Boulder School 2011: Hydrodynamics

July 5 - July 29, 2011

© Tuan Tran & Walter Goldburg, Nigel Goldenfeld and Gustavo Gioia © Detlef Lohse

Scientific Coordinators Michael Brenner, Harvard Anette (Peko) Hosoi, MIT Dan Lathrop, U. of Maryland Tom Lubensky, University of Pennsylvania Michael Shelley, Courant Institute Site Coordinator Leo Radzihovsky, University of Colorado

Hydrodynamic phenomena play critical roles in condensed matter physics, from the motion of vortices in superfluids to the statistical properties of turbulent fluids, to the complex ways in which biological systems use and manipulate fluids. Hydrodynamic theories are applied well beyond the fluid mechanical origins where they were originally developed and now are quantitatively applied to active systems of all types. This school will provide the scientific underpinnings of modern applications of hydrodynamics. The school will be divided into four weeks.

Week 1: Introduction and foundations
Week 2: Turbulence
Week 3: Active Matter
Week 4: Biological Fluid Mechanics

Group Photo