This event will be held in Seoul, South Korea, from 13 to 17 June 2016. It will bring together experts from around the world to share the latest in turbine technology, research, development and application. The call for papers closes on 24 August 2015 (deadline).

For more details see http://calendar.asme.org/EventDetail.cfm?EventID=31255

This is a two-part event, which will take place in Porto, Portugal, in June 2016. The first part is an EAA Summer School for young acousticians, from 11 to 12 June; the second part is a congress on classical and topical themes in acoustics, from 13 to 15 June. The deadline for submitting a congress abstract is 1 November 2015.

For more details, please click here.

The von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, based in Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium, offers the following lecture series during the academic year 2015-2016:-

Introduction to measurement techniques: 5 – 9 October 2015
Introduction to ground testing facilities: 2 – 4 November 2015
Simulation, control and reduction of ventilation noise: 16 – 19 November 2015
Space debris re-entry and mitigation: 30 November – 4 December 2015
Introduction to computational fluid dynamics: 25 – 29 January 2016
Electric propulsion systems: 1 – 5 February 2016
Cryogenics in space applications: 24 – 27 February 2016
Introduction to optimization and multidisciplinary design: 20 – 24 April 2016
Large eddy simulation. Theory and applications: 9 – 13 May 2016
Liquid fragmentation in gas flow: 13 – 17 June 2016
Measurement, simulation and control of subsonic and supersonic jet noise: 29 – 30 September 2016

For more details see http://www.vki.ac.be

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at KU Leuven is running training courses on Applied Acoustics (ISAAC26) and on Modal Analysis (ISMA40). Both will take place from 17 to 18 September 2015.

For details about ISAAC26 see http://www.isma-isaac.be/isaac_course/about.html

For details about ISMA40 see http://www.isma-isaac.be/isma_course/about.html

These two courses will take place at the University of Southampton, UK. They will run in parallel during the week starting 7 September 2015. The closing date for registration is 28 August 2015.

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A vacancy had arisen at Ansaldo Energia for an Early Stage Researcher (ESR) to work under the supervision of Dr Giovanni Campa and Federico Daccà on “Numerical study of nonlinear dynamics of a turbulent combustor”. The position is fixed-term for 12 months, with a salary of about € 4000 per month.

For the job advertisement click here.

This event will be held in the Tuscan village of Montestigliano, Italy, 12 – 18 April 2015. It is a learning opportunity for doctoral and post-doctoral students, where they work interactively in groups on “Modelling and control of combustion instabilities”, in close contact with the invited speaker, Dr Aimee Morgans, Imperial College London. Prospective applicants need to apply by 12 March 2015.

For more details see:-
http://www.ercoftac.org/ercoftac_news/ercoftac_montestigliano_spring_school_2015/

This workshop will be held at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, on 26 and 27 October 2015. Its goal is to provide a platform for researchers to meet and discuss the current topics of interest in thermoacoustics. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 March 2015.

For more details see http://www.utwente.nl/ctw/thermoacoustics/

This is a one-week lecture series on “Measurement, Analysis and Passive Control of Thermoacoustic Oscillations”. It will be held at CISM – International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy from 29 June to 3 July 2015.

For more details see http://www.cism.it/courses/C1504/

We offer a warm welcome to four new fellows who have recently joined R.I. Sujith’s group at IIT Madras. They are:

Prabodh Ranjan (Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, from TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

Nitin Babu George (Master’s Degree in Fluids Engineering for Industrial Processes, from INP Toulouse-ENSEEIHT, France).

Luca Agrati, from the University of Genova

Diego Zangrillo, also from the University of Genova

Prabodh and Nitin are working on TANGO tasks 2.1 and 2.3, respectively, while Luca and Diego are each working on a short-term master-level project.