The Batchelor Prize

Cambridge University Press and the Journal of Fluid Mechanics are delighted to announce the launch of The Batchelor Prize, sponsored by Journal of Fluid Mechanics to be awarded in recognition of outstanding research in fluid mechanics.

The Award

The Batchelor Prize, sponsored by Journal of Fluid Mechanics, is an award initially of US$25,000 to be presented at the International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics (ICTAM), taking place in Adelaide in August 2008.

The recipient of the prize will deliver a lecture at ICTAM and this will also be published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics and be made freely available on the Cambridge Journals website.

The prize will be awarded by a committee whose members are internationally distinguished in fluid mechanics.

Eligibility

1. The prize is to be awarded on each occasion to a single individual.

2. No individual should win the prize more than once.

3. The research recognised by the award will normally have been published during the ten-year period prior to the date of the award (e.g. during the period 1998-2007 inclusive for the prize to be awarded in 2008). The intention is thus that younger researchers should be as eligible for consideration as those who are more established, and that the work recognised by the award should be of great current interest (representing, for example, an emerging field of application of fluid mechanics or a significant breakthrough in an established branch of the subject).

Nominations

The nomination process is open to everyone. If you would like someone to be considered for The Batchelor Prize, sponsored by Journal of Fluid Mechanics, please nominate them using the procedure outlined below: 

1. the nomination should include a brief curriculum vitae of the candidate nominated

2. a list of his/her publications during the period 1998-2007 with up to 10 of particular distinction being marked by an asterisk

3. a brief (one page) statement of the case for making the award.

To submit a nomination email jfmprize@cambridge.org with the above information.

The deadline for nominations is 30th September 2007.

Conditions of awarding The Batchelor Prize

1. The Prize will be awarded by a small Committee, from nominations received by the deadline. The members of the 2008 Awarding Committee are Professor R. J. Adrian, Professor P. Huerre, Professor L. G. Leal and Professor T. J. Pedley.

2. The Committee will select a winner by 30th November 2007.

3. The decision of the Committee is final.

4. Self nominations are not permitted.

5. The Committee will be dissolved following the announcement of the Prize.

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