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The Eighth Annual Symposium of the Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics
This year's Burgers Symposium will be held on November 16, 2011, from 1 - 6:30 pm at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Kay Boardroom (1107 and 1111) of the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building. The Burgers Lecture will be given by Marie Farge, Directrice de Recherche CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Other lectures will be given to honor Jan Sengers at 80. The invited lecturers are Katepalli Screenivasan (Professor of Physics and Senior Vice Provost at NYU) , Gijs Ooms (Scientific Director of the J.M. Bugerscentrum in the Netherlands) and Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann (former student of Sengers and Professor of Physics at the University of Akron). A gala reception to celebrate Jan Sengers will follow the symposium in the rotunda of the Kim building from 5 - 6pm.
Eighth Annual Symposium official poster
Eighth Annual Symposium program
Our Mission...
Inspired by the intellectual heritage of J. M. Burgers, the mission of the Burgers Program is to enhance the quality and international visibility of fluid dynamics research and educational programs at the University of Maryland with the help of an endowed Burgers Fund. Fluid dynamics in this context is viewed to include a broad range of dynamics, from nanoscales to geophysical scales, in simple and complex fluids.
Examples of Burgers Program Activities...
- Providing an environment and precedence for knowledge exchange and networking within the fluid dynamics community on the University of Maryland campus.
- Maintaining a close collaboration with the J. M. Burgers Centre in The Netherlands.
- Creating and building a Burgers Fund.
The Burgers Program is supported by faculty from the College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences and the A. J. Clark School of Engineering.