Turbulent Mixing and Beyond International Conference

1. 18- 26 August 2007 The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy Turbulent Mixing and Beyond International Conference summary and perspectives

2. What were the Conference objectives? • to expose the generic problem of • Turbulence and Turbulent Mixing in Unsteady Flows • to a wide scientific community • to promote the development of new ideas in tackling • the fundamental aspects of the problem • to assist in application of novel approaches in a • broad range of phenomena, • where the turbulent processes occur • to start bridging the gap between the • fundamental research and technology If the meeting leaves you with a feeling that you have learned something new from the research frontiers and have met like-minded colleagues – our work is done. Please, let us know what do you think: tmbw07@ictp.it

3. We gratefully acknowledge the advices of Scientific Advisory Committee S.I. Abarzhi (Chicago, USA) G. Ahlers (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA) M.J. Andrews (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) S.I. Anisimov (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russia) E. Bodenschatz (Max Plank Institute, Gottingen, Germany) S. Dalziel (DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK) R. Ecke (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) H.J. Fernando (Arizona State University, USA) S. Gauthier (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, France) G.A. Glatzmaier (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA) W.A. Goddard III (California Institute of Technology, USA) L.P. Kadanoff (The University of Chicago, USA) D.P. Lathrop (University of Maryland, USA) S. Lebedev (Imperial College, UK) P. Manneville (Ecole Polytechnique, France) D.I. Meiron (California Institute of Technology, USA) H. Nagib (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA) J. Niemela (International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy) K. Nishihara (Institute for Laser Engineering, Osaka, Japan) S.A. Orszag (Yale University, USA) E. Ott (University of Maryland, USA) N. Peters (RWTS, Aachen, Germany) S.B. Pope (Cornell, USA) B.A. Remington (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) R. Rosner (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) A. Schmidt (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) K.R. Sreenivasan (ICTP, Italy) V. Steinberg (Weiznmann Institute, Israel) A.L. Velikovich (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) P.K. Yeung (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) F.A. Williams (University of California at San Diego, USA)

4. We gratefully acknowledge the support of National Science Foundation (NSF), USA Divisions and Programs Directors: Drs. A.G. Detwiler, L.M. Jameson, E.L. Lomon, P.E. Phelan, G.A. Prentice, J.A. Raper, W. Schultz, P.R. Westmoreland PI: Dr. S.I. Abarzhi Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), USA Program Director: Dr. J.D. Schmisseur; PI: Dr. S.I. Abarzhi European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD) Program Chief: Dr. S. Surampudi; PI: Dr. S.I. Abarzhi International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy Centre's Director: Dr. K.R. Sreenivasan The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), USA Laboratory's Director: Dr. R. Rosner Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), France Directeur de Recherche: Dr. S. Gauthier Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), USA Group Leader: Dr. M. Andrews; PI: Dr. S.I. Abarzhi The DOE ASC Alliance FLASH Center, The University of Chicago Center's Director: Dr. D.Q. Lamb Institute for Laser Engineering (ILE), Osaka, Japan Division Head: Dr. K. Nishihara Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, USA College of Engineering: Drs. H. Arastoopour (Dean)

5. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of ICTP, Trieste, Italy: Suzie Radosic (administrator) Nadia van Buuren (assistant) Adrea Stefani (host) and Carlo Fonda (SDU) Tiziana Botazzi and Dora Phtiou (housing) Dilys Grilli and Guido Comar (publishing) Adriano Maggi, Eric Jost and Mauro Calligaris (visa office) Daniela Giombi (“hosted activities”) Andrej Milchelcich (financial office) Dag Johannessen (Director’s administrator) Pierre Agbediro and Fabricio Coana (drivers) Muhammad Iqbal (maintenances) Chicago, USA: Elena Magnus (assistant) Daniil Ilyin (web-master) “Black-Sea Travel” San Francisco, USA Katia and Diana

6. We gratefully acknowledge the contribution of all our participants Success of the TMBW consists from the successful work of all of us. Thank you for offering to the TMBW your best research results and ideas. Thank you for the highlightening the strongest parts of your contributions. Thank you for being serious, responsible and respectful. It was a real pleasure to work together.

7. Our very near future • Presentations: email to tmbw07@ictp.it in pdf format • Proceedings: Proc Royal Society – only 10 papers (to expose the field and maintain the scope), Special Issue • Physica Scripta – all presentations, Topical Issue • Papers of letter size, no more than 8-10 pages, deadline is 22 Oct 2007 • email to tmbw07@ictp.it in pdf format • Referees: all papers will be peer-reviewed, similarly to the abstracts we will ask for an advice the Scientific Advisory Committee • Information flux: • - maintaining the web-page for exchange of information and collaboration • development of an e-infrastructure to encourage interactions within • our research community - links to Wikipedia for connections and problem exposition

8. Turbulent Mixing and Beyond International Conference We have a plan for a next conference, TMBW-09, to be held at the ICTP, in June 2009 • Mission and Goals: • to maintain the wide scope • to focus on hard and fundamental problems • to strengthen and maintain the quality of research, • using rigorous approaches • to be a highly informative meeting

9. Related Logistics Why the ICTP? UNESCO organization, east/west communications connections, extensive experience in international conferences, developed infrastructure Program? We are flexible and open-minded. Your suggestions, ideas, comments are warmly appreciated. Funding? We were able to collect reasonable amount of funds Sponsorship and co-sponsorship are welcome Your suggestions, ideas, comments are warmly appreciated. Let us keep in touch

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