17–21 Oct 2011
NORDITA
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Program

(The duration of all the talks are of 30 mins except otherwise shown)
Monday 2011 Oct 17 9:15 9:30 Introduction (Erik, Dhruba, Axel)

Morning Session: Chairman : R. Pandit

9:30 10:30 :

G. Boffetta: Turbulent convection in three, two and one dimensions [Streaming, Download]

E. Lindborg: Energy and enstrophy cascades in large scale atmospheric turbulence [Streaming, Download]

10:30 11:00 Break

11:00 12:30

O. Podvigina: Asymptotic stability of heteroclinic cycles [Streaming, Download]

E. Aurell: Computing non-equilibrium stationary states by message-passing? [Streaming, Download]

A. Pouquet Rotating Turbulence and return to isotropy [Streaming, Download]


 12:30 14:30 Lunch


Afternoon Session Chairman: A. Pouquet

14:30 15:30

I. Procaccia: Dynamics of the glassy state of matter (45 min) [Streaming, Download]

15:30 16:00 Break

16:00 17:00

A. Pumir: Pirouette effect in turbulence OR spinning objects in turbulent flows [Streaming, Download]

D. Mitra: Scaling and Intermittency in fluctuating Alpha-Shear dynamos [Streaming, Download]




Tuesday 2011 Oct 18

Morning Session: Chairman: G. Falkovich

 9:00 - 10:30

R. Mohayee : Optimization in astrophysics (45 min) [Streaming, Download]

 A. Brandenburg: Negative effective magnetic pressure instability [Streaming, Download]

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30

S. Chakrabarty: Nelkin scaling for "burgulence" [Streaming, Download]

J-Z Zhu: Zonal flow generation with the enhancement of potential vorticity mixing [Streaming, Download]

C.K. Chan: Condensates in two dimensional turbulence [Streaming, Download]


12:30 14:30 lunch


 Afternoon Session: Chairman E. Aurell

14:30-16:30
 T. Roos: On the Evolution of Texts: An Introduction to Stemmatology  [Streaming, Download]


O. Wikander: Nothing new under the burning sun? Climate and verbs in North-West Semitic  [Streaming, Download]


16:30 -- Wine and Cheese Party




Wednesday 2011 Oct 19

Morning Session: Chairman: Uriel Frisch

9:00 10:30

R. Pandit: Time Scales, Persistence, and Dynamic Multiscaling in Turbulence [Streaming, Download]

D. Vincenzi: Orientation of non-spherical particles in random flows [Streaming, Download]

10:30 11:00 Break

11-12:30

K. Gawedzki: Navier-Stokes in hyperbolic plane [Streaming, Download]

M-E. Brachet Axial dipolar dynamo action in Taylor-Green vortex [Streaming, Download]

A. Mazzino: Role of polymers in the mixing of Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence  [Streaming, Download]


12:30 14:30 Lunch


Afternoon Session Chairman: Axel Brandenburg

14:30 15:30

M. Jensen: Life at high Reynolds number  [Streaming, Download]
 

Chen Xi: A Lie-group mean-field theory for turbulent channel and pipe flow  [Streaming, Download]

15:30 16:00 Break

16:00 17:00: Round Table Discussion  [Streaming, Download]

Conference Dinner



Thursday 2011 Oct 20

Morning Session: Chairman: I. Procaccia

9:30 - 10:15

G. Falkovich: Structures versus statistics in turbulence, resolution of old quarrel  [Streaming, Download]

10:15 10:45 Break 

10:45 11:30 U. Frisch: Turbulence in non-integer dimensions by fractal Fourier
decimation [Streaming, Download]; discussion [Streaming, Download]

11:30 12:00  S.S. Ray: The tyger phenomenon for the Galerkin truncated Burgers equation [Streaming, Download]

12:00 12:30 J. Wettlaufer: On form and growth [Streaming, Download]



12:30 14:30 Lunch


Afternoon Session: Chairman: D. Vincenzi

14:30 15:50

L. Biferale: Inverse energy cascade in 3d isotropic and homogeneous turbulence [Streaming, Download]

S. Nazarenko: Superfluid turbulence in classical quantum and cross-over regions [Streaming, Download]
 

15:30 16:00 Break

16:00 17:00 Round Table Discussion  [Streaming, Download]




Friday 2011 Oct 21

Morning Session: Chairman:

9:30 10:15

R. Benzi: Population dynamics in compressible flows  [Streaming, Download]

10:15 10:45 Break

10:45 - 11:45

A. Lanotte: Lagrangian/Eulerian estimate of turbulent breakup of small particles[Streaming, Download]
 

V. Zheligovsky: The size of the region of analyticity of solutions to the two-dimensional Euler equation  [Streaming, Download]



The afternoon of Friday is kept free.