Lecture Series
2024 LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE
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PRINCIPAL LECTURERS
Edgar Knobloch, University of California, Berkeley
Basile Gallet, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS
Gregory Chini, University of New Hampshire
WEEK 1 - PRINCIPAL LECTURES
Monday, June 17
10:00 a.m.
Weakly Nonlinear Theory for Convective Instabilities
Edgar Knobloch
Tuesday, June 18
10:00 a.m.
Strongly Nonlinear Theory for Convective Instabilities
Edgar Knobloch
Wednesday, June 19
Holiday (no lecture)
Thursday, June 20
10:00 a.m.
Turbulence and Turbulent Convection with and without Rotation
Basile Gallet
2:00 p.m.
Reduced Description of Rapidly Rotating Turbulent Convection
Edgar Knobloch
Friday, June 21
10:00 a.m.
Reduced Description of (a) Fingering Instabilities and (b) Parametric Instabilities
Edgar Knobloch
WEEK 2 - PRINCIPAL LECTURES
Monday, June 24
10:00 a.m.
Multiscale Modeling of Layered Anisotropic Stratified Turbulence
Greg Chini
Tuesday, June 25
10:00 a.m.
Two-dimensional Turbulence Above Topography
Basile Gallet
Wednesday, June 26
10:00 a.m.
Turbulent Transport in the Ocean, Part I: Baroclinic Turbulence
Basile Gallet
Thursday, June 27
10:00 a.m.
Turbulent Transport in the Ocean, Part II: Multiscale Approach
Basile Gallet
Friday, June 28
10:00 a.m.
Near-inertial Waves Interacting with Balanced Flows
Basile Gallet
WEEK 3 - SEMINARS
Monday, July 1
10:30 a.m.
Multiscaling with the Stars: Regimes of Stratified Turbulence at Low Prandtl Number
Kasturi Shah, University of Cambridge
Tuesday, July 2
10:30 a.m.
Lagrangian Filtering for Wave-Mean Flow Decomposition
Lois Baker, University of Edinburgh
Wednesday July 3
10:30 a.m.
Non-ideal Bubbly Drag Reduction
Sander Huisman, University of Twente
Thursday July 4
HOLIDAY
Friday, July 5
10:30 a.m.
Internally Heated Convection with Rotation: Bounds and Scaling Laws
Ali Arslan, ETH Zurich
2:00 p.m.
Preferential Flow-Melt Patterning in the Cryosphere
Kasia Warburton, Dartmouth College
WEEK 4 - SEMINARS
Monday, July 8
10:30 a.m.
Revisiting the Solar Tachocline using 3D MHD Simulations
Loren Matilsky, University of California, Santa Cruz
Tuesday, July 9
10:30 a.m.
The Structure of Stratified Mixing in Baroclinically Forced Shear Flows
Adrien Lefauve, University of Cambridge
Wednesday, July 10
10:30 a.m.
Formation and Dynamics of Coherent Structures in Two-dimensional Turbulent Flows
Adrian van Kan, University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, July 11
10:30 a.m.
Everything I Want to Tell You about Coastal Trapped Waves
Renske Gelderloos, Delft University of Technology
Friday, July 12
10:30 a.m.
Single-mode Equations Based Reduced-Order Modeling of (Double Diffusive) Convection
Chang Liu, University of Connecticut
WEEK 5 - SEMINARS
Monday, July 15
10:30 a.m.
Energy Stability in Ducts of Arbitrary Cross Section
Federico Fuentes, Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile
5:00 p.m.
Sears Public Lecture - Redfield Auditorium
Fluid Earth: Climate Change and Climate Solutions
Brad Marston, Brown University
Tuesday, July 16
10:30 a.m.
On the Contact Line Dynamics of Three-phase Fluids
Eric Hester, University of California, Los Angeles
Wednesday, July 17
10:30 a.m.
Self-aggregation in Rainy-Bénard Convection
Chris Howland, University of Twente
Thursday, July 18
10:30 a.m.
Nonmodal Growth in MHD Shear Flows
Adrian Fraser, University of Colorado
Friday, July 19
10:30 a.m.
Mixing Dynamics on the California Inner Shelf
Alexis Kaminski, University of California, Berkeley
WEEK 6 - SEMINARS
Monday, July 22
10:30 a.m.
Superrotation in Planetary Atmospheres
Geoffrey Vallis, University of Exeter
Tuesday, July 23
10:30 a.m.
Transitions between Bistable High and Low West Antarctic Ice Shelf Melt Rates
Ruth Moorman, California Institute of Technology
Wednesday, July 24
10:30 a.m.
On the Way to the Limit: Fast Singular Limits and Averaging over Phase in Highly Oscillatory PDEs
Beth Wingate, University of Exeter
Thursday, July 25
10:30 a.m.
Eigenmodes, Adjoints, and the Solar Dynamo
Keaton Burns, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, July 26
10:30 a.m.
In Search of Stratified Turbulence
Colm-cille Caulfield, University of Cambridge
WEEK 7 - SEMINARS
Monday, July 29
10:30 a.m.
Convection beyond Raleigh and Bénard
Stefan Llewellyn Smith, University of California, San Diego
Tuesday, July 30
10:30 a.m.
Reversals of the Large-scale Circulation in Thermal Convection
Nick Moore, Colgate University
Wednesday, July 31
10:30 a.m.
What New Models of Stratified Turbulence Tell Us about the Solar Interior
Pascale Garaud, University of California, Santa Cruz
Thursday, August 1
10:30 a.m.
Melting of Cylindrical Laboratory Icebergs
Edoardo Bellincioni, University of Twente
Friday, August 2
10:30 a.m.
Fluid Dynamics of a Mixed Convective/Stably Stratified System
Michael Le Bars, Institut de Recherche sur les Phenomenes Hors Equilibre
WEEK 8 - SEMINARS
Monday, August 5
10:30 a.m.
Heat and Momentum Transport in Icy Moon Oceans
Wanying Kang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tuesday, August 6
10:30 a.m.
Ghost Hunting: Explaining Flow Patterns by Non-Existing Solutions of the Governing Equations
Tobias Schneider, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Wednesday, August 7
10:30 a.m.
Exact Planetary Waves and Jet Streams
Nicholas Pizzo, University of Rhode Island
Thursday, August 8
10:30 a.m.
Compositional Convection and the Interior Structure of Sub-Neptune Exoplanets
Raymond Pierrehumbert, University of Oxford
Friday, August 9
10:30 a.m.
Sometimes All You Need is a Little Nudge: Learning Corrections to Long-Time Climate Simulations from Short-Time Training Data
Benedikt Barthel Sorensen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
WEEK 9 - NO LECTURES
WEEK 10 - FELLOWS' PRESENTATIONS
Monday, August 19
2:00 p.m.
The Dynamics of Stacked Stratified Shear Layers
Adithiya Sivakumar, University of New Hampshire
3:15 p.m.
Meshes Don't Dance Anymore
Nicolaos Petropoulos, Cambridge University
Tuesday, August 20
10:00 a.m.
Interaction of Microplastics and Settling Sand
Vincent Laroche, Univ. of California Berkeley
11:15 a.m.
Not Too Spicy: Effects (or not) of Double Diffusion on Kolmogorov Flow
Ishwari Mulkalwar, Univ. of California San Diego
2:00 p.m.
Density Layering in Rotating Stratified Turbulence
Cécile Le Dizes, Toulouse Institute of Fluid Mechanics
Wednesday, August 21
10:00 a.m.
Idealized Models of Moist Convection
Paul Curtis, Yale University
11:15 a.m.
Fast Singular Limits of the Lagrangian-averaged Navier-Stokes-alpha Model
Lulabel Ruiz Seitz, Brown University
2:00 p.m.
Internal Tides Get Phased by the Equator
Camille Moisset, CEA
Thursday, August 22
10:00 a.m.
Interaction of Internal Gravity Waves with Magnetohydrodynamic Waves
Cy David, Univ. of California Los Angeles
11:15 a.m.
A Little Goes a Long Way: Dismantling Weakly Nonlinear Non-normal Dynamical Systems
Matthew McCormack, Univ. of Edinburgh
2023 LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE
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PRINCIPAL LECTURERS
Heather Knutson, California Institute of Technology
Geoffrey Vallis, University of Exeter
WEEK 1 – PRINCIPAL LECTURES
Monday, June 19
HOLIDAY
Tuesday, June 20
10:00 a.m.
Exoplanet Demographics
Heather Knutson
Wednesday, June 21
10:00 a.m.
Techniques for Characterization, Bulk and Atmospheric Compositions
Heather Knutson
Thursday, June 22
10:00 a.m.
Terrestrial Planets: Atmospheric Structure and Circulation
Geoff Vallis
Friday, June 23
10:00 a.m.
Circulation of Tidally-locked Planets
Geoff Vallis
2:00 p.m.
Observations of Atmospheric Circulation on Short-period Gas Giants
Heather Knutson
WEEK 2 - PRINCIPAL LECTURES
Monday, June 26
10:00 a.m.
Cold Giant Planets; Jets, Deep Convection and Shallow Weather
Geoff Vallis
2:00 p.m.
DIYnamics
Jon Aurnou (UCLA)
Tuesday, June 27
10:00 a.m.
Atmospheric Characterization of Young, Hot Gas Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs
Heather Knutson
Wednesday, June 28
10:00 a.m.
Atmospheric Characterization of Terrestrial Planets
Heather Knutson
2:00 p.m.
Dedalus tutorial
Keaton Burns (MIT)
Thursday, June 29
10:00 a.m.
Icy Moons and Exo-oceans
Geoff Vallis
Friday, June 30
10:00 a.m.
Effects of Condensibles: Steam Atmospheres and Runaway Greenhouse
Geoff Vallis
WEEK 3 - SEMINARS
Monday, July 3
10:30 a.m.
Integrating Physics, Data & Scientific ML to Better Understand and Model Climate Variability and Extremes
Pedram Hassanzadeh, Rice University
Tuesday, July 4
No seminar
Wednesday, July 5
10:30 a.m.
Atmospheric Dynamics of Giant Planets: Insights from the Juno Mission
Yohai Kaspi, Weizmann Institute of Science
Thursday, July 6
10:30 a.m.
The Interplay between Ocean and Ice on Icy Satellites
Wanying Kang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:00 p.m.
Modeling Multiphase Matter
Eric Hester, University of California, Los Angeles
Friday, July 7
Weather Impact on Cooling the Giant Planets
Xi Zhang, University of California, Santa Cruz
WEEK 4 - SEMINARS
Monday, July 10
Energetic Constraints for Ocean Dynamics on Icy Worlds
Malte Jansen, University of Chicago
Tuesday, July 11
Verifying Global Stability of Fluid Flows Despite Transient Growth of Energy
David Goluskin, University of Victoria
Wednesday, July 12
Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability Near Boundaries
Alexis Kaminski- University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, July 13
10:30 a.m.
Insights into Turbulence: Modifying Old Techniques for New Understanding
Elizabeth Carlson, University of Victoria
2:00 p.m.
Ghosts in Rayleigh Bénard Convection
Jeremy Parker, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Friday, July 14
A Mushy Source for the Geysers of Enceladus
Colin Meyer, Dartmouth College
WEEK 5 - SEMINARS
Monday, July 17
Three-dimensional Structure of Buoyancy Transport by Ocean Baroclinic Turbulence
Basile Gallet, CEA Saclay
Tuesday, July 18
10:30 a.m.
Transmission Spectroscopy of Exoplanet Atmospheres
Sara Seager, MIT
5:00 p.m.
2023 Sears Public Lecture - Redfield Auditorium
Planetary Atmospheres and the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth
Sara Seager, MIT
Wednesday, July 19
Simple Models of Clouds and Convection in the Solar System
Jonathan Mitchell, UCLA
Thursday, July 20
10:30 a.m.
Shaken by Physics or Stirred by Machine? Modelling Stratified Mixing (with a Twist)
Colm-cille Caulfield, Cambridge University
2:00 p.m.
Entrainment in Plumes with Turbidity Currents
Jim McElwaine, Durham University
Friday, July 21
Critical Balance in Anisotropic Wave Systems: Strongly Stratified Turbulence at Low Prandtl Number
Valentin Skoutnev, Columbia University
WEEK 6 - SEMINARS
Monday, July 24
What the Ultimate Regime in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection and Radiatively Heated Melt Ponds Have in Common: Bistability and Subcritical Transitions
Detlef Lohse, University of Twente
Tuesday, July 25
Fluid Dynamics of Jupiter in the Lab: Deep Jets and Vortices
Michael LeBars, Institut de Recherche sur les Phenomenes Hors Equilibre
Wednesday, July 26
The Stratified Inclined Duct (SID) Experiment: A Rich Paradigm for Stratified Turbulence
Adrien Lefauve, University of Cambridge
Thursday, July 27
10:30 a.m.
The Lightness of Water Vapor and Climate Stability
Da Yang, University of California, Davis
2:00 p.m.
Internal Wave Packet Tunnelling through a Thermohaline Staircase
Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
Thursday, July 28
Enhancement of Ice Melting in Isotropic Turbulence
Blair Johnson, University of Texas, Austin
WEEK 7 - SEMINARS
Monday, July 31
Turbulence, Waves, and Stars
Daniel Lecoanet, Northwestern University
Tuesday, August 1
Curious Convection in Vertical Channels
Christopher Howland, University of Twente
Wednesday, August 2
Rotationally Driven Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability
Matthew Scase/Barbara Turnbull, University of Nottingham
Thursday, August 3
10:30 a.m.
Experimental Numerical Methods for Navier-Stokes
Keaton Burns, MIT
2:00 p.m.
What Sets the Vertical Profile of Stratification in the Deep Ocean?
Raffaele Ferrari, MIT
Friday, August 4
Channelization of Subglacial Water Flow: Stability and Channel Distribution
Kasia Warburton, Dartmouth College
WEEK 8 - SEMINARS
Monday, August 7
Ice-Ocean Interactions in the Solar System
Nicole Shibley, Princeton University
Tuesday, August 8
Linear Time-invariant Models of a Large Cumulus Ensemble and Convective Memory
Zhiming Kuang, Harvard University
Wednesday, August 9
Tilt! Non-hydrostatic Geostrophy
Joe Pedlosky, WHOI
Thursday, August 10
Fast Jet Stream Winds Get Faster Under Climate Change
Tiffany Shaw, University of Chicago
Friday, August 11
Jovial Jets and Vortices
Glenn Flierl, MIT
WEEK 9
No Seminars
WEEK 10 - FELLOWS' PRESENTATIONS
Monday, August 21
10:00 a.m.
Convection in the Ice Shells of Icy Moons
Nathan Magnan, University of Cambridge
11:30 a.m.
Chemical Transport by Waves in Stars
Yifeng Mao, University of Colorado Boulder
2:00 p.m.
Boiling Stratified Flow: A Lab Analog of Quasi-equilibrium Moist Convection
Hao Fu, Stanford University
Tuesday, August 22
10:00 a.m.
Simple Models of Superrotation in Planetary Atmospheres
Quentin Nicolas, University of California Berkeley
11:30 a.m.
TBD
Arefe Ghazi Nezami, University of Texas Austin
Wednesday, August 23
10:00 a.m.
Transport of Microplastics in Turbidity Currents
Quentin Kriaa, Aix-Marseille Universite
11:30 a.m.
Can AI-based Climate Models Learn Rare, Extreme Weather Events?
Nimrod Gavriel, Weizmann Institute of Science
2:00 p.m.
Asymmetries in Formation of Gulf Stream Warm Core Rings and Filaments
Ellie Ong, University of New South Wales
Thursday, August 24
10:00 a.m.
Jets on Gas Giants – A Tale of Two Forcings
Yaoxuan Zeng, University of Chicago
11:30 a.m.
Into the Mix: How Biological Dynamics Affect Turbulent Transport
Deborah Cotton, University of Oxford
2022 LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE
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PRINCIPAL LECTURERS
Peter Schmid, KAUST
Laure Zanna, New York University
WEEK 1 – PRINCIPAL LECTURES
Monday, June 20
HOLIDAY
Tuesday, June 21
Review of Data-decomposition Based on Linear Algebra
Peter Schmid
Wednesday, June 22
Spatio-temporal Decomposition of Time Series
Laure Zanna
Thursday, June 23
Transfer Operator for Data Analysis (part 1)
Peter Schmid
Friday, June 24
Transfer Operator for Data Analysis (part 2)
Peter Schmid
WEEK 2 – PRINCIPAL LECTURES
Monday, June 27
Forced Response from Climate Statistics
Laure Zanna
Uncertainty, Outliers, Predictability
Peter Schmid
Tuesday, June 28
Bayesian and Markovian Approaches to Data Analysis
Laure Zanna
Wednesday, June 29
Discovering Equations and Operators from Data
Laure Zanna
Thursday, June 30
Advanced Approaches in Signal Processing
Peter Schmid
Friday, July 1
Advanced Approaches in ML for Physics
Laure Zanna
WEEK 3 – SEMINARS
Monday, July 4
HOLIDAY
Tuesday, July 5
Accurately and Efficiently Modeling Turbulent Flows: Mathematical Analysis and Computations on the Effectiveness and Robustness of the AOT Algorithm
Elizabeth Carlson, University of Victoria
Wednesday, July 6
Uncovering the Rules of Crumpling with a Data-driven Approach
Christopher Rycroft, Harvard University
Thursday, July 7
Sedimenting Anisotropic Particles: Dynamics of Ice Crystals in Clouds
Anubhab Roy, Indian Institute of Technology
Friday, July 8
Search and Rescue at Sea Aided by Hidden Flow Structures
Mattia Serra, University of California San Diego
WEEK 4
Monday, July 11
Optimizing Scalar Transport Using Three-dimensional Branching Pipe Flows
Anuj Kumar, University of California Santa Cruz
Tuesday, July 12
Meridional Buoyancy Transport by Baroclinic Turbulence
Basile Gallet, CEA Saclay
Wednesday, July 13
Improving Efficiency of Data Assimilation by Particle Filters Using Data-driven Model Decompositions
Marko Budišić, Clarkson University
Thursday, July 14
Baroclinic Annular Mode in the Southern Hemisphere
Madeleine Youngs, New York University
Friday, July 15
Large Scale and Mesoscale Dynamics of the Arctic Ocean
Gianluca Meneghello, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
WEEK 5
Monday, July 18
A Double Diffusion Calculation That Produces Continents and Ocean Basins
Jack Whitehead, WHOI
Tuesday, July 19
Learning Data-driven Subgrid-Scale Models: Stability, Extrapolation, and Interpretation
Pedram Hassanzadeh, Rice University
Wednesday, July 20
Invariant Tori in Turbulence and Chaos
Jeremy Parker, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Thursday, July 21
Pondering How Ocean Waters Rise from the Abyss: From Theory to Observations
Raffaele Ferrari, MIT
Friday, July 22
Towards Hygienic Modelling of Complex Phenomena: From Asymptotic Expansions (Implemented in Code) to Machine-learned Closures
Michael Brenner, Harvard University
WEEK 6
Monday, July 25
Predicting Extreme Heat Waves using Rare Event Simulations and Deep Neural Networks
Freddy Bouchet, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Tuesday, July 26
On the 3D Modelling of Equatorial Undercurrent and Some Insight into Particle Paths in Stratified Rotational Flows
Biswajit Basu
Wednesday, July 27
Transition and Equilibria in Stratified Shear Flow
Tom Eaves, University of Dundee
Thursday, July 28
Physics-informed Dynamic Mode Decomposition
Peter Baddoo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, July 29
Non-ideal Instabilities in Sinusoidal Shear Flows with a Streamwise Magnetic Field
Adrian Fraser, University of California Santa Cruz
WEEK 7
Monday, August 1
Modern Spectral Methods for PDEs
Keaton Burns, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tuesday, August 2
Topographic Solitary Waves and Groups
Glenn Flierl, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, August 3
Snapshots and Transition Probabilities
Andre Souza, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, August 4
10:30 a.m.
Experiments on Air Bubbles in Weightless Water and the Instability of a Rotating Jet
Matthew Scase, University of Nottingham
2:00 p.m.
SEARS PUBLIC LECTURE – Redfield Auditorium
Coastal Vegetation and Coastal Flows: Restoration, Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
Heidi Nepf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, August 5
Vegetation Hydrodynamics for Restoration, Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
Heidi Nepf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
WEEK 8
Monday, August 8
Southeast Greenland Fjord-Shelf Interaction at Subinertial Frequencies
Renske Gelderloos, Johns Hopkins University
Tuesday, August 9
Distilling the Physics of Primitive-equation Model Currents
Rodrigo Duran, Theiss Research
Wednesday, August 10
Exploiting Marginal Stability in Slow-Fast Quasilinear Dynamical Systems
Alessia Ferraro, EPFL
Thursday, August 11
Combining Physical and Data-driven Methods to Improve Historical Earth Surface Temperature Estimates
Duo Chan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Friday, August 12
A Stochastic Dynamical Perspective on Optimizing Learning for Climate Applications
Sai Ravela, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
WEEK 9
Quiet Week – Prepare for Fellows’ Presentations
WEEK 10 – FELLOWS’ PRESENTATIONS
Monday, August 22
10:00 a.m.
Continental Shelf Waves around a Pseudo-Iceland
Ruth Moorman, California Institute of Technology
11:30 a.m.
Fun with Squishy Balls: Theory and Experiments on Deformable Porous Media
Tilly Woods, University of Oxford
Tuesday, August 23
10:00 a.m.
Understanding invariant solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries Equation
Claire Valva, New York University
11:30 a.m.
Equatorial Ocean Dynamics on Enceladus Driven by Ice Topography
Rui Yang, University of Twente
Wednesday, August 24
10:00 a.m.
Stochasticity of Turbulence
Iury Simoes-Sousa, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
11:30 am.
Statistical Analysis of Multidimensional Dynamical Systems
Ludovico Giorgini, Stockholm University
Thursday, August 25
10:00 a.m.
Experiments on the Instability of Buoyancy-driven Coastal Currents
Sam Lewin, University of Cambridge
11:30
Scaling with the Stars: Emergence of Self-organised Criticality in low Péclet Flows
Kasturi Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The 2021 GFD program was not held at WHOI due to COVID-19.
The following lectures were held virtually.
Monday, June 21
Why are we still studying heat transport in Rayleigh-Bérnard convection?
David Goluskin, University of Victoria
Monday, June 28
Ocean and ice dynamics on Enceladus
Wanying King, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday, July 5
Why rogue waves occur atop depth transitions
Ton van den Bremer, Delft University of Technology
Monday, July 12
Fingers and fractures: Instabilities in viscoplastic fluid films
Thomasina Ball, University of British Columbia
Monday, July 19
Towards the control of transitional flows
Cedric Beaume, University of Leeds
Monday, July 26
Role of wind within the canopy and fuel bed on fire spread
Yana Bebieva, Georgia Institute of Technology
Monday, August 2
Convection and waves in stellar interiors
Daniel Lecoanet, Northwestern University
Friday, August 6
Special Session: Symposium in honor of Charlie Doering
Monday, August 9
A thermomechanical model for frost heave and subglacial frozen fringe
Colin Meyer, Dartmouth College
Monday, August 16
Dynamo action in radiative stellar layers
Florence Marcotte, Université Côte d’Azur
Monday, August 23
Turbulent wave-balance energy exchanges in the ocean
Jim Thomas, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Monday, August 30
Energetics and mixing of stratified, rotating flow over abyssal hills in the ocean
Barbara Zemskova, University of Toronto
2020 LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE
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The 2020 GFD program was not held at WHOI due to COVID-19.
