Universal Features in Turbulence:

From Quantum to Cosmological Scales

 

5-10 December 2005

MRC, University of Warwick

 

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Tentative Timetable

Monday 5 December

Introduction                   

10.00 – 11.15

Registration, coffee

11.15 – 11.30

Welcome address from

Prof. Stuart Palmer

Deputy Vice Chancellor of

the University of Warwick

11.30 – 12.30

Joe Vinen

(School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham)

An Introduction to Quantum Turbulence

12.30 – 1.30

Lunch

Bose Einstein Condensates and

Non-Linear Optical Turbulence

1.30 – 2.10

Kyo Yoshida 
(University of Tsukuba)

Direct Numerical Simulation of Gross-Pitaevskii Turbulence

2.10 – 2.50

Natalia Berloff

(DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

Turbulence and coherent structures in Bose gases

2.50 – 3.30

 Roland Combescot
 (ENS, Paris)

 Ultra-cold Fermi gases: the BEC-BCS crossover    

3.30-4.00

Tea break

4.00 – 4.40

Alexander Fetter

(Dept of Physics, Stanford University)

Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates

4.40 – 5.20

Brian Jackson

(Newcastle University)

Persistent Currents and Hysteresis in Bose-Einstein Condensates

5.20 – 6.00

Stefania Residori

(Institut Non-Linιaire de Nice, CNRS)

Turbulent-like Behaviour in Non-Linear Optical Systems

6.00

Buffet dinner in the common room

Tuesday 6 December

Quantum Turbulence

9.00 – 9.40

Vladimir Lebedev

(Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Passive Scalar Evolution in Peripheral Region

9.40 – 10.20

Yves Pomeau

(ENS Paris)

Dynamical BE-condensation and creation of long-range order

10.20 – 10.50

Coffee break

10.50 – 11.30

Vladimir Eltsov

(Helsinki University of Technology)

Propagation of Vortex Front in Rotating Superfluid

11.30 – 12.10

Wim van Saarloos

(Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University)

Front Propagation into Unstable States

12.10 – 1.30

Lunch

1.30 – 2.10

Peter McClintock

(Lancaster University)

Quantum Turbulence, Oscillating Grids, and Where We Go Next

2.10 – 2.50

Demosthenes Kivotides 
(University of Newcastle)

Turbulence in Thermal Superfluids.

2.50 – 3.30

Makoto Tsubota

(Osaka City University)

Numerical Study of Quantum Turbulence

3.30 – 4.10

Tea break

4.10 – 4.50

Carlo Barenghi 
(University of Newcastle)

Flow Visualisation and the Motion of Small Particles in Liquid Helium

4.50 – 5.30

Gary Ihas
(University of Lancaster)

How to Make and Detect Turbulence in a Quantum Fluid

5.30

Discussion, free time

Wednesday 7 December

Classical, Geophysical and Astrophysical Turbulence

9.00 – 9.40

Victor L’vov

(Weizmann Institute of Science)

Asymptotical universality of drag reduction in Wall Bounded Turbulence

9.40 – 10.20

Konstantin Turitsin
(Landau Institute)

Polymer Dynamics in Chaotic Flows

10.20 – 11.00

Coffee break

11.00 – 11.40

Polina Landa

(Moscow State University, Dept of Physics)

What is Turbulence from Oscillatory Point of View?

11.40 – 12.20

Gregory Falkovich

(Weizmann Institute of Science)

Conformal Invariance in Turbulence

12.20 – 1.30

Lunch

1.30 – 2.10

Eleftherios Gkioulekas 
(University of Washington)

The Nastrom-Gage Energy Spectrum of the Atmosphere, Proposed Theoretical Explanations, and Comparison with the Predicted Energy Spectrum of Superfluid Turbulence

2.10 – 2.50

Tom Mullin

(University of Manchester)

Transition to Turbulence in Pipe Flow

2.50 – 3.30

Aneta Stefanovska

(Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana)

Hydrodynamics, Turbulence, and Oscillatory Processes in Blood Flow

3.30 – 4.15

Tea

4.15 – 5.00

Sebastien Galtier

(Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale)

Solar Wind Turbulence

5.00 – 6.00

Discussions, posters, free time

6.00

Buffet dinner in the common room

Thursday 8 December

Wave Turbulence

9.00 – 9.40

Vladimir Zakharov

(University of Arizona)

Wave Turbulence in Finite Systems

9.40 – 10.20

Sergey Lukashuk

(Hull University)

Clustering and Mixing of Floaters by the Surface Waves

10.20 – 11.00

Coffee break

11.00 – 11.40

German Kolmakov

(Lancaster University)

Wave Turbulence at the Surface and in the Bulk of Quantum Fluids

11.40 – 12.20

Sergey Nazarenko

(University of Warwick)

Wave Turbulence beyond Spectra

12.20 – 1.30

Lunch

1.30 – 2.10

Sergio Rica

(LPS CNRS, France)

Weak Turbulence for an Elastic Plate

2.10 – 2.50

Elena Kartashova

(RISC, J.Kepler University Linz)

Wave Turbulence Theory of Discrete Systems

2.50 – 3.30

Tea break

3.30 – 4.10

Oleg Zaboronski

(University of Warwick)

Constant flux relation in non-equilibrium statistical physics.

4.10 – 4.40

Stephan Fauve

(LPS ENS, France)

 Fluctuations of energy flux in wave turbulence    

4.40

Discussion, free time

Friday 9 December

Cosmological Turbulence and Laboratory Modelling of Cosmological Processes

9.30 – 10.15

Grigory Volovik

(Helsinki University of Technology)

Black-Hole and White-Hole Horizons for Capillary-Gravity Waves in Superfluids

10.15 – 11.00

Coffee break

Quantum Turbulence (Continued)

 

11.00 – 11.45

Andrei Golov

(University of Manchester)

Quantised Vortices in Cold Superfluid 4He

11.45 – 12.30

Ladislav Skrbek

(Joint Low Temperature Laboratory

Institute of Physics ASCR and Charles University)

Quantum Turbulence in Helium Superfluids

12.30 – 1.30

Lunch

1.30 – 2.15

Matti Krusius

(Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology)

Vortex Formation, Propagation, and Turbulence in Superfluid 3He-B

2.15 – 3.00

George Pickett

(Lancaster University)

Turbulence: From Quantum to Cosmological Scales

3.00 – 3.30

Tea break

3.30 – 4.15

Victor Efimov

(Lancaster University)

Experimental Study of Non-Linear Second Sound Waves in He-II

4.15 – 5.00

Final Discussions

5.00

Wine and snacks in the Common Room

 

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