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Brief Biography of the Organizer:

Paul E. Dimotakis received his degrees at the California Institute of Technology (Physics, Nuclear Engineering 1969, and Ph.D. in Applied Physics). He stayed on at Caltech where he is presently the John K. Northrop Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Applied Physics. Starting in January 2006, he also serves as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Chief Technologist. ollowing work on liquid helium and superfluidity, his research focused on investigations of turbulent-flow phenomena, with an emphasis on turbulent transport and mixing in chemically reacting as well as non-reacting flows and combustion, in both subsonic and supersonic flows. He and his co-workers have developed several experimental facilities, diagnostic methods, introduced advances in signal processing, high-speed digital temporal- and image-data acquisition techniques, high-speed CCD imager design, and image-data processing. His research has also included work on active control of separated flows, studies of cavitation, hydrodynamic stability and gasdynamic simulations, image-correlation techniques for velocity-field (optical-flow) measurement, multi-dimensional measurements, aerooptics effects as well as work on adaptive optics. In work outside Caltech as a consultant, he has participated in the development of pilotless drones, high-power chemical lasers, the stealth fighter, the development of the Space Shuttle aerodynamics, assisted in the internal aerodynamics of sealed computer (Winchester) disks, helped with the fluid mechanics design of the "Leap-Frog fountain" at Disney's Epcot Center in Florida, and participated in experiments in the Lawrence Livermore's laser facilities. Also a sailor, he was a member of the AMERICA3 sail-design team in their successful defense of the Americas Cup in 1992. Paul Dimotakis has served as Associate Editor for the J. Fluid Mechanics, is presently a Fellow of the American Physical Society, an Associate Fellow of the AIAA, and a Fellow of the AAAS.