The following lectures were held virtually.
Monday, June 29
Tributes to George, Ed and others and Historical Memories of the GFD Program--The Middle Years 1971-2007
Jack Whitehead (WHOI)
Tuesday, June 30
Instability, Chaos and the GFD Program
Joe Pedlosky (WHOI)
Wednesday, July 1
AFD at GFD
Pascale Garaud (UCSC)
Thursday, July 2
Turbulence and Mixing in and at GFD
Colm Caulfield (University of Cambridge)
Friday, July 3
Stirring, Mixing, and Swimming at GFD
Jean-Luc Thiffeault (University of Wisconsin)
Monday, July 6
Vortices, waves and instabilities in a rotating stratified shear flow
Neil Balmforth (University of British Columbia)
Tuesday, July 7
Confounding Complexities in Rayleigh-Benard Convection
Charlie Doering (University of Michigan)
Wednesday, July 8
Notes on Polar Oceanography
Mary-Louise Timmermans (Yale University)
Thursday, July 9
Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: Small Parameters in Walsh Cottage
Oliver Bühler (Courant Institute)
Friday, July 10
A Survey of Lagrangian Methods
Rick Salmon (SIO)
Monday, July 27
Exoplanetary climates between habitability and bistability
Antonello Provenzale (Italian National Research Council)
Monday, August 3
Dynamical pathways for descent from the surface ocean
Amala Mahadevan (WHOI)
Monday, August 10
Overturns and entrainment in the North Pacific transition layer
Alexis Kaminski (University of Washington)
Monday, August 17
The convective Stefan problem: Shaping of melting and dissolving solids
under natural convection
Megan Davies Wykes (Cambridge University)and Sam Pegler (University of Leeds)
Monday, August 24
Mushy magma problems
Alison Rust(University of Bristol)
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PRINCIPAL LECTURERS
Stephanie Waterman, University of British Columbia
Colm-cille Caulfield, University of Cambridge
WEEK 1
Monday, June 17
Stephanie Waterman
Ocean Mixing Processes 1: Motivation and Basic Concepts
Tuesday, June 18
Stephanie Waterman
Ocean Mixing Processes 2: Quantifying Ocean Mixing and Ocean Turbulence: Frameworks, Technologies & Practicalities
Wednesday, June 19
Stephanie Waterman
Ocean Mixing Processes 3: Rates and Mechanisms: What We Observe and Interpret from Observations of Mixing and Turbulence in the Ocean Interior
Thursday, June 20
Colm-cille Caulfield
Stratified Turbulence 1: Introduction to Turbulence Theory for Stratified Flows
Friday, June 21
Colm-cille Caulfield
Stratified Turbulence 2: Effects of Stratification and/or Shear on Turbulence and their Description by Nondimensional Parameters
WEEK 2
Monday, June 24
Colm-cille Caulfield
Stratified Turbulence 3: Mixing Mechanisms in Forced and Freely-evolving Flows
Tuesday, June 25
Colm-cille Caulfield
Stratified Turbulence 4: Mixing Modeling and Parameterization in Stratified Turbulence
Wednesday, June 26
Colm-cille Caulfield
Stratified Turbulence 5: Open Questions and Controversies in Stratified Turbulent Mixing Research
Thursday, June 27
Colm-cille Caulfield and Stephanie Waterman
Stratified Turbulence and Ocean Mixing Processes 1: Challenges in and Promising Approaches for Connecting Theory to Observation
Friday, June 28
Colm-cille Caulfield and Stephanie Waterman
Stratified Turbulence and Ocean Mixing Processes 2: Future Directions for Research into Stratified Turbulence and Ocean Mixing Porcesses
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WEEK 3
Monday, July 1
Jörn Callies, California Institute of Technology
Submesoscale Restratification in the Abyssal Ocean
Tuesday, July 2
Alexander Soloviev, Nova Southeastern University
Freshwater Lenses in the Near-surface Layer of the Ocean Laterally Spreading as Gravity Currents
Wednesday, July 3
Jim Riley, University of Washington
The Energetics and Vortex Structure of Seamount Wakes
Thursday, July 4
HOLIDAY
Friday, July 5
Ton van den Bremer, University of Oxford
The Wave-induced Mean Flow of Surface Gravity Waves
WEEK 4
Monday, July 8
Alexis Kaminski, University of Washington
Float-based Observations of the Ocean Transition Layer
Tuesday, July 9
Navid Constantinou, Australian National University
Barotropic Versus Baroclinic Eddy Saturation: Implications to Southern Ocean Dynamics
Wednesday, July 10
Renske Gelderloos, Johns Hopkins University
Subinertial Variability along the Southeast Greenland Coast
Thursday, July 11
Eckart Meiburg, University of California Santa Barbara
Settling of Cohesive Sediment: Particle-resolved Simulations
Friday, July 12
Megan Davies Wykes, University of Cambridge
Mixing Efficiency in Buoyancy-driven Flows
WEEK 5
Monday, July 15
William Smyth, Oregon State University
Self-organized Criticality and Mixing in Geophysical Flows
Tuesday, July 16
Laurette Tuckerman, Physique et Mécanique des Millieux Hétérogènes
1) Thermosolutal Convection as a 2 x 2 Matrix Problem
2) Taylor-Couette Flow: Self-sustaining Process and Heteroclinic Cycles
Wednesday, July 17
Barbara Turnbull, University of Nottingham
Making Snow in Microgravity
Thursday, July 18
Katherine Smith, University of Cambridge
Effects of Upper Ocean Turbulence on Biogeochemical Tracers
Friday, July 19
Karan Venayagamoorthy, Colorado State University
Diapycnal Mixing in Stably Stratified Turbulence: An Overview and Some Insights for Improved Prediction
WEEK 6
Monday, July 22
Andrew Wells, Oxford University
A Mushy Dragon: Convective Localisation in Sea Ice
Tuesday, July 23
Hesam Salehipour, University of Toronto
Towards using Machine Learning for the Discovery of Sub-grid Scale Dynamics
Wednesday, July 24
Tom Eaves, University of British Columbia
Instability of Sheared Density Interfaces
Thursday, July 25
Matthew Alford, University of California San Diego
Ocean Turbulence: Importance, Techniques and Case Studies
Friday, July 26
Jim McElwaine, Durham University
What on Earth is Going on on Mars?
WEEK 7
Monday, July 29
Daniel Lecoanet, Princeton University
Thermals in the Atmosphere and in Stars
Tuesday, July 30
Matthew Scase, University of Nottingham
Unsteady Turbulent Plumes
Wednesday, July 31
Geoffrey Vasil, University of Sydney
The Mechanics of a Large Pendulum Chain
Thursday, August 1
Dwight Barkley, University of Warwick
Transition to Turbulence
Friday, August 2
Geoff Stanley, University of New South Wales
The Topology of Neutral Surfaces and Their Exact Geostrophic Streamfunction
WEEK 8
Monday, August 5
Michael Le Bars, Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre
Tides and Libration as Sources of Turbulence and Dynamo in Planetary Cores
Tuesday, August 6
10:30 a.m.
Ali Mashayek, Imperial College London
Some Converging Thoughts on the Role of Shear-induced Turbulent Mixing in Deep Ocean Circulation
5:00 p.m. SEARS PUBLIC LECTURE - Redfield Auditorium
Lydia Bourouiba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fluids and Health
Wednesday, August 7
Lydia Bourouiba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Water-to-air Transfer: Bubbles at the Interface
Thursday, August 8
Sam Pegler, University of Leeds
Dispersal of Volcanic Material during Deep-sea Eruptions and the Generation of Hydrothermal Megaplumes
Friday, August 9
Sonya Legg, Princeton University
Internal-tide Driven Mixing: Processes, Parameterizations and Impacts
WEEK 9
Quiet week – Prepare for Fellows’ Presentations
FELLOWS' PRESENTATIONS
WEEK 10
Monday, August 19
10:00
Houssam Yassin, Princeton University
Sensitivity of the Ocean's Deep Circulation to Westerly Winds
11:30
Channing Prend, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Eddy Mixing of Biogeochemical Tracers
2:00
André Palóczy Filho, University of California San Diego
Reduced Models for Wave-balanced Flow Interactions
3:30
Jeremy Parker, University of Cambridge
Exploiting Sum-of-squares Optimisation for Chaotic Hamiltonian Systems
Tuesday, August 20
10:00
Wanying Kang, Harvard University
Symmetry Breaking on the Enceladus Ice Shell
11:30
Lois Baker, Imperial College London
Interaction Between Internal Modes and Their Superharmonics
Wednesday, August 21
10:00
Kelsey Everard, The University of British Columbia
Free Convection with Large Viscosity Variations
11:30
Anuj Kumar, University of California Santa Cruz
Maximal Heat Transport in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection: Reduced Models, Bifurcations, and Polynomial Optimization
2:00
Alessia Ferraro, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Exploiting Marginal Stability in Slow-Fast Quasilinear Dynamical Systems
3:30
Samuel Boury, ENS de Lyon
A Mushy Source for the Geysers of Enceladus
Thursday, August 22
10:00
Jelle Will, University of Twente
Optimal Mixing of a Passive Scalar Field in Kolmogorov Flow
11:30
Wenjing Dong, New York University
Structure and Stability of Flow Around Noncircular Islands
2018 Lecture Series Schedule
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Principal Lecturer
Andrew Woods, University of Cambridge
Week 1 - Principal Lectures (10 AM to noon)
Monday, June 18
Introduction and Buoyant Plumes
Tuesday, June 19
Confined Plumes and Mixing
Wednesday, June 20
Flow in Buildings
Thursday, June 21
Blowouts, Volcanic Plumes and Lake Eruptions
Friday, June 22
Inertial Gravity Currents: Ash Flows and Turbidites
Week 2 - Principal Lectures (10 AM to noon)
Monday, June 25
Flow in Wells/Volcanic Conduits
Tuesday, June 26
Porous Rocks: Formation, Structure and Dispersion
Hele Shaw Cells and Oil Recovery
Wednesday, June 27
Viscous Fingering and Related Phenomena
Thursday, June 28
Porous Gravity Currents and CO2 Sequestration
Friday, June 29
Geothermal Energy Recovery and Buoyancy Effects
Week 3 - LECTURES BEGIN AT 10:30
Monday, July 2
Preconditioning numerical solvers for steady state and traveling waves
Jacob Langham, University of Bristol
Tuesday, July 3
Layers, localization, and relaminarization in stratified plane Couette flow with horizontal shear
Dan Lucas, Keele University
Wednesday, July 4
HOLIDAY
Thursday, July 5
10:30 a.m.
Shear instabilities at low Prandtl number
Pascale Garaud, University of California Santa Cruz
2:00 p.m.
For what it's worth: An analyst's hunt for asymptotic heat transport in Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Charles Doering, University of Michigan
Friday, July 6
On the optimal design of wall-to-wall heat transport
Ian Tobasco, University of Michigan
Wall-to-wall optimal transport theory and 2D computations
Andre Souza, Georgia Institute of Technology
Week 4
Monday, July 9
Bridging the scale hierarchy problem in ocean biogeochemical models
Francesco Paparella, NYU Abu Dhabi
Tuesday, July 10
The fluid and elastodynamics of cracking rocks; or how to frack into and out of trouble
Herbert Huppert, University of Cambridge
Wednesday, July 11
Rapidly rotating dynamos at large Reynolds number
Basile Gallet, SPEC, CEA Saclay
Thursday, July 12
The effect of pre-existing turbulence on stratified shear instability
Alexis Kaminski, Oregon State University
Friday, July 13
Reduced-order modeling of Rayleigh-Benard turbulence
Pedram Hassanzadeh, Rice University
Week 5
Monday, July 16
A unified nonlinear stochastic time-series analysis for climate science
Woosok Moon, Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics
Tuesday, July 17
Plumes in stratified fluids
Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
Wednesday, July 18
Double diffusive convection
Detlef Lohse, University of Twente
Thursday, July 19
Subglacial processes and the flow of ice sheets
Katarzyna Kowal, University of Cambridge & Northwestern University
Friday, July 20
Liesegang rings
Andrew Fowler, University of Limerick
Week 6
Monday, July 23
Bounding extreme events on a chaotic attractor
David Goluskin, University of Victoria
Tuesday, July 24
Effect of temperature on cross ventilation
Megan Davies-Wykes, University of Cambridge
Wednesday, July 25
Plumes and gravity currents: some new ideas on some old problems
Andrew Hogg, University of Bristol
Thursday, July 26
Unsteady fluid fragmentation
Lydia Bourouiba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, July 27
Garbage patches
Glenn Flierl, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Week 7
Monday, July 30
10:30 a.m.
Rotationally suppressed and rotationally forced Rayleigh-Taylor instability
Matthew Scase, University of Nottingham
2:00 p.m. SEARS PUBLIC LECTURE (Redfield Auditorium)
Biological Propulsion in (and of?) the Ocean
John Dabiri, Stanford University
Tuesday, July 31
Unsupervised clustering for coherent structure identification and Lagrangian data assimilation
John Dabiri, Stanford University
Wednesday, August 1
How vegetation alters waves and current, and the feedbacks to environmental system function
Heidi Nepf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, August 2
Geothermal heat exchange
Ian Hewitt, University of Oxford
Friday, August 3
Flow-driven compaction of a fibrous porous medium
Tom Eaves, University of British Columbia
Week 8
Monday, August 6
Convective plumes in a heterogeneous porous formation
Duncan Hewitt, University of Cambridge
Tuesday, August 7
A modified Howard-Marcus-Welander loop model for ocean millennial variability
Alexey Fedorov, Yale University
Wednesday, August 8
Particles breaking out of debris flows
Barbara Turnbull, University of Nottingham
Thursday, August 9
10:30 Squeeze dispersion and the enhancement of diffusion by strain
Gregory LeClaire Wagner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:00 Hot rocks and cool stars: Finding asteroids and brown dwarfs with WISE
Ned Wright, UCLA
Friday, August 10
An enthalpy method for subglacial frozen fringe
Colin Meyer, University of Oregon
Week 9
Quiet Week - No Lectures
Week 10
FELLOWS' PRESENTATIONS
Tuesday, August 21
10:00
Horizontal shear instabilities in the stellar interior
Laura Cope, University of Cambridge
11:00
How mixed is the ocean mixed layer?
Neeraja Bhamidipati, University of Cambridge
12:45
Defending against viscous flows
Edward Hinton, University of Cambridge
1:45
Centrifugally forced Rayleigh-Taylor instability: growth of varicose perturbations
Sutirtha Sengupta, University of California, Santa Cruz
Wednesday, August 22
10:00
Viscoplastic flow around a cylinder: nuggets or no nuggets?
Rohit Supekar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:00
Spooky mixing at a distance: nonlocal eddy fluxes from stochastic advection
Tyler Lutz, Yale University
2:15
Instability of piecewise, uniform, quasi-geostrophic vortex above topography
Bowen Zhao, Yale University
3:15
Interacting plumes in a rotating environment: The special case of a single plume
Christopher Howland, University of Cambridge
Thursday, August 23
10:00
Fountains, jets and rotation, oh my!
Andrea Lehn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:00
Swimming with posts
Sara Lenzi, University of Turin
12:15
Porous convection with internal heating: driving Enceladus' hydrothermal activity
Thomas Le Reun, Aix Marseille Universite
2017 Lecture Series Schedule
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Principal Lecturers
Andrew Fowler, University of Oxford
Adrian Jenkins, British Antarctic Survey
Fiamma Straneo, WHOI/Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Week 1 - Principal Lectures (10 AM to NOON)
Monday, June 19
Andrew Fowler
Introduction to Ice Sheet Dynamics
Adrian Jenkins
The Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Southern Ocean: An Introduction
Fiamma Straneo
Greenland Ice Sheet Changes: The Ocean as a Trigger and Receiver
Tuesday, June 20
Andrew Fowler
Ice Dynamics
Part I: Ice Flow Modeling
Part II: Basal Processes
Wednesday, June 21
Andrew Fowler
Subglacial Control of Ice Flow
Part I: Subglacial Floods
Part II: Subglacial Bedforms
Thursday, June 22
Andrew Fowler
Processes at the Ice-Ocean Interface
Part I: Ice Streams and Ice Shelves
Part II: Grounding Line Dynamics, Calving and Tidewater Glaciers
Friday, June 23
Adrian Jenkins
Basic Theory of Ice-Ocean Interaction
Part I: The Ice-Ocean Interface and the Boundary Layer
Part II: Buoyancy-driven Flow on Geophysical Scales
Week 2- Principal Lectures
Monday, June 26
Adrian Jenkins
Ocean Circulation beneath the Ice Shelves
Part I: Insights from Plume Theory
Part II: Models of the 3-D Circulation within a Cavity
Tuesday, June 27
Adrian Jenkins
Ice-Ocean Interactions around Antarctica
Part I: Cold Water Regimes
Part II: Warm Water Regimes
Wednesday, June 28
Fiamma Straneo
Testing the Ocean Trigger Hypothesis for Greenland's Recent Glacier Retreat
Part I: Characteristics of Greenland's Glaciers and Fjords
Part II: Evidence and Open Questions
Thursday, June 29
Fiamma Straneo
Submarine Melting of Greenland's Glaciers
Part I: The Near Ice Zone - Observations, Theory, Models
Part II: The Fjord Scale - Observations, Theory, Models
Friday, June 30
Fiamma Straneo
Formulating Appropriate Glacier/Ocean Exchanges in Greenland Ice Sheet and North Atlantic Ocean Models
Part I: Formulating Appropriate Greenland Discharge Conditions for Ocean Models
Part II: Formulating Appropriate Ocean Forcing Conditions for Greenland Ice Sheet and
Glacier Models
Week 3 (ALL LECTURES BEGIN AT 10:30)
Monday, July 3,
When is a Meltwater Plume not a Plume (and Other Murky Questions)?
Andrew Wells, University of Oxford
Tuesday, July 4
HOLIDAY
Wednesday, July 5
Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Buoyant Plumes: Effects of Complex Stratifications and Wall Presence on Plume Dynamics
Ekaterina Ezhova, University of Helsinki
Thursday, July 6
10:30 Modelling Submarine Melting at Tidewater Glaciers in Greenland
Donald Slater, University of Edinburgh
2:00 Atmospheric vs. Oceanic Control of Labrador Sea Water Formation
Renske Gelderloos, Johns Hopkins University
Friday, July 7
Water Mass Transformation under Southern Ocean Sea Ice
Ryan Abernathey, Columbia University
Week 4
Monday, July 10
Transport through Straits and Observed from HF Radar Measurements
Roberta Sciascia, Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council
Tuesday, July 11
A Mechanism for Deep Ocean Circulation Changes between Warm and Glacial Climates
Malte Jansen, University of Chicago
Wednesday, July 12
Accurate Linear Response Function of Climate Models: Calculations and Applications
Pedram Hassanzadeh, Rice University
Thursday, July 13
10:30 Extremal Time Averages and Optimal Bounds in Dynamical Systems
David Goluskin, University of Michigan
2:00 Some Strong Effects of Weak Rotation on Nonlinear Internal Waves
Karl Helfrich, WHOI
Friday, July 14
Shooting for the MOOM? (Some of the) Mysteries of Ocean Mixing
Com-cille Caulfield, University of Cambridge
Week 5
Monday, July 17
Double-diffusive Mixing in the Arctic Ocean
Yana Bebieva, Yale University
Tuesday, July 18
Self-sculpting of a Dissolvable Body due to Gravitational Convection
Megan Davies-Wykes, DAMTP
Wednesday, July 19
Measuring Core Stellar Magnetic Fields using Wave Conversion
Daniel Lecoanet, Princeton University
Thursday, July 20
10:30 Bounds on Heat Transfer in Bénard-Marangoni Convection
Giovanni Fantuzzi, Imperial College London
2:00 The Influence of Memory in Mesoscale Eddy Field on the Variability of Large-scale Ocean Circulation
Georgy Manucharyan, California Institute of Technology
Friday, July 21
Exact Coherent Structures in Wall-bounded Shear Flows at Extreme Reynolds Number
Greg Chini, University of New Hampshire
Week 6
Monday, July 24
Fjord Processes and the Melting of Tidewater Glaciers
Carlos Moffat, University of Delaware
Tuesday, July 25
Transient Stability of Shear Layers Forced by Standing Internal Waves
Alexis Kaminski, Oregon State University
Wednesday, July 26
10:30 Projecting Sea-Level Rise: New Insights from History and Physics
Richard Alley, Pennsylvania State University
5:00 pm SEARS PUBLIC LECTURE - Redfield Auditorium
How High Will the Tide Be? Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise
Richard Alley, Pennsylvania State University
Thursday, July 27
10:30 Lagrangian Transport and Superharmonic Instability of Internal Modes
Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
2:00 Available Potential Energy for Ocean Convection, Abrupt Climate Change, Mesoscale Eddies, and Submesoscale Eddies
Zhan Su, California Institute of Technology
Friday, July 28
Transport and Mixing by Viscous Vortex Rings
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Week 7
Monday, July 31
Optimal Stirring for Maximal Mixing
Charlie Doering, University of Michigan
Tuesday, August 1
Thesis Defense: Influence of Meltwater on Greenland Ice Sheet Dynamics
Laura Stevens, WHOI/MIT Joint Program
Wednesday, August 2
Double-diffusive Strategies in Giant Planets
Pascale Garaud, University of California-Santa Cruz
Thursday, August 3
10:30 Fluid Deformation of the Solid Earth: Bending and Breaking Rock and Ice
Jerome Neufeld, University of Cambridge
2:00 Examining Ice-Ocean Interactions with Laboratory Experiments
Craig McConnochie, WHOI
Friday, August 4
Effects of Subglacial Lubrication on Ice-sheet Dynamics and Mass Loss
Ian Hewitt, University of Oxford
Week 8
Monday, August 7
Simple Models of Marine Ice Sheets
Grae Worster, University of Cambridge
Tuesday, August 8
GEMPIC: An Exact Poisson Integrator for the Full Vlasov-Maxwell System
Phil Morrison, University of Texas-Austin
Wednesday, August 9
Formation of Stable Margins to Streams of Fast-Flowing Ice in Antarctica
Jim Rice, Harvard University
Thursday, August 10
The Control of Marine Ice Sheet Dynamics and Stability by Ice-shelf Buttressing
Sam Pegler, University of Leeds
Friday, August 11
How Focused Flexibility Maximizes the Thrust Production of Flapping Wings
Nick Moore, Florida State University
Week 9 - No Lectures
Week 10 - Fellows' Presentations
Monday, August 21
10:00-11:00 Seeing Ocean Through Sea Ice: Simple Theory for Submesocale Ice-Ocean Interactions in the Marginal Ice Zone
Robert Fajber, University of Toronto
11:00-12:00 A Supercool Mechanism for Secondary Sea Ice Growth
Margaret Lindeman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Tuesday, August 22
10:00-11:00 Energy Fluxes in Mixed Barotropic-Baroclinic Instability: Up-gradient or Down-gradient?
Madeleine Youngs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:00-12:00 Global Stability of Two-dimensional Plane Couette Flow Beyond the Energy Stability Limit
Federico Fuentes, University of Texas-Austin
1:30-2:30 Understanding Cylindrical Dinosaur Footprints
Thomasina Ball, University of Cambridge
Wednesday, August 23
10:00-11:00 A Simple Adiabatic Model for Vertical Variation of Halocline Slope in the Beaufort Gyre
Jessica Kenigson, University of Colorado-Boulder
11:00-12:00 Slim or Stout: Which Iceberg Lasts Longer?
