Flow-induced vibrations and noise continue to cause problems in a wide range of industries from Civil Engineering and Marine Structures to Electric Power generation and Chemical Processing. This interdisciplinary meeting aims to bring together researchers working on the mechanisms responsible for vibrations with those in industry who are faced with either avoiding the problem through good design or finding solutions to specific problems. This series of FIV conferences began at Keswick, England in 1973, focussing on the needs of the nuclear industry. Subsequent conferences have evolved into major international events with a continually wider scope of papers in the field of fluid-structure interactions. The 7^th International Conference FIV was held in Lucern, Switzerland in 2000. The last 8^th International Conference on FLOW-INDUCED VIBRATIONS was held in Paris at the Ecole Polytechnique, in 2004 with about 200 participants from all continents. Following this conference, it was decided by the scientific committee of this series that the next meeting will be held in Prague, in 2008.

Organized by
Institute of Thermomechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic