IPST and Physics Professor Daniel Lathrop was recently elected Vice-Chair of the American Physical Society (APS) Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (GSNP). The Vice-Chair serves in that capacity for one year, becomes Chair-Elect in year two, and then serves as Chair of GSNP in year three.

Jim Wallace, Chair of the Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics, invites you to the 2016 Burgers Symposium on Wednesday, November 16. This year marks the 13th anniversary of the annual Burgers Lecture, which will be given by Jayanta Bhattacharjee, Harsh-Chandra Research Institute - Allahabad, India. There will also be lectures by Megan Leftwich, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, George Washington University; Johan Larsson, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland; and James Carton, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Maryland.

Jim Wallace, Chair of the Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics, invites you to the 2015 Burgers Symposium on Wednesday, November 18th. This year marks the 12th anniversary of the annual Burgers Lecture, which will be given by Juergen Kurths, Humboldt University of Berlin, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.

Jim Wallace, Chair of the Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics, invites you to the 2014 Burgers Symposium on Thursday, November 13th. This year marks the 11th anniversary of the annual Burgers Lecture, which will be given by Katepalli Sreenivasan, Executive Vice Provost for Science and Technology, President and Dean of the Polytechnic School of Engineering, and Professor of Physics and Mathematics at New York University. There will also be lectures by Gijs Ooms, Former Scientific Director of the J.M.

Jim Wallace, Chair of the Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics, invites you to the 2013 Burgers Symposium on Wednesday, November 20th, in the Kay Boardrooms (1107 & 1111) of the Kim Engineering and Applied Science Building. The annual Burgers Lecture will be given by Ulrike Feudel, from the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany. There will also be lectures by Fulvio Scarano, from Delft Technical University, The Netherlands, and Amir Riaz and Kayo Ide, both from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Jim Wallace, Chair, Burgers Board invites you to the 2012 Burgers Symposium on Wednesday, November 14th. The Ninth Annual Burgers Lecture will be given by Henk A. Dijkstra, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Jim Wallace, Chair, Burgers Board invites you to the 2011 Burgers Symposium on Wednesday, November 16th. The annual Burgers Lecture will be given by Marie Farge, Directrice de Recherche CNRS - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. We will also be celebrating the 80th birth-year of Jan Sengers with lectures by Katepalli Sreenivasan, Gijs Ooms (Scientific Director of the J.M. Burgerscentrum in the Netherlands) and Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann (one of Jan's former students and a Physics Professor at the University of Akron).

The Seventh Annual Symposium for the Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics will be held Wednesday, November 17, 2010. The Burgers Program Lecturer, W.J. Briels, Computational Biophysics Group, Twente University, The Netherlands, will be speaking on Memory and Transient Forces in Soft Matter.

2010 Tutorial School on Fluid Dynamics: Topics in Turbulence May 24 - 28, 2010 Organized by the Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics & the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM), University of Maryland and the Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics, Johns Hopkins University.

The Sixth Annual Symposium of the Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics will be held on Wednesday, November 18, 2009. The scheduled Burgers Lecture will be given by Kees Vuik, Director, Delft Centre for Computational Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology. Additional speakers are: Ralf Deiterding, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Eugenia Kalnay, Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland; and Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University.