New invitation and call for abstracts for THESIS-2025
6th Symposium on Two-pHase modEling for Sediment dynamIcs in geophySical flows
October 13-15, 2025 | Leuven, Belgium
Website: https://bwk.kuleuven.be/hydr/thesis2025.html
Prologue
As you know, the THESIS-2025 Symposium was planned to take place at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). In the meantime, the geopolitical situation has changed likely explaining the too low number of expected participations. The THESIS Symposium is not an ordinary symposium where scientist show off with their successes but wants to stimulate discussion on the challenges and unsolved problems we face. Therefore, the international steering committee wants to stimulate an in-person meeting. Consequently, it agreed and decided to move the symposium to Europe, more particularly Leuven, Belgium, expecting that travelling will be much easier for most of you. We do not give up the UCSB offer and hope that the following THESIS Symposium then can take place there. We thank Eckart Meiburg for all his efforts.
Call for abstracts and participation
The Hydraulics & Geotechnics Section of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) will be hosting the THESIS-2025 at the same dates, October 13-15, 2025, hoping that you have kept the dates reserved for attending.
We invite you once more to submit a 1-page abstract to erik.toorman@kuleuven.be.
The new submission deadline is 31 July 2025.
For those of you who already submitted an abstract, those have already been forwarded to me by Eckart Meiburg. It would be helpful to confirm if you still plan to attend now that the location has changed.
Program
We hope to receive enough abstracts to fill 5 half day sessions with talks, and on Wednesday afternoon, for those who can and want to stay a bit longer, we offer guided visits to lab facilities, i.e. the 3D tomographic PIV system at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the erosion flume at the Hydraulics Laboratory.
Practical info
Please keep an eye on the new symposium website, bwk.kuleuven.be/hydr/thesis2025.html, which need to be further completed and will be updated frequently.
We will soon provide detailed information on the registration fee (max. 450 Euro) and how to register. We will offer sandwich lunches, drinks, and an icebreaker reception on Monday and symposium dinner on Tuesday.
Leuven is only 16 minutes by train from Brussels national airport. On the symposium website you find already the necessary information on how to get to the venue, which is located about 3 kms from the city center and is easily reachable by public bus.
For hotel accommodation there is a wide choice of hotels throughout the old city, which you can find on Google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/search/hotels+Leuven
There is one hotel across the street of the venue: https://reservations.cubilis.eu/be/the-lodge-hotel-heverlee-leuven
As Leuven is a small town with a big university, you will notice many bicycles. Bike rental is therefore a good alternative for getting around.
For culture lovers
Since KU Leuven exists for 600 years already, the university offers various special events, to be found at: https://www.kuleuven.be/600years/
Therefore, it is no surprise to find many old buildings in the city center, as well as the Arenberg Castle, next to the venue of the symposium.
We hope to hear from you soon and look forward to welcoming you in Leuven, Belgium.
In name of the local organizing committee
Erik A. Toorman
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Professor in theoretical and computational fluid and sediment mechanics
MSc Mechanical Engineering | PhD Civil (Hydraulic) Engineering
Division head
IUPWARE programme director
Hydraulics & Geotechnics | Department of Civil Engineering
Kasteelpark Arenberg 40 (box 2448) | B-3001 Heverlee (Leuven) | Belgium
Office 01.05 | Tel. +32 16 321659 | e-mail: erik.toorman@kuleuven.be
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THESIS-2025 Symposium
Two-pHase modEling for Sediment dynamlcS
The 6th symposium on two-phase modeling for sediment dynamics in geophysical flows
October 13-15,2025 | Santa Barbara, California, USA
Date: Oct 13-15, 2025
Venue: UCSB, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Event Overview: We invite studies of fundamental understanding of sediment transport dynamics and other multiphase phenomena and their geophysical applications through theoretical numerical modeling and laboratory/field observation. THESIS symposia (THESIS-2011, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022) were successfully held in Chatou, France, Tokyo, Japan, Newark, USA, and Les Houches, France, to provide a forum for discussing and exchanging knowledge and experience in the international research community, with the goal of developing two-phase approaches to sediment dynamics in geophysical flows.
Registration:
Regular registration: $650 USD
Student/early career registration: $200 USD
URL: https://me.ucsb.edu/thesis-2025-symposium
Key Dates:
May 31, 2025: Abstract submission (1-page abstracts should be submitted to meiburg@ucsb.edu )