Eric Hester, University of Sydney
1:30-2:30 Do Icebergs Know That the Earth Spins?
Agostino Meroni, University of Milan-Bicocca
2:30-3:30 Cooling via Baroclinic Acoustic Streaming
Guillaume Michel, Ecole Normale Supèrieure
Thursday, August 24
10:00-11:00 The Dynamics of Subglacial Plume Liftoff
Earle Wilson, University of Washington
11:00-12:00 Turbid Tales: Where Do Sub-glacial Sediments Go?
Madelaine Gamble Rosevear, University of Tasmania
2016 Lecture Series Schedule
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"Fluid -Structure Interaction in the Living Environment"
Principal Lecturers
Michael Shelley, New York University
Peko Hosoi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Week 1 - Principal Lectures
Monday, June 20
A primer on Continuum and fluid mechanics
Michael Shelley
Tuesday, June 21
Canonical fluid-structure problems: elastic structures interacting with high-speed flows
Michael Shelley
Wednesday, June 22
Flapping flight: symmetry breaking and the transition to flapping flight
Michael Shelley
Thursday, June 23
High Re-fluid structure interactions in sports
Peko Hosoi
Friday, June 24
Low Reynolds number swimming introduction: RFT and a slender-body theory teaser, three-link swimmer, single flagellum, two flagella, optimization
Peko Hosoi
Week 2 - Principal Lectures
Monday, June 27
Low Reynolds number swimming introduction: RFT and a slender-body theory teaser, three-link swimmer, single flagellum, two flagella optimization (cont'd)
Peko Hosoi
Some (unexpected) boundary effects in thermal convection
Jun Zhang
Tuesday, June 28
Low Reynolds number phenomena
Michael Shelley
Wednesday, June 29
Collective behavior at low Reynolds number
Michael Shelley
Thursday, June 30
Thin films with elastic boundaries
Peko Hosoi
Friday, July 1
Hydrodynamics of tectured surfaces: hair textures, symmetry breaking, Darcy-Brinkman flow
Peko Hosoi
Week 3
Monday, July 4
Holiday
Tuesday, July 5
Applications of optimization and optimal control to some fundamental problems in mathematical fluid dynamics
Charlie Doering, University of Michigan
Wednesday, July 6
Mechanics of swimming microorganisms in complex fluids
Tom Powers, Brown University
Thursday, July 7
Fluid-structure interactions in plant and animal physiology
Oliver Jensen, University of Manchester
Friday, July 8
Flows induced by 1D, 2D, and 3D internal wavepackets
Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
Week 4
Monday, July 11
Warm-water pathways towards Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord
Renske Gelderloos, Johns Hopkins University
Tuesday, July 12
Overturned traveling interfacial waves
Benjamin Akers, Air Force Institute of Technology
Wednesday, July 13
Energy dissipation in rotating turbulence
Basile Gallet, CEA Saclay
Thursday, July 14
Bounding average quantities: typical limitations and how to surmount them
David Goluskin, University of Michigan
Friday, July 15
Flow in highly deformable porous media: the coffee press and other problems
Duncan Hewitt, University of Cambridge
Week 5
Monday, July 18
The struction, function, and evolution of the human foot
Shreyas Mandre, Brown University
Tuesday, July 19
Topographic beta-plane turbulence and form stress
Navid Constantinou, Scripps
Wednesday, July 20
How bodies erode and dissolve in fluid flows
Nick Moore, Florida State University
Thursday, July 21
Bio-inspired flow systems: from wetting to particle dispersal
Emilie Dressaire, New York University
Friday, July 22
Is swimming obstructed by dead water?
Leo Maas, NIOZ
Week 6
Monday, July 25
A dynamical system for interacting flapping swimmers
Anand Oza, New York University
Tuesday, July 26
A multi-basin residual mean-model for the global overturning circulation
Andy Thompson, California Institute of Technology
Wednesday, July 27
Flow-structure interaction at the micro-scale
Megan Davies Wykes, New York University
Thursday, July 28
Transient growth and transition to turbulence in strongly stratified shear flows
Alexis Kaminski, University of Cambridge
Friday, July 29
Melting icebergs and glaciers
Claudia Cenedese, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Week 7
Monday, August 1
Sinking labile particles and the flux of organic matter in the ocean
Amala Mahadevan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Tuesday, August 2
Ice sheets with rapid basal sliding
Ian Hewitt, University of Oxford
Wednesday, August 3
Sniffing with hairy noses in turbulent odor plumes
Mimi Koehl, University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, August 4
Dimensions of continents and oceans - water has carved a perfect cistern
Jack Whitehead, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
SEARS PUBLIC LECTURE
Swimming and crawling in a turbulent world
Mimi Koehl, University of California, Berkeley
Friday, August 5
Magnetohydrodynamics and elastic buckling
Geoff Vasil, University of Sydney
Week 8
Monday, August 8
Entrapment, escape, and diffusion of swimming bodies in complex environments
Saverio Spagnolie, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tuesday, August 9
Shaping interfaces
Alban Sauret, SVI CNRS/Saint-Gobain
Wednesday, August 10
Vortices in sinusoidal jets
Glenn Flierl, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, August 11
The dynamics of marine ice sheets
Grae Worster, University of Cambridge
Friday, August 12
Cosmical gas dynamics
Ed Spiegel, Columbia University
Week 10 - Fellows' Presentations
Tuesday, August 23
The effects of Kelvin and topographic Rossby waves in Denmark Strait overflow
Oceane Richet, École Polytechnique
A new vortex method for modeling multiple wakes
Paula Doubrawa, Cornell University
Modeling morphodynamics of a tidally forced wetland
Qi Li, Princeton University
Meltwater percolation and refreezing in compacting snow
Colin Meyer, Harvard University
Wednesday, August 24
Rolling resistance on sand
Keaton Burns, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Splash and spray of a partially submerged rotating disk
Anna Skipper, Georgia Institute of Technology
Simple models of ice distribution and mixed layer depths in the Fram Strait
Sahil Agarwal, Yale University
A brief introduction to eroding bodies in a background flow
Jason Olsthoorn, University of Cambridge
Thursday, August 25
Capillary sorting: thin-film flows of particles
Michael Gomez, University of Oxford
Dynamics of active droplets
Christopher Miles, University of Michigan
2015 Lecture Series Schedule
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"Stochastic Processes in Atmospheric and Oceanic Dynamics" - June 15 to August 21, 2015
Principal Lectures
Charles Doering, University of Michigan
Henk Dijkstra, Utrech University
10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon
Week 1, June 15 - 19
Charles Doering
Grounding in the mathematical concepts of stochastic processes
Week 2, June 22 - 26
Henk Dijkstra
Explore how these theoretical concepts play out in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Lectures begin at 10:30 AM
Week 3
Monday, June 29
Oliver Bühler
Particle dispersion by linear and nonlinear stochastic waves
Tuesday, June 30 (Note: the Sears Lecture is at 5 p.m.)
Rich Kerswell
Boundary inflow, Taylor-Couette flow and accretion disks
PUBLIC LECTURE, 5:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium (reception to follow)
Susan Solomon, MIT
Ozone Depletion: A Science and Policy Success Story
Wednesday, July 1
Fabio Del Sordo
Understanding stellar activity to search for Earth-like exoplanets
Thursday, July 2
Colm Caulfield
Stirring solutions: Mixing industrial challenges with mathematics
Friday, July 3
Daniel Lecoanet
Internal Wave Excitation by Turbulent Convection
Week 4
Monday, July 6
Dhrubaditya Mitra
Fluid Dynamics with (large and small) Balls
Tuesday, July 7
Charlie Doering
Heat transport in turbulent (and not so turbulent) convection
Wednesday, July 8
Gregory Wagner
Coupled evolution of near-inertial waves and quasi-geostrophic flow
Thursday, July 9
Greg Chini
The pure Langmuir turbulence regime
Friday, July 10
Jean-Luc Thiffeault
Random kicks due to swimming organisms
Week 5
Monday, July 13
David Goluskin
Canonical convection configurations
Tuesday, July 14
Andrew Wells
Layers, ripples, and channels: shocks and surprises with ice-ocean interaction
Wednesday, July 15
Brad Marston
Statistics of Stochastically Driven Jets
Thursday, July 16
Alexandros Alexakis
Rotating Taylor-Green flow
2:30pm
Nigel Goldenfeld
The emergence of collective modes, ecological collapse and directed percolation at the laminar-turbulence transition in pipe flow
Friday, July 17
Glenn Flierl
Arms Race, Seesaw or Speciation -- mathematics of evolution
Week 6
Monday, July 20
Woosok Moon
A stochastic Arctic sea ice model : Toward a smart gambling
Tuesday, July 21
Stefan Llewellyn Smith
Tsunami propagation using a consistent acoustic-gravity wave formulation
Wednesday, July 22
John Bush
Pilot-wave hydrodynamics
Thursday, July 23
Carl Wunsch
Circulation and tides of an ice covered Earth
Friday, July 24
Rob Phillips
Do Surfers Know Things that Geophysical Fluid Dynamicists Don’t?
Week 7
Monday, July 27
Ali Mashayek
Ocean mixing: from small scale turbulence to large scale meridional overturning circulation
Tuesday, July 28
Jack Whitehead
The continental drift convection cell-continuing on from Lou Howard's formulation
Wednesday, July 29
Edward Bolton
Implications of the nonlinear seawater equation of state on salt fingers and cabbeling
Thursday, July 30
Srikanth Toppaladoddi
Tailoring boundary geometry to optimize heat transport in turbulent convection
Friday, July 31
Victor Yakhot
Small-scale universality, intermittency and turbulence modeling
Week 8
Monday, August 3
Bill Young
Swell Problems
Tuesday, August 4
Predrag Cvitanović
Noise is your friend, or: The best possible resolution of state space in presence of noise
2:30pm
Jim Anderson
Happy Birthday General Relativity: What has happened in the last century.
Wednesday, August 5
Emma Boland
Mixing by meso-scale eddies in the Southern Ocean: two different perspectives
Thursday, August 6
Ed Spiegel
Beyond Navier-StokesZ
Friday, August 7
Katepalli Sreenivasan
Confessions of Ignorance on Turbulent Convection
Week 9 - August 10
Quiet Week: No lectures
Week 10 - August 17 - 21
Fellows' presentations
Monday, August 17
10:00am
Gunnar Peng, University of Cambridge
The Diffusion Fish
11:30am
Tom Eaves, University of Cambridge
Noisy homoclinic pulse dynamics: back to the origin
2:30pm
Andre Souza, University of Michigan
Instantons in the presence of chaos: is noise really your friend?
Tuesday, August 18
10:00am
Giovanni Fantuzzi, Imperial College London
Bounds for deterministic and stochastic dynamical systems using sum-of-squares programming
11:30am
Tom Beucler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Large-scale advection, condensation and diffusion of water vapor
Wednesday, August 19
10:00am
Cesar Rocha, University of California, San Diego
Scaling Ocean Stratification: coupled asymptotic model equations for strongly stratified flows
11:30am
Chris Spalding, California Institute of Technology
The most catastrophic catastrophe: Population dynamics under random extreme events
2:30pm
Yana Bebieva, Yale University
Punctuated plume penetration: Entrainment dynamics of the layered filling box
Thursday, August 20
10:00am
Florence Marcotte, Ecole Normale Supérieure
Fast cooling of a hot disc
11:30am
Anna FitzMaurice, Princeton University
A stochastic approach to examining the predictability of Arctic sea ice
2014 Lecture Series Schedule
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"Climate Physics and Dynamics" - June 16 to August 22, 2014
Week 1, June 16 – 20 Principal Lectures
Monday, June 16
Elements of Radiative Transfer
Kerry Emanuel
Tuesday, June 17
Energy Balance Models and Simple Radiative Convective Equilibria (RCE)
Geoff Vallis
Wednesday, June 18
RCE and Tropopause Height
Geoff Vallis
Thursday, June 19
Convective Heat Transfer 1
Kerry Emanuel
Friday, June 20
Convective Heat Transfer II
Kerry Emanuel
Week 2, June 23 – 27 Principal Lectures
Monday, June 23
RCE states and Interaction with Large Scale Flows
Kerry Emanuel
Tuesday, June 24
Global Instability of the RCE State
Kerry Emanuel
Wednesday, June 25
Surface Winds: Why they matter and how they are produced
Geoff Vallis
Thursday, June 26
Theory of the Oceanic Deep Circulation
Geoff Vallis
Friday, June 27
Deep Circulation (continued) and the Thermocline
Geoff Vallis
Lectures begin at 10:30 AM
Week 3
Monday, June 30
Climate-biosphere interaction across multiple scales
Antonello Provenzale, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, CNR
1:30
Planetary Climates: Some Advantages of Sparse Data
Andy Ingersoll, California Institute of Technology
Tuesday, July 1
Mixing stuff up
Glenn Flierl, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, July 2
On the relationship between GFD and atmosphere/ocean models in the era of exascale computing
Beth Wingate, University of Exeter, UK
1:30
Probabilistic plume model to represent dry, shallow and deep convection
Pierre Gentine, Columbia University
Thursday, July 3
Baroclinic Equilibration with Topography
Ryan Abernathey, Columbia University
1:30
Finite-amplitude wavepackets in internal waves in a rotating frame
Ted Johnson, University College London
Friday, July 4
HOLIDAY
Week 4
Monday, July 7
Parameters, Probabilities and Insight(s)
Lenny Smith, London School of Economics and Political Science
1:30
On the Reliability of Multi-Year Forecasts of Climate
Susanna Corti, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the Italian National Research Council
Tuesday, July 8
Metriplecticism: relaxation paradigms for computation and derivation
Phil Morrison, University of Texas at Austin
Wednesday, July 9
Forcing and feedback from months to millions of years
Peter Huybers, Harvard University
1:30
Regional climate predictability from regional climate feedbacks
Gerard Roe, University of Washington
Thursday, July 10
Low Clouds and Their Response to Climate Change: A GFD Problem Waiting to be Solved
Tapio Schneider, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
1:30
Mixing mechanisms and dynamics of the deep Arctic Ocean
Mary-Louise Timmermans, Yale University
Friday, July 11
A competition between turbulence and baroclinic instability in the upper ocean
John Taylor, University of Cambridge
1:30
Retreating Greenland glaciers and warming ocean: dynamics at the ice/ocean interface
Fiamma Straneo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Week 5
Monday, July 14
Why are all my power cords entangled? A lecture on random entanglement
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin
1:30
Robotic GFD: collaborative tracking and control in time-dependent and stochastic flows
Philip Yecko, Cooper Union New York
Tuesday, July 15
Climate response to increased CO2 - Effects of explicit representation of atmospheric convection and connections with past warm and hot climates
Eli Tziperman, Harvard University
Wednesday, July 16
The nonlinear, downstream development of unstable baroclinic waves. Chaos and scale.
Joe Pedlosky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Thursday, July 17
Dynamics of the Madden-Julian oscillation
Adam Sobel, Columbia University
Friday, July 18
The ocean's role in transient climate change
Kyle Armour, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Week 6
Monday, July 21
Wind waves in the coupled climate system
Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University
Tuesday, July 22
The northern hemisphere summertime circulation: mechanisms and future changes
Tiffany Shaw, Columbia University
Wednesday, July 23
Response of Antarctic climate to ozone-hole forcing
John Marshall, EAPS MIT Cambridge
Thursday, July 24
Convectively coupled tropical transients
Zhiming Kuang, Harvard University
Friday, July 25
Energetics of semi-enclosed basins with two-layer flows at the strait
Paola Cessi, University of California, San Diego
Week 7
Monday, July 28
Maintenance, formation and drift of zonal jets
Bill Young, University of California, San Diego
Tuesday, July 29
Ocean heat uptake and the putative 'hiatus'
Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, July 30
The geometry of transition in shear flows
Norman Lebovitz, University of Chicago
Thursday, July 31
Sinking of particulate organic matter
Amala Mahadevan, WHOI
Friday, August 1
Too much of a good thing? Destabilisation and mixing induced by stratification in shear flows
Colm-cille Caulfield, Cambridge University
Week 8
Monday, August 4
Geometry of turbulence, or how to slice baroclinic instability
Predrag Cvitanovic, Georgia Institute of Technology
Tuesday, August 5
Ice core as archives of past climate and atmospheric composition
Carlo Barbante, University of Venice
Wednesday, August 6
A Problem in Cosmical Gas Dynamics
Ed Spiegel, Columbia University
PUBLIC LECTURE, 5:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium (reception to follow)
The Future of Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice
Cecilia Bitz, University of Washington
Thursday, August 7
The Coolest Part of the Ocean
Cecilia Bitz, University of Washington
Friday, August 8
On the self-aggregation of convection in the tropical atmosphere
Caroline Muller, Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique de l'École Polytechnique & CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique
Week 9 - August 11
Quiet Week: No lectures
Week 10 - August 18 - 21 Fellows' presentations
Monday, August 18
10:30 am
The role of mixed layer instabilities in submesoscale turbulence
Jörn Callies, MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography
1:00 pm
Understanding Eddy Saturation in the Southern Ocean using Mean Field Theory
Joseph Fitzgerald, Harvard University
2:15 pm
A study of heat transport and the runaway greenhouse effect using an idealized model
Paige Martin, University of Michigan
Tuesday, August 19
10:30 am
The role of the lapse rate feedback in Arctic amplification
Ashley Payne, University of California, Irvine
1:00 pm
The Most Minimal Seed for the Onset of Shear Turbulence
Geoff Stanley, University of Oxford
Wednesday, August 20
10:30 am
Models for Tropopause Height and Radiative-Convective Equilibrium
Shineng Hu, Yale University
1:00 pm
Vortex filament dynamics in two dimensions
Jim Thomas, New York University
2:15 pm
Thermobaric effects on double-diffusive staircases
Erica Rosenblum, University of California, San Diego
Thursday, August 21
10:00 am
An experimental investigation of the Rossby two-slit problem
Alexis Kaminski, University of Cambridge
11:30 am
A numerical study of the downstream development of baroclinic instability
Daniel Mukiibi, University of Hamburg
2013 Lecture Series Schedule
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"Buoyancy-Driven Flows" - June 17 - August 23
Introductory lectures will be a total of 2 hours each with a short break.
