Recent Breakthroughs and New Perspectives on the Interplay between Fluid Mechanics and Kinetic Theory (26w5611)
Organizers
William Golding (University of Chicago)
Dallas Albritton (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Maria P. Gualdani (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Nestor Guillen (Texas State University)
Description
The Banff International Research Station will host the "Recent Breakthroughs and New Perspectives on the Interplay between Fluid Mechanics and Kinetic Theory" workshop in Banff from August 16 to August 21, 2026.
The Banff International Research Station will host the workshop "Recent Breakthroughs and New Perspectives on the Interplay between Fluid Mechanics and Kinetic Theory" in 2026. This event will bring together leading experts from two closely-related fields---fluid mechanics and kinetic theory---that have seen remarkable progress and growth in the last decade. The workshop aims to foster collaboration and the exchange of ideas between these communities, accelerating the proliferation of techniques and discovery of new research directions.
To facilitate this goal, the workshop will feature introductory lectures from five key topics that share many fundamental challenges and are becoming increasingly relevant to one another: inhomogeneous kinetic equations; global dynamics of homogeneous kinetic equations; singularity formation in hydrodynamics models; rigorous derivations of kinetic and fluid models; and stochastic analysis and turbulence. Participants will also engage in collaborative sessions designed to identify future research directions at the intersection of kinetic theory and fluid mechanics, potentially shaping the trajectory of these fields for years to come.
The Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS) is a collaborative Canada-US-Mexico venture that provides an environment for creative interaction as well as the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and methods within the Mathematical Sciences, with related disciplines and with industry. The research station is located at The Banff Centre in Alberta and is supported by Canada's Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and Alberta's Technology and Innovation.
