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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'>On behalf of the DSFD Scientific Committee and the DSFD 2016 Local Organization committee, I am delighted to announce that the 25<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics will be hosted by the South University of Science and Technology of China (SUSTC) in Shenzhen, China on 4<sup>th</sup>-8<sup>th</sup> July 2016.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'>More details about the conference will follow in a separate e-mail.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b>About Shenzhen and SUSTC<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Shenzhen is a major city in Southern China, situated immediately north of Hong Kong SAR. As one of China's major gateways to the world, the City is the country's high-tech and manufacturing hub and home to some of China's most recognized enterprises such as Huawei, Tencent and DJI. A picturesque coastal city, Shenzhen is also a popular tourist destination and named one of the world's 31 must-see tourist destinations by The New York Times in 2010. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Established in 2012, SUSTC is a public institution funded by the municipal of Shenzhen with the intention of being a pioneer in higher education reform in China.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span lang=EN>About the conference<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN>The DSFD series of conferences originated with the 1986 Los Alamos conference organized by Gary D. Doolen. Since that time, the DSFD conferences have emerged as the premiere forum for researchers in the field, and many exciting new discoveries in lattice models of fluid dynamics have been first announced at DSFD conferences.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN>Topics emphasized at these meetings include lattice Boltzmann schemes, dissipative particle dynamics, smoothed-particle hydrodynamics, direct simulation Monte Carlo, molecular dynamics, quantum Monte Carlo methods, multi-particle collision dynamics and hybrid methods. There will be sessions on advances in both theory and computation, on engineering applications of discrete fluid algorithms, and on fundamental issues in mathematical modelling, numerical analysis, statistical mechanics, kinetic theory and hydrodynamics and their applications in microscopic, nanoscale and multiscale physics for emerging technologies. Other topics of interest include theoretical and experimental work on interfacial phenomena, droplets, free-surface flow, and micro- and nan-fluidics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'>With all the best, and looking forward to seeing you in Shenzhen this summer!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'>Xiaowen Shan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'>and the DSFD 2016 Local Organizing Committee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>