccia, B. Shraiman and K. Sreenivasan

SCHEDULE

            All sessions to be held in ITP Main Seminar Room unless otherwise specified.   Here is a list of participants.

 
 

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Monday,
  February 7, 2000
Time:
 Speaker: Title:
8:00 am
 Registration  ITP Lobby
8:45
 David Gross Welcome to the ITP[Audio]
 8:55
 K. Sreenivasan Welcome to the Conference[Audio]
   
Session Chair: 
 Darryl Holm (LANL)
9:00 
 Anatol Roshko
(Caltech)		 What is the Turbulence Problem?[Audio]
9:40
 Harry Swinney
(Univ of Texas/Austin)		 Turbulent Couette-Taylor Flow[Audio]
10:20
 Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
11:00
 R.J. Donnelly
(Univ. Oregon)		 Modern Turbulence Measurements Using Room Temperature and Cryogenic Fluids[Audio]
11:40
 Roddam Narasimha
(NIAS-India)		 Turbulent Cloud-like Flows[Audio]
12:20 pm
 Lunch  ITP Center Patio
 
Session Chair: 
 Peter Constantin (Univ Chicago)
2:00
 Itamar Procaccia
(Weizmann)		 Scaling Theories of Turbulence[Audio]
2:40
 Marcel Lesieur
(Grenoble)		 Large Eddy Simulations of Turbulence[Audio]
3:20
 Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
4:00
 James McWilliams
(UCLA)		 Instability and Breakdown of Nonlinear Balance in Geophysical Flows[Audio]
4:40
 Marshall Tulin
(UCSB Ocean Engr. Lab.)		 Breaking Waves in the Ocean[Audio]
5:20
 End of Session
Tuesday,
  February 8, 2000
Session Chair: 
 Fazle Hussain (Univ Houston)
9:00 am
 Eberhard Bodenschatz
(Cornell)		 Lagrangian Measurements in Turbulence[Audio]
9:40
 Zellman Warhaft
(Cornell)		 Anistropy and Intermittency in Small Scale Turbulence[Audio]
10:20
 Carl Gibson
(UCSD)		 Turbulence and Fossil Turbulence in Natural Fluids[Audio]
10:20
 Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
11:00
 Boris Shraiman
(Bell Labs-Lucent)		 Multipoint Correlators, Structures and Scaling[Audio]
11:40
 Alain Pumir
(CRNS)		 Lagrangian Tetrads: Geometry and Dynamics[Audio]
12:20 pm
 Lunch ITP Center Patio
Session Chair: 
 Harry Swinney (Univ Texas)
2:00
 Uriel Frisch
(Obs. Cote d'Azur-Nice)		 A Universal Law for the Tails of the PDFs in Multidimensional Burgers' Turbulence[Audio]
2:40
 Victor Yakhot
(Boston Univ)		 Mean-field Approximation and a Small Parameter in Turbulence Theory[Audio]
3:20
 Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
4:00
 Shiyi Chen
(Johns Hopkins/CNLS)		 Scaling and Vortex Models in Fluid Turbulence[Audio]
4:40
 Arkady Tsinober
(Tel-Aviv Univ)		 Geometric Statistics in Turbulence and Vortex Stretching[Audio]
5:20

 

 Special Event:
5:30 - Munchies
6:00 - Dinner		 ITP Center Patio
Wednesday,
  February 9, 2000
Session Chair: 
 Carl Meinhart (UCSB)
9:00 am
 Patrick Tabeling
(ENS-Paris)		 Passive Tracers in Turbulent Flows[Audio]
9:40
 Jerry Gollub
(Haverford)		 Experiments on Chaotic and Weakly Turbulent Mixing[Audio]
10:20
 Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
11:00
 E. Villermaux
(Marseille)		 The Intimate Structure of Turbulent Mixing[Audio]
11:40
 Sanjoy Banerjee
(UCSB)		 Mixing Near Turbulent Interfaces[Audio]
12:20 pm
 Lunch ITP Center Patio
 2:00
 Afternoon Free
Thursday,
 February 10, 2000
Session Chair: 
 Charles Doering (Univ Michigan)
9:00 am
 Toshiyuki Gotoh
(Nagoya Inst. Tech)		 Statistics of Pressure Gradients in Homogeneous Turbulence[Audio]
9:40
 Rahul Pandit
(Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)		 Numerical Simulations of Multiscaling[Audio]
10:20
 Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
11:00
 Massimo Vergassola
(Obs. Cote d'Azur-Nice)		 Universality and Saturation of Intermittency in Passive Scalars[Audio]
11:40
 Gregory Falkovich
(Weizmann)		 Lagrangian Dynamics in a Spatially Smooth Chaotic Flow[Audio]
12:20 pm
 Lunch ITP Center Patio
Session Chair: 
 William George (SUNY, Buffalo)
2:00
 Fazle Hussain
(Univ Houston)		 Genesis and Dynamics of Streamwise Vortices in Near-Wall Turbulence[Audio]
2:40
 Robert Kerr
(NCAR)		 The Role of Two Length Scales in the Singular Collapse of Euler and Ideal MHD[Audio]
3:20
 Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
4:00
 Zhen-Su She
(UCLA/Beijing)		 Statistical Quantification of Intermittent Structures in Turbulence[Audio]
4:40
 Michael Chertkov
(CNLS)		 Elastic Turbulence Theory[Audio]
5:20

 

 Special Event:
5:30 - Munchies
6:00 - Dinner		 ITP Center Patio
Friday,
 February 11, 2000
Session Chair: 
 Itamar Procaccia (Weizmann)
9:00 am
 Peter Constantin
(Univ Chicago)		 An Eulerian-Lagrangian Approach to Navier-Stokes Turbulence[Audio]
9:40
 Charles Doering
(Univ Michigan)		 Bounds on Turbulent Transport[Audio]
10:20
 Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
11:00
 Gregory Eyink
(Univ Arizona)		 A Variational Principle for Turbulent Statistics[Audio]
11:40
 Saleh Tanveer
(Ohio State)		 Some Exact Results[Audio]
12:20
 Guenter Ahlers
(UCSB)		 Turbulent Heat Transport in Rayleigh-Benard Convection[Audio]
12:20 pm
 Lunch ITP Center Patio
 
Session Chair: 
 K. Sreenivasan (Yale Univ)
2:00
 Open Session General Discussion[Audio]
3:20
 Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
5:00
 End of Conference

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