22-23 April 2010, SB1.14 ATT (Attenborough) Building, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, England.

The design, implementation and operation of free flow turbines for green energy generation is discussed in a two-day workshop. Tidal, wind, and conventional hydroelectric designs are reviewed by distinguished academics from UK, Spain, US, and Russia. This inter-departmental workshop, hosted by the Mathematical Modelling Centre, is supported by the Departments of Mathematics and Engineering. The workshop includes a tour of the Engineering building, which was designed by architects James Stirling and James Gowen in 1963 around the brief of including a hydraulic tower for testing hydraulic turbines. The system is still in operation today.

Brief programme. See URL for the full programme and talk abstracts (http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/mathematics/extranet/conferences/WorkshopProgram)

16:30 - 17:30 Helical turbines for hydro and wind power 17:30 Refreshments and open forum discussion

10:00 - 12:00 Modelling methods for tidal streams and wind turbines 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 16:00 Turbine performance: Aerodynamics and energetic

Contact: Dr. Aldo Rona, Engineering, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK, T: +44 (0)116 252 2510, ar45@leicester.ac.uk

Dr. Aldo Rona (FP4 MCF 1998) has taken up the appointment of Senior Lecturer in Engineering at the University of Leicester, England, since 1 April 2010. He has established research interests in unsteady, acoustically active flows for aerospace and power (www.le.ac.uk/eg/ar45), stemming from his Marie Curie fellowship at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium (1998). He has recently coordinated the FP6 MC EST programme AeroTraNet (www.imft.fr/aerotranet) in which 20 MC EST fellows studied the unsteady flow past airframe recesses (aircraft fuel vents, car door seals) by numerical modelling, experiment, and flow control techniques.