The AFMS Student and Early Career Researcher Retreat 2026

A dynamic retreat where fluid mechanics tudents and ECRs share ideas, join masterclasses, get career advice, and visit industry sites.

Welcome to The AFMS Student and Early Career Researcher Retreat 2026!

We are proud to announce that the 2026 AFMS student and early career researcher (ECR) retreat will be held at the University of Melbourne. This two-and-a-half-day event will be hosted at the Parkville campus, and this event will provide a diverse range of perspectives on academic research and industrial collaborations. This event is an opportunity to meet and develop meaningful connections with fellow fluids researchers in our community, in an enjoyable and welcoming environment.

Key dates:

Final registration: 21st Dec 2025 (midnight)

Event:

Wednesday 11th Feb 2026 to Friday 13th of Feb 2026

Event Pricing:

· $100 AUD (Including a pizza dinner on Wednesday night)

Event highlights:

Poster presentations:

• Introduce your research to your fellow attendees with a five- minute presentation on your research

Masterclass tutorials on advanced topics in contemporary fluid dynamics research:

• Influence of surface roughness in wall bounded turbulence
• Ensemble Kalman filtering tutorial: from Lorenz attractor to global coupled climate models
• Gene expression programming and fluid dynamics

Panel discussions:

• Fundamentals of grant writing for emerging researchers
• Industrial fluid dynamics in Australasia

Industrial facility tour in the Melbourne area

Contact:

• james.hewett@canterbury.ac.nz (AFMS)
• bagus.nugroho@unimelb.edu.au (UniMelb)