Monday, June 17 - 9:45 AM
Introduction
Claudia Cenedese, Eric Chassignet and Stefan Llewellyn Smith, GFD Co-Directors
June 17-21– Principal Lectures - 10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon
Gravity Currents
Paul Linden, University of Cambridge
Week 2
June 24-28 – Principal Lectures - 10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon
Gravity Currents
Paul Linden, University of Cambridge
Lectures begin at 10:30 AM
Week 3
Monday, July 1
Falling into structured fluids
Philip Yecko, Montclair State University
Tuesday, July 2
Gravity-driven interfacial flows: Vorticity-based models
Eckhart Meiburg, University of California
Wednesday, July 3
Dense overflows in ocean general circulation models
Sonya Legg, Princeton University
Thursday, July 4
HOLIDAY
Friday, July 5
Large amplitude acoustic streaming
Greg Chini, University of New Hampshire
Week 4
Monday, July 8
Modeling the hagfish slime
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin
Tuesday, July 9
Three-dimensional quasi-geostrophic convection in the rotating cylindrical annulus with steeply sloping endwalls
Keith Julien, University of Colorado at Boulder
Wednesday, July 10
Coastal density fronts: gravity currents, internal waves, and mixing
Brian White, University of North Carolina
Thursday, July 11
A propagation model for internal waves generated by a body moving in an ocean thermocline
Jim Rottman, University of California, San Diego
Friday, July 12
Eddy generation by topographic transformation of coastal-trapped waves
Ted Johnson, University College London
Week 5
Monday, July 15
Layers, layers everywhere: The dynamics of mixing-induced layering in turbulent stratified flow
Colm Caulfield, University of Cambridge
Tuesday July 16
A refined life at high resolution: subgrid modelling in the eddy-rich regime
Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University
Wednesday, July 17
Unusual features in rotating flows
Michael Patterson, University of Bristol
1:30 PM
The turbulence closure problem
Joseph Keller, Stanford University
Thursday, July 18
Harmonic forcing in rotating flows: zonal flow, instabilities and inertial waves
Alban Sauret, Princeton University
Friday, July 19
Stability criteria for inhomogeneous equilibria in the single wave model
George Hagstrom, New York University
Week 6
Monday, July 22
Buoyancy-driven segregation of magma from the convecting mantle
Richard Katz, University of Oxford
Tuesday, July 23
Large-scale circulation in 2D Kolmogorov flows
Basile Gallet, Laboratoire FAST
Wednesday, July 24
Oscillatory double-diffusive convection
Pascale Garaud, University of California, Santa Cruz
Thursday, July 25
A turbulent model of the Arctic halocline
Michael Spall, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1:30
Waves over periodic topographies
Jie Yu, North Carolina State University
Friday, July 26
Shoaling and tunneling internal solitary waves
Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
Week 7
Monday, July 29
Sea breezes and land breezes along coastlines and semi-enclosed seas: Diurnal gravity currents
Sarah Gille, University of California, San Diego
Tuesday, July 30
Convective and absolute instability of finite amplitude gravity wave
Jean-Marc Chomaz, CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique
Wednesday, July 31
The effects of wind on the rise of volcanic plumes and the intrusions of volcanic ash
Andrew Hogg, University of Bristol
Thursday, August 1
Ekman Layer meets island
Joseph Pedlosky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1:30 PM
Buoyancy driven flows and mixing in confined spaces
Andrew Woods, University of Cambridge
Friday, August 2
Sills or Hills? The 2014/15 Fracture Zone Canyon experiment
Andreas Thurnherr, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
1:30 PM
Science and art of sculpturing fluids
Jean-Marc Chomaz, CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique
Week 8
Monday, August 5
Extreme multiplicity in convection patterns
Laurette Tuckerman, PMMH-ESPCI
1:30
Along the bumpy road from micro- to macro-physics
James Anderson, Stevens Institute of Technology
Tuesday, August 6
Wind and eddy-mediated export of Antarctic Bottom Water
Andrew Stewart, California Institute of Technology
Wednesday, August 7
Determining the depth of mixing in the upper water column of subpolar waters: implications for productivity
Susan Lozier, Duke University
Thursday, August 8
The influence of mesoscale eddies of the Arabian Sea on the slope currents of Red Sea and Persian Gulf outflow water
Xavier Carton, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale
Sears Public Lecture - 5 PM - Redfield Auditorium, reception to follow
Overturning in the North Atlantic: new observations, new views, lingering questions
Susan Lozier, Duke University
Friday, August 9
The zonally asymmetric Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Andrew Thompson, California Institute of Technology
Week 9 - August 12 - 16
Quiet Week - no lectures
Week 10 - August 19 - 23
Fellows' presentations
Monday, August 19
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Response of thermohaline circulation to changes in precipitation
Yuki Yasuda, The University of Tokyo
Break
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Particle driven flows down an incline into a linear stratification
Kate Snow, Australian National University
Tuesday, August 20
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Nonlinear optimal perturbations
Daniel Lecoanet, University of California, Berkeley
Break
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Energy stability and transport efficiency in forced stratified shear flows
Tobias Bischoff, California Institute of Technology
Wednesday August 21
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Investigation of lock exchange in a 3D valley configuration
Catherine Jones, University of California, San Diego
Break
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Modeling the evolution of a particle-rich layer in a double diffusive regime
Varvara Zemskova, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
On the collision of sea breeze gravity currents
Karin van der Wiel, University of East Anglia
Thursday August 22
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Granular flow in a rotating drum
Gregory Wagner, University of California, San Diego
Break
11:15 am -12:15 pm
Induced mean flow of weakly nonlinear internal wave packets
Ton van den Bremer, University of Oxford
2012 Lecture Series Schedule
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"Spatially Localized Structures: Theory and Applications" - June 18 to August 24
June 18 – June 22 – Principal Lectures - 10:00 AM
Dynamics of Coherent Structures and their Impact on Transport and
Predictability
Jeffrey Weiss, University of Colorado
June 25 – June 29 – Principal Lectures - 10:00 AM
Spatially Localized Structures: Theory and Applications
Edgar Knobloch, University of California, Berkeley
Beginning July 2 lectures will be at 10:30 AM unless otherwise noted
Monday, July 2
Exchange Flows and the Principle of Maximum Flux
Rich Kerswell, Bristol University
Tuesday, July 3
Summer Subtropical Anticyclones and their Role in the General Circulation
of the Atmosphere
Tiffany Shaw, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Wednesday, July 4
HOLIDAY – no lectures
Thursday, July 5
Convection, Stability, Coherent Structures and Turbulence
Charlie Doering, University of Michigan
Greg Chini, University of New Hampshire
Friday, July 6
Odor Dispersal in the Sea and the Physiological and Behavioral Responses
of Sharks and Lobsters to Find Food by Smell
Jelle Atema, Boston University
Monday, July 9
10:00 AM
A Unified Theory of LCS as Transport Barriers
George Haller, McGill University
11:00 AM
Elliptic LCS in the Ocean: Geodesic Detection of Mesoscale Eddies
Francisco J. Beron-Vera, RSMAS, University of Miami
2:00 PM
Hyperbolic LCS in the Ocean: Forecasting Oil Spill Movement
M. Josefina Olascoaga, RSMAS, University of Miami
Tuesday, July 10
Scalar Dispersion in the Large-Deviation Regime
Jacques Vanneste, University of Edinburgh
Wednesday, July 11
Timestepping Schemes - Global Stability and Convergence
Djoko Wirosoetisno, Durham University
Thursday, July 12
Geostrophic Turbulence in the Upper Ocean
Joern Callies, MIT
Friday, July 13
Down-welling in Basins Subject to Buoyancy Loss
Claudia Cenedese, WHOI
Monday, July 16
Wall-localized Convection and Multiple-Scale Dynamics
Geoff Vasil, CITA, Toronto
Tuesday, July 17
Double-Diffusive Convection
Pascale Garaud, University of California, Santa Cruz
Wednesday, July 18
Universal Equations and Constants of (3D) Turbulent Motions
Helmet Baumert, ISMARIS, Hamburg
Thursday, July 19
From the Luzon Strait to the Lab: Modeling the Internal Tides
Matthieu Mercier, MIT
Friday, July 20
Undercompressive Shocks on Ion-Bombarded Surfaces
Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, New York University
Monday, July 23
Boundary Layers and Mixing in Abyssal Canyons
Rebecca Walsh-Dell, MIT/WHOI
Tuesday, July 24
Conservative Water Wave Model with Full Wave Dispersion and Horizontal
Circulation
Onno Bokhove, University of Twente
Wednesday, July 25
Chaotic Stirring in an Idealized 3D Eddy
Larry Pratt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Thursday, July 26
Linear Stability of Non-Autonomous Systems
Shreyas Mandre, Brown University
Friday, July 27
Dynamical Systems, Kinetic Theory, Fluid Equations and All That
Ed Spiegel, Columbia University
Monday, July 30
Eddy Diffusion in Lagrangian Coherent Structures
Wenbo Tang, Arizona State University
Tuesday, July 31
Non-local Models of Anomalous Transport in the Presence of Coherent
Structures
Diego Del-Castillo Negrete, Oakridge National Laboratory
Wednesday, August 1
Modeling Particle Size Segregation and its Applications to Geophysics
Granular Flows
Anthony Thornton, University of Twente
Thursday, August 2
Generalized Linear Models for Networks of Spiking Neurons
Sara Solla, Northwestern University
Friday, August 3
The Solar Tachocline - Rotating, Stratified, Magnetized Turbulence
Toby Wood, University of California, Santa Cruz
Monday, August 6
The Structure and Dynamics of Tornadoes: A Review
Howard Bluestein, University of Oklahoma
Tuesday, August 7
Spontaneous Generation of Near-Inertial Internal Waves from an Oceanic
Front
Amala Mahadevan, WHOI
PUBLIC LECTURE, 5:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium
Probing Tornadoes with Mobile Doppler Radars
Professor Howard Bluestein, University of Oklahoma
Wednesday, August 8
10:30
Zonal Flow Formation and Convection Structures in Spherical
Quasigeostrophic Models at Low Prandtl Number
Celine Guervilly, University of California, Santa Cruz
2:30 PM
Got Symmetry? Here is how you slice it
Predrag Cvitanovic, Georgia Tech
Thursday, August 9
10:30
Water Wave Production by Oscillating Bodies
Joe Keller, Stanford University
2:30 PM
From Oceanic Sea States, Wave Spectra and Dispersion to Traveling
Waves in Navier-Stokes
Francesco Fedele, Georgia Institute of Technology
Friday, August 10
Jamming
L. Mahadevan, Harvard University
August 13-17
QUIET WEEK – NO LECTURES
August 20-23
Fellows’ Presentations
Monday, August 20
10:15 to 11:15
Thixotorpic Gravity Currents and the Ketchup Question
Duncan Hewitt, Cambridge University
11:30 to 12:30
Smoothing Out Sandpiles: Rotational Bulldozing of Granular Material
Alban Sauret, IRPHE
Tuesday, August 21
10:15 to 11:15
Spin Down of a Stellar Interior
Rosalind Oglethorpe, Cambridge University
11:30 to 12:30
Swimming Slender Rods in Stokes Flow
Srikanth Toppaladoddi, Yale University
2:30 to 3:30
Scattering of Internal Waves Over Random Topography
Yuan Guo, New York University
Wednesday, August 22
10:15 to 11:15
What Goes Up Doesn't Come Down: The Effect of Upwelling and
Downwelling on Turbulent Entrainment in a Surface Stress-Driven Flow
Vamsi Chalamalla, University of California, San Diego
11:30 to 12:30
Equatorial Quasi-Geostrophy
Felicity Graham, University of Tasmania
2:30 to 3:30
A 2-Dimensional, 3-Component Model of Langmuir Circulation
Bevin Maultsby, University of North Carolina
Thursday, August 23
10:15 to 11:15
Optimal Transport: Wall to Wall
Pedram Hassanzadeh, University of California, Berkeley
11:30 to 12:30
A Reduced Model for Exact Coherent Structures in High Reynolds Shear
Flows
Cedric Beaume, IMFT
2011 Lecture Series Schedule
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"Shear Turbulence: Onset and Structure" - June 20 - August 26
Week 1
Introductory lectures will be a total of 2 hours each with a short break.
Monday, June 20 - 9:50 AM
Introduction
Norman Lebovitz and Philip Morrison, GFD Co-Directors
Lecture 1 - 10:00 AM
General Introduction and Overview
Fabian Waleffe, University of Wisconsin
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 10:50 – 11:50 AM
Tuesday, June 21 - Lecture 2 - 10:00 AM
Viscous derivation of classic inviscid stability results for shear flows. Viscous instability.
Fabian Waleffe, University of Wisconsin
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 10:50 – 11:50 AM
Wednesday, June 22 - Lecture 3 - 10:00 AM
Diffusion and damping in shear flows: a truly singular limit. Critical layers.
Fabian Waleffe University of Wisconsin
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 11:00 – 11:50 AM
Thursday, June 23 - Lecture 4 - 10:00 AM
Origin and survival of 3D-ality.
Fabian Waleffe, University of Wisconsin
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 11:00 – 11:50 AM
Friday, June 24 - Lecture 5 - 10:00 AM
Instability of streaky flows. Asymptotics of self-sustaining process.
Fabian Waleffe, University of Wisconsin
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 11:00 – 11:50 AM
Week 2
Monday, June 27 - Lecture 6
Spatio-temporal complexity. Spots, puffs and slugs, snakes and spirals.
Fabian Waleffe, University of Wisconsin
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 11:00 – 11:50 AM
2:30 PM
Structures of low-Reynolds-number turbulence in a rectangular duct.
Genta Kawahara, Osaka University
Tuesday, June 28 - Lecture 7 - 10:00 AM
Transition scenarios: normality vs non-normality.
Richard Kerswell, Bristol University
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 11:00 – 11:50 AM
Wednesday, June 29 - Lecture 8 - 10:00 AM
Edge tracking -- walking the tightrope.
Richard Kerswell, Bristol University
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 11:00 – 11:50 AM
Thursday, June 30 - Lecture 9 - 10:00 AM
Triggering transition efficiently.
Richard Kerswell, Bristol University
Part 1 – 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 11:00 – 11:50 AM
2:30 PM
Vortex-wave interactions/self-sustained processes in shear flows.
Phillip Hall, Imperial College London
Friday, July 1 - Lecture 10 - 10:00 AM
Turbulence: transient or sustained?
Richard Kerswell, Bristol University
Part 1 - 10:00 – 10:50 AM
Part 2 – 11:00 – 11:50 AM
Week 3
Monday, July 4
HOLIDAY – INSTITUTION CLOSED
Tuesday, July 5
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Surface-wave mediated instability of submesoscale ocean fronts.
Greg Chini, University of New Hampshire
11:00 – 11:50 AM
Gravity currents in rotating fluid.
Jack Whitehead, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Wednesday, July 6
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Ultimate state of two-dimensional Rayleigh-B/’enard convection between free-slip fixed-temperature boundaries.
Charles Doering, University of Michigan
11:00 – 11:50 AM
Global stability analysis of fluid flows using Sum-of Squares of polynominals.
Sergei Chernyshenko, Imperial College, London
Thursday, July 7
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Generation of magnetic fields by convection in rotating spherical fluid shells.
Friedrich Busse, University of Bayreuth
Friday, July 8
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Geographically localized coastal trapped waves.
Ted Johnson, University College London
Week 4
Monday, July 11
No lecture scheduled today.
Tuesday, July 12
10:00 – 10:50 AM
From Swift-Hohenberg to Navier-Stokes: Localization in Plane Couette Flow.
Tobias Schneider, Harvard University
Wednesday, July 13
10:00 – 10:50 AM
The nonhydrostatic balanced geostrophic equations: the interplay between convective and barotropic dynamics.
Keith Julien, University of Colorado at Boulder
Thursday, July 14
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Landau damping as a universal description of dissipation.
George Hagstrom, University of Texas at Austin
Friday, July 15
10:00 – 10:50 AM
New modes of haline convection.
Raymond Schmitt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Week 5
Monday, July 18
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Zonostrophic turbulence, zonal jets and the mixing barriers.
Boris Galperin, University of South Florida
Tuesday, July 19
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Anisotropic inverse cascade towards zonal jets in shallow water dynamics.
Alexander Balk, University of Utah
Wednesday, July 20
10:00 – 10:50 AM
A hierarchy of PDE models for rotating stratified flows.
Leslie Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison
11:00 – 11:50 AM
Determining macroscopic diffusivity from T, S data: an ongoing study.
George Veronis, Yale University
Thursday, July 21
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Pseudo spectral reduction of 2D turbulence.
John Bowman, University of Alberta
Friday, July 22
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Cross-equatorial transport of Antarctic Bottom Water under the complete Coriolis force.
Andrew Stewart, Corpus Christi College
Week 6
Monday, July 25
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Gyroviscous effects in Braginski magnetohydrodynamic flow between parallel planes.
Paul Dellar, University of Oxford
Tuesday, July 26
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Self-sinking capsules to investigate Earth’s interior and dispose of radioactive waste.
Jesse Ausubel, Rockefeller University
Wednesday, July 27
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Landau damping as a universal source of dissipation.
George Hagstrom, University of Texas at Austin
Thursday, July 28
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Stability of vortex and wave flows from bifurcation diagrams exploiting a variational argument.
Paolo Luzzato-Fegiz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Friday, July 29
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Coherent vortices in plane Couette flow – bifurcation, symmetry and visualization.
Tomoaki Itano, Kansai University
Week 7
Monday, August 1
10:00 – 10:50 AM
The spring bloom in the oceans.
Amala Mahadevan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Tuesday, August 2
10:00 – 10:50 AM
EZ-stability of beta-plane Kolmogorov flow with drag.
Yue-Kin Tsang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
11:00 – 11:50 AM
Stability of swirling flows.
Sherwin Maslowe, McGill University
Wednesday, August 3
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Questioning the question: The role of nonlinear optimal perturbations in the transition to turbulence of plane Couette flow.
Colm-cille Caulfield, University of Cambridge
11:00 – 11:50 AM
Spatio-temporal chaos in shear flows.
Bruno Eckhardt, Phillips Universitat Marburg
Thursday, August 4
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Optimal path to turbulence in shear flows.
Dan Henningson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2:00 – 5:00 PM – Public Lecture, Redfield Auditorium, reception to follow
On growth and form: geometry, physics and biology.
Lakshiminarayanan Mahadevan, Harvard University
Friday, August 5
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Simplifying the complexity of turbulent shear flow.
Dwight Barkley, University of Warwick
11:00 – 11:50 AM
On first looking into Chapman and Cowling.
Ed Spiegel, Columbia University
Week 8
Monday, August 8
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Instabilities and transitions of rotor-stator flows.
Patrice LeGal, IRPHE, France
Tuesday, August 9
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Topological detection of Lagrangian coherent structures.
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Wednesday, August 10
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Flow through a sudden expansion in a pipe.
Tom Mullin, University of Manchester
11:00 – 11:50 AM
Unbalanced surface dynamics.
Gualtiero Badin, Boston University
Thursday, August 11
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Laminar –turbulent patterns in plane Couette flow.
Laurette Tuckerman, PMMH-ESPCI, France
Friday, August 12
10:00 – 10:50 AM
What Phil Morrison wouldn’t teach us: how to reduce the symmetry of pipe flows.
Predrag Cvitanovic, Georgia Institute of Technology
Week 9 – No lectures scheduled this week
Monday, August 15
Tuesday, August 16
Wednesday, August 17
Thursday, August 18
Friday, August 19
Week 10 – FELLOWS’ PRESENTATIONS
Monday, August 22
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Constraints on low order models: the cost of simplicity.
Martin Hoecker-Martinez, Oregon State University
3:00 – 4:00 PM
A one-fluid MHD model with electron inertia.
Keiji Kimura, Kyoto University
Tuesday, August 23
10:00 – 11:00 AM
Traversing the edge: how turbulence decays.
Matthew Chantry, University of Bristol
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
A low dimensional model for shear turbulence in Plane Poiseuille flow: an example to understand the edge.
Giulio Mariotti, Boston University
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Upstream basin circulation of rotating, hydraulically controlled flows.
Adele Morrison, Australian National University
Wednesday, August 24
10:00 – 11:00 AM
Islands in locally forced basin circulations.
Samuel Potter, Princeton University
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Two-layer viscus fluid in an inclined closed tube: Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.
Zhan Wang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Chaotic interaction of vortex patches with boundaries.
Andrew Crosby, University of Cambridge
3:00 – 4:00 PM
On Brownian motion in a fluid with a plane boundary.
Chao Ma, University of Colorado, Boulder
Thursday, August 25
10:00 – 11:00 AM
Localized solutions in plane Couette flow: continuation methods.
John Platt, Harvard University
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Ascending the ridge: maximizing the heat flux in steady porous medium convection.
Lindsey Ritchie, University of Strathclyde
2010 Lecture Series Schedule
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"Swirling and Swimming in Turbulence" - June 21 - August 27
Monday, June 21
Lecture 1 - 10:00 AM
Stirring and Mixing
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tuesday, June 22
Lecture 2 - 10:00 AM
Introduction to Biological models
Glenn Flierl, MIT
Wednesday, June 23
Lecture 3 - 10:00 AM
Effective Diffusivity and Swimming Organisms
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Lecture 4 - 2:30 PM
Tutorial: Eddy Diffusivity and Active Scalars
Glenn Flierl, MIT
Thursday, June 24
Lecture 5 - 10:00 AM
Local Stretching Theories
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Friday, June 25
Lecture 6 - 10:00 AM
Social Behavior, Mixing, and the Evolution of Schooling
Glenn Flierl, MIT
Monday, June 28
Lecture 7 - 10:00 AM
Mixing in the Presence of Sources and Sinks
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Lecture 8 - 2:30 PM
Tutorial: How to Write an Ecological Model
Antonello Provenzale, Istituto di Scienze Dell'Atmosfera
Tuesday, June 29
Lecture 9 - 10:00 AM
Examples at the Mesoscale
Antonello Provenzale, Istituto di Scienze Dell'Atmosfera
Wednesday, June 30
Lecture 10 - 10:00 AM
Dynamics of Heavy Impurities with Finite Size
Antonello Provenzale, Istituto di Scienze Dell'Atmosfera
4:30 PM
Project Discussions
Thursday, July 1
Lecture 11 - 10:00 AM
Plankton Sinking and the Role of Turbulence
Antonello Provenzale, Istituto di Scienze Dell'Atmosfera
Friday, July 2
Lecture 12 - 10:00 AM
Evolutionary Models: Movement and Mixing in Trait and Physical Space
Glenn Flierl, MIT
Monday, July 5
HOLIDAY - No lectures
Tuesday, July 6
10:30
Two Particle Separations in 2-D Turbulence
Joe LaCasce, University of Oslo
Wednesday, July 7
10:30
Sub-Mesoscale Turbulence in the Ocean: How does it Affect the Oceanic Carbon Cycle
Marina Levy, LOCEAN
1:30
Modelling Turbulent Mixing in Two-Dimensions using Stochastic Differential Equations
Lennon O'Naraigh, Imperial College London
Thursday, July 8
10:30
Biologically Generated Turbulence in the Ocean
Eric Kunze, University of Victoria
2:30
Modification of the Air-Sea Interaction and Near-Surface Turbulence by Surfactants
Alexander Soloviev, NOVA Southeastern University
Friday, July 9
10:30
Inertial Effects in G.I. Taylor's Swimming Sheet
Steve Childress, New York University
2:30
Beach Creation by Breaking Waves
Onno Bokhove, University of Twente
Monday, July 12
10:30
Double-Feature: Reactive Mixing and Turbulent Energy Injection
Yue-Kin Tsang, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Tuesday, July 13
10:30
Three Experiments: On the Morphology of Icicles, Patterns in Meandering Syrup and Electroconvection in Thin Films
Steve Morris, University of Toronto
Wednesday, July 14
10:30
Upper Bounds Yield Lower Order Models
Greg Chini, University of New Hampshire
2:30
Demographic Stochasticity versus Spatial Variation in the Competition between Fast and Slow Dispersion
Charlie Doering, University of Michigan
Thursday, July 15
10:30
Mixing in Thermal Convection: The Case of Rayleigh-Taylor Turbulence
Guido Bofetta, INFN ICTR
Friday, July 16
10:30
Title to be announced
Tom Powers, Brown University
2:30
Mesoscale Diagnosis
Baylor Fox-Kemper, University of Colorado at Boulder
Monday, July 19
10:30
Tip Growth of a Walled Cell
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Harvard University
2:30
Drumlins
Andrew Fowler, University of Limerick
Tuesday, July 20
10:30
From Bioturbation to Channelization
Amala Mahadevan, Boston University
Wednesday, July 21
10:30
Particle Diffusion in a Bubbly Liquid
Andrew Belmonte, Penn State University
Thursday, July 22
10:30
Vertical Velocities and the Ocean Mesoscale
Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Institute of Technology
Friday, July 23
10:30
Magma Transport in the Mantle
Ian Hewitt, University of British Columbia
Monday, July 26
10:30
Onset and Cessation of Convection in Porous Media
Anja Slim, Harvard University
Tuesday, July 27
10:30
Flagellated Bacteria, Motility and Mixing
Ken Breuer, Brown University
Wednesday, July 28
10:30
Nonequilibrium Fluctuations and Climate Variability
Jeff Weiss, University of Colorado, Boulder
2:30
Lateral Mixing by Submesoscale Processes
Gualtiero Badin, Boston University
Thursday, July 29
10:30
Some Doubly Diffusive Memories of Melvin Stern
George Veronis, Yale University
Friday, July 30
10:30
Bacteria Foraging in Turbulent Waters
John Taylor, MIT
Monday, August 2
10:30
Transport by River Plumes and Collapsing Mixed Regions
Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
2:30
Boundary Layers in Braginsky Magneto Hydro Dynamics
Paul Dellar, University of Oxford
Tuesday, August 3
10:30
Non-gaussian Buoyancy Statistics in Fingering Convection
Francesco Paparella, University of Salento
Wednesday, August 4
10:30
Mechanism of a Splash
Shreyas Mandre, Harvard University
2:30
Hotspots
Matt Finn, University of Adelaide
Thursday, August 5
10:30
Convection and Biological Productivity at Fronts
Raffaele Ferrari, MIT
2:30
On the Efficiency and Stability of a Size Dependent Ecosystem Model
Amit Tandon, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Friday, August 6
10:30
Title to be announced
Roman Stocker, MIT
2:30
Optimal Solute Fluxes in Solidification: Variational Principles, Hysteresis and Chimney Spacing
Andrew Wells, Yale University
Monday, August 9
10:30
Transforming the Mean Meridional Circulation of the Atmosphere
Tiffany Shaw, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
2:30
Feeding and Swimming Currents and Jumping Vortices in Planktonic Copepods
Houshuo Jiang, WHOI
Tuesday, August 10
10:30
Reducing Continuous Symmetries of Flows between Planes and Down Pipes
Predrag Cvitanovic, Georgia Institute of Technology
Wednesday, August 11
10:30
Transport and Collective Dynamics in Bacterial Swimming
Michael Graham, University of Wisconsin, Madison
5:00
Public Lecture, Redfield Auditorium - Reception to follow (see link above)
Mathematics in the Real World: From Brain Tumors to Saving Marriages
James Murray, University of Washington and University of Oxford
Thursday, August 12
10:30
Tibetan Singing Bowls (and the nature of reality)
John Bush, MIT
2:30
Title to be announced
Tom Peacock, MIT
Friday, August 13
10:30
The Teapot Effect and Free Boundary Flows
Joe Keller, Stanford University
August 16 - 20
No lectures scheduled this week
Fellows Presentations
Tuesday, August 24
10:00
Finding Lagrangian Structures via the Application of Braid Theory
Michael Allshouse, MIT
11:00
Dynamics of Vorticity Defects in Stratified Shear
Anubhab Roy, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)
2:30
On-Off Intermittency in Locally Connected Maps
Woosok Moon, Yale University
3:30
Optimal Mixing on a Sphere
Amanda O'Rourke, Princeton University
Wednesday, August 25
10:00
Mixing in Stratified Sheared Flows - Dynamics of the Staircases
Georgy Manucharyan, Yale University
11:00
Cave Rings
Emma Thompson, University of Cambridge
2:30
Trajectories of a Treadmilling Swimmer - Can it Escape from its Image?
