Batchelor Centenary Event

Sophy Bristow, MAGIC Coordinator

This meeting is to commemorate the life and work of George Batchelor (1920-2000)

George was a towering figure in the field of fluid mechanics carrying out ground-breaking research on turbulence and then on micro-hydrodynamics. In addition to his personal research George established the DAMTP where this meeting is being organised. DAMTP has trained many prominent researchers in fluid mechanics from the UK and around the world and hosted many academic visitors working in the subject.Globally, George founded the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, arguably the most highly-regarded and influential journal in the field that is read by scholars world-wide. He also fostered international collaboration by being one of the founders of EUROMECH and he played a prominent role in IUTAM, both of which are sponsoring this meeting along with Cambridge University Press that publishes JFM. He also took personal leads in establishing contact with scientists behind the Iron Curtain and with China once relations softened at the end of the Cultural Revolution.The presentations will be on Zoom and to be sent a link you must register for this event through Eventbrite. Registration is free. The programme is as follows:Monday March 291230 Welcome 1300 Ray Goldstein: Two stories of fluids and light: algal phototaxis and dinoflagellate bioluminescence 1400 Rama Govindarajan: Stratified viscosity: a singular and nonlinear tale.Tuesday March 301230 Patrick Huerre: George Batchelor and the founding of EUROMECH1300 Detlef Lohse: Physicochemical hydrodynamics of droplets out of equilibrium1400 Berengere Dubrulle: On the nature of turbulent motions at small scaleWednesday March 311230 Xiaojing Zheng: Turbulence effects in wind-blown sand movements: 1330 Howard Stone: Modern applications of classical ideas in fluid mechanics: thin films, physical chemistry and molecular biology1430 Keith Moffatt: George Batchelor - a personal reminiscence

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