Universality: Turbulence Across Vast Scales

Dec 2, 2019, 7:30 AM → Dec 6, 2019, 5:30 PM America/New_York

2nd flr Auditorium (Flatiron Institute)

Blakesley Burkhart (Rutgers)

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Monday, December 2

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Breakfast: Morning Chair - James Cho

9:00 AM → 9:10 AM Introduction by David Spergel, Blakesley Burkhart, and Mike Shelley: Welcome

9:10 AM → 9:50 AM Invited Speaker: William Irvine: Vorticity by design: the evolution of helicity and turbulent blobs

9:10 AM Breakfast

9:50 AM → 10:10 AM Contributed Speaker: Blakesley Burkhart: New Turbulence Diagnostics for Astrophysics and Beyond

10:10 AM → 10:30 AM Contributed Speaker: Philip Mocz: Dense structures in compressible turbulence

10:30 AM → 10:50 AM Contributed Speaker: Joanna Slawinska: Vector-valued spectral analysis of complex turbulent flows

10:50 AM → 11:20 AM AM Break

11:20 AM → 12:00 PM Invited Speaker: Nigel Goldenfeld: Fluctuations, dissipation and transitional phenomena in turbulent pipe flow

12:00 PM → 12:20 PM Contributed Speaker: Gavin Portwood: Interpretable artificial neural networks outperform canonical LES closures

12:20 PM → 12:40 PM Contributed Speaker: Alexander Migdal: Turbulence, Topology, Area Law and Ising Model

12:40 PM → 1:00 PM Contributed Speaker: Joerg Schumacher: Large-scale patterns in turbulent convection flows

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch: Afternoon Chair - Vadim Semenov

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Poster Session: Poster Presentations

2:30 PM → 2:50 PM Contributed Speaker: Dwight Barkley: The route to turbulence in wall-bounded flows flows

2:50 PM → 3:30 PM Invited Speaker: Michael Graham: Turbulence in complex fluids

3:30 PM → 3:50 PM Contributed Speaker: Katepalli Sreenivasan: Quantum loops and circulation around closed loops in 3D turbulence: the excitement of recent progress

3:50 PM → 4:20 PM PM Break

4:20 PM → 5:00 PM Invited Speaker: David Sondak: Machine Learning in Chaotic Systems and Turbulence

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM Discussion Session: David Sondak

Tuesday, December 3

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Breakfast: Morning Chair - Philip Mocz

9:00 AM → 9:40 AM Invited Speaker: Cary Forest: High beta flux rope turbulence in the Big Red Ball

9:40 AM → 10:00 AM Contributed Speaker: Yue Hu: Magnetic Fields and Turbulence in Interstellar Media with Velocity Gradients Technique

10:00 AM → 10:20 AM Contributed Speaker: Shmuel Bialy: Molecules as probes of turbulence in the interstellar medium

10:20 AM → 10:40 AM Contributed Speaker: Vadim Semenov: The role of interstellar turbulence in regulation of star formation in galaxies

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM AM Break

11:10 AM → 11:50 AM Invited Speaker: Hantao Ji: Frontiers of Magnetic Reconnection Research: Turbulent Reconnection and Reconnecting Turbulence

11:50 AM → 12:10 PM Contributed Speaker: Drummond Fielding: The Anatomy of Radiative Turbulent Mixing Layers

12:10 PM → 12:30 PM Contributed Speaker: Hubert Klahr: The role of Turbophoresis for structure formation in dust-laden turbulence

12:30 PM → 12:50 PM Discussion Session: Daisuke Nagai

12:50 PM → 1:50 PM Lunch: Afternoon Chair - Adam Jermyn

1:50 PM → 2:30 PM Invited Speaker: Greg Eyink: Turbulence and Reconnection in Magnetized Plasmas

2:30 PM → 2:50 PM Contributed Speaker: Massimo Gaspari: Raining onto Black Holes: The Key Role of Turbulence

2:50 PM → 3:10 PM Contributed Speaker: Jesus Salas: The turbulent dynamics at the heart of the Milky Way

3:10 PM → 3:30 PM Contributed Speaker: Yuan Li: Direct Detection of Black Hole-Driven Turbulence in the Centers of Galaxy Clusters

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM PM Break

4:00 PM → 4:40 PM Invited Speaker: Sauro Succi: Boltzmann approach to fluid turbulence

4:40 PM → 5:00 PM Contributed Speaker: Alexei Kritsuk: Spectral Energy Fluxes in Compressible Turbulence

5:00 PM → 5:20 PM Discussion Session: Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

5:20 PM → 6:50 PM Wine Reception and Poster Session

Wednesday, December 4

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Breakfast: Morning Chairs, Alexei Kritsuk & Blakesley Burkhart

