Recent Breakthroughs and New Perspectives on the Interplay between Fluid Mechanics and Kinetic Theory (26w5611)

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 - 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.