19th Canberra International Summer School

supported by the Complex Open System Network (COSNet)

"Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Fluids, Plasma and Granular Flows"

16-20 January 2006

The Australian National University, Canberra

Summer School Convenor: Dr. Michael Shats (tss@rsphysse.anu.edu.au)

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Supported by the Complex Open Systems Network (COSNet)

Summer School Convener: Dr Michael Shats (tss@rsphysse.anu.edu.au)

The Summer School will follow a 4-day CSIRO/COSNet Workshop (10-13 January)

Topics and lecturers:

• Prof. Harry L. Swinney, University of Texas at Austin (USA)
  PATTERN FORMATION IN NONEQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS (5 lectures)
• Prof. W. David McComb, University of Edinburgh (UK)
  RENORMALIZATION FOR BEGINNERS (3 lectures)
• Prof. Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann Institute of Science, Revohot (Israel)
  INTRODUCTION TO DEVELOPED TURBULENCE (4 lectures)
• Prof. Philip Holmes, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)
  DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND CHAOS (5 lectures)
• Prof. John A. Krommes, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)
  PLASMA TURBULENCE (4 lectures)
• Prof. Henk A. Dijkstra, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands)
  TURBULENCE AND COHERENT VORTICES IN THE OCEAN (2 lectures)
• Prof. Javier Jiménez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) (Spain)
  NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF FLUID TURBULENCE (2 lectures)
• Prof. Julio Soria, Monash University, Melbourne (Australia)
  EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN FLUID TURBULENCE STUDIES (2 lectures)
• Dr. Michael Shats, ANU, Canberra (Australia)
  EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES IN PLASMA TURBULENCE (2 lectures)

The Summer School is intended for the Honours, Masters and PhD students, post docs and researchers working in various fields where turbulence and coherent structures play important roles.

One of the main objectives of this Summer School is to introduce turbulence as a cross-disciplinary domain and to give attendees exposure to some of the most vital theoretical and experimental areas of the turbulence studies.

Lectures given by leading world specialists will cover fundamentals of theory of developed turbulence, formation of patterns, theoretical approaches to turbulence (chaos, dynamical systems, renormalization) as well as numerical and experimental techniques. Applications range from fluids to plasma, atmospheric, oceanic and granular flows.