2011 Interdisciplinary Summer School: Granular Flows:
From Simulations to Astrophysical Applications
June 13-17, 2011
CSIC Building (#406),
Seminar Room 4122.
Directions: home.cscamm.umd.edu/directions
LIVE WEBCAST
There will be a live webcast of this school. The webcast will be open to all, with no prior registration needed. The webcast will begin with the "Welcoming Remarks" at 8:45 am EDT on Monday June 13th, and continue through Friday October 17th.
Click HERE for instructions and the link to join the webcast.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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GOALS
The aim of the Interdisciplinary Summer School at the University of Maryland College Park "Granular Flows—From Simulations to Astrophysical Applications" is to bring together experts and students from both granular physics and astrophysics and focus on state-of-the-art experimental and simulation approaches for granular flows that are emerging in both physics and astrophysics. Granular flows are encountered in a wide range of astrophysical applications from asteroids to planetary rock avalanches. Our knowledge about these flows is exploding due to recent and planned robotic missions to various asteroids, comets, and other planetary bodies. The trove of data is being analyzed now, with patterns of granular arrangements and samples of granular materials returning for analysis. At the same time, significant progress has been made over the last two decades to elucidate the physics of granular flows, from the description of the jamming transition, to analysis of segregation and 3-D flows. For basic physics of granular flows, these new observations offer an unprecedented opportunity to apply the knowledge gained in the last decades on granular flows, and to expand the test of models into a regime of varying gravity, in particular the very low gravity of asteroids.
The school will include hands-on components where students will learn how to simulate granular flows and how to evaluate results from flow simulations critically. Corey O’Hern (Yale University) and Derek Richardson (UMD) will lead hands-on afternoon training sessions for students on direct numerical simulations. In addition, experts in experimental studies of dense granular flows will train students in experimental measurements of granular flow fields and forces.
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Instructors:
| Olivier Barnouin |
Space Department, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
| Bob Behringer |
Department of Physics, Duke University |
| Andy Cheng |
Space Department, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
| Nico Gray |
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester |
| Christine Hrenya |
Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado |
| Lou Kondic |
Dept of Mathematical Sceinces, New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| Wolfgang Losert |
Department of Physics, IPST and IREAP, University of Maryland |
| Patrick Michel |
Director of Research and leader of the Planetology Group at Nice Observatory in France |
| Corey O’Hern |
Department of Physics, Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering, Yale University |
| Derek C .Richardson |
Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland |
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CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
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FUNDING
A limited amount of travel and local lodging is available for researchers in the early stages of their career who want to attend the full program, especially for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.
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INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS
CSCAMM Visitor Guide: home.cscamm.umd.edu/visitors
CONTACT
Center for Scientific Computation And Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM)
Computer Science Instructional Center (Building #406)
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD 20742-3289
Email: grf11@cscamm.umd.edu Web: /programs/grf11
POSTER
Poster is available here.
PHOTOS
Photos from the workshop are available here.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Partial funding is provided by the Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics, the Institute for Physical Science & Technology (IPST) and the Center for Theory and Computation of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Maryland, and the National Science Foundation.
 
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