Complex Motion in Fluids 2016

Program

As summarized in the schedule, the summer school comprises 18 lectures, 30 contributed talks, and 2 poster-and-beer sessions. Food-wise, 3 meals and 2 coffee breaks are served daily. Wednesday afternoon is reserved for a sportive outdoor activity near the school.

Lecturers

Luca Biferale Luca Biferale (Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy)
  • Complex particles in complex flows
  • Turbulence under dynamical mode reduction
Lyderic Bocquet Lyderic Bocquet (ENS, Paris, France)
  • Osmotic flows, from nanoscales to kidney filtration
  • Some thoughts on ski friction
Tomas Bohr Tomas Bohr (DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • Sap flow and sugar transport in plants
Benjamin Dollet Benjamin Dollet (Rennes, France)
  • Dynamics of liquid foams
Valeria Garbin Valeria Garbin (Imperial, London, UK)
  • Colloidal particles: Surfactants with a difference
  • Bubble dynamics in soft and biological matter
Todd Squires Todd Squires (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
  • Fluid Mechanics in reacting and catalytic systems
  • Migration of particles under solute / solvent gradients
Roberto Verzicco Roberto Verzicco (Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy)
  • Fluid dynamics of the heart
  • Immersed boundary methods for complex flow simulations
Jun Zhang Jun Zhang (Courant Institute, New York, USA)
  • Thermal convection with unconventional boundary conditions
  • Table-top flapping flight of wings