Simons Foundation supports international collaboration on wave turbulence

The Simons Foundation announced on June 4, 2019 the establishment of the Simons Collaboration on Wave Turbulence, directed by Jalal Shatah from NYU assisted by Laure Saint-Raymond from ENS de Lyon and Nicolas Mordant from UGA. The project also involves researchers from CNRS (INSIS and INP), École normale supérieure de Paris, Université Paris-Diderot and INRIA on the French side, as well as from Princeton University, Michigan, Massachusetts University in Amherst and the University of Turin. At the level of ENS de Lyon, Laure Saint-Raymond (UMPA), Laurent Chevillard and Thierry Dauxois (Physics Laboratory) are involved. Waves are ubiquitous in nature. They are central in describing fundamental physical phenomena at all scales, from quantum mechanics to general relativity. When in a given physical system a large number of interacting waves are present, the description of an individual wave is neither possible nor relevant. What becomes of physical importance and practical use is the density and statistics of the interacting waves.