Renzo L. Ricca

In the year 2000, declared by UNESCO the Year of Mathematics, a 4-month intensive research programme on "Geometry and Topology of Fluid Flows" is co-organized in collaboration with H. Aref, T. Kambe and R.B. Pelz. The programme is held at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge (UK) and it hosts several major events, including a NATO Advanced Study Institute pedagogical workshop, a satellite workshop on singularities at MIR@W (Warwick U.) and a Royal Society Discussion Meeting in London, plus innumerable seminars and one-day workshops. Themes ranged from issues in topological dynamics, geometric mechanics and dynamical systems theory to knot theory and singularities in fluid flows.

In 1997 the feature article "Topological ideas and fluid mechanics" appears translated in Japanese in the sister journal Parity.

In 1996 Physics Today publishes the feature article "Topological ideas and fluid mechanics", co-authored with M.A. Berger, dedicating the journal cover to this topic. It quickly becomes one of my most cited scientific article.

UCL Science, an interdisciplinary journal of the University College London, features an article on work done by M.A. Berger and myself on topological fluid mechanics during 1995.

Nature releases my article on the "Rediscovery of Da Rios equations", publishing the paper as a special Commentary in 1991. The paper has an immediate impact in the mathematical sciences community and more generally in science, since besides the mathematical discoveries presented, it raises general questions on scientific mispractice. This turns on the attention of the media and, in particular, the BBC. Radio 3 dedicates a special programme to this.