LIFE AT FIELDS
From the 2016 Thematic Program on
Multiscale Scientific Computing
Extreme Events and
Criticality in Fluid
Mechanics
April 15-18, 2019 • Fields Institute
Organizers: David Goluskin (University of Victoria),
Bartosz Protas (McMaster University),
and Lennaert van Veen (University of Ontario
Institute of Technology)
Quantum Systems in
Cold-matter Physics and
Chemistry
April 22-26, 2019 • Fields Institute
Organizers: Yongyong Cai (Computational
Sciences Research Centre, Beijing), Ionut Danaila
(University of Rouen Normandy), and Yvon Maday
(Sorbonne University)
In the Spring of 2016, the Fields
Institute hosted a Thematic
Program focused on scientific
computing, a fundamentally
interdisciplinary endeavour that
bridges applied mathematics
and disciplines spanning the
physical, life, and social sciences.
Tremendous advances in
computer hardware have earned
scientific computing recognition
as a third method of scientific
discovery, sitting atop the podium
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alongside experimentation and
theorization. Three years later,
two sister workshops were
hosted at the Fields Institute as a
“sequel” to the original thematic
program. Researchers from
various areas of study gathered to
reflect on advances in the field.
The study of extreme events
and criticality in fluid mechanics
emerged as one of the main
motifs of the original Thematic
Program, and the first of two
retrospective workshops provided
a forum for an assessment
of the progress which had
taken place in this field.
The main topics of the workshop
involved various computational
approaches to the study of
extreme and possibly singular
behaviour in different
models of fluid flow,
optimal transport
and mixing, as well
as computation
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