Preliminary Announcement of

16th International Couette-Taylor Workshop

The 16th International Couette-Taylor Workshop (ICTW) will be held from September 9 to 11, 2009 at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. Topics to be covered are:

Classical Couette-Taylor flows
Centrifugal instabilities of Dean, Gortler, Taylor-Dean flows
Spherical Couette flows
Rotating flows, Von Karman flows
Vortex dynamics
Geophysical and astrophysical flow instabilities
Magnetohydrodynamic and dynamo effects
Rayleigh-Benard instabilities
Rotating complex fluids
Instability control
Pattern selection
Chaos
Turbulent flows in curved configurations
Other related topics

More detailed informaion will follow. The preliminary meeting website has been set up at http://mri.pppl.gov/ICTW.html Please check this website for updates, or email Hantao Ji at hji@pppl.gov or Lex Smits at asmits@princeton.edu for particular questions. We look forward to seeing you in Princeton in 2009.

Hantao Ji
Lex Smits
Workshop Organizers

Past workshop links:

15th ICTW (Le Havre, France, July 2007)
14th ICTW (Sapporo, Japan, September 2005)
13th ICTW (Barcelona, Spain, July 2003)
12th ICTW (Evanston, USA, September 2001)
11th ICTW (Bremen, Germany, July 1999)
10th ICTW (Paris, France, July 1997)
9th ICTW (Boulder, USA, August 1995)
8th ICTW (Nice, France, March 1993)
7th ICTW (Columbus, USA, May 1991)
6th Taylor Vortex Flow Working Party (Brussels, Belgium, 1989)
5th Taylor Vortex Flow Working Party (Tempe, Arizona, USA, March 1987)
4th Taylor Vortex Flow Working Party (Karlsruhe, Germany, May 1985)
3rd Taylor Vortex Flow Working Party (Nancy, France, 1983)
2nd Taylor Vortex Flow Working Party (Boston, USA, 1981)
1st Taylor Vortex Flow Working Party (Leeds, UK, March 1979)

Last Revised 7/12/08
by Hantao Ji