I have visited Daniela Mansutti and Andrea Scagliarini at Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “Mauro Picone”

Cover image: “Visualisation of copepods in turbulent flow from an individual behaviour model of jump-escape-reaction from turbulence. The background colour map pictures the instantaneous value of the fluid deformation (higher values in light colours) in a fully-resolved numerically simulated turbulent flow. White contour lines mark boundaries between so called comfort (low strain) and alert (high strain) regions. Copepods are represented as ellipsoidal bodies. Arrows indicate the direction of their instantaneous velocity, due either to fluid transport or to their intermittent jump swimming motion”. Ardeshiri et al. J. Plankton Res., 39, 878–890 (2017).

Many thanks to Hendong Xi who has invited me at the Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi’an for a visit to his group and to his Wonderful city. I love Shaanxi!

For more info read our latest article: Microbubbles and Microparticles are Not Faithful Tracers of Turbulent Acceleration  https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02050

For a dynamics visualisation have a look at  [movie] . For a detailed account of our results we invite you to read our fresh preprint http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01438

I remember as a Post-doc in the Netherlands, I was enrolled at the University, opened a bank account and registered myself as a resident in the city hall all in less than an hour. Everything was so easy, each procedure was electronic  and in english.  It’s not the same music here in Lille. My foreigner students sometimes get trapped in administrative loopholes and when they do not master the language is not obvious how to get things done.  This is the reason why Hamidreza Ardeshiri, one of our senior PhD students in the group decided to write a How-to document to Lille 1 University.  I like to post it here for the future generations. Thanks Hamid!  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lille 1

What we did in Xiamen, China apart from visiting our friend Yongxiang Huang? You can read the account of Francois Schmitt on the issue 20 of the magazine “Le CNRS en Chine“.