AGENDA

Conference on Turbulence

March 20, 2003 - March 22, 2003

Organizers:

 

Gregory Falkovich - Institute for Advanced Study

Thomas Spencer- Institute for Advanced Study

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The Conference will be held in the Math Seminar Room in Simonyi Hall.

Messages for workshop guests may be left by calling (609) 734-8100 and will be

placed on the bulletin board in the lobby of Simonyi Hall.

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THURSDAY, March 20

09:00 Welcome (Thomas Spencer, IAS)

09:15 - 09:45 Uriel Frisch (CNRS), Reconstruction of the early universe by the Monge-Kantorovich optimal mass transportation

09:45 - 10:30 Krzysztof Gawedzki (IAS), Remarks on Lagrangian flow in time-correlated velocity ensembles

10:30 - 11:00 Break (IAS Dining Hall)

11:00 -12:00

12:00 - 12:40 Vladimir Zakharov (Arizona), New results on weak turbulent theory of wind-driven sea

12:40 - 02:00 LUNCH (IAS Dining Hall)

02:00 - 02:45 Eugene Balkovsky (Rutgers), Olfactory search at high Reynolds number and the flying moth

02:45- 03:15 Alexander Balk (IAS), Anomalous behavior of a passive tracer in wave turbulence

03:15 -03:45 Tea Break (Fuld Hall Common Room)

03:45- 04:30 Antonio Celani (CNRS), Two- and three-dimensional turbulence of dilute polymer solutions

04:30 - 05:30 Alexander Zamolodchikov(Rutgers), Ising model near criticality: analytic structure

05:30 - 06:15 Massimo Vergassola (IAS), 2D magnetohydrodynamics: lagrangian dynamics and inverse energy cascade

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FRIDAY, March 21

09:00 - 09:45 Katepalli Sreenivasan (Univ Maryland), Passive scalar in a real world

09:45 - 10:30 Vladimir Lebedev (Los Alamos National Lab), Passive scalar statistics in the peripheral region of a bounded chaotic flow

10:30 - 11:00 Break (IAS Dining Hall)

11:00 - 12:00 Victor Steinberg (Weizmann Institute), Batchelor decay regime of mixing: experiment vs theory

12:00 - 12:40 Michael Chertkov (Los Alamos National Lab), Boundary effects on chaotic advection-diffusion chemical reactions

12:40 - 02:00 LUNCH (IAS Dining Hall)

02:00 - 02:45 Yakov Sinai (Princeton), Quasilinear approximation of 3d Navier-Stokes systems

02:45 - 03:30 Raymond Shaw (Michigan Tech Univ), Particle-turbulence interactions in atmospheric clouds

03:30 - 04:00 Tea Break (Fuld Hall Common Room)

04:00 - 04:45 Alex Kostinski (Michigan Tech Univ), Possible implications of turbulence-induced particle clustering in optics and radiative transfer

04:45 - 05:15 Alain Pumir (Institut Non Lineaire de Nice), Intermittent distribution of inertial particles in turbulent flows: numerical analysis

05:15 - 05:45 Mikhail Stepanov (IAS), Collision rate of droplets in a turbulent cloud

05:45 - 06:15 Jeremie Bec (IAS), Aggregation of inertial particles in incompressible random flows

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SATURDAY, March 22

08:30 - 08:40 Welcome (Robert Kerr)

08:40 - 09:15 Norman Zabusky (Rutgers), Rutgers contributions, details to be announced

09:15 - 09:50 Uriel Frisch (CNRS), Latest Nice work (in collaboration with Kyoto)

09:50 - 10:10 Break

10:10 - 10:45 Robert Kerr (Univ Warwick), The issue of length scales in Euler collapse

10:45 - 11:20 Amitava Bhattacharjee (Iowa), Singularities and reconnection in plasmas and fluids:

11:20 - 11:40 Break

11:40 - 01:00 Panel Discussion