Wardlaw Center

Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA

March 1-3, 2007

Description:

This workshop will bring together a select group of physicists, applied mathematicians and engineers with an interest in characterizing quantitatively structures and dynamics of spatio-temporally chaotic and turbulent fluid flows. In addition to providing a forum for discussing current and future applications of topological techniques, the workshop includes tutorial lectures on computational homology and the publicly available software package CHomP. We want to give the participants ample opportunity to interact, share ideas, and explore the potential for future collaborations. For this reason, we are limiting the number and length of the lectures in order to provide adequate time for informal discussions.

Speakers

Guenter Ahlers (UCSB)

Eberhard Bodenschatz (Cornell; MPI-Gottingen)

Predrag Cvitanovic (Georgia Tech)

Karen Daniels (NC State)

John Gibson (Georgia Tech)

Brian Hunt (Maryland)

Genta Kawahara (Osaka)

Ed Ott (Maryland)

Mark Paul (Virginia Tech)

Hermann Riecke (Northwestern)

Fabian Waleffe (Wisconsin)

This workshop is supported by the Department of Energy, as well as the College of Sciences, the School of Mathematics, the School of Physics and the Vice Provost for Research at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is related to DARPA's Topological Data Analysis program.