Nominations for invited lectures at the 2009 APS/DFD 62nd Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota are now being accepted.

A one-page nomination for an Inviter Lecture may be submitted by any APS/DFD member.

Proposals should be sent by e-mail to Juan C. Lasheras (lasheras@ucsd.edu indicating CFD/APS Invited Lecture in the subject line), Chair of the DFD Program Committee prior to April 19th, 2009.

Call for APS DFD Executive Committee Candidates

The Nominating Committee of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics invites suggestions for candidates for Vice-Chair, Secretary Treasurer, and two Members-at-Large positions for the Executive Committee of the DFD.  Please send names of potential candidates to the Chair of the Nominating Committee by June 12, 2009:

John Kim Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, Los Angeles 420 Westwood Plaza Los Angles, CA 90095-1597 jkim@seas.ucla.edu

Officers and Members-at-Large of the Executive Committee must be members of the Division for at least two years prior to nomination.  The member elected as Vice-Chair shall serve in that office for one year, then for one year as Chair-Elect, then for one year as Chair of the Executive Committee, and finally one year as Past Chair.  The Secretary Treasurer and the Members-at-Large will serve for three years.  More information on these positions can be found at the governance section of the APS DFD website: http://units.aps.org/units/dfd/.

The Nominating Committee will select two nominees for each position.

Questionnaire to Identify Funding Trends for Research in Fluid Dynamics

The Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society (APS/DFD) plans to develop a report on past, current and potential future funding trends in fluid dynamics. When completed, this report will be made available on the APS/DFD website. It will be used as part of an effort to develop new mechanisms to improve funding opportunities in fluid dynamics and to take advantage of existing mechanisms. We have found that useful data are difficult to obtain from within the funding agencies, so we are asking the fluid dynamics community to help us develop these data. We request principal investigators (PI and coPI) of fluids-related grants to fill in a Questionnaire with data on current and past granting activities from which the DFD will develop its report. The Questionnaire could take 15-20 minutes to fill out, depending on how readily the information is at hand; we suggest that you  review the Questionnaire and gather the information beforehand. We recognize the effort involved, however we are trying to advance our field of fluid dynamics, so please do your part to help. Please complete the Questionnaire by February 1, 2009, if possible. We plan to begin the data analysis process soon thereafter.

Fill out the Questionnaire

Fluid Dynamics Video

The Division of Fluid Dynamics is supporting the submission and archiving of fluid dynamics videos for both educational and technical content. Venues for archiving and disseminating videos are discussed in a new page available on the DFD website. In addition, starting at the 2008 meeting, all Gallery of Fluid Motion video entries will be archived in the eCommons/arXiv sytem. Description of how to submit to the arXiv server is described in the aforementioned article.

As part of our record of the past meetings, the invited talks at the annual DFD meeting are archived online as a technical record, and serve as a resource for promoting leading research trends in the area of Fluid Mechanics. Please see the archive for the most recent talks at the 2008 meeting.

Nomination Deadlines For Fellowships, Prizes, and Awards

The deadlines for nomination of Fellowships, Prizes and Awards are fast approaching.

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