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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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