9:00 AM → 9:40 AM Invited Speaker: Michael Shelley: Instabilities and models of cellular-scale active matter

9:40 AM → 10:00 AM Contributed Speaker: Jun Zhang: Interplay between boundary and flow structures in turbulent thermal convection

10:00 AM → 10:20 AM Contributed Speaker: James Phillips: Globular Protein Hydrodynamics

10:20 AM → 10:40 AM Contributed Speaker: Andrea Scagliarini: A shell model approach to active turbulence

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM AM Break

11:10 AM → 11:50 AM Invited Speaker: Luca Giomi: Turbulence at 1 μm/s: the strange case of biological active fluids

11:50 AM → 12:10 PM Contributed Speaker: Jinghui Liu: Topological turbulence on the membrane of a living cell: Observation and characterization.

12:10 PM → 12:30 PM Contributed Speaker: Pearson W Miller: Topological turbulence on the membrane of a living cell: Approaching complex patterns with minimal models

12:30 PM → 12:50 PM Discussion Session: Jun Zhang

12:50 PM → 1:50 PM Lunch: Afternoon Chair - Shmuel Bialy

1:50 PM → 2:45 PM Invited Speaker: Sriram Ramaswamy: Varieties of Turbulence in Active Fluids

2:45 PM → 3:05 PM Contributed Speaker: Fabian Waleffe: Equation-driven investigations of turbulence structures and scaling laws

3:05 PM → 3:25 PM Contributed Speaker: Dimitris Giannakis: Quantum mechanics for data assimilation in complex systems

3:25 PM → 3:50 PM PM Break

3:50 PM → 4:30 PM Invited Speaker: Zvonimir Dogic: Chaotic dynamics and topological structure of three-dimensional active nematics.

4:30 PM → 4:50 PM Discussion Session: Sebastian Fuerthauer

4:50 PM → 5:20 PM Conference Photo

5:20 PM → 7:20 PM Dinner

Thursday, December 5

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Breakfast: Morning Chair - Drummond Fielding

9:00 AM → 9:40 AM Invited Speaker: Bjorn Hof: Transition Beyond the Transitional Regime

9:40 AM → 10:00 AM Contributed Speaker: Boris Galperin: Energy spectra in atmospheric and oceanic turbulence

10:00 AM → 10:20 AM Contributed Speaker: Oliver Buhler: Geophysical turbulence

10:20 AM → 10:40 AM Contributed Speaker: Adam Jermyn: Angular Momentum Transport in Stellar Convection

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM AM Break

11:10 AM → 11:50 AM Invited Speaker: Laure Zanna: Scale-aware ocean turbulence closures for climate models

11:50 AM → 12:10 PM Contributed Speaker: Daniel Lecoanet: Turbulence in Stellar Convection

12:10 PM → 12:30 PM Contributed Speaker: Siyao Xu: Turbulent dynamo in diverse astrophysical media

12:30 PM → 1:00 PM Discussion Session: Boris Galperin

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch: Afternoon Chair - Zack Slepian

2:00 PM → 2:20 PM Contributed Speaker: Ethan T. Vishniac: Turbulent Dynamos in Stars and Galaxies

2:20 PM → 3:00 PM Invited Speaker: Jorn Dunkel: Generalized Navier-Stokes equations for active fluids: From bacterial turbulence to planetary waves

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM Contributed Speaker: Itzhak Fouxon:Multifractal density and magnetic dynamo in supersonic turbulence

3:20 PM → 3:40 PM Contributed Speaker: Federico Fraternale: Observed scaling of turbulence in the inner and outer heliosheath

3:40 PM → 4:10 PM PM Break

4:10 PM → 4:30 PM Contributed Speaker: Daniel Groselj: Kinetic Turbulence in Astrophysical Plasmas: Waves and/or Structures?

4:30 PM → 4:50 PM Contributed Speaker: Rohit Supekar: Linearly Driven Flow on a Rotating Sphere

4:50 PM → 5:20 PM Discussion Session: James Cho

Friday, December 6

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Breakfast: Morning Chair - Siyao Xu

9:00 AM → 9:40 AM Invited Speaker: Sandra Lerouge: Elastic Turbulence in Giant Micelles

9:40 AM → 10:00 AM Contributed Speaker: James Cho

10:00 AM → 10:20 AM Contributed Speaker: James Beatie:Anisotropies in observed, highly-magnetised, supersonic turbulent clouds

10:20 AM → 10:50 AM AM Break

10:50 AM → 11:10 AM Contributed Speaker: Luca Comisso: The interplay of magnetically-dominated turbulence and magnetic reconnection in producing nonthermal particles

11:10 AM → 11:30 AM Contributed Speaker: Emanuele Sobacchi: Relativistic turbulence with a fast radiative cooling

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM Discussion Session: Blakesley Burkhart and Mike Shelley

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch