UK AI for Turbulence Workshop
Knowledge Center at the British Library, London
26-27 January 2026
The aim of this workshop is to bring together multidisciplinary stakeholders from industry and academia to establish the state-of-the-art in AI applications to turbulence, to showcase UK expertise and capabilities, and to identify key research priorities and collaborative opportunities. The workshop will feature a mix of presentation formats, including keynote lectures from leading researchers, interactive panel discussions, and e-posters for young academics in order to encourage deep engagement between participants from different backgrounds. The events will be designed to maximise networking opportunities and facilitate new collaborations. This workshop will directly inform the development of a strategic white paper around AI for Turbulence.
This event is sponsored by Cambridge University Press, Data-Centric Engineering, the UK Turbulence Consortium and the CCP Turbulence (thanks to funding from UKRI and the Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) Programme.
This event is sponsored by Cambridge University Press, Data-Centric Engineering, the UK Turbulence Consortium and the CCP Turbulence (thanks to funding from UKRI and the Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) Programme.
Organising Committee:
Registration:
Registration for this workshop is free but mandatory (deadline to register Friday 12th December 2025):
https://forms.office.com/e/TQrVZsS0PG
Invited Keynote Speakers:
Heng Xiao (University of Stuttgart): Towards a Unified Turbulence Model through Multi-Objective Learning
Andrea Beck (University of Stuttgart): Towards discretization-consistent closure models via reinforcement learning
e-posters for Early Career Researchers (ECR):
TBC
Invited presentations:
Antonio Attili (Edinburgh)
Miguel Beneitez (Manchester): Improving turbulence control through explainable deep learning
Xu Chu (Exeter)
Bharath Ganapathisubramani (Southampton): Data driven predictions for pressure gradient flows
Temistocle Grenga (Southampton)
Luca Magri (Imperial College)
Olaf Marxen (Surrey)
Jacob Page (Edinburgh): Online learning for state estimation and orbit continuation, with applications to turbulence
George Papadakis (Imperial College): A scalable data-driven algorithm for forecasting the evolution of turbulent flows from sparse sensor data
Alfredo Pinelli (City St George's): From DNS to wind tunnels: Developing practical ML-based flow control for wall turbulence
Graham Pullan (Cambridge): Some applications of AI in CFD visualisation
George Rigas (Imperial College)
Justin Sirignano (Oxford)
Sean Symon (Southampton)
Saleh Rezaeiravesh (Manchester): Some Information-theoretic Insights into Turbulence
Zhong-Nan Wang (Birmingham)
Panel Sessions:
Ligang He (Warwick)
Richard Gilham (Bristol HPC)
Ryan Tunstall (Rolls Royce)
Małgorzata Zimoń (IBM)
Overview of conference programme:
Day 1
08:30 - 09:15 | Registration & Welcome
09:15 - 09:30 | Opening Remarks & Introduction
09:30 - 10:30 | Keynote Lecture 1
10:30 - 11:00 | Morning Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:20 | Invited Presentation 1
11:20 - 11:40 | Invited Presentation 2
11:40 - 12:00 | Invited Presentation 3
12:00 - 12:20 | Invited Presentation 4
12:20 - 12:40 | Invited Presentation 5
12:40 - 13:40 | Lunch Break
13:40 - 14:00 | Invited Presentation 6
14:00 - 14:20 | Invited Presentation 7
14:20 - 14:40 | Invited Presentation 8
14:40 - 15:40 | Poster Session (flash talks + e-posters session)
15:40 - 16:00 | Afternoon Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 | Panel Session 1
17:15 - 19:15 | Drinks Reception
Day 2
08:30 - 09:00 | Registration & Welcome
09:00 - 10:00 | Panel Session 2
10:00 - 10:20 | Invited Presentation 9
