History

While interest in the Taylor-Couette system began around the end of the 19th century, the TVFWP (Taylor Vortex Flow Working Party) was only introduced in 1979 and was later renamed to ICTW (International Couette-Taylor Workshop). During the last 30 years a growing community became interested in the diverse flow patterns seen in the Taylor-Couette apparatus.

We compiled a list of all the meetings together with their location and organisers:

1979

1^st Taylor Vortex Flow Working Party
J.E.R. Coney
Leeds, United Kingdom
1981

2^nd Taylor Vortex Flow Working Party
Ken Astill
Medford, MA, USA
1983

3^rd Taylor Vortex Flow Working Party
Gerard Cognet
Nancy, France
May 1985

4^th Taylor Vortex Flow Working Party
Karl Buehler, Manfred Wimmer, and J. Zierep
Karlsruhe, Germany
Mar. 1987

5^th Taylor Vortex Flow Working Party
Dan Jankowski and Paul Neitzel
Tempe, AZ, USA
1989

6^th Taylor Vortex Flow Working Party
Daniel Walgraef
Brussels, Belgium
May 1991

7^th International Couette-Taylor Workshop
David Andereck and F. Hayot
Columbus, OH, USA
Mar. 1993

8^th International Couette-Taylor Workshop
G. Iooss
Nice, France
Aug. 1995

9^th International Couette-Taylor Workshop
Randall Tagg and Patrick Weidman
Boulder, CO, USA
Jul. 1997

10^th International Couette-Taylor Workshop
Christine Normand and J. Wesfreid
Paris, France
Jul. 1999

11^th International Couette-Taylor Workshop
Christoph Egbers and Hans Rath
Bremen, Germany
Sep. 2001

12^th International Couette-Taylor Workshop
Richard Lueptow and Juan Lopez
Evanston, IL, USA
Jul. 2003

13^th International Couette-Taylor Workshop
Francisco Marques
Barcelona, Spain
Sep. 2005

14^th International Couette-Taylor Workshop
Yasushi Takeda
Sapporo, Japan
Jul. 2007

15^th International Couette-Taylor Workshop
Innocent Mutabazi
Le Havre, France
Sep. 2009

16^th International Couette-Taylor Workshop
Hantao Ji and Alexander Smits
Princeton, NJ, USA
Jul. 2011

17^th International Couette-Taylor Workshop
Rainer Hollerbach
Leeds, United Kingdom
Jun. 2013

18^th International Couette-Taylor Workshop
Sander Huisman, Chao Sun, and Detlef Lohse
Enschede, The Netherlands
Jun. 2015

19^th International Couette-Taylor Workshop
Rodica Borcia, Silke Kaschwich, Andreas Krebs, Andreas Stöckert and Christoph Egbers
Cottbus, Germany
Jul. 2018

20^th International Couette-Taylor Workshop
Eric Serre, Stéphane Viazzo, Denis Martinand, Marc Médale, Patrice Le Gal
Marseille, France
Jul. 2021

21^st International Couette-Taylor Workshop
Sebastian Altmeyer, Sander Huisman, Laurette Tuckerman
Online
2023

22^nd International Couette-Taylor Workshop
Barcelona, Spain