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 Breakfast: Morning Chair - James Cho

Introduction by David Spergel, Blakesley Burkhart, and Mike Shelley: Welcome

Invited Speaker: William Irvine: Vorticity by design: the evolution of helicity and turbulent blobs

9:10 AM Breakfast

Contributed Speaker: Blakesley Burkhart: New Turbulence Diagnostics for Astrophysics and Beyond

Contributed Speaker: Philip Mocz: Dense structures in compressible turbulence

Contributed Speaker: Joanna Slawinska: Vector-valued spectral analysis of complex turbulent flows

10:50 AM AM Break

Invited Speaker: Nigel Goldenfeld: Fluctuations, dissipation and transitional phenomena in turbulent pipe flow

Contributed Speaker: Gavin Portwood: Interpretable artificial neural networks outperform canonical LES closures

Contributed Speaker: Alexander Migdal: Turbulence, Topology, Area Law and Ising Model

Contributed Speaker: Joerg Schumacher: Large-scale patterns in turbulent convection flows

1:00 PM Lunch: Afternoon Chair - Vadim Semenov

Poster Session: Poster Presentations

Contributed Speaker: Dwight Barkley: The route to turbulence in wall-bounded flows flows

Invited Speaker: Michael Graham: Turbulence in complex fluids

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

3:50 PM PM Break

Invited Speaker: David Sondak: Machine Learning in Chaotic Systems and Turbulence

Discussion Session: David Sondak

Tuesday, December 3

8:00 AM Breakfast: Morning Chair - Philip Mocz

Invited Speaker: Cary Forest: High beta flux rope turbulence in the Big Red Ball

Contributed Speaker: Yue Hu: Magnetic Fields and Turbulence in Interstellar Media with Velocity Gradients Technique

Contributed Speaker: Shmuel Bialy: Molecules as probes of turbulence in the interstellar medium

Contributed Speaker: Vadim Semenov: The role of interstellar turbulence in regulation of star formation in galaxies

10:40 AM AM Break

Invited Speaker: Hantao Ji: Frontiers of Magnetic Reconnection Research: Turbulent Reconnection and Reconnecting Turbulence

Contributed Speaker: Drummond Fielding: The Anatomy of Radiative Turbulent Mixing Layers

Contributed Speaker: Hubert Klahr: The role of Turbophoresis for structure formation in dust-laden turbulence

Discussion Session: Daisuke Nagai

12:50 PM Lunch: Afternoon Chair - Adam Jermyn

Invited Speaker: Greg Eyink: Turbulence and Reconnection in Magnetized Plasmas

Contributed Speaker: Massimo Gaspari: Raining onto Black Holes: The Key Role of Turbulence

Contributed Speaker: Jesus Salas: The turbulent dynamics at the heart of the Milky Way

Contributed Speaker: Yuan Li: Direct Detection of Black Hole-Driven Turbulence in the Centers of Galaxy Clusters

3:30 PM PM Break

Invited Speaker: Sauro Succi: Boltzmann approach to fluid turbulence

Contributed Speaker: Alexei Kritsuk: Spectral Energy Fluxes in Compressible Turbulence

Discussion Session: Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

5:20 PM Wine Reception and Poster Session

Wednesday, December 4

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

Invited Speaker: Michael Shelley: Instabilities and models of cellular-scale active matter

Contributed Speaker: Jun Zhang: Interplay between boundary and flow structures in turbulent thermal convection

Contributed Speaker: James Phillips: Globular Protein Hydrodynamics

Contributed Speaker: Andrea Scagliarini: A shell model approach to active turbulence

10:40 AM AM Break

Invited Speaker: Luca Giomi: Turbulence at 1 μm/s: the strange case of biological active fluids

Contributed Speaker: Jinghui Liu: Topological turbulence on the membrane of a living cell: Observation and characterization.

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

Discussion Session: Jun Zhang

12:50 PM Lunch: Afternoon Chair - Shmuel Bialy

Invited Speaker: Sriram Ramaswamy: Varieties of Turbulence in Active Fluids

Contributed Speaker: Fabian Waleffe: Equation-driven investigations of turbulence structures and scaling laws

Contributed Speaker: Dimitris Giannakis: Quantum mechanics for data assimilation in complex systems

3:25 PM PM Break

Invited Speaker: Zvonimir Dogic: Chaotic dynamics and topological structure of three-dimensional active nematics.

Discussion Session: Sebastian Fuerthauer

4:50 PM Conference Photo

5:20 PM Dinner

Thursday, December 5

8:00 AM Breakfast: Morning Chair - Drummond Fielding

Invited Speaker: Bjorn Hof: Transition Beyond the Transitional Regime

Contributed Speaker: Boris Galperin: Energy spectra in atmospheric and oceanic turbulence

Contributed Speaker: Oliver Buhler: Geophysical turbulence

Contributed Speaker: Adam Jermyn: Angular Momentum Transport in Stellar Convection

10:40 AM AM Break

Invited Speaker: Laure Zanna: Scale-aware ocean turbulence closures for climate models

Contributed Speaker: Daniel Lecoanet: Turbulence in Stellar Convection

Contributed Speaker: Siyao Xu: Turbulent dynamo in diverse astrophysical media

Discussion Session: Boris Galperin

1:00 PM Lunch: Afternoon Chair - Zack Slepian

Contributed Speaker: Ethan T. Vishniac: Turbulent Dynamos in Stars and Galaxies

Invited Speaker: Jorn Dunkel: Generalized Navier-Stokes equations for active fluids: From bacterial turbulence to planetary waves

Contributed Speaker: Itzhak Fouxon:Multifractal density and magnetic dynamo in supersonic turbulence

Contributed Speaker: Federico Fraternale: Observed scaling of turbulence in the inner and outer heliosheath

3:40 PM PM Break

Contributed Speaker: Daniel Groselj: Kinetic Turbulence in Astrophysical Plasmas: Waves and/or Structures?

Contributed Speaker: Rohit Supekar: Linearly Driven Flow on a Rotating Sphere

Discussion Session: James Cho

Friday, December 6

8:00 AM Breakfast: Morning Chair - Siyao Xu

Invited Speaker: Sandra Lerouge: Elastic Turbulence in Giant Micelles

Contributed Speaker: James Cho

Contributed Speaker: James Beatie:Anisotropies in observed, highly-magnetised, supersonic turbulent clouds

10:20 AM AM Break

Contributed Speaker: Luca Comisso: The interplay of magnetically-dominated turbulence and magnetic reconnection in producing nonthermal particles

Contributed Speaker: Emanuele Sobacchi: Relativistic turbulence with a fast radiative cooling

Discussion Session: Blakesley Burkhart and Mike Shelley

12:30 PM Lunch