Flowing matter lies at the crossroads between industrial processes, fundamental physics, engineering and Earth Sciences. Depending on the microscopic interactions, an assembly of molecules or of mesoscopic particles can flow like a simple Newtonian fluid, deform elastically like a solid or behave in a complex manner. When the internal constituents are active, as for biological entities, complex collective motions can be observed. Sometimes these particles undergo breakup or coalescence processes, whose occurrence strongly depends on the flow statistics. Flowing matter frequently presents a tight coupling between small-scale structures and large-scale flow urging for a unifying view at both Lagrangian and Eulerian levels.
The phenomenology is further complicated by the invariable tendency of fluids to display chaos. Flows of interest can be at the nano, micro or macro scales, to be treated with different theoretical, numerical and experimental approaches. The applications of micro- and nanofluidics are numerous, including biotech lab-on-a-chips and microcapillary devices. The problems involved contain diverse nano and microscales touching atomistic scales (wall slip, thin films and moving contact lines), mesoscopic collective behaviour (emulsions and soft-glassy materials) and hydrodynamical spatio-temporal evolutions (droplets and interface dynamics) with complex rheology and strong non-equilibrium properties. From nano to macro scales, the interplay of the dynamics at the different scales still remains elusive and challenging. Flows at macro-scaleas are often turbulent, with fully unpredictable spatial and temporal evolutions. Turbulence affects and might be affected by small particles advected and diffused at all scales. Turbulence is still a challenging and open problems, new ideas concerning turbulence modeling and control are mandatory. A comprehensive control of fluid motions across all scales is needed to charter new roads in dynamics of fluids.

The workshop is meant to coordinate the research activities of the scientists belonging to the Cost Action 'Flowing Matter' MP1305 and in synergy with the scientific program of the ERC grants DROEMU "DROplets and EMUlsions: dynamics and rheology" and NewTURB "New eddy-simulation concepts and methodologies for frontier problems in TURBulence". The workshop is meant to expose young researcher to the most recent advancements in these fields, by dealing with numerical, experimental and theoretical studies.
The program includes both long lectures, covering general topics and short talks focused on specific subject.