... for visiting Göttingen, Germany, for the 12th International Symposium on Flow Visualization held during September 10-14, 2006.

This symposium was the latest in the series of International Flow Visualization Symposia, first held in Tokyo in 1977 and successively in Bochum, Ann Arbor, Paris, Prague, Yokohama, Seattle, Sorrento, Edinburgh, Kyoto, and Notre Dame.

The traditional awards in the series of the International Symposium of Flow Visualization, the Asanuma Award and the Leonardo da Vinci Award, have been presented for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Flow Visualization. The laureates of ISFV12 are:

• Prof. Cameron Tropea (TU Darmstadt, Germany) - The Asanuma Award
• Prof. Kazuyoshi Takayama (Tohoku University, Japan) - The Leonardo da Vinci Award

Young Scientist Awards were conferred upon three young scientists for an outstanding contribution to the 12th International Symposium on Flow Visulization. At total 63 young scientists indicated their interest in the Award, which was announced for the first time from an ISFV committee. The award's purpose is to act as a motivation for young scientists to present their work at ISFV and to honor the effort spent on preparing the paper and the presentation. The 'Young Scientist Award' winners are as follows:

• Takanobu Yagi (Waseda University, Japan) - Real-Time Planar Spectral Analysis of Instataneous High-Frequency Stress on Blood Cells Downstream of an Artificial Heart Valve
• Markus Honkanen (Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland) - High-Speed, Stereoscopic Multiphase PIV/PTV Technique to Study the Interaction of Bubbles and Vortices
• Josué Sznitman (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) - Optical Density Visualization and Reconstruction of Negative Buoyant Vortex Rings & PIV Investigation of Internal Recirculating Flows in Thin Liquid Shells

• November 16, 2006 The Report on the 12th International Symposium on Flow Visualization has been submitted for publication in the Journal of Visualization.
• September 18, 2006 The Local Organizing Committee of ISFV12 would like to receive feedback from the participants about the organization of the symposium. Please, make your comments/suggestions and return this questionnaire via fax or e-mail to the ISFV12 Local Organizing Committee.
• September 6, 2006 The updated Scientific Program is available for download. This includes maps and directions for internet access during the symposium.
• September 6, 2006 Last Minute Papers not included on the conference CDROM are available for download.
• September 5, 2006 Seats on touristic excoursions are still available. Tickets for tours 2, 3, 4 and 6 can be requested at the registration desk on a first come first serve basis.
• August 31, 2006 The final version of the Book of Abstracts is available for download. Printed version will be available at registration.
• August 31, 2006 The public lecture addressed to "The Da Vinci Vortex" is held on September 12 at the symposium venue. Supplementary comments will be given in English.
• August 24, 2006 To help you organize your stay at Göttingen we give some hints on how to get around on the Travel into Göttingen page. If you need further information please do not hesitate to contact us at isfv.support@dlr.de.
• August 10, 2006 Participants presenting at the Poster Session 72 please regard the Instructions for Poster Presentations
• July 18, 2006 Booking for the Touristic Excursions Programme for participants and accompanying persons is activated. Please log into the ISFV Registration Service to place your order. Deadline for booking of excursions is August 15, 2006.
• July 12, 2006 Exhibition space will be available for companies to exhibit their products and services in the foyer of the conference building. The planning of the exhibition is in progress. Companies interested to exhibit their products should contact isfv2006@dlr.de
• June 26, 2006: Letter of acceptance: As far as requested, letters of paper acceptance for visum application will be mailed in the next days. All ISFV12 participants requiring such letters should contact isfv2006@dlr.de
• June 26, 2006: Authors' affiliations, paper title etc. For the CD ROM proceedings there will be a final cross check of names of authors, order of authors, authors' affiliations once the final version has been uploaded to the database (by Optimage). This information will be automatically taken for the list of authors, symposium program etc. for the CD ROM, the final print and web version. For the time being no updates will be provided.
• June 26, 2006: For the list of participants (provided by DLR) the information as given by each registered participant during on-line registration will be used.
• June 10, 2006: All corresponding authors have been informed about the date and time of their presentation. If you did not yet receive this mail (dated June 10, 2006) about date and time of your presentation, the e-mail adress given by you during abstract upload may not have been valid. Please contact the chairman.
• May 15, 2006: All authors have been informed about acceptance/non-acceptance of their paper. If you did not yet receive a mail about the status of your abstract, the e-mail adress given by you during abstract upload may not have been valid. Please contact the chairman.
• May 02, 2006: Due to the high number of about 300 abstracts received, the review process took longer than planned. Thus we have decided to postpone the deadline for submission of the full paper and the advanced registration to June 30, 2006.
• May 02, 2006: The organization of ISFV12 is shared between
  - Paper Submission and Preparation of the Conference Proceedings as organized by the Editor of the Electronic Proceedings, Prof. Ian Grant, Optimage Ltd.
  -> Paper Submission
  - Symposium registration, accommodation, and all further activities related to ISFV12 as organized by the Chairman of ISFV12, Juergen Kompenhans, DLR
  -> Registration -> Accommodation
  To present at ISFV 12, both Paper Submission and Registration must be accomplished by participants. The procedures complement one another. Although, it is also possible to register for participation without a paper.

• May 02, 2006: Details about the preliminary program, registration and accommodation etc. will be provided in the next days by J. Kompenhans, Chairman of ISFV12 on this website.

Technical Sessions will cover all aspects of Flow Visualization. Topics will include but are not limited to:

Methods: direct injection; electronic sparks and discharge; holography and holographic interferometry, interferometry; laser sheet imaging; laser-induced fluorescence; particle image velocimetry; pressure sensitive paints; shadowgraphy and schlieren; streaming bi-refringence; mechanical tufts, liquid indicators, liquid crystals; thermal and mass transfer indicators (thermography, sublimation, luminescent paints); image processing and image-assisted methods; graphical display of data sets; scientific art; numerical flow visualization, CFD, DNS.

Applications: acoustics; aircraft; airfoils; bluff bodies; boundary layers; cavity flows; channel flows; combustion; cylinders; delta wings; droplet break-up; electrodynamics; engines; fluidics; environmental flows and field studies; holography; industrial processes; jets; jets in cross flow; low Reynolds number flows; medical/physiological flows; multi-phase flows; natural convection; porous media; rotating fluids; shock waves; supersonic flows; three-dimensional flows; turbomachines; turbulence; unsteady flows and instability; vehicles; vortices.