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abstract: Over the last several years, there have been major advances in the experimental observation and theoretical understanding of turbulent plasmas and fluids. This meeting will bring together theoreticians and experimentalists from three different fields, namely plasma turbulence, fluid turbulence, and dynamo physics. Some of the overarching themes will be pattern formation, coherent structures, and the dynamics of tracers in turbulent flows. The goal is to review our current understanding of turbulent plasmas and fluids, to exchange ideas between these research areas, as well as to foster collaborations.

abstract: Colloids, granular materials, foams, hard spheres, and emulsions all provide insight into longstanding questions surrounding glass formation, packing, the role of confinement, and jamming. While only 2D and 3D systems are studied experimentally, theoretical investigations in higher dimensions help compare the statics and dynamics of corresponding phenomena. The aim of this workshop is to use the contrasts and similarities between these different dimensions and systems to identify root causes that are otherwise difficult to disentangle, and suggest novel lines of study.

abstract: Celestial mechanics and atomic physics share a common interest in studying the dynamics of few-body systems interacting via 1/r potentials. The methods and techniques used in the two research areas could not be more different, however. While the motions of planetary bodies is governed by -in general - nonlinear ODE's with often complicated singularity structures, atomic and molecular systems are described by a linear PDE - Schrödinger's equation - and are solved by spectral methods, Green function expansions or complex rotation techniques etc.

Recent advances in semiclassical techniques as well as steady experimental progress in short pulse laser and detector technology makes it necessary to consider the classical dynamics of charged particles in more detail. These efforts greatly benefit from techniques developed in nonlinear systems theory in general and in the context of gravitational few-body problems in particular. The aim of this workshop is to bring the two communities together and to discuss the state of the art