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Symposium celebrating the 70th birthday of

Prof. Victor Steinberg

 

Experimental Hydrodynamics: From Superfluids and Pattern Formation to Soft Matter Hydrodynamics

 

October 27-28, 2010

 

 

PROGRAM

 

Thursday 28 October

 

09:00          Coffee

 

09:30-10:30                   T. Gotoh - Nagoya Institute of Technology

Computational Physics in turbulence

 

Coffee break

 

11:15-12:15                   Y. Couder -  Université Paris Diderot -Paris7

A wave-particle duality at a macroscopic-scale,

the role of a path memory

 

12:30          Lunch break

 

14:30-15:30                   D. Lathrop - Univ. of Maryland

Laboratory models of planetary cores

 

16:00-17:00                   G. Ahlers - Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

From patterns to turbulence in Rayleigh-Bernard

convection

         

Friday 29 October

Recent Developments (and less recent reminiscences of life with Victor)

Former members of Victor’s research group will speak about their recent scientific work

 

09:20-09:40                   Jay Fineberg - Hebrew University

09:40-10:00                   Elisha Moses- Weizmann Institute

10:00-10:20                   Eran Kaplan - Medinol

10:20-10:40                   Erez Braun -Technion

10:40-10:50                   Bob Ecke - Los Alamos Ntl. Lab.

10:50-11:00                   Michel Assenheimer - Hewlett Packard

11:10-11:30                   Sergei Lukaschuk - Univ. of Hull

 

Coffee Break

 

11:50-12:10                   Hanan Davidovich

12:10-12:30                   Dmitry “Dima” Rinberg -  Howard Hughes Medical Inst.

12:30-12:50                   Shai Ashkenazi - Univ. of Minessota

12:50-13:10                   Vasily Kantsler - Univ. of Cambridge

13:10-13:20                   Julien Deschamps - Univ. de Provence

13:20-13:30                   Eldad Afik - Weizmann Institute