Kiori Obuse, Kyoto University
3:30
Who ate Whom? Age-Structured Trophic Dynamics
David Goluskin, Columbia University
Thursday, August 26
10:30
Swimming in Mud
Sam Pegler, University of Cambridge
2009 Lecture Series Schedule
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"Nonlinear Waves" - June 15 - August 21
Monday, June 15
Lecture 1 - 10:00 AM
Water waves
Harvey Segur, University of Colorado
Derivation of the standard equations for irrotational water waves due to gravity and/or surface tension for an inviscid, incompressable, homogeneous fluid.
Lecture 2 - 11:00 AM
Canonical nonlinear wave equations
Roger Grimshaw, Loughborough University
Introduction to the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation as a model for weakly nonlinear long waves, and to the Nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) as a model for weakly nonlinear wave packets.
Tuesday, June 16
Lecture 3 - 10:00 AM
Zakharov formulation of water waves
Harvey Segur, University of Colorado
Introduction to the Hamiltonian formulation, and issues such as integrability.
Lecture 4 - 11:00 AM
Waves in shallow water, part 1
Harvey Segur, University of Colorado
Derivation of KdV for water waves by multiple scales; integrability and inverse scattering, comparison with experiments.
Wednesday, June 17
Lecture 5 - 10:00 AM
Internal Waves
Roger Grimshaw, Loughborough University
Derivation of KdV for weakly nonlinear long internal waves in the ocean.
Lecture 6 - 11:00 AM
Nonlinear waves in a variable medium
Roger Grimshaw, Loughborough University
The variable-coefficient KdV equation, and slowly-varying solitary waves.
Afternoon lecture - 2:00 PM
Friedrich Busse, University of Bayreuth
What can thermal convection teach us about the nature of turbulence?
Thursday, June 18
Lecture 7 - 10:00 AM
Oceanographic applications
Harvey Segur, University of Colorado
The 2004 tsunami, hurricane Katrina (2006), experiments etc.; the periodic solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation (spatial extension of the KdV equation).
Lecture 8 - 11:00 AM
The shallow water equations
Harvey Segur, University of Colorado
The nonlinear shallow water equations, method of characteristics, wave breaking, dissipative or dispersive regularization; wave shoaling.
Afternoon lecture - 2:00 PM
The extra invariant for Rossby wave dynamics
Alexander Balk, University of Utah
Friday, June 19
Lecture 9 - 10:00 AM
Internal solitary waves in the ocean
Roger Grimshaw, Loughborough University
Application of the variable-coefficient KdV equation, and related model equations, to the description of large-amplitude internal waves in the coastal ocean.
Lecture 10 - 11:00 AM
Modulated periodic waves
Roger Grimshaw, Loughborough, University
Introduction to the Whitham modulation theory, undular bores, using the context of the KdV equation.
Monday, June 22
Lecture 11 - 10:00 AM
Transcritical flow over an obstacle
Roger Grimshaw, Loughborough, University
Description of flow interaction of an obstacle, based on the forced KdV equation.
Lecture 12 - 11:00 AM
Triad interactions
Harvey Segur, University of Colorado
Three-wave resonant triad equations, applications to gravity-capillary waves and internal waves.
Tuesday, June 23
Lecture 13 - 10:00 AM
Waves in deep water, part 1
Harvey Segur, University of Colorado
Modulation (Benjamin-Feir) instability, the NLS model, integrability of NLS in one spatial dimension, envelope solitons.
Lecture 14 - 11:00 AM
Waves in deep water, part 2
Harvey Segur, University of Colorado
NLS model in one and two spatial dimensions, recurrence of initial states, downshifting, two-dimensional wave patterns, the role of damping.
Wednesday, June 24
Lecture 15 - 10:00 AM
Solitary waves
Roger Grimshaw, Loughborough University
Existence of solitary waves, as homoclinic orbits in a spatial dynamical system.
Lecture 16 - 11:00 AM
Generalized solitary waves
Roger Grimshaw, Loughborough University
Resonance between long and short waves, exponential asymptotics
Thursday, June 25
Lecture 17 - 10:00 AM
Wave-mean flow interaction, part1
Roger Grimshaw, Loughborough University
Application of the Whitham modulation theory to the interaction of nonlinear water waves with currents.
Lecture 18 - 11:00 AM
Wave-mean flow interaction, part 2
Roger Grimshaw, Loughborough University
The generalized Lagrangian mean theory, applied to internal waves.
Friday, June 26
Lecture 19 - 10:00 AM
Explosive Instability
Harvey Segur, University of Colorado
Explosive instability due to 3-wave or 4-wave mixing.
Lecture 20 - 11:00 AM
Potpourri
Harvey Segur, University of Colorado
Topics left over from previous lectures. If time permits: rip currents (in shallow water), rogue waves (in deep water).
Monday, June 29
10:30 AM
Waves and vortices in fluids and superfluids
Oliver Buhler, Courant Institute
Tuesday, June 30
10:30 AM
Resonant forcing of gravity-capillary lumps in deep water
Triantaphyllos Akylas, MIT
Wednesday, July 1
10:30 AM
Internal wave representation in OGCMs
Eric Chassignet, Florida State University
Thursday, July 2
10:30 AM
Near-resonant internal wave triads
Kevin Lamb, University of Waterloo
A resonant-triad is a set of three weakly non-linearly interacting waves whose wave vectors and frequencies sum to zero. They occur in many physical systems and have played an important role in our understanding of the nonlinear evolution of the internal wave field in the deep ocean. Near-resonant triads are sets of three waves which are detuned: the sum of the wave vectors and/or wave frequencies is no longer exactly zero. In this talk I will discuss numerical simulations of tidally generated internal waves in a linearly stratified fluid for which near-resonant interactions are the dominant form of weakly-nonlinear interactions in the internal wave field.
2:00 PM
Hydraulics miscellany: Rossby waves and 2D internal waves
Ted Johnson, University College London
Friday, July 3
HOLIDAY
Monday, July 6
10:30 AM
Mixing in the southern ocean
Raffaele Ferrari, MIT
Tuesday, July 7
10:30 AM
Fluid dynamics in the solar interior
Pascale Garaud, University of California, Santa Cruz
Wednesday, July 8
10:30 AM
Internal solitary waves with trapped cores
Karl Helfrich, WHOI
Thursday, July 9
10:30 AM
Dynamics of inertial particles in fluid flows
Themis Sapsis, MIT
Friday, July 10
10:30 AM
Dynamics and stability of interacting buoyant currents
Claudia Cenedese, WHOI
Monday, July 13
10:30 AM
Large amplitude non-linear internal waves in the South China Sea
Lou St. Laurent, WHOI
Tuesday, July 14
10:30 AM
The influence of horizontal current shear on salt fingers
Melvin Stern, Florida State University
Wednesday, July 15
10:30 AM
Extreme waves - should one expect the unexpected?
Johannes Gemmrich, University of Victoria
2:00 PM
Trapped waves in a baroclinic ocean in mid-latitudes
Nathan Paldor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thursday, July 16
10:30 AM
Aspects of stratified shear instability
Neil Balmforth, University of British Columbia
Friday, July 17
Nonlinear Excursions
10:00 AM
Rather more can be said: the science of Lou Howard
Oliver Buhler, Courant Institute
11:00 AM
Rip current as an instability
Jie Yu, North Carolina State University
2:00 PM
Lou, me and science
Nancy Kopell, Boston University
3:00 PM
Heat transport by turbulent convection
Charlie Doering, University of Michigan
Monday, July 20
10:30 AM
A tale of two jets: one liquid, the other granular
Patrick Weidman, University of Colorado
Tuesday, July 21
10:30 AM
Rigorous bounds revisited: A prediction for the optimal stratification for turbulent mixing
Colm Caulfield, University of Cambridge
Wednesday, July 22
TBA
Thursday, July 23
10:30 AM
Propulsion through diffusion
Tom Peacock, MIT
Friday, July 24
10:30 AM
A discontinuous Galerkin method for the Vlasov-Poisson equation
Phil Morrison, University of Texas at Austin
Monday, July 27
10:30 AM
Modeling of "genuinely strong" internal waves
Lev Ostrovsky, NOAA
2:00 PM
Stability of relative equilibria of three vortices
Hassan Aref, Technical University of Denmark and Virginia Tech
Tuesday, July 28
10:30 AM
Turbulent convection in the presence of density fronts
John Taylor, MIT
Wednesday, July 29
10:30 AM
Generation of internal waves by gravity currents in two-layer and continuous stratification
Brian White, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Thursday, July 30
10:30 AM
Beyond Ray Theory for Internal Waves: Nonlinear Effects
Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
2:00 PM
Diffusion of swimming cells, flagella as coupled oscillators, and advective micro-mixing
Jerry Gollub, Haverford College
Friday, July 31
10:30 AM
Stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in a zonally-averaged ocean model
Alexey Federov, Yale University
Monday, August 3
TBA
Tuesday, August 4
TBA
Wednesday, August 5
10:30 AM
Internal waves and wave turbulence
Yuri Lvov, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Thursday, August 6
PUBLIC LECTURE, Reception to follow - Clark 507, Quissett Campus
3:00 PM
Flight at small scales
Geoff Spedding, Dept. of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California
Friday, August 7
10:30 AM
Sinking amid bubbles
Andrew Belmonte, Penn State University
August 10-14
NO LECTURES SCHEDULED
August 17-21 - Fellows' Presentations
Tuesday, August 18
10:00 AM
Destabilizing a seiche with a movable dam
Hélène Scolan, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
11:00 AM
Nonlinear peristaltic waves
Daisuke Takagi, University of Cambridge
2:00 PM
Degradation of the internal tide over long bumpy topography
Erinna Chen, University of California, Santa Cruz
3:00 PM
Resonant triad interactions on an extended equatorial β-plane
Michael Bates, University of South Wales
Wednesday, August 19
10:00 AM
Quantum vortices in a glass of Bose-Einstein condensate
Nicholas Grisouard, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
11:00 AM
Variation of the eddy diffusivity across jets in the southern ocean due to discontinuities
Alireza Mashayekhi, University of Toronto
2:00 PM
Laboratory experiment on two coalescing axisymmetric turbulent plumes in a rotating fluid
Hiroki Yamamoto, Kyoto University
3:00 PM
Nonlinear Rossby shelf waves in a rotating annulus
Andrew Stewart, University of Oxford
Thursday, August 20
10:00 AM
Some geometrical aspects of nonlinear waves
Andong He, Penn State Universiy
11:00 AM
Transverse stability of Su-Gardner solutions
Adrienne Traxler, University of California, Santa Cruz
1:00 PM
The derivation and application of convective pattern equations
Yiping Ma, University of California, Berkeley
2008 Lecture Series Schedule
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WEEK 1
Monday, June 16
9:45 AM
Dynamo Theory and GFD
Stephen Childress-- New York University
Tuesday, June 17
9:45 AM
Dynamo Theory
Stefan Fauve, Ecole Normale Superieure
2:30-3:30 PM - Informal Seminar
Dimensional Analysis & Dynamos
Stefan Fauve, Ecole Normale Superieure
Wednesday, June 18
9:45 AM
Convection, Stability and Turbulence
Charles Doering, University of Michigan
2:30-3:30 PM - Tutorial
Calculations in the Background Methods
Charles Doering, University of Michigan
Thursday, June 19
9:45 AM
(Ocean Mixing and Tidal Power)
Christopher Garrett, University of Victoria
Friday, June 20
9:45 AM
Waves and Vortices Driven by Interfacial Fluxes
Kerry Emanuel, MIT
WEEK 2
Monday, June 23
9:45 AM
The Oceanic Energy Cycle
Raffaele Ferrari, MIT
Tuesday, June 24
9:45 AM
(Climate Dynamics)
Raymond Pierrehumbert, University of Chicago
Wednesday, June 25
9:45 AM
Geological Fluid Mechanics
Herbert Huppert, University of Cambridge
Thursday, June 26
9:45 AM
GFD Experiments in Climate
John Marshall, MIT
Friday, June 27
9:45 AM
Double-Diffusive Convection
Timour Radko, Naval Postgraduate School
WEEK 3
Monday, June 30
10:00 AM
Mixing Hits a Wall
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin
11:10 AM
Feeling the pinch: Time-dependent plume dynamics
Colm-cille Caulfield, Cambridge University
Tuesday, July 1
10:30 AM
Rain, Droughts, and Veggies: A Simple Model of Soil-Vegetation Atmosphere Dynamics
Antonello Provenzale, Instituto di Scienze Dell'Atmosfera
Wednesday, July 2
10:30 AM
Ocean Modeling in Quasi-Lagrangian Vertical Coordinates
Eric Chassignet, Florida State University
2:30 PM
Waves and Jets on the Four Giant Planets
Liming Li, Cornell University
Thursday, July 3
10:30 AM
Washboard Roads
Jim McElwaine, Cambridge University
2:30 PM
GFD vs Modelling? Meridional Energy Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean
Geoffrey Vallis, Princeton University
Friday, July 4
HOLIDAY
WEEK 4
Monday, July 7
10:30 AM
Title to be announced
William Dewar, Florida State University
2:30 PM
Hydrodynamics and Remote Sensing of Far Wakes of Ships
Alex Soloviev, NOVA Southeastern University
Tuesday, July 8
10:30 AM
PV Staircases and the Dynamics of Jupiter's Atmosphere
Dick Peltier, University of Toronto
Wednesday, July 9
10:30 AM
Circulation and Exchange in Marginal Seas
Larry Pratt, WHOI, Physical Oceanography Department
Thursday, July 10
10:00 AM
Soft Lubrication and Adhesion
L. Mahadevan, Harvard University
11:10
GFD and Biology
Amala Mahadevan, Boston University
Friday, July 11
10:30 AM
Vortex Patches near Boundaries
Ted Johnson, University College
WEEK 5
Monday, July 14
10:30 AM
A New Entrainment Parameterization for Mixing in Overflows
Claudia Cenedese, WHOI
Tuesday, July 15
10:30 AM
Instabilities of Stewartson Layers and Taylor Columns
Rainer Hollerbach, University of Leeds
Wednesday, July 16
10:30 AM
Holmboe's Instability
Jeff Carpenter, University of British Columbia
Thursday, July 17
10:00 AM
Gyroviscosity and Magnetofluid Models
Phil Morrison, University of Texas at Austin
11:15 AM
Granular Gases, Inelastic Collapse and Bouncing Balls
Francesco Paparella, University of Lecce
Friday, July 18
10:30 AM
Splashing and Splitting
Michael Brenner
WEEK 6
Monday, July 21
10:30 AM
Gel Fingers
Andrew Belmonte, Penn State University
Tuesday, July 22
10:30 AM
Fluid Dynamics of Carbon Sequestration
Andrew Woods, Cambridge University
Wednesday, July 23
10:30 AM
Maximal Mixing Efficiency
Stuart Dalziel, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
Thursday, July 24
10:30 AM
Wave-activity Conservation Laws and their Application to Subgrid-scale Parameterization in Climate Models
Tiffany Shaw, University of Toronto
Friday, July 25
10:30 AM
Title to be announced
Speaker to be announced
WEEK 7
Monday, July 28
10:30 AM
Effect of Double Diffusion on the Dam Break Experiment
George Veronis, Yale University
Tuesday, July 29
10:30 AM
Seepage Flows and Glacier Sliding
Alan Rempel, University of Oregon
11:40 AM
Mantle Convection
Andrew Fowler, University of Limerick
Wednesday, July 30
10:00 AM
Energy Transfer from the Winds to the Thermocline on ENSO Timescales
Alexey Federov, Yale University
11:15 AM
The Fluid Trampoline: Droplets Bouncing on a Soap Film
John Bush, MIT
Thursday, July 31
10:30 AM
Tracking Topological Features to Characterize Chaotic Flow
Jerry Gollub, Haverford College
Friday, August 1
10:30 AM
Some Problems in Solid and Fluid Mechanics
Joe Keller, Stanford University
WEEK 8
Monday, August 4
Adjournment for Pedlosky Symposium
Tuesday, August 5
10:00 AM
The Evolution of Finite-Amplitude Internal Gravity Waves
Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
11:15 AM
Geometry of Boundary Shear Turbulence: A Stroll through 61,506 Dimensions
Predrag Cvitanovic, Georgia Institute of Technology
Wednesday, August 6
10:00 AM
New Results on Turbulent Entrainment in Stratified Flows
Aline Cotel, University of Michigan
11:15 AM
Propagation and Saturation of 3d Internal Tides
Oliver Buhler, New York University
5:00 PM - Redfield Auditorium - reception to follow
Weather and Climates of other Worlds: Lessons for Earth
Andrew Ingersoll, California Institute of Technology
Thursday, August 7
10:00 AM
The Effects of Rotation and Density Stratification on the Interior Dynamics
of Giant Planets
Gary Glatzmeier, University of California, Santa Cruz
11:15 AM
Magma-rock Interactions in Gelatin-Water Laboratory Experiments
Onno Bokhove, University of Twente
Friday, August 8
10:00 AM
An Embarrassing Sea Truth; Steepness, Spread and Skewness of Ocean Waves
Walter Munk, University of California, San Diego
11:15 AM
Ocean Variability, Memory and Trends
Carl Wunsch, MIT
FELLOWS' PRESENTATIONS
Tuesday, August 19
10:00 - 11:00 Chris Cawthorn, University of Cambridge
Close encounters of the viscous kind: first contact in a viscous fluid
11:10 - 12:10 Sylvain Barbot, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Models of volcanic tremors & singing icebergs
2:00 - 3:00 Celine Guervilly,
Toy model of the solar radiative zone
3:10 - 4:10 George Hagstrom
Bounds for shear-stress driven flows
Wednesday, August 20
10:00 - 11:00 Malte Jansen
On the interaction of eddies with large-scale topography
11:10 - 12:10 Christophe Gissinger
Energy and dissipation in MHD systems
2:00 - 3:00 Amrita Shravat
Experiment on mixing induced by a horizontal disc
3:10 - 4:10 Yutian Wu
Equilibria of diffusive moist static energy balance models
Thursday, August 21
10:00 - 11:00 Toby Wood
(Huge) problems with surface tension
11:10 - 12:10 Ian Hewitt
Continual skipping on water
2007 Lecture Series Schedule
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Monday, June 18 - 10:00 AM
Greetings (Dean James Yoder) and Lecture 1
Principal lectures (Weekdays at 10:00 AM through June 29)
Joseph Pedlosky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- "Linear boundary Ekman layers"
- Boundary layers in density stratified fluids
- Control of interior
- An experimental application
- An extremely simple model for later use
- "Coastal dynamics"
- Bottom boundary layer on shelf. The problem of the bottom velocity
- "Oceanic boundary layers" (Pedlosky)
- Sverdrup theory and Munk, Stommel boundary layers
- Inertial boundary layers
- Inertial "runaway" and its repair
- The thermocline and its boundary layer structure
"Observation of the bottom boundary layer"
Steven Lentz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
First 2 weeks, staff lectures, weekday afternoons, 2 PM, June 20-29
June 20 - 2:00 PM
Representation of overflows in ocean models
Eric Chassignet, Florida State University
June 21 - 2:00 PM
Vortices, filaments and cascades in two-dimensional turbulence
Antonello Provenzale, Istituto di Scienze Dell'Atmosfera
June 22 - 2:00 PM - Informal seminar
Ferrofluids for fun and profit
Philip Yecko, Montclair State University
June 25 - 2:00 PM
Shallow two-dimensional transcritical flow over orography
Ted Johnson, University College, London
June 27 - 2:00 PM
Modulation of the cool skin of the ocean by internal waves
Tom Farrar, WHOI, Chris Zappa, Columbia University and Claudia Cenedese, WHOI
June 28 - 2:00 PM
Hydraulic flow through a contraction: multiple steady states
Ben Akers, University of Wisconsin, Madison and Onno Bokhove, University of Twente,
The Netherlands with a demo by Jack Whitehead
June 29 - 2:00 PM - Informal seminar
Internal wave attractors
Jeroen Hazewinkel, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Week 3 - Staff Lectures, July 2-6
July 2 - 10:00 AM
Heat transport in Rayleigh-Benard convection: 2007 update
Charles Doering, University of Michigan
July 2 - 2:00 PM
Decay and return of internal solitary waves with rotation
Karl Helfrich
July 3 - 10:00 AM
Mathematics of Games and Sports
Joseph Keller, Stanford University
July 5 - 10:00 AM
Possible effects on climate of double diffusive convection in the ocean
George Veronis, Yale University
July 5 - 2:00 PM
The dynamical-systems approach to transition in shear flows
Norman Lebovitz, University of Chicago
July 6 - 10:00 AM
On first looking into Chapman and Cowling
Ed Spiegel, Columbia University
July 6 - 2:00 PM - Informal seminar
Estimating mixing and subduction rates in inverse models
Jan Zika, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Week 4 - July 9-13
Mini-Symposium on "Ocean bottom and surface boundary layers"
July 9 - 10:00 AM
Momentum, heat, & mass exchange in the marine atmospheric surface layer
Jim Edson, University of Connecticut
July 9 - 2:00 PM
Atmospheric boundary layer and its oceanic counterparts
Joe Fernando, Arizona State University
July 10 - 10:00 AM
Upper ocean response to a hurricane
Jim Price, WHOI
July 11 - 10:00 AM
Surface wave processes in marine boundary layers
Ken Melville, University of California, San Diego
July 11 - 2:00 PM
Boundary layer effects in topographically constrained bottom gravity currents
Lars Umlauf, Baltic Sea Research Institute
July 12 - 10:00 AM
The ocean's diurnal boundary layer: observations and models
Tom Farrar, WHOI
July 12 - 2:00 PM
Open Discussion
July 13 - 10:00 AM
A different kind of turbidity flow: Wave supported turbidity flows on relatively flat shelves
Peter Traykovski, WHOI
Week 5 - July 16-20
July 16 - 10:30 AM
Roll vortices in the PBL (Planetary Boundary Layer)
Georgi Sutyrin, University of Rhode Island
July 17 - 10:30 AM
Laboratory experiments of oceanic overflows
Robert Ecke, Los Alamos National Laboratory
July 18 - 10:00 AM - Note Change of time!
Kuroshio forcing in the East Asian marginal seas
Jiayan Yang, WHOI
July 19 - 10:30 AM
Does the marine biosphere mix the ocean?
Bill Dewar, Florida State University
July 20 - 10:30 AM
Chaotic dynamos generated by turbulent flows of liquid sodium
Stephan Fauve, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
July 20 - 2:00 PM - Informal seminar
The melting of icebergs and ice shelves
Andrew Wells, University of Cambridge
Week 6 - July 23-27
July 23 - 10:30 AM
Viscous, thermal, and diffusive sublayers at the air-sea interface
Alexander Soloviev, NOVA Southeastern University
July 23 - 2:00 PM
The stability of deep overflows
Larry Pratt, WHOI
July 24 - 10:30 AM
The boundary layer of swimming fish
Erik Anderson, Grove City College
July 24 - 2:00 PM
Interpreting color imagery of the sea surface
Amala Mahadevan, Boston University
July 25 - 10:30 AM
The vortex merger rate in freely-decaying 2-D turbulence
Joseph LaCasce, University of Oslo
July 25 - 2:00 PM
Lateral coupling in baroclinically unstable flows
Mike Spall, WHOI
July 26 - 10:30 AM
Interaction of a western boundary current with a marginal sea: Kuroshio in Luzon Strait
Vitalii Sheremet, University of Rhode Island
July 26 - 2:00 PM
A thermodynamically exact temperature equation for a compressible fluid
George Veronis, Yale University
July 27 - 10:30 AM
Barefoot oceanic convection: twelve years later
Fiamma Straneo, WHOI
Week 7 - July 30 - August 3
July 30 - 10:30 AM
Barocllinic instability in the upper ocean
Glenn Flierl, M.I.T.