10:20 - 10:40 | Invited Presentation 10
10:40 - 11:00 | Invited Presentation 11
11:00 - 11:30 | Morning Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 | Keynote Lecture 2
12:30 - 12:50 | Invited Presentation 12
12:50 - 13:10 | Invited Presentation 13
13:10 - 13:30 | Invited Presentation 14
13:30 - 14:30 | Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:30 | Panel Session 2
15:30 - 15:50 | Invited Presentation 15
15:50 – 16:10 | Invited Presentation 16
16:10 - 16:30 | Invited Presentation 17
16:30 - 17:00 | Closing Remarks
- Luca Magri & Sylvain Laizet, Imperial College London
- Andrew Wheeler, University of Cambridge
- Umair Ahmed, University of Newcastle
- Julia Handl & Alistair Revell, University of Manchester
- Dave Emerson & Jeyan Thiyagalingam, SFTC
Registration:
Registration for this workshop is free but mandatory (deadline to register Friday 12th December 2025):
https://forms.office.com/e/TQrVZsS0PG
Invited Keynote Speakers:
Heng Xiao (University of Stuttgart): Towards a Unified Turbulence Model through Multi-Objective Learning
Andrea Beck (University of Stuttgart): Towards discretization-consistent closure models via reinforcement learning
e-posters for Early Career Researchers (ECR):
TBC
Invited presentations:
Antonio Attili (Edinburgh)
Miguel Beneitez (Manchester): Improving turbulence control through explainable deep learning
Xu Chu (Exeter)
Bharath Ganapathisubramani (Southampton): Data driven predictions for pressure gradient flows
Temistocle Grenga (Southampton)
Luca Magri (Imperial College)
Olaf Marxen (Surrey)
Jacob Page (Edinburgh): Online learning for state estimation and orbit continuation, with applications to turbulence
George Papadakis (Imperial College): A scalable data-driven algorithm for forecasting the evolution of turbulent flows from sparse sensor data
Alfredo Pinelli (City St George's): From DNS to wind tunnels: Developing practical ML-based flow control for wall turbulence
Graham Pullan (Cambridge): Some applications of AI in CFD visualisation
George Rigas (Imperial College)
Justin Sirignano (Oxford)
Sean Symon (Southampton)
Saleh Rezaeiravesh (Manchester): Some Information-theoretic Insights into Turbulence
Zhong-Nan Wang (Birmingham)
Panel Sessions:
Ligang He (Warwick)
Richard Gilham (Bristol HPC)
Ryan Tunstall (Rolls Royce)
Małgorzata Zimoń (IBM)
Overview of conference programme:
Day 1
08:30 - 09:15 | Registration & Welcome
09:15 - 09:30 | Opening Remarks & Introduction
09:30 - 10:30 | Keynote Lecture 1
10:30 - 11:00 | Morning Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:20 | Invited Presentation 1
11:20 - 11:40 | Invited Presentation 2
11:40 - 12:00 | Invited Presentation 3
12:00 - 12:20 | Invited Presentation 4
12:20 - 12:40 | Invited Presentation 5
12:40 - 13:40 | Lunch Break
13:40 - 14:00 | Invited Presentation 6
14:00 - 14:20 | Invited Presentation 7
14:20 - 14:40 | Invited Presentation 8
14:40 - 15:40 | Poster Session (flash talks + e-posters session)
15:40 - 16:00 | Afternoon Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 | Panel Session 1
17:15 - 19:15 | Drinks Reception
Day 2
08:30 - 09:00 | Registration & Welcome
09:00 - 10:00 | Panel Session 2
10:00 - 10:20 | Invited Presentation 9
10:20 - 10:40 | Invited Presentation 10
10:40 - 11:00 | Invited Presentation 11
11:00 - 11:30 | Morning Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 | Keynote Lecture 2
12:30 - 12:50 | Invited Presentation 12
12:50 - 13:10 | Invited Presentation 13
13:10 - 13:30 | Invited Presentation 14
13:30 - 14:30 | Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:30 | Panel Session 2
15:30 - 15:50 | Invited Presentation 15
15:50 – 16:10 | Invited Presentation 16
16:10 - 16:30 | Invited Presentation 17
16:30 - 17:00 | Closing Remarks