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CONFERENCE DEADLINES

8 August	Abstract submission (Important Note: Due to the limited number of meeting rooms and the large number of submitted abstracts anticipated, the local organizing committee will have to enforce strictly the rules concerning one paper per speaker. Furthermore, requests for serial scheduling of multiple papers by a group of authors cannot be accommodated.)
3 October	Preregistration
3 October	Gallery of Flud Motion Entry Forms
24 October	Hotel Registration -- Pickwick
31 October	Hotel Registration -- Marriott
21 November	Cancellation

This year's scientific program will include honor lectures, invited lectures, contributed papers, and the Gallery of Fluid Motion. We received 900 contributed abstracts, which will be distributed into 10 concurrent sessions.

AWARDS

Fluid Dynamics Prize
Louis N. Howard, Florida State University "For seminal theoretical concepts in the theory of turbulence, stability, rotating and stratified fluid flows, and other fluid dynamical problems, including upper bounding theory of statistically stationary turbulence, semicircle theorems for the stability of geophysical flows, the spin-up problem, and reaction-diffusion and double-diffusion problems."

Otto Laporte Award
Marvin E. Goldstein, NASA "For his seminal theoretical elucidation of the roles of receptivity and nonlinearity in the transition to turbulence of shear flows, for his discovery that capillary force can be the source of absolute instability in a liquid jet, for his lasting contribution to aeroacoustics and rapid distortion theory and for his exemplary roles in the fluid dynamics community."

1997 Francois Frenkiel Award
Dr. K. Mahesh, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University, "A model for the Onset of Breakdown in an Axisymmetric Compressible Vortex," Phys. Fluids 8(12), 3338-3345 (1996).

INVITED SPEAKERS

Paul E. Dimotakis, Caltech, "Turbulence, fractals and mixing"

Ari Glezer, Georgia Tech, "Shear flow control using synthetic jet actuators"

Lawrence Crum, Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington, "Sonoluminescence"

Charles S. Peskin, New York University, "Fluid dynamics of the heart and its valves"

Susan Solomon, NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, "Ozone depletion from pole to pole"

William Saric, Arizona State University, "Nonlinear stability and saturation in 3-D boundary layers"

Michael Campbell, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, "Hydrodynamics on superlasers"

Luc Bauwens, University of Calgary, "Thermoacoustics"

ANNUAL REVIEW EDITORIAL COMMITTEE MEETING

The Editorial Committee for Volume 32 of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics will meet from 8:00-17:30 (or until business is concluded) on Saturday, November 22, in the Sierra RJS Conference Room on the 5th floor of the San Francisco Marriott Hotel.

Please see the American Physical Society's DFD 97 Meeting Page for more details.

HOTEL INFORMATION

If you are seeking a same-gender roommate among the conference participants to share hotel room and costs, send email to Laurette Tuckerman, laurette@ima.umn.edu, specifying your gender and dates of arrival/departure.

Marriott Hotel
55 Fourth St (Between Market & Mission)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 896-1600 (mention APS for group rate)
FAX: (408) 567-0391

Rates: $115 (single or double), $135 (triple), $155 (quad)
*One block from the Moscone Center

Pickwick Hotel
85 Fifth St (Between Market & Mission)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (800) 227-3282 or (415) 421-7500 (mention APS for group rate)
FAX: (415) 243-8066 (write Attention: Mollie)

Rates $89 (single, double, triple or quad)
*Two blocks from the Moscone Center

PARKING

Parking at the Marriott is available for $25 per day. Parking in the environs of the Moscone center is limited. Some parking locations to try are the Fifth and Mission Parking Garage (2620 spaces, 24 hours, $9 maximum per day), the Hearst Parking Center (800 spaces, Mon-Sat 6:30am-Midnight, 45 Third Street between Market and Mission, $12 maximum), and the Moscone Center Garage (732 spaces, Mon-Sat 6am-10pm, 255 Third Street between Howard and Folsom, $12 maximum).

Area Contacts:
Stanley A. Berger (saberger@me.berkeley.edu)
and Omer Savas (savas@me.berkeley.edu)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740

Fax: (510) 642-6163