July 31 - 10:30 AM
Are cascading flows stable?
Steve Thorpe, University of Wales
August 1 - 10:30 AM
Particles, propulsion and pertinent topography
Tom Peacock, M.I.T.
August 1 - 2:00 PM
Eddies in the Arctic Ocean
Mary-Louise Timmermans, WHOI
August 2 - 10:30 AM
Modification of the potential vorticity in frictional boundary layers
Leif Thomas, WHOI
August 3 - 10:30 AM
Overflows on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Andreas Thurnherr, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Week 8 - August 6-10
August 6 - 10:30 AM
Global warming and hurricanes
Kerry Emanuel, M.I.T.
Public Lecture - August 6 - 3:00 PM, Clark 507
Divine Wind: The History and Sciences of Hurricanes
Kerry Emanuel, M.I.T.
August 7 - 10:30 AM
Geometry of boundary shear turbulence in plane Couette flow
Predrag Cvitanovic, Georgia Institute of Technology
August 8 - 10:00 AM
Mixing and stirring in the southern ocean
John Marshall, M.I.T.
August 8 - 2:00 PM
Coalescence of charged water droplets
Andrew Belmonte, Pennsylvania State University
August 9 - 10:30 AM
Multiscale analysis of strongly nonlinear convection in the ocean surface boundary layer
Greg Chini, University of New Hampshire
August 10 - 10:30 AM
Dinosaur forecast: cloudy; (or: a high latitude atmospheric convection mechanism for equable climate dynamics)
Eli Tziperman, Harvard University
Week 9 - August 13-17
NO TALKS THIS WEEK
Week 10 - August 20-24 - Fellows' Presentations
Monday, August 20
10:00 AM
Jeroen Hazewinkel, Amsterdam University
Internal wave radiation by gravity currents down a slope
11:00 AM
Andrew Wells, University of Cambridge
Skinny dipping in Woods Hole: Investigating near surface variations in sea temperature
Tuesday, August 21
10:00 AM
Jan Zika, University of New South Wales
The stability of cascading flows
11:00 AM
Frederic Laliberte, New York University
Double diffusive effects in a dam break experiment
Wednesday, August 22
10:00 AM
Henrik van Lengerich, Cornell University
Convection of a van der Waals Fluid near the critical point
11:00 AM
Basile Gallet, Ecole Normale Superieure
Instability theory of swirling flows with suction
2:00 PM
Rebecca Dell, MIT/WHOI Joint Program
Nonlinear modifications to the Ekman Layer by an advecting geostrophic flow
3:00 PM
Iva Kavcic, University of Zagreb
Circular internal hydraulic jump
Thursday, August 23
10:00 AM
Miranda Holmes, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
Length and shape of a lava tube
11:00 AM
Angel Ruiz-Angulo, Caltech
Differential diffusion paradox for turbulent flow
2006 Lecture Series Schedule
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Ice
All lectures are held at Walsh Cottage unless otherwise indicated
Principal Lecturers Schedule
Monday, June 19 - Friday, June 23, lectures at 10:00 AM
Grae Worster, University of Cambridge
Thursday, June 22, 5:00 PM
Public Lecture - Redfield Auditorium
Greg Dash, University of Washington
Nine Ices, Cloud Seeding and a Brother's Farewell; (how Kurt Vonnegut
learned the science for Cat's Cradle (but conveniently left some out)
Monday, June 26 - Friday, June 30, 10:00 AM
Grae Worster, University of Cambridge
Regular Seminar Schedule
Monday, July 3
10:30 AM
Large scale heat and mass balance of sea ice in the Arctic
Norbert Untersteiner, University of Washington
2:30 PM
Glacier mass balance, lithotripsy and porters in the Karakorum
Norbert Untersteiner, University of Washington
Tuesday, July 4 - HOLIDAY
Wednesday, July 5
10:30 AM
Global climate modeling: simulations of the Polar regions
John Walsh, University of Alaska
2:30 PM
Arctic Ocean circulation, structure and freshwater balance
Andrey Proshutinsky, WHOI, Physical Oceanography Department
10:30 AM
Ice/Ocean interaction from the ocean side: teleconnections
Doug Martinson, Columbia University
Friday, July 7
10:30 AM
Twist and Shout! Maximal enstrophy generation in the 3-d
Navier-Stokes equations
Charlie Doering, University of Michigan
Monday, July 10
10:30 AM
Strings, Ice and Cosmology
Lam Hui , Columbia University
Tuesday, July 11, 10:00 AM, Smith Conference Room
Steinbach Scholar and Physical Oceanography Deptartment Seminars
Momentum heat and mass transfer through a sea-ice/ ocean boundary
Miles McPhee , McPhee Research Corporation
2:30 PM
Vehicular ice/ocean interactions
Jamie Morison, University of Washington
Wednesday, July 12
10:30 AM
Thickness distribution of sea ice: Theory and observation
Dick Moritz , University of Washington
3:00 PM - Carriage House, Quissett Campus
Steinbach Scholar Seminar
Turbulence, scales, eddy viscosity/diffusivity, and simple models
for the ocean boundary layer
Miles McPhee , McPhee Research Corporation
Thursday, July 13
10:30 AM
Sea ice dynamics
Dan Feltham, University College
3:00 PM, Clark 201, Quissett Campus
Special P.O. Seminar
Variability of sea ice draft at the North Pole Environmental Observatory, 2001-2005
Dick Moritz, University of Washington
Friday, July 14, 10:00 AM, Clark 201
Student only talk for Physical Oceanography Department and GFD Students
Sea ice as a superb rotating laboratory: Why freeze your butt when you could be sipping Mai Tais in Lahina
Miles McPhee , McPhee Research Corporation
2:30 PM - Walsh Cottage
Mixing in the deep Canada basin of the Arctic Ocean
Mary-Louise Timmermans, Physical Oceanography Department, WHOI
Monday, July 17
10:30 AM
Convection in the Arctic
Bert Rudels, Finnish Institute of Marine Research
Tuesday, July 18
10:30 AM
Internal waves
Colm-cille Caufield, University of Cambridge
Wednesday, July 19
10:30 AM
Biota in sea ice
Hajo Eicken, University of Alaska
2:30 PM
Sea ice optics
Don Perovich, Cold Regions Research and Eng. Laboratory
Thursday, July 20
10:30 AM
Influence of horizontal stress gradients on ice-sheet stability
Richard Hindmarsh, British Antarctic Survey
Friday, July 21
10:30 AM
Ponytail motion, Hill's equation and body weight
Joseph Keller, Stanford University
Monday, July 24
10:30 AM
Shaken not stirred: mixing in stratified flows
Michael Patterson, Yale University
Tuesday, July 25
10:30 AM
Thermodynamic response of sea ice with a thickness distribution
Goran Bjork , Goteborg University
Wednesday, July 26
10:30 AM
Glaciers rubbed the wrong way
Christian Schoof, University of British Columbia
2:30 PM
Low-dimensional models of subcritical instability in shear flows
Norman Lebovitz, University of Chicago
Thursday, July 27
10:30 AM
The new view of ice sheet dynamics
Robert Bindschalder, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
2:30 PM
Simulating moving boundaries in thin liquid layers
Petri Fast, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Friday, July 28
10:30 AM
Time-periodic flow in a corner at low Re
Keith Moffatt, University of Cambridge
Monday, July 31
2:30 PM
Dynamical Problems in Glaciology
Andrew Fowler, Oxford University
Tuesday, August 1
10:30 AM
Do Martian Ice Caps Flows
Dale Winebrenner, University of Washington
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Peeling back the ice layers by listening to what's underneath
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Penn State University
2:30 PM
Derivation of macroscopic equations for rarified gases by elimination of fast variables
Paul Dellar, Imperial College
Thursday, August 3
10:30 AM
H-Bombs, Icebergs and other GFD Problems
Doug MacAyeal, University of Chicago
2:30 PM
Wind Pumping, Porous Media and the Fate of Ice Sheets
om Neumann, University of Vermont
Friday, August 4
10:30 AM
Transition Zones in Ice Sheets
Sophie Nowicki, University College, London
Monday, August 7
10:30 AM
Cavity Ripples in Water
Andrew Belmonte, Penn State University
Tuesday, August 8
10:30 AM
Orbital Calculations and Mission Design
Herb Keller, Caltech
Wednesday, August 9
10:30 AM
Avalanches
Jim McElwaine, University of Cambridge
2:30 PM
Rattleback Diversions & the Geodynamo
Keith Moffatt, University of Cambridge
Thursday, August 10
10:30 AM
The Stress of it All...the Entire Glacier
Alan Rempel, University of Oregon
2:30 PM
Experimental Attempts to Simulate Continental Drift
Jun Zhang, NYU
Friday, August 11
10:30 AM
The Demise of Spiegel's Periodic Orbits in Turbulence Relativity for Cyclist
Predrag Cvitanovic, George Tech
6:00 PM
On the bifurcation of species
Ed Spiegel, Columbia University
Monday, August 14
2:30 PM
Of things Strombolian
Eliza Calder, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Tuesday, August 15
10:30 AM
What good is a tetrakaidecahedron?
Louis Howard, MIT/FSU
FELLOWS' PRESENTATIONS ARE AT WALSH COTTAGE
Tuesday, August 22
10:30 AM
Salty droplets: Solidification and instabilities
Robert Style, Cambridge University
1:30 PM
Dambusters: Catastrophic incisions in natural dams
Rachel Zammett, Oxford University
2:45 PM
On thin ice
Dominic Vella, Cambridge University
Wednesday, August 23
10:00 AM
Mush! Convective patterns in mushy layers
Shane Keating, University of California, San Diego
11:15 AM
Growth of a mushy layer in a corner flow
Devin Conroy, University of California, San Diego
2:15 PM
Glancing interactions of large internal waves
Daniel Goldberg, New York University
3:30 PM
Ice stars
Victor Tsai, Harvard University
Thursday, August 24
10:00 AM
Mixing efficiency
Takahide Okabe, University of Texas
11:15 AM
Arctic catastrophes in an idealized sea ice model
Ian Eisenman, Harvard University
2005 Lecture Series Schedule
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Fast Times and Fine Scales
June 20 - August 26, 2005
Principal Lecturers Schedule
Monday, June 20 - Friday, June 24, 10:00 AM
- Joseph B. Keller, Stanford University
Monday, June 27 - Wednesday, June 29, 10:00 AM
- Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Courant Institute, New York University
Thursday, June 30, 10 AM and Friday, July 1, 10:00 AM and 2:30 PM
- George C. Papanicolaou, Stanford University
Please note that there are two lectures on Friday, July 1st.
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Joseph B. Keller
- Review of ideal fluid dynamics; derivation of surface and gravity wave equations.
- Linear perturbation theory, short wave asymptotics and ray methods.
- Applications: shoaling, scattering, and waves in channels of variable depth.
- Heat conduction in inhomogeneous media, effective conductivities and multiscale analysis.
- Longwave dynamics; example: harbor with a small opening and energy exchange with the outside.
Eric Vanden-Eijnden
- Brownian motion, stochastic integrals, stochastic differential equations.
- Kolmogorov backward and forward equations, Feynman-Kac formula, Girsanov theorem.
- Averaging theorems for Markov chains and stochastic differential equations.
George C. Papanicolaou
- Introduction to the use of variational methods for high-contrast diffusivity problems.
- Variational principles for convection-diffusion and their use for the analysis of high Peclet number behavior.
- The notion of eddy viscosity for 2D cellular flows and its behavior at large Rayleigh numbers.
Regular Seminar Schedule
Thursday, June 23
2:30 PM Edriss Titi, Weizman Institute and University of California, Irvine
Global Regularity for the 3-D Primitive Equations of Large Scale
Ocean and Atmosphere Dynamics
Monday, June 27
2:30 PM Stefan Llewellyn-Smith, University of Callifornia, San Diego
Impact of a Cylinder
Tuesday, June 28
3:00 PM Physical Oceanography Department Seminar, Clark 507, Quissett Campus
Olaf Dahl, Goteborg University
Development of Perturbations on a Buoyant Coastal Current
Monday, July 4
HOLIDAY
Tuesday, July 5
10:00 AM Salvatore Torquato, Princeton University
Random Heterogeneous Materials for Fun and Profit
Wednesday, July 6
10:00 AM Jacques Vanneste, University of Edinburgh
Passive-scalar Decay in Smooth Random Flows
Thursday, July 7
10:00 AM Charles Doering, University of Michigan and Bill Young, University of California, San Diego
Stirring up Trouble: Estimates of Mixing Efficiency for Incompressible Flows
Friday, July 8
10:00 AM Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Imperial College
Mixing with Ghost Rods
Monday, July 11
10:00 AM Rachel Kuske, University of British Columbia
Multiscale and Noise Sensitivity
Tuesday, July 12
10:00 AM Oliver Buhler, Courant Institute
Wave Capture, Wave-Vortex Duality, and the Gait of the Waterstrider
Wednesday, July 13
10:00 AM Onno Bokhove, University of Twente
Reservoir Formation in Shallow Granular Flows through a Contraction
Thursday, July 14
10:00 AM Matt Finn, Imperial College
Topological Chaos in Spatially Periodic Mixers
Friday, July 15
10:00 AM Rachel Zammett, Oxford University
Spiral Troughs and Katabatic Winds on Mars
Geoff Evatt, Oxford University
Dansgaard-Oeschger Events and Subglacial Formation
Andrew Fowler, Oxford University
The Day after Tomorrow
Monday, July 18
10:00 AM Andrew Majda, Courant Institute
A New Multi-scale Model for the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Tuesday, July 19
10:00 AM Marcel Oliver, International University, Bremen
Averaging by Degenerate Asymptotics
Wednesday, July 20
10:00 AM Herbert Keller, Caltech
Kolmogorov Flows via Continuation, Bifurcation and RPM
Thursday, July 21
10:00 AM Norman Lebovitz, University of Chicago and Joseph Biello, Courant Institute/UC Davis
Hamiltonian Reduction and Dirac Brackets
Friday, July 22
10:00 AM Andrew Belmonte, Penn State University
Fast Times and Fine Pasta: Stress Waves, Buckling, and Breaking
ALL LECTURES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEASON WILL BEGIN AT 10:30 AM
Monday, July 25
10:30 AM Jack Whitehead, P.O. Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Temperature-salinity Laboratory Climate Experiments
Tuesday, July 26
10:30 AM William Young, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Bugery and Fockery
Wednesday, July 27
10:30 AM Alexey Fedorov, Yale University
ENSO Dynamics in a Quasi-fast-wave Approximation and Energy Dissipation
Rates in the Tropical Ocean
Thursday, July 28
10:30 AM Joel Rogers, Naval Research Laboratory and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
Nonclassical Hydrodynamics
Friday, July 29
10:30 AM Neil Balmforth, University of British Columbia and David Vener, M.I.T.
Snail Balls and More
Monday, August 1
10:30 AM John D. Gibbon, Imperial College, London
Cluster Formation on Complex Multi-Scale Systems
Tuesday, August 2
10:30 AM Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Courant Institute
Large Deviations (A pseudo-pedagogical lecture!)
Wednesday, August 3
10:30 AM Leslie Smith, University of Wisconsin
A Mechanism for the Formation of Jets and Vortices in Rotating Flows
Thursday, August 4
10:30 AM Fabian Waleffe, University of Wisconsin
Structures of Shear Turbulence
Friday, August 5
10:30 AM Predrag Cvitanovic, Georgia Tech
Unstable Recurrent Patterns in Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Dynamics
Monday, August 8
10:30 AM George Veronis, Yale University
Experiments and Theory on the Dynamics and Energetics of Double Diffusive Systems
Tuesday, August 9
10:00 AM Paul Milewski, University of Wisconsin
Breaking Waves and Mixing in Shallow Water
2:00 PM Christopher Wolfe, Oregon State University
Special Seminar - Disturbance Growth in a Time Periodic Baroclinic System
Wednesday, August 10
10:30 AM Ed Spiegel, Columbia University
Phenomenological Photofluiddynamics in Hot Stars
Thursday, August 11
10:30 AM Jost von Hardenberg, ISAC-CNR, Torino
Vegetation Patterns in Drylands
Friday, August 12
10:00 AM Antonello Provenzale, ISAC-CNR, Torino
Ibex in the Snow
2:00 PM Esteban Tabak, NYU
Internal Wave Spectrum in the Ocean
GFD FELLOWS PRESENTATIONS
Monday, August 22
10:00 - 11:00 AM Benjamin Akers, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Shallow water flows through a contraction
11:00 AM - 12:00 Tiffany Shaw, University of Toronto
Bounds on multiscale mixing efficiency
2:00 - 3:00 PM Walter Pauls, University of Nice
Diffusion processes in cellular flow
Tuesday, August 23
10:00 - 11:00 AM John Rudge, University of Cambridge
Scattering past a cylinder with weak circulation
11:00 AM - 12:00 Khachik Sargsyan, University of Michigan
Fluctuations in chemical systems in the large volume regime
2:00 - 3:00 PM Ravi Srinivasan, Brown University
Simple models with cascade of energy and anomalous dissipation
Wednesday, August 24
10:00 - 11:00 AM Inga Koszalka, Politecnico di Torino
The vibrating pendulum and stratified fluids
11:00 AM - 12:00 Alexander Hasha, New York University
A search for baroclinic structures
2:00 - 3:00 PM Arghir Dani Zarnescu, University of Chicago
Intermittency in simple models for turbulent transportThursday, August 25
10:00 - 11:00 AM Marcus Roper, DEAS, Harvard University
Internal wave breaking and mixing in the deep ocean
11:00 AM - 12:00 Aya Tanabe, Imperial College of London
Laboratory experiments on mesoscale vortices colliding with multiple islands
2004 Lecture Series Schedule
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Tides
June 21 - August 27, 2004
General Schedule
Weeks 1-2: June 21 - July 2, Principal Lectures
Weeks 3-8: July 5 - August 13, Seminar Series
Week 9: August 16-20, Quiet Week
Week 10: August 23-27, Fellows' Presentations
There will be no seminars from visitors in Weeks 1, 2, 9 and 10.
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There will be three themes in Week 4-6.
Week 4: July 12-16 - Oceanic Tides
Week 5: July 12-16 - Planetary Tides
Week 6: July 12-16 - Tides in Astrophysics
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Principal Lectures
Myrl Hendershott, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Christopher Garrett, University of Victoria
Week 1 - Myrl Hendershott
Monday, June 21
10:00 AM Introduction to Ocean Tides
Tuesday, June 22
10:00 AM The Role of Tidal Dissipation and the Laplace Tidal Equations
Wednesday, June 23
10:00 AM Solutions to Laplace's Tidal Equations
Thursday, June 24
10:00 AM Resonance and Solutions to the LTE
Friday, June 25
10:00 AM The Spectrum of Free Waves Possible along Coasts
Week 2 - Christopher Garrett
Monday, June 28
10:00 AM Internal Tides
Tuesday, June 29
10:00 AM Tidal Bores
Wednesday, June 30
10:00 AM Tidal Rectification and Stokes Drift
Thursday, July 1
10:00 AM Tidal Rectification, Stratification and Mixing
Friday, July 2
10:00 AM Tidal Power
Regular Seminar Schedule
Week 3
Monday, July 5
HOLIDAY
Tuesday, July 6
10:30 AM Jean-Paul Zahn, Observatoire de Paris
Tidal Evolution of Binary Stars
3:00 PM P.O. Department Seminar, Clark 507
Wednesday, July 7
10:30 AM Jonas Nycander, Stockholm University
Generation of Internal Waves in the Deep Ocean by Tides
Thursday, July 8
10:30 AM Sarah Gille and Stefan Llewellyn-Smith, University of California, San Diego
Global Land and Sea Breeze
2:30 PM Jennifer MacKinnon, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
A Primer on Internal Waves
Friday, July 9
10:30 AM Ed Spiegel, Columbia University
On the Bifurcation of Species
2:30 PM Claudia Cenedese
Monopolar Vortices Interaction with Different Geometry Obstacles
Week 4
Monday, July 12
10:30 AM Rob Pinkel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
HOME
2:30 PM Luc Rainville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Internal Wave Propagation from the Hawaiian Ridge
Tuesday, July 13
10:30 AM Maura Hagan, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Thermal Tides in Earth's Atmosphere
2:30 PM Jeff Forbes, University of Colorado
Nonmigrating Tides in Planetary Atmospheres
Wednesday, July 14
10:30 AM Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ocean Tides and Climate Change
2:30 PM Alexander Soloviev, NOVA Southeastern University
Energetic Baroclinic Tides in the Florida Straits
Thursday, July 15
10:30 AM Brian Arbic, Princeton University
Global Barotropic and Baroclinic Tide Models
3:30 PM Peter Rhines, Steinbach Scholar - PO Seminar - Carriage House, Quissett Campus
Rossby Waves and Potential Vorticity in Oceans and Atmospheres
Friday, July 16
10:30 AM James Girton, Physical Oceanography Department, WHOI
Internal Tide Generation and Dissipation: A Nearfield View
3:00 PM Peter Rhines, Steinbach Scholar - Institute Seminar - Clark 507
Exploring the Subpolar Atlantic: Climate, Dynamics and Seagliders
Week 5
Monday, July 19
10:30 AM Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Imperial College
Knitting and Mixing
Tuesday, July 20
10:30 AM Doug Lin, University of California
Tidal Interaction between Extrasolar Planets and their Host Stars
3:00 PM Harper Simmons, IARC, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, P.O. Department Seminar, Clark 507
Baroclinic Wave Generation in a Tidal Model
Wednesday, July 21
10:30 AM Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
Internal Wave Propagation: Ray Theory and Beyond
2:30 PM Jody Klymak, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
The Tidal Graveyard: Turbulent Dissipation near the Hawaiian Ridge
Thursday, July 22
10:30 AM Richard Kerswell, University of Bristol
lo, Tides and Magnetic Fields
3:00 PM Anand Gnanadesikan, GFDL, Princeton University, Special P.O. Dept. Seminar, Clark 507
Connecting the ACC and THC: The Role of Southern Ocean Winds and Eddies
Friday, July 23
10:30 AM Tom Mullin, University of Manchester
Sticky Balls
2:30 PM Colin Cutter, Imperial College
The Imperial College Ocean Model: Simulating the Oceans Using Finite Elements
Week 6
Monday, July 26
10:30 AM Sonya Legg, Physical Oceanography Department, WHOI
Internal Tide Reflection from Topography
2:30 PM Steve Childress, Courant Institute
Geometric Constraints on Vortex Stretching
Tuesday, July 27
10:30 AM Alexey Fedorov, Princeton University
Generation of Breaking Waves by Strong Winds
Wednesday, July 28
10:30 AM Gary Egbert, Oregon State University
Long-period Tides
2:30 PM Gordon Ogilvie, University of Cambridge
Tidal Dissipation in Rotating Giant Planets
Thursday, July 29
10:30 AM Andrew Belmonte, Pennsylvania State University
Viscoelastic Craters
Friday, July 30
10:30 AM Pin-Gao Gu, Academia Sinica
Thermal Adjustment of Hot Jupiters due to Tidal Dissipation
Week 7
Monday, August 2
10:30 AM Joel Miller, University of Cambridge
Zero Reynolds Number Elastic Fluid Instabilities
2:30 PM Antonello Provenzale, ICG Torino
Two Short Stories in Turbulent Convection: The Clustering of Plumes and a Simple Model of Atmospheric Convection
Tuesday, August 3
10:30 AM Rui Xin Huang, Physical Oceanography Department, WHOI
Energetics of the Oceanic Circulation: Sandstrom Theory and Lab Experiments
Wednesday, August 4
5:00 PM Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Climate Change Stories - A public lecture at Lilly Auditorum, reception to follow
Thursday, August 5
10:30 AM Amala Mahadevan, Boston University
Phytoplankton, Nutrients and CO2 in the Surface Ocean
2:30 PM L. Mahadevan, Harvard University
Particulate Interfaces
Friday, August 6
10:30 AM Charles Doering, University of Michigan
A Bound on Mixing Efficiency
Week 8
Monday, August 9
10:30 AM Leo Maas, NIOZ
Wave Attractors
Tuesday, August 10
10:30 AM Matthew Wells, Yale University
Laboratory Experiments on Entrainment in Gravity Currents with Stratification and Rotation
2:30 PM Jennifer MacKinnon, Scripps Institution of Oceanograpy - P.O. Dept. Seminar, Clark 507
Mixing Hotspots and other Catastrophes: Mechanisms of Tidal Dissipation
Wednesday, August 11
10:30 AM Norman Lebovitz, University of Chicago
Elliptical Instabilities
Thursday, August 12
2:30 PM Paul Dellar, Imperial College
The Revolutionary Shallow Water Equations
Friday, August 13
10:30 AM NO LECTURE
2:30 PM NO LECTURE
Week 9
NO LECTURES
Week 10 - Project Talks
Tuesday, August 24
10:00 AM Danielle Wain, University of Illinois
Laboratory Experiments on the Effects of Baroclinic Eddies on a Dense Plume in a Rotating Stratifeid Fluid
11:15 AM Eleanor Williams Frajka, University of Washington
Convection in a Fluid Loop
2:00 PM Lisa Neef, University of Toronto
Resonant Triads of Tidally-Forced Internal Gravity Waves
3:15 PM Yaron Toledo, Technion
High Order Boussinesq Models for Internal Interfacial Waves and Layered SQG
Wednesday, August 25
10:00 AM Anja Slim, University of Cambridge
Exotic Gravity Currents
11:15 AM Josefina Arraut, Brazilian Institute for Space Research
Rossby Wave Scattering between Homogeneous Media
2:00 PM Marshall Ward, Florida State University
Double Diffusive Gravity Currents under Rotation
3:15 PM David Vener, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Two-Dimensional Vortex Shedding from a Corner
Thursday, August 26
10:00 AM Vineet Birman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Non-Normal Convection
11:15 AM Visweswaran Nageswaran, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Parametric Instability of Internal Waves with Rotation
2003 Lecture Series Schedule
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Non-Newtonian Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
June 16 - August 22, 2003
Monday, June 16
10:00 AM John Hinch, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Phenomena and Rheometry
2:00 PM John Hinch
Constitutive Equations
Tuesday, June 17
10:00 AM John Hinch
Simple Flow Calculations
Wednesday, June 18
10:00 AM John Hinch
Experiments and Computing
3:00 PM John Hinch
Microstructural Studies for Rheology
Thursday, June 19
10:00 AM John Hinch
Simple Relaxation and Yield Problems
3:00 PM John Hinch
Instabilities
Friday, June 20
10:00 AM John Hinch
Strong Flows
3:00 PM John Hinch
The Success and Failure of Oldroyd-B (inc converging flows)
Monday, June 23
10:30 AM Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Imperial College, U.K.
