FLUCOME 2000 The Sixth Triennial International Symposium on Flow Control, Measurement and Flow Visualization

This report gives an account of FLUCOME 2000, the Sixth International Symposium on Flow Control, Measurements and Flow Visualization held in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada from the 13th to the 17th of August 2000. It includes a presentation of the venue, the different sessions and the Proceedings as well as a short resume of the three keynote lectures given by Y. Nakayama ("Present and Future of Visualization," K. Aoki co-author), S. Mauro ("New Developments and New Trends in Pneumatics," G. Belforte author) and M. Boulos ("Thermal Plasma Flow Visualization and Diagnostics"). The Symposium banquet was the lieu of nomination of Professor K. Tsuchiya as honorary member of the International Steering Committee. One hundred and forty four researchers from eighteen countries have registered to the Symposium.