Yarin co-hosts international workshop
UIC Distinguished Professor Alexander Yarin recently co-organized the Drops, Jets, and Films workshop with Professor Cameron Tropea from Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, at the International Centre for Mechanical Studies (CISM) in Udine, Italy.
CISM is a non-profit organization founded in 1968 to promote the exchange and application of advanced knowledge in mechanical sciences in interdisciplinary fields like robotics, biomechanics, environmental engineering, and other fields. Its principal activity is the organization of courses, seminars, workshops, symposia, and conferences to present this knowledge to researchers. It also provides advanced training for engineers operating in industry.
The workshop featured lectures from Yarin, Tropea, Professor Christophe Josserand from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, Professor Detlef Lohse from Max-Planck-Institute, University of Twente, Professor Daniel Bonn from University of Amsterdam, and Professor Stephane Zaleski from Sorbonne Universite.
“The workshop was successful because a group of high-level PhD students and postdocs had an opportunity to attend lectures of the leading experts in the field of theoretical, numerical, and experimental fluid mechanics with free surfaces,” Yarin said. “The attendees could ask them any research questions they wanted and discuss multiple interesting modern ramifications in this field, which is a booming modern research subject, in particular, because of the works of the lecturers involved in the course.”
UIC PhD students Valentina Kosmerl and Rafael Granda, who are both working under Yarin’s direction in the Multiscale Mechanics and Nanotechnology Laboratory at UIC, were among the students who had the chance to participate in lectures, discussions, networking, and social events with experts and students from several leading European universities.
“The whole week there was amazing. Being surrounded by the most successful scientists in the field, learning from them the state-of-the-art experimental and numerical methods while being in the beautiful and unique venue is an amazing experience,” Kosmerl said. “I believe these events are necessary for every PhD student because this scientific road we took may sometimes feel lonely. However, these meetings remind us why we’re doing what we’re doing and give us a light on our road.”