Turbulent Polymers
2:00 PM John A. Whitehead
Discrete Jumps and Oscillations in Temperature - Salinity Driven Laboratory Experiments
Tuesday, June 24
10:30 AM John Wettlaufer, Yale University
Flow of Unfrozen Water
3:00 PM P. O. Seminar, Clark 3
No Speaker Scheduled
Wednesday, June 25
10:30 AM Linda Smolka, Duke University
Filament Dynamics of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Extensional Flows
3:00 PM Phil Morrison, University of Texas, Austin
Fluctuations in Inhomogeneous Systems using Statistical Mechanics
5:30 PM Project Discussions
Thursday, June 26
10:30 AM Oliver Buhler, New York University
Vortices in a Tea Cup
Friday, June 27
10:30 AM Claudia Cenedese, WHOI
A Laboratory Model of Thermocline Depth and Exchange Fluxes across Circumpolar Front
Monday, June 30
10:30 AM Daniel Joseph, University of Minnesota
Non-Newtonian Fluids I
3:00 PM Daniel Joseph
Videos and Demonstrations
Tuesday, July 1
10:30 AM Daniel Joseph
Non-Newtonian Fluids II
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Wednesday, July 2
10:30 AM Norman Lebovitz, University of Chicago
Fission Theory Primed
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Thursday, July 3
10:30 AM Joseph B. Keller, Stanford University
Water Waves
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Friday, July 4
10:30 AM
NO LECTURE - DUE TO INDEPENDENCE DAY HOLIDAY
Monday, July 7
10:30 AM Slava Solomatov, New Mexico State University
Mantle Convection with Realistic Rheologies
3:00 PM Andrew Fowler, Oxford University
Ice Flows
Tuesday, July 8
10:30 AM L. Mahadevan, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
The Pseudo-Elasticity of Newtonian Fluids
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Wednesday, July 9
10:30 AM Gregory Buck, Saint Anselm College
Natural Entanglements: Geometry, Topology and a Phase
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Thursday, July 10
10:30 AM Greg Hirth. Geology & Geophysics Department, WHOI
Non-Newtonian Viscous Deformation of the Earth's Mantle
3:00 PM Ross Griffiths, Australian National University
Solidification in Shear Flows
Friday, July 11
10:30 AM Alan Rempel, Yale University
Freezing Dirt: The Fluid Mechanics of Frost Heave
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Monday, July 14
10:30 AM Amala Mahadevan, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Spatial Heterogeneity at the Sea Surface
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Tuesday, July 15
10:30 AM
Informal Discussion: Horizontal Convection--turbulent or non-turbulent?
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Wednesday, July 16
10:30 AM Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Imperial College
Mixing in a Simple Map
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Thursday, July 17
10:30 AM Oliver Buhler, New York University
Wave Scattering and Remote Recoil
3:00 PM Ed Speigel, Columbia University
The Content of Shape
Friday, July 18
10:30 AM NO LECTURE
3:00 PM John Bush, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Water Walking Insects
Monday, July 21
10:30 AM Charles Doering, University of Michigan
The Stochastic Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscanov Equation, Interacting Particles and Duality
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Tuesday, July 22
10:30 AM Alexander Soloviev, NOVA Southeastern University
Horizontal Mixing in the Western Pacific Warm Pool as a Nonlinear Diffusion Process
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Wednesday, July 23
10:30 AM Misha Chertkov, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Phenomenology of Rayleigh Taylor Turbulence
3:00 PM Dr. Stephen Wolfram, H. Burr Steinbach Scholar
A New Kind of Science - Redfield Auditorium
Thursday, July 24
10:30 AM Steve Childress, New York University
Experiments on Flapping Flight as a Symmetry Breaking Bifurcation
3:00 PM Jennifer MacKinnon, University of California, San Diego
Missing Mixing or Missing Physics: the Nonlinear Evolution of Internal Gravity Waves over Rough Topography
Friday, July 25
10:30 AM Andrew Belmonte, Penn State University
Introduction to the Dynamics of Wormlike Micellar Fluids
3:00 PM Andrew Belmonte
Instabilities of Viscoelastic Free Surfaces
Monday, July 28
10:30 AM Ian Frigaard, University of British Columbia
Viscoplastic Fluids
3:00 PM Amy Shen, Washington University
Coating Dynamics with Complex Fluids
Tuesday, July 29
10:30 AM Ian Frigaard, University of British Columbia
Stability of Multi-Layer Viscoplastic Flows
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Wednesday, July 30
10:30 AM Pascale Garaud, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Dusty Accretion Disks
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Thursday, July 31
10:30 AM Chiang Mei, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Slow Flows of Mud Down a Channel or a Conical Surface
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Friday, August 1
10:30 AM Joe Pedlosky, Physical Oceanographic Dept, WHOI
Rossby Basin Modes and Their Instabilities
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Monday, August 4
10:30 AM Colm-cille Caulfied, Univ. of California, San Diego
The Consequences of Stress: Rigorous Bounds for Environmental Flows
3:00 PM Antonello Provenzale, Instituto de Cosmogeofisica
Patterns of Blown Sand
Tuesday, August 5
10:30 AM George Field, Harvard University
Dynamo Theory and Magnetic Helicity
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Wednesday, August 6
10:30 AM Gordon Ogilvie, University of Cambridge
The Visco-Elastic/MHD Connection
3:00 PM Andrew Woods, University of Cambridge
Gravity Currents in Porous Media
Thursday, August 7
10:30 AM Yoel Forterre, Universite de Provence, France
Long-surface Wave Instability in Dry Granular Flows
3:00 PM Shreyas Mandre, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dynamics of Roll Waves
Friday, August 8
10:30 AM Richard Craster, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Evolving and Cooling Domes of Lava
3:00 PM George Haller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kinematic Theory of Unsteady Separation
Monday, August 11
10:30 AM NO LECTURE
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Tuesday, August 12
10:30 AM NO LECTURE
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Wednesday, August 13
10:30 AM NO LECTURE
3:00 PM TBA
TBA
Thursday, August 14
5:00 PM Andrew Woods, BP Professor, University of Cambridge
Volcano Mechanics - a public lecture at Redfield Auditorum, reception to follow
Friday, August 15
10:30 AM NO LECTURE
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Monday, August 18
10:30 AM NO LECTURE
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
Tuesday, August 19 PROJECT TALKS
10:30 AM Christopher Wolfe, Oregon State University
Eddy Formation over Variable Topography
2:00 PM Andrew Thompson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Diffusively Driven Overturning from a Stable Density Gradient
3:15 PM Amit Apte, University of Texas at Austin
Wave-Mean-Flow Interaction in Oldroyd-B Fluid
Wednesday, August 20
10:00 AM Anshuman Roy, University of Michigan
Viscoelastic Catenary
11:15 AM Neil Burrell, University of Colorado-Boulder
1 3/4 Layer Quasigeostrophic Equations
2:15 PM Julia Mullarney, Research School of Earth Sciences
Laboratory Experiments on Non-linear Rossby Adjustment in a Channel
3:30 PM Alison Rust, University of Oregon
Volcanic Tremor
Thursday, August 21
10:00 AM Junjun Liu, California Institute of Technology
Stability of Viscoplastic Flow
11:15 AM Joel Miller, Cambridge University
Elastic Critical Layers
Friday, August 22
10:30 AM NO LECTURE
3:00 PM NO LECTURE
2002 Lecture Series Schedule
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Bounds on Turbulent Transport
June 17 - August 23, 2002
Monday, June 17
10:00 AM Fritz Busse, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Introduction to Hydrodynamic Stability Theory
Tuesday, June 18
10:00 AM Fritz Busse
Applications of Energy Methods and Linear Theory
3:00 PM Physical Oceanography Seminar
Location - Clark 507
Wednesday, June 19
10:00 AM Fritz Busse
The Sequence-of-Bifurcations Approach for the Transition to Turbulence
2:30 PM Louis Howard, Florida State University/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Simple Approaches to Some Bounding Problems
Thursday, June 20
10:00 AM Fritz Busse
Upper Bounds for Turbulent Transports
2:00 PM Charles Doering, University of Michigan
Bounds on Turbulent Transport: Introduction to the Background Method
Friday, June 21
10:00 AM Fritz Busse
Multi-alpha-Solutions
2:00 PM Peter Constantin, University of Chicago
Bounds for Rotating Fluids
Monday, June 24
10:00 AM Colm Caulfield, University of California, San Diego
Bounds on Mixing in Stratified Shear Flows
2:00 PM Richard Kerswell, University of Bristol, U.K.
Unification of Variational Approaches
Tuesday, June 25
10:00 AM Karl Helfrich, Woods Hole OCeanographic Institution
Rotating Hydraulics and Upstream Basin Circulation
3:00 PM Physical Oceanography Seminar
Location - Clark 507
Wednesday, June 26
10:00 AM Vitalii A. Sheremet, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Tilted Rotating Convection: Laboratory Experiments
on a Centrifuge
2:00 PM Willem V.R. Malkus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Observed Turbulence Averages from Upper Bounds Constrained by Nonlinear and Time Dependent Stability Conditions
Thursday, June 27
10:00 AM
NO LECTURE
2:00 PM Charles Doering, University of Michigan
Variational Bounds on Energy Dissipation in Body-Forced Flows
Friday, June 28
10:00 AM Fritz Busse
Patterns and Phase Turbulence of Centrifugally Driven Convection
Monday, July 1
10:00 AM Daniel Joseph, University of Minnesota
Slip Velocity and Lift
Tuesday, July 2
10:00 AM Pascale Garaud, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Stellar and Solar Rotation
3:00 PM Physical Oceanography Seminar
Location - Clark 507
Wednesday, July 3
10:00 AM Thomas Mullin, University of Manchester, U.K.
Experiments on Gluing Bifurcations
Thursday, July 4
10:00 AM
NO LECTURE - DUE TO INDEPENDENCE DAY HOLIDAY
Friday, July 5
10:00 AM
NO LECTURE
2:00 PM Daniel Joseph, University of Minnesota
Viscous Potential Flows and Interfacial Stability Problems
Monday, July 8 - Friday, July 12
Mini Symposium - Rotating
Monday, July 8
10:00 AM Wayne Schubert, Colorado State University
The Role of Moist Convection in the Hadley Circulation and in the Development of Hurricanes
2:00 PM Sonya Legg, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Plumes in Rotating Turbulent Convection
Tuesday, July 9
10:00 AM Fritz Busse
Convection in the Rotating Cylindrical Annulus
1:00 PM Paul Matthews, University of Nottingham, U.K.
Instabilities of Rolls in Rotating Convection
Wednesday, July 10
10:00 AM Emmanuel Dormy, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, FRANCE and Andrew M. Soward, University of Exeter, U.K.
The Onset of Thermal Convection in Rotating Spherical Shells
1:00 PM Robert Ecke, Los Alamos National Lab
Rotating Convection Experiments: A Tour through Parameter Space
3:00 PM Alexander Soloviev, NOVA Southeastern University
Sharp Frontal Interfaces in the Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean
Thursday, July 11
10:00 AM Fritz Busse
Convection in Rotating Spherical Shells and the Dynamo Problem
2:00 PM Yuan-Nan Young, Northwestern University
Non-Boussinesq Rotating Convection at Low Prandtl Numbers: Secondary Instability and Penta-Hepta Defect Chaos
Friday, July 12
10:00 AM Michael Proctor, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Pulsating Convection Cells at Large Taylor Number in Non-Boussinesq Convection
2:00 PM Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Columbia University
The Curvature of Material Lines in Chaotic and Turbulent Flows
Monday, July 15
10:00 AM
NO LECTURE
Tuesday, July 16
10:00 AM
NO LECTURE
Wednesday, July 17
10:00 AM Francesco Paparella, University of Lecce, ITALY
Horizontal Convection and the Anti-Turbulence Theorem
Thursday, July 18
10:00 AM Jack Whitehead, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Laboratory Observations of Multiple Equliibrium, Oscillations, and Dynamic Stabilization of an Unstable Point
Friday, July 19
10:00 AM Takamitsu Ito, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Entropy Production Extremal States for Atmosphere/Climate System
Monday, July 22
10:00 AM Stephen Childress, New York University
Flapping Flight as a Bifurcation
Tuesday, July 23
10:00 AM Melvin Stern, Florida State University
Doubly Diffusive Intrusions in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)
Wednesday, July 24
10:00 AM Baylor Fox-Kemper, MIT/WHOI Joint Program
Eddies and Friction: Removal of Vorticity in the Wind-Driven Gyre
Thursday, July 25
10:00 AM Norman Lebovitz, University of Chicago
The Fission Theory of Binary Star Formation
Friday, July 26
10:00 AM Chris Hallstrom, Brown University
Bounds for Rotating Infinte Prandtl Number Convection
Monday, July 29
10:00 AM Allen C Kuo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Residual Analysis and Eddy Flux Parameterization in a Circumpolar Current
Tuesday, July 30
10:00 AM Glenn Ierley, University of California, San Diego
Bound to Improve
Wednesday, July 31
10:00 AM
NO LECTURE
Thursday, August 1
10:00 AM Gösta Walin, University of Goteborg
Baroclinic Currents Losing Buoyancy or; What is Going on in the Northern North Atlantic
Friday, August 2
10:00 AM
NO LECTURE
Monday, August 5
10:00 AM Jesse Otero, University of Michigan
TBA
Tuesday, August 6
10:00 AM Nick P. Fofonoff, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Conversion of Gravitational Potential Energy for Mixing
Wednesday, August 7
10:00 AM Joseph B. Keller, Stanford University
Bounds for Slow Flow
2:00 PM Glenn Flierl, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jovian Jets
Thursday, August 8
10:00 AM Edward A. Spiegel, Columbia University
Derivation of Pattern Equations
Friday, August 9
10:00 AM Yuri Lvov, Rennsalear Polytechnic Institute
Hamiltonian Formalism and the Garrett-Munk Spectrum of Internal Waves in the Ocean
Monday, August 12 - Friday, August 16
NO LECTURES
Monday, August 19
10:00 AM Jennifer Siggers, University of Cambridge, UK
Bounds for Horizontal Convection
11:00 PM Radostin Simitev, University of Bayreuth, GERMANY
Inertia Wave Convection in Rotating Spherical Fluid Shells
2:00 PM Lu Lu, University of Michigan
Upper Bounds for Convection in an Internally Heated Fluid Layer
Tuesday, August 20
10:00 AM Ulrike Riemenschneider, University of Southampton, UK
Ball Release Experiment in a Centrifuge
11:00 PM Huiqun Wang, California Institute of Technology
Rearrangement of Annular Rings of High Vorticity
Wednesday, August 21
10:00 AM Francois Petrelis, Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris, FRANCE
Bounds in MHD Tubulence I Tearing Models
11:00 PM Alexandros Alexakis, University of Chicago
Bounds in MHD Tubulence II Magnetic Couette Flow and Hartmann Flow
2:00 PM Tomoki Tozuka, University of Tokyo, JAPAN
On the Cyclic and Oscillatory Covections in a Simplified Box Model With Entrainment
Thursday, August 22
10:00 AM Evstati Evstatiev, The University of Texas, Austin
Boundary Layer Theory for the Fixed Heat Flux Problem
11:00 PM Stephen Plasting, University of Bristol, UK
Infinite Prandtl Number Convection: Bound to Disprove
Friday, August 23
Fellows' Reports Due
2001 Lecture Series Schedule
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Conceptual Models in Climate Dynamics
June 20 - August 24, 2001
Monday, June 18 - Wednesday, June 20
10:00 AM Eli Tziperman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
El Nino-Southern Oscillations:
- A brief description of the phenomenology
- A brief equatorial dynamics background
- Delayed oscillator
- Fast SST, fast wave, mixed mode ENSO regimes
- Re-charge oscillator
- Optimal modes (non-normal instability)
- ENSO as self-sustained vs stochastically forced
- ENSO's irregularity: noise or low order chaos on ENSO's phase locking to the seasonal cycle.
Preliminary notes for Eli Tziperman's lectures can be found at: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/home/eli/reprints/GFD_course_notes.pdf
Thursday, June 21 - Friday, June 22
10:00 AM Paola Cessi, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
THC variability:
- A brief description of the phenomenology
- Mean circulation:
- Stommel-Aaron model of the abyssal circulation
- The competing effect of heat and salt:
- Stommel box model
- multiple steady states, bifurcations
- role of Southern Ocean in driving North Atlantic THC
- Variability:
- Stochastically forced red noise (Hasselmann)
- jumps between steady states
- oscillatory behavior, Welander's salt oscillators
- global versus local bifurcations
- self-sustained Vs stochastically force
Preliminary notes for Paola Cessi's lectures can be found at: Lecture 01; Lecture 02; Lecture 03; Lecture 04; Lecture 05
Thursday, June 21
2:15 PM Thierry Huck, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale
Interdecadal Variability of the Thermohaline Circulation
Monday, June 25 - Tuesday, June 26
10:00 AM Raymond Pierrehumbert, University of Chicago
Basic Principles of Climate:
- A brief description of the phenomenology
- Radiative-convective models, and principles of energy balance
- Basic models with meridional heat transport:
- energy balance models. Basic features. Their uses and their limitations
- tropical heat transport. Uniform temperature models. "Radiator Fin" concept. Held/Hou Hadley cell ideas (most basic aspects only)
- heat,PV moisture transport in the midlatitude baroclinic regime
- Thermal Inertia (land vs. ocean. Dense atmosphere vs. tenuous)
Click here for a more detailed outline of Raymond Pierrehumbert's lectures.
Monday, June 25
2:15 PM Tapio Schneider, New York University
Baroclinic Eddies in the Climate of the Extra-Tropics
Wednesday, June 27 - Thursday, June 28
10:00 AM Eli Tziperman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Glacial-interglacial variability:
- A brief description of the phenomenology
- Ice albedo feedback
- Ice sheet dynamics
- Milankovitch forcing
- Toy models for 100kyr oscillations:
- isostatic adjustment
- dust-loading feedback
- nonlinear frequency transfer
- "earth-system" Saltzman-style models
- sea-ice switch mechanism
- Nonlinear phase locking to Milankovitch
- Biogeochemical toy models for glacial CO2 variability
Preliminary notes for Eli Tziperman's lectures can be found at: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/home/Eli/reprints/GFD_course_notes.pdf
Friday, June 29
10:00 AM Raymond Pierrehumbert, University of Chicago
Early Earth:
- A brief review of the phenomenology
- Cretaceous/Eocene hothouse
- Neo-Proterozoic Snowball
- Ocean heat transport and the enigma of hothouse climates
- Theories of initiation and termination of NeoProterozoic Snowball
- What happens to the Earth as the Sun continues to warm?
Climate of the planets, and Fate of the Earth:
- A brief description of the phenomenology
- Earth/Mars/Venus/Titan
- Runaway greenhouse. Ultimate fate of the Earth.
- Runaway icehouse
- Early Mars. CO2 clouds. Glacier Dynamic Feedbacks
- Hadley Cell and Ekman transport effects on Early mars
- Exotic approaches (Lorenz work on entropy model of Titan
Click here for a more detailed outline of Raymond Pierrehumbert's lectures.
