Meetings/Workshops on Thermodynamics, Fluid Dynamics and Statistical Physics in the United States (USA)

U.C. Berkeley, Department of Mathematics

The Eighth Pacific Rim Conference in Mathematics will be a high profile mathematical event that will cover a wide range of exciting research in contemporary mathematics. It will be held online between Monday, August 3rd and Tuesday, August 11th. There will be a session devoted to probability theory, which will take place on August 4th (for those on the eastern side of the Pacific Rim).

Email: pacificrim@math.berkeley.edu

probability theory, statistical mechanics, combinatorics

Probability and Statistics, Game Theory,    Graph Theory and Combinatorics

U.C. Berkeley, Department of Mathematics

The Eighth Pacific Rim Conference in Mathematics will be a high profile mathematical event that will cover a wide range of exciting research in contemporary mathematics. It will be held online between Monday, August 3rd and Tuesday, August 11th. There will be a session devoted to Partial Differential Equations: Inviscid Fluid Mechanics and General Relativity, which will take place on August 10th - 11th (depending on the side of the Pacific Rim you are on).

There is also a related session on Partial Differential Equations: Dissipation and Fluid Mechanics on August 5th - 7th. The plenary talk in this session will be delivered by Neil Trudinger of Australian National University. More details can be seen on the session page on the conference website.

Email: pacificrim@math.berkeley.edu

partial differential equations, fluid mechanics, general relativity

Analysis,    Calculus, Differential Equations and Integration

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)

A fascinating and surprising phenomenon that can occur in fluid and plasma turbulence is the spontaneous formation of arrays of layers in which material properties such as density adopt a so-called “staircase” structure. The most striking examples are potential vorticity staircases in planetary atmospheres, and thermohaline staircases in the oceans. Theoretical considerations suggest that layering also plays an important role in stellar interiors (particularly through various double-diffusive processes) and in fusion confinement devices (the so-called E x B staircase). Understanding the phenomenon of layering is, therefore, not only of intrinsic scientific interest (e.g., is there a common thread to layering in these very different contexts?), but is also crucial for an accurate description of turbulent transport in, for example, models of large-scale ocean flow, the evolution of stellar interiors and confinement in tokamaks.

Plasma and Gas-discharge Physics, Nuclear Fusion,    Mathematical Physics

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

The workshop will address topics in the PDE analysis of the basic equations of the incompressible fluid dynamics (the Euler equations for inviscid flows, the Navier Stokes equations for viscous flows), interface problems (water waves), and other related equations. Open problems and connections to related branches of mathematics will be discussed, including the phenomena of turbulence and the zero viscosity limit. Both theoretical and numerical aspects of these topics will be considered. There will be some colloquium style lectures as well as shorter research talks. The workshop is open to all.

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

The aim of the workshop is to bring together a broad array of researchers working on incompressible fluid dynamics. Some of the key topics to be covered are Euler flows, Navier Stokes equations as well as water wave flows and associated model equations. Some emphasis will also be placed on numerical analysis of the above evolutions.