Many problems in applied sciences and engineering involve the motion of geometric objects such as interfaces or filaments interact with surrounding fluids. These problems are generally called fluid-structure interaction problems. Very often, the mathematical models involve moving structures within incompressible Navier-Stokes flows in which boundary conditions must be specified along the structure surface(or interface). Since the interface position is unknown and must be solved as a part of solution, this poses challenging difficulties from mathematical and numerical points of view. For the past decades, the research effort on those topics is overwhelming and is still popular in applied mathematics community.

This international workshop is aimed to bring together mathematicians, computational scientists, and physicists having a common interest in solving fluid-structure interaction problems. The ultimate goal is to initiate new research collaborations that improve on existing techniques and generate ideas for new approaches.
　
Invited Speakers

Philippe Angot (Aix-Marseille University, France)
J. Thomas Beale (Duke University, USA) 
I-Liang Chern (NTU, Taiwan)
Zhiming Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Ching-Hsiao Cheng (NCU, Taiwan)
Georges-Henri Cottet (Univ. de Grenoble and CNRS, France)
Qiang Du (Penn State Univ., USA)
Lisa Fauci (Tulane University, USA) 
Aaron Fogelson (Univ. of Utah, USA)
Yongsam Kim (Chung-Ang Univ. Korea)
Zhilin Li (NCSU, USA)
John Lowengrub (UC Irvine, USA)
Chaouqi Misbah (Univ. Joseph Fourier and CNRS, France)
Michael Siegel (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Mark Sussman (Florida State University, USA)
Anna-Karin Tornberg (KTH, Sweden) 
Gretar Tryggvason (Univ of Norte Dame, USA)
Hongkai Zhao (UC-Irvine, USA)

Organizers

Ming-Chih Lai (NCTU, Taiwan) mclai@math.nctu.edu.tw
Zhilin Li (NCSU, USA) zhilin@math.ncsu.edu
John Lowengrub (UC-Irvine, USA) lowengrb@math.uci.edu

Sponsors:

National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taiwan
National Science Foundation, USA

For more information, please see
http://math.cts.nthu.edu.tw/Mathematics/FSIP2011.htm