A report on the Woods Hole Conference on Transport Theory

JAN 01, 1963

Sigi Ziering

A small topical conference on transport theory took place on September 13, 14, and 15, 1962, at the Little Harbor Farm, Woods Hole, Mass. The conference was sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Its broad aims were to bring together researchers in the various fields related to transport theory, and to discuss common interdisciplinary areas of research as well as problem areas more specific to a given area of research.

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