The aim of the workshop is to bring some fresh perspectives and ideas to the turbulence field and as well
to facilitate discussion of the latest progress in statistical hydrodynamics with the rest of the statistical
physics community. In addition to experts and specialists in some area of turbulence, we are inviting
leaders in related areas of statistical physics.

The workshop will be organized into  approximately ten half-day sessions of invited talks on a particular
subtopic in statistical hydrodynamics.  The sessions  will be chaired by one of the invited statistical
mechanics provocateurs, who will then also lead a following round-table discussion of the subject.
Each session will be opened  with a survey talk by an eminent specialist reviewer.  The reviewer will be
asked  to introduce the subject explaining briefly the major approaches,  results and perspectives within the
subject (especially those not covered by the subsequent talks) and also by putting the subject in the general
context of statistical hydrodynamics.

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Dear Participants,

This e-mail is a brief follow-up to the workshop, "Progress in Statistical Hydrodynamics," in Santa Fe, NM on March 25-29, 2002. Primarily, we wish to discuss the special issue of Journal of  Statistical Physics, which has agreed to act as host to the conference  proceedings.

First, however, we would like to thank again all of the participants  in the event---stat mech provocateurs, speakers, and other attendees--- for your enthusiasm, energy and expertise. You really helped by your active participation to make the meeting a great success.

Keeping the forward momentum of the workshop, we would like now  to solicit high-quality research articles for the special issue of JSP that will serve as the conference proceedings. We are looking especially  for original papers whose contents are within the topic of the workshop,  have not been presented previously, and describe new technical
contributions. However, the journal will also be happy to publish review papers, if they are clearly designated as such. ALL participants are welcome to submit  an article, which will undergo a regular refereeing process at the journal
but which, upon acceptance, will be gathered into a single special issue. The FINAL submission deadline has been moved back to Aug. 31, 2002.  However, to plan the issue, it would help if by May 31, 2002 you could e-mail us a statement that you plan to submit an article, along with a tentative title and abstract. We ask that you submit your papers directly
to the journal editor, Prof. Joel L. Lebowitz, IN ELECTRONIC FORM ONLY at

       jsp@math.rutgers.edu,

Please note that no facsimiles or mailed submissions will be accepted, and all contributions MUST be received by the deadline. Detailed author  instructions may be found at the journal website.

       http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0022-4715

The only special preparation that we request of authors is that they notify the editor that the submission is for the special STAT-HYDRO issue and that, as well, they e-mail a copy of their submission directly to one of us below:

       Misha Chertkov
       T-13, Theoretical Division
       chertkov@lanl.gov

or

       Gregory Eyink
       University of Arizona
       eyink@math.arizona.edu

This will greatly help to facilitate the refereeing process.

If you do not want to contribute a full paper, but rather want to make  some specific comments on feature problems, future directions, etc,  please send notes to us on those as well. The special issue will have a few pages at the beginning for introductory remarks by the organizers, and we would like to include your remarks and comments there.

Having listened with great interest to all of the excellent talks and discussion remarks at the workshop, we now await with great anticipation the submission of creative research papers that will  maintain the same high standards of science and exposition.

Sincerely,                                               Misha Chertkov and Gregory Eyink

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Coordinator: Rod Garcia rgarcia@cnls.lanl.gov