First Burgers Symposium

The Burgers Program was inaugurated on November 18, 2004 with the first of its annual Burgers Symposia. Highlights of the day-long event were the remarks by Gijs Ooms, the Scientific Director of the J.M. Burgers Centrum (JMBC) in the Netherlands on "Life and work of J.M. Burgers in the Netherlands," remarks by Jan Sengers on "The Legacy of J.M. Burgers at Maryland" and the Burgers Keynote Lecture on the "Dynamics of Turbulent Shear Flows" by Bruno Eckhardt of the Philipps Universität, Marburg. The President of the University of Maryland, Dan Mote, and the Deans of the College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences and of the School of Engineering, Stephen Halperin and Nariman Farvardin, welcomed the more than 75 participants. Each succeeding year the Symposium has been held as a half-day event.