EM08 Program

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• Technical Coverage
• Plenary Speakers
• SAFL Symposium Keynote Speakers
• Topics
• Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability Symposium
• St. Anthony Falls Laboratory 70th Anniversary Symposium

Technical Coverage

The technical program for the conference comprises keynote lectures and submitted papers on completed and ongoing research. The solid mechanics sessions will be augmented by a special symposium on probabilistic mechanics and structural reliability. The fluid mechanics sessions will be augmented by a special symposium organized to celebrate the 70^th anniversary of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota.

Plenary Speakers

Ted Belytschko, Northwestern University, "Multiscale Computations of Fracture - When Does Flaw Tolerence Occur?"
Stephen C. Cowin, The City College of New York, "Pattern Forming Mechanisms in Developmental Biology"
Morteza Gharib, California Institute of Technology
Philip L.-F. Liu, Cornell University, "Recent Advancement in Understanding of Water Wave and Muddy Seafloor Interactions"
James R. Rice, Harvard University
Christian Soize, Université Paris-Est, "Maximum Entropy Principle for Stochastic Models in Computational Sciences"

SAFL Symposium Keynote Speakers

William George, Chalmers University of Technology, "Role of Initial and Upstream Conditions in Turbulence"
Joseph Katz, The Johns Hopkins University, "Digital Holography Resolves Complex 3-D Flows, Turbulent Dispersion of Droplets and Swimming Behavior of Marine Organisms"
Stephen Monismith, Stanford University, "Flow Over Corals: From Field to Lab and Back Again"
Gary Parker, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, "Normal and Anomalous Advection-Diffusion of Gravel Tracer Particles in Rivers"
Marc Parlange, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Wolfgang Rodi, Universitaet Karlsruhe, "Simulation of Turbulence and Its Effects in Hydraulics"

Topics

St. Anthony Falls Laboratory 70th Anniversary Symposium

The year 2008 marks the 70^th anniversary of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL) at the University of Minnesota.  The laboratory was first dedicated on November 17, 1938, and during its early years it was quickly established as one of the world’s foremost hydraulic engineering research and teaching facilities.  In recent years SAFL has evolved into a world- class interdisciplinary research facility where faculty from three University of Minnesota departments (Civil Engineering, Geology and Geophysics, and Ecology, Evolution and Behavior) and students and researchers from all over the world conduct cutting- edge research in environmental, biological, geophysical, and engineering fluid mechanics. SAFL is also the headquarters of the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, a NSF Science and Technology Center.

A one-day symposium will be organized as part of EM08 to commemorate SAFL’s 70^th anniversary, celebrate its rich history, and underscore the relevance and significance of such a unique interdisciplinary research facility in the face of the major environmental, water resources, and energy challenges confronting society today.  The symposium will be held at Coffman Memorial Union and will feature several invited distinguished speakers who are world leaders in areas which are topics of active fluid mechanics research in the laboratory.

For more information about the St. Anthony Laboratory, please visit our Web site.