UKFN weekly round-up 24/1/19

If you would like to circulate a brief message to the UKFN mailing list, you can send it to info@fluids.ac.uk by Thursday noon and it will be circulated in the weekly round-up later that day.



A. UKFN MESSAGES

From: Nick Daish, 24/1/19
Subject: UKFN Fluid Mechanics Thesis Prize

This is advance notice that UKFN will once again be running a competition for the best Fluid Mechanics-themed doctoral thesis from the previous year. We will be asking examiners to nominate outstanding dissertations that were submitted during 2018, and details will follow soon on the UKFN website.



From: Nick Daish, 24/1/19
Subject: Seminar series

Following on from last week's request for details of fluids seminar series, there is a new section 'Seminar Series' giving details of fluids schedules received. A new section compiling these links is planned for the website Talks page (https://fluids.ac.uk/talks). If you would like to submit details of fluids seminars at your department, send them to info@fluids.ac.uk.



From: Nick Daish, 24/1/19
Subject: Short Research Visits (Final Reminder)

The UK Fluids Network runs a Short Research Visit (SRV) scheme, whereby any UK fluids researcher can apply for a small grant to cover travel and subsistence costs to visit another UK researcher or group. Full details on how to apply are given on the SRV page of the UKFN website https://fluids.ac.uk/srv; email any questions to srv@fluids.ac.uk. The deadline for applications is 31 January 2019.



B. MEMBER MESSAGES



EVENTS:

From: Cliff Jones, University of Leeds, 21/1/19
Subject: British Liquid Crystal Conference

Date: 15-17 April 2019
Location: University of Leeds
Details: https://www.blcs2019.org/
Submissions by 11 Feb; reduced fee registration by 17 Mar

From: Cliff Jones, University of Leeds, 21/1/19
Subject: Leeds Lyotropic Liquid Crystals Symposium (in conjunction with BLCS)

Date: 15 April 2019
Location: University of Leeds
Details: https://www.blcs2019.org/
Free with BLCS registration, £40 separate registration



From: Combustion Institute, British Section, 23/1/19
Subject: Cambridge Combustion Summer School 2019

Date: 8-12 July 2019
Location: Department of Engineering/Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge
Details: https://www.ccss.eng.cam.ac.uk/
Apply between 18 February and 15 March 2019



From: Jason Reese, University of Edinburgh, 21/1/19
Subject: Conference theme 'Modelling across time and length scales' at Droplets 2019

Date: 16-18 September 2019
Location: Durham University
Details: https://tinyurl.com/droplets-2019-x-t-scales



From: Peter Stewart, University of Glasgow, 17/1/19
Subject: Fluid Mechanics of the Eye SIG Meeting 4

Date: 26-27 March 2019
Location: University of Glasgow
Details: Website to follow; email Peter.Stewart@glasgow.ac.uk for further details
Also 1-day event to discuss retinal bleeding and retinal haemorrhage - contact as above if interested in attending



From: Svetlana Aleksandrova, Coventry University, 23/1/19
Subject: Particulate Matter Filtration SIG Meeting 5

Date: 25 February 2019
Location: University of Birmingham
Details: https://tinyurl.com/sig-pm-filtration-mtg5





HELP REQUESTED:

From: Phil Hancock, University of Surrey, 23/1/19
Subject: Wind tunnel contraction and settling chamber frames – no longer required

See https://tinyurl.com/surrey-windtunnel-eqpt for details.





SEMINAR SERIES:

Venue: School of Mathematics, University of Leeds
Topics: Fluids and MHD

Link: https://tinyurl.com/fluids-talks-leeds-maths
Contact Adrian Barker (A.J.Barker@leeds.ac.uk) or Sam Pegler (S.Pegler@leeds.ac.uk) for further details