Monday, July 2
10:30 AM Geoffrey K. Vallis, Princeton University
Generalized 2D Turbulence and Turbulent Diffusion
2:30 PM William K. Dewar, Florida State University
Ocean Dynamics in Mid-Latitude Climate
Tuesday, July 3
10:30 AM Igor Mezic, University of California, Santa Barbara
Comparison of Complex Systems
Wednesday, July 4
HOLIDAY - No Lecture
Thursday, July 5
10:30 AM Vinicio Pelino, Centro Nazionale Di Meteorologia E Climatologia Aeronautica (CNMCA), Italy
Symplectic Dissipation and the Lorenz-84 Climate Model
Friday, July 6
10:30 AM Paul Dellar, St. John's College, United Kingdom
Lattice Kinetic Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection
2:30 PM Edward A. Speigel, Columbia University
TBA
Monday, July 9
10:30 AM Rui Xin Huang, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Structure of the Thermocline and Climate Variability
Tuesday, July 10
10:30 AM Wayne Schubert, Colorado State University
Equatorial B-Plane Theory
Wednesday, July 11
10:30 AM Canceled Due to Severe Weather
Thursday, July 12
10:00 AM Russell Donelly, University of Oregon
The Use of Cryogenic Helium in Fluid Dynamics
11:00 AM Joseph Niemela, University of Oregon
Organized Convection at Very High Rayleigh Numbers
Friday, July 13
10:30 AM Yochanan Kushnir, Columbia University
The Response of the Atmosphere to SST Anomalies: What Have We Learned from GCMs?
2:30 PM Henk Dijkstra, Utrecht University
Internal Variability of the Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation
Monday, July 16
10:30 AM Joseph Keller, Stanford University
Elements of Radiative Transport Theory
3:30 PM Gregory Buck, Saint Anselm College
Tortuous Tales of Topology
Tuesday, July 17
10:30 AM Thomas Haine, Johns Hopkins University
Mechanisms of North Atlantic Wintertime SST Anomalies
Wednesday, July 18
10:30 AM Jeffrey Weiss, University of Colorado
Fokker-Planck View of Stochastic Dynamical Systems
Thursday, July 19
10:30 AM Arnaud Czaja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology An Energy Balance View of the NAO
Friday, July 20
10:30 AM Jack Whitehead, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Multiple Equilibrium Experiments
Monday, July 23
10:30 AM Michael Allison, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA
Conceptual Models of Extra-Terrestrial Climates: M, PV and MEP
Tuesday, July 24
10:30 AM David Battisti, University of Washington
Is the Gulf Stream Responsible for Europe's Mild Winters?
Wednesday, July 25
10:30 AM Charles Doering, University of Michigan
Energy Dissipation in Body Forced Turbulence
Thursday, July 26
10:30 AM David Marshall, University of Reading, UK
On the Response of the Atlantic to Thermohaline Variability
Friday, July 27
3:30 PM Antonello Provenzale, Istituto di Cosmogeofisica, Italy
Patterns of Dirt (talk followed by a BBQ)
Monday, July 30
No Lecture
Tuesday, July 31
10:30 AM Melvin Stern, Florida State University
Karl Helfrich, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Propagation of Finite Amplitude Potential Vorticity Front Along the Boundry of a Rotating and Stratified Fluid
Wednesday, August 1
10:30 AM Christopher Jones, Brown University
Smarter Drifter Launch Strategies
Thursday, August 2
10:30 AM Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Simple Model of Multiple Stable Climate Regimes
2:30 PM Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Interannual Variability of the Heat Budget
Friday, August 3
10:30 AM Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research
TBA
Monday, August 6
No Lecture
Tuesday, August 7
10:30 AM Leonard Smith, London School of Economics, UK
Indistiguishable States: Stochastic Implications of Imperfect Climate Models
Wednesday, August 8
10:30 AM Annalisa Bracco, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Mesoscale Turbulence and Plankton Dynamics
Thursday, August 9
10:30 AM Alan W. Rempel, University of Washington
Displacing Climate Signals in Ancient Ice by Pre-Melting and Anomalous Diffusion
2:30 PM Louis Howard, Florida State University/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Video Presentation
Friday, August 10
10:30 AM John Marshall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology A Simple Model of the Thermohaline Circulation in the Southern Ocean
3:30 PM Alexey V. Fedorov, Princeton University
The Energetics of ENSO Implicationd for El Nino Prediction
Monday, August 13 - Monday, August 20
No Lectures
Tuesday, August 21
10:00 AM Matthew Spydell, University of California, San Diego
Diagnosing El Niño - La Niña Transitions
11:05 AM Fiona Eccles, Oxford University, UK
Nonlinear Mechanism Determining ENSO Period
2:15 PM Chiara Toniolo, University of Genova, ITALY
Slipping Instability in a System of Two Superposed Fluid Layers
3:20 PM Shreyas Mandre, Northwestern University
Roll Waves With Bumpy Bottom
Wednesday, August 22
10:00 AM Lianke Te Raa, Utrecht University, THE NETHERLANDS
Convective Oscillations in a Laboratory Model
11:05 AM Helén Andersson, Goteborg University, SWEEDEN
Abyssal Flow in the Presence of Sloping Boundaries and Mid-Basin Ridge
2:15 PM Takamitsu Ito, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Black Hole of Water Vapor and Asymmetries in the Tropical Circulation
3:20 PM Edwin Gerber, Princeton University
Black Holes of Water Vapor II - Time Evolution and Limitations of the Theory
2000 Lecture Series Schedule
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June 19 - June 30
Large Scale Climatology of the Atmosphere
Isaac Held, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA / Princeton University
Monday, June 19
10:00
Isaac Held
Tuesday, June 20
10:00
Isaac Held
Wednesday, June 21
10:00
Isaac Held
Thursday, June 22
10:00
Isaac Held
Friday, June 23
10:00
Isaac Held
Monday, June 26
10:00
Isaac Held
Tuesday, June 27
10:00
Isaac Held
Wednesday, June 28
10:00
Isaac Held
3:30
Wayne Schubert, Colorado State University
Interpretting the ITCZ and Hadley Circulation in Terms of Potential Vorticity Dynamics
Thursday, June 29
10:00
Isaac Held
2:00
Alan Plumb, Massachussettes Institute of Technology
Monsoons: Localized Hadley Circulations
Friday, June 30
10:00
Isaac Held
Monday, July 3
10:00
Mike Cullen, European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts
Understanding Mesoscale Dynamics Using Semi-Geostrophic Theory
Tuesday, July 4
Holiday - No Lecture
Wednesday, July 5
10:00
Mike Cullen, European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts
Understanding Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulations Using Semi-Geostrophic Theory
Thursday, July 6
10:00
Oliver Buhler, University of St. Andrews, UK
Wave-mean Interactions Involving Gravity Waves
2:00
Paul Dellar, University of Cambridge, UK
Lattice Boltzmann Methods for GFD
Friday, July 7
10:00
Oliver Buhler, University of St. Andrews, UK
Gravity Wave Parametrizations and Conservation Laws
Monday, July 10
10:00
Geoff Vallis, GFDL/Princeton University
Equilibration of Eddies in the Ocean and Atmosphere
Tuesday, July 11
10:00
Jeff Moehlis, Princeton University
Bursts in Binary Fluid Convection
Wednesday, July 12
10:00
Eric Chassignet, University of Miami
On the Importance of Surface Forcing in Numerical Simulations of the North Atlantic Ocean
Thursday, July 13
10:00
Paul Dellar, University of Cambridge, UK
Selective Decay and Geostrophic Adjustment
Friday, July 14
10:00
Joe Keller, Stanford University
Walking On Water
Monday, July 17
10:00
Wayne Schubert, Colorado State University
Potential Vorticity in a Moist Atmosphere
2:00
Brian Arbic, MIT/WHOI Joint Program
What Controls the Vertical Structure and Lengthscales of Mid-Ocean Eddies?
Tuesday, July 18
10:00
Gudrun Magnusdottir, University of California, Irvine
The Response of the Atmospheric Heat Transport to Different Configurations of Implied Oceanic Heat Transport
Wednesday, July 19
10:00
Michael Allison, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
PV Perspectives on Planetary Circulations
2:00
Huijun Yang, University of South Florida
A Simple Theory for Ocean Climate Variability
Thursday, July 20
10:00
Alan Plumb, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Three-Dimensional Eddy Parameterization
Friday, July 21
10:00
Michael Allison, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
A Dynamical Model for Jupiter's Thermocline
Monday, July 24
10:00
Alan Plumb, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Circulation in the Stratosphere
Tuesday, July 25
10:00
Kevin Prendergast, Columbia University
Barred Spirals and BGK Hydrocodes
Wednesday, July 26
10:00
Isaac Held, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA / Princeton University
Surface Quasigeostrophic Turbulence
8:00 PM *Special Evening Lecture*
Ed Spiegel, Columbia University
Heating the Universe
Thursday, July 27
10:00
Rick Rosen, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.
Angular Momentum of the 20th and 21st Centuries
Friday, July 28
10:00
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Columbia University
The Wondrous Exponents of Dr. Lyapunov
Monday, July 31
10:00
Isaac Held, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA / Princeton University
Some Aspects of Turbulent Moist Convection
Tuesday, August 1
10:00
Balu Nadiga, Los Alamos Laboratory
A New Dynamical Mechanism for Variabilty in the Double Gyre Circualtion
Wednesday, August 2
10:00
Stefan Llewellyn-Smith, University of California, San Diego
Wave Scattering by Vortices
2:00
Balu Nadiga, Los Alamos Laboratory
Four-gyre Circulation With Double-gyre Wind Forcing and Eddy Parameterization: Barotropic Case
Thursday, August 3
10:00
Wayne Schubert, Colorado State University
Hurricane Dynamics
Friday, August 4
10:00
Lou Howard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/FSU
Weak Water Waves Washing Widely Over a Wavy Wall
Monday, August 7
10:00
Amala Mahadevan, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.
The Impact of Fronts on Upper Ocean Biogeochemistry
2:00
Willem Malkus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Disorder to Order
Tuesday, August 8
10:00
Jeff Hollingsworth, NASA, Ames Research Center/SJSUF
General Circulation and Modeling of Mars' Atmosphere
Wednesday, August 9
10:00
Jeff Hollingsworth, NASA, Ames Research Center/SJSUF
Cyclogenesis and Frontal Waves During Northern Early Spring and Late Summer on Mars
Thursday, August 10
10:00
John Marshall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Circumpolar Currents
Friday, August 11
2:00 PM
Oliver Buhler, University of St. Andrews, UK
Statistical Mechanics of Beached Vortices
Monday, August 14
10:00
Claes Rooth, University of Miami
Ocean-Atmosphere Energy Flux Partitioning
Tuesday, August 15
10:00
Luanne Thompson, University of Washington
The Influence of the Seasonal Cycle on Rossby Waves
Wednesday, August 16
10:00
Lenny Smith, Oxford University
Predicting Chaos: How is the Atmosphere Different From an Electric Circuit?
Thursday, August 17
10:00
Jim Anderson, Stevens Institute of Technology
What is a Macroscopic Variable?
Friday, August 18
10:00
Jie Yu, Florida Atlantic University
Waves and Nearshore Currents
Monday, August 21
No Lecture Today
Tuesday, August 22
10:00
Tivon Jacobson, New York University
Longshore Currents, Vorticity Dynamics and Barred Beaches
11:00
Christopher Walker, University of California, Irvine
What Makes Oceanic Gravity Currents Flow Downhill
2:00
Christos Mitas, University of Illinois
Eddy PV Fluxes in a One-Dimensional Model of Quasi-Geostrophic Turbulence
3:00
Cheryl Lacotta, University of Arizona
Can a Simple Two-Layer Model Capture the Structure of Easterly Waves?
Wednesday, August 23
10:00
Karen Shell, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Superrotation in an Axisymmetric Shallow Water Model of the Upper Troposphere
11:00
Giulio Boccaletti, Princeton University
Monsoons in a Moist Axially Symmetric Model of the Atmosphere
2:00
Zhiming Kuang, California Institute of Technology
A Truncated Model of Finite-Amplitude Baroclinic Waves in a Channel
3:00
Christian Sonekan, University of Charleston
Experimental Investigation of a Theory for Oceanic Convection
4:00
Lucy Campbell, McGill University, CANADA
A Quasi-Biennial Oscillation Generated by Gravity Wave Breaking
1999 Lecture Series Schedule
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Topics in Stirring and Mixing
William R. Young
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San DiegoAll lectures are held at Walsh Cottage, unless otherwise noted.
Monday,June 21 | Eddy Diffusivity --- Single Particle Statistics |
Tuesday,June 22 | Lyapunov Exponents ---- Two-Particle Statistics |
Wednesday, June 23 | Shear Dispersion And Density Driven Flows |
Thursday, June 24 | Correlation Functions And Type I Anomalous Diffusion |
Friday, June 25 @ 10:30 by Bruce Morton2:30 pm | Jets Deflected in Cross-Flow as Event Mixing
Project Discussions |
Monday, June 28 @ 10:00 am by Ray Pierre-Humbert2:30 pm | The Batchelor Spectrum and Tracer Cascades
Project Discussions |
Tuesday, June 29 | Gradient Expulsion And Type II Anomalous Diffusion |
Wednesday, June 30 | The Multi-Scale Method I: Passive Scalars |
Thursday, July 1 | The Multi-Scale Method II: Vorticity |
Friday, July 2 | Two-Dimensional Turbulence And Vortices |
Tuesday, July 6 @ 10:30am
1:30pm
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Mixing and Stirring and the Overturning Circulation by A. Gnanadesikan Looking for the Universal Statistics of a Passive Tracer in the Lower Stratosphere: Probability Distribution Functions of Tracer Concentration, Gradients, and Increments by Yongyun Hu |
Wednesday, July 7 @ 10:30am | Three-vortex Motion and Two-dimensional Turbulence by Hassan Aref |
Thursday, July 8 @ 10:30am2:00pm | Mesoscale Turbulence and Ocean Biology by Glenn FlierlA Dissipation Integral with Application to Ocean Diffusivities and Structure by Edwin Schneider |
Friday, July 9 @ 10:30am | The Role of Mixed Layer Entrainment in Water Mass Formation by Amit Tandon |
July 12-16, Mini Symposium on Ocean Mixing
Monday, July 12 @ 10:00-12:00Redfield Auditorium | Mixing in the Ocean Interior, John Toole, WHOI |
Redfield Auditorium @ 14:00-15:00 | Tracer Studies of Ocean Mixing, James Ledwell, WHOI |
Tuesday, July 13 9:30-11:30Clark Rm. 507 | The Moon and Mixing, Walter Munk, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Univ. of Calif. at San Diego |
15:00-16:00 @ Clark Rm. 507
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Parameterizing the Effects of Eddies and of Limited Horizontal Resolution in Ocean GCMs: the Horizontal and Temporal-Residual-Mean Circulation, Trevor McDougall, CISRO, AUSTRALIA |
Wednesday, July 14 10:00-12:00 @ Redfield Auditorium |
Marginal Mixing Ideas, Chris Garrett, University of Victoria, CANADA |
14:00-15:00 @ Redfield Auditorium | A Rough Recipe for Mixing, Kurt Polzin, WHOI |
Thursday, July 15 10:30-11:30 @ Redfield Auditorium | Evidence for Potential Vorticity Finestructure and its Role in Horizontal Mixing, Eric Kunze, University of Washington |
14:00-15:00 @ Redfield Auditorium | Secrets of Double Diffusion, Ray Schmitt, WHOI |
Friday, July 16 10:30-11:30 @ Redfield Auditorium | The Neglect of Two Dimensional Double-Diffusive Processes in Studies of Ocean Circulation, J. Stewart Turner, Australian National University, AUSTRALIA |
14:00-15:00 @ Redfield Auditorium | Consequences of the Nonlinear Nature of the Equation of State, Trevor McDougall, CSIRO Marine Research, AUSTRALIA |
Monday, July 19 @ 10:30 am | Flow in Random Porous Media by J.B. Keller |
Tuesday, July 20 @ 10:30am | Can we learn from OGCMs? Speaker: E. Cassignet |
Wednesday, July 21 @ 10:30am | The Interactions of Shear and Diffusion in the Mixing of Passive Scalars and Vorticity by A. Bernoff |
Thursday, July 22 @ 10:30am
@ 2:00pm |
Temperature, Salinity and Spice in Convection.Speaker: S. Legg
Vortex Merging in QG Flows. Speaker: J. Von Hardenberg |
Friday, July 23 @ 10:30 am
@ 2:30pm |
Nonlinear Gravity-capillary Waves with Surface Forcing and Viscous Dissipation: a Theoretical Model Based on a Viscous Boundary Layer Approximation by A. Fedorov
Boundary Reynolds Number for Turbulent Plane Couette Flow. Speaker: W. Malkus |
Monday, July 26 @ 10:30 am | When Oceans Freeze. Speaker: J. Wetlaufer |
Tuesday, July 27 @ 10:30 am | Lagrangian dynamics and tracer evolution near an unstable jet. Speaker: E. Boss |
Wednesday, July 28 @ 10:30am
2:00 pm |
L. Howard - TBA
R. Ford - TBA |
Thursday, July 29 @ 10:30 am
2:00 pm |
Vortex Generation by Line Plumes in a Rotating Stratified Flow. Speaker: J. Bush
Mixing Mechanisms at Gravity Current Fronts. Speaker: J. Parsons |
Friday, July 30 @ 10:30 am | Impure Mixing. Speaker: A. Provenzale |
Monday, August 2 @10:30am | Lagrangian View of Turbulence. Speaker: Chertkov |
Tuesday, August 3 @ 10:30 am | Transport, Mixing and chaos in Large-Scale Geophysical Flows. Speaker: H. Yong |
Wednesday, August 4 @ 10:30 am | C. Deening - TBA |
Thursday, August 5 @ 10:30 am | J. Pedlosky - TBA |
Friday, August 6 @ 10:30 am | Multiple Equilibria Flows. Speaker: J. Whitehead. |
1998 Lecture Series Schedule
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Monday, June 22
10:00 am Neil J. Balmforth, GFD Coordinator, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
Welcome and Introduction
Edward Spiegel, Columbia University
Introduction
2:30 pm Antonello Provenzale, Instituto di Cosmogeofisica, University of Turin, Italy
Introduction to Dynamical Systems with the Example of a Dust Grain in a Stratified Atmosphere (tutorial)
Tuesday, June 23
10:00 am Antonello Provenzale
Energy Balance Models
The Lorenz 63 Model (derivation)
The Lorenz 84 Model for the Atmosphere
2:00 pm No Lecture
Wednesday, June 24
10:00 am Antonello Provenzale
Time Series Analysis and Phase-Space Reconstruction: the Example of the Light Curve of 3C 345
2:00 pm No Lecture
Thursday, June 25
10:00 am Antonello Provenzale
Driving Chaotic Systems:
Seasonal Forcing in Lorenz 84
Stochastic Driving of a Thermohaline Box Model
Stochastic Resonance
2:00 pm Antonello Provenzale and Edward Spiegel
Coupling Chaotic Systems I:
On-Off Intermittency (including the PST model for the solar dynamo)
Friday, June 26
10:00 am Antonello Provenzale
Coupling Chaotic Systems II:
Analysis of Coupled Lorenz 84 Models
Chaotic Resonance
Synchronization and On-Off Desynchronization
2:00 pm Antonello Provenzale and Lenny Smith
Predictability and Prediction in Dynamical Systems
Predictability of Coupled Systems
Prediction Methods
Monday, June 29
10:00 am Antonello Provenzale, University of Turin, Italy
Extended Systems
Coherent Vortices
The Vortices of 2D Turbulence
Coherent Flux Tubes in 2D-MHD
1:00 pm Charles Tresser, IBM
Transition to Chaos, Part I
Tuesday, June 30
10:00 am Antonello Provenzale
Point Vortices
Chaotic Advection in 2D Flows
1:30 pm Charles Tresser
Transition to Chaos, Part II
Wednesday, July 1
10:00 am Antonello Provenzale
Dynamics of Dust Grains in 2D Flows
A Scenario for the Formation of Planetesimals
Vortices on Keplerian Disks
2:30 pm Charles Tresser
Transition to Chaos, Part III
Thursday, July 2
10:00 am Antonello Provenzale
Density Singularities in Self-Gravitating Systems
2:30 pm Charles Tresser
Transition to Chaos, Part IV
Friday, July 3
10:00 am Discussion of Projects
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
July 6 -- July 10: CLIMATE VARIABILITY
Monday, July 6
10:00 am Yochanan Kushnir
Patterns of atmosphere-ocean interaction
1:30 pm Jim Hurrell
Relationships between recent changes in atmospheric circulation, global warming and satellite temperatures
Tuesday, July 7
10:00 am Eli Tziperman
On ENSO's chaos and phase locking to the seasonal cycle
1:30 pm Eli Tziperman
On the proximity of the THC to an instability threshold
Wednesday, July 8
10:00 am Jochem Marotzke
Abrupt climate change and the thermohaline circulation
1:30 pm Paola Cessi
Coupled dynamics of storm tracks and ocean gyres
Thursday, July 9
10:00 am Martin Visbeck
Climate variability in the extratropical Atlantic
1:15 pm Jason Goodman
A model of decadal middle-latitude atmosphere-ocean coupled modes
2:30 pm Discussion
Friday, July 10
10:00 am Claude Frankignoul
Stochastic approach to climate modelling
July 13 -- July 17
Monday, July 13
10:30 am Stephen Childress, CIMS
Convection in glycerol
Tuesday, July 14
10:30 am Kevin Prendergast, Columbia
Dwarf ellipticals
2:00 pm P.J. Morrison, UT Austin
Physicist gone bad: Lp solutions of the linear Vlasov-Poisson equation
Wednesday, July 15
2:30 pm Lou "Diamond" Howard, FSU
Special seminar: The missing diamonds are in the plastic bag
Thursday, July 16
10:30 am Philip Yecko, Florida
Strange Cepheid variables
2:30 pm J. Robert Buchler, Florida
Chaos in the music of the spheres
July 20 -- July 24
Monday, July 20
10:30 am Norm Lebovitz, Chicago
Elliptic instability: nonlinear development
Tuesday, July 21
10:30 am Juergen Kurths, Potsdam
Phase synchronization in chaotic systems
1:30 pm Alastair Rucklidge, DAMTP
Steady state bifurcations of symmetric periodic orbits
Wednesday, July 22
10:30 am Steven Balbus, Virginia
MHD turbulence in disks and other systems
2:30 pm Rainer Hollerbach, Glasgow
Time-dependent Taylor vortices in wide-gap spherical Couette flow
Thursday, July 23
10:30 am Joana Prat, Catalunya
Resonant mode interactions in Rayleigh-Benard convection
12:00 noon GFD Photograph
2:30 pm Ian Melbourne, Houston
Magnetic dynamos in MHD using dynamical systems theory
Friday, July 24
10:30 am Charlie Doering, Michigan
Bounds for heat transport in a porous layer
2:30 pm Michael R.E. Proctor, DAMTP
Noise sensitivity in travelling-wave instabilities
July 27 -- July 31: Redfield Auditorium
"Transport and Mixing in Fluids: The Dynamical Systems Approach"
Monday, July 27
10:00-11:00 am Christopher Jones
Dynamical Systems Challenges in Assessing Ocean Transport
2:00-2:45 pm Jeffrey B. Weiss
Lagrangian Dynamics in High-Dimensional Point-Vortex Systems
2:45-3:00 pm Coffee break
3:00-3:45 pm Jerry Gollub
Transient Mixing
3:45-4:30 pm Tom Solomon
Experimental Studies of Chaotic Transport
Tuesday, July 28
9:30-10:30 am Ed Ott
Multifractal Properties of Passive Scalar and Vector Fields Convected by Lagrangian Chaotic Flows
1:30-2:15 pm
John Finn
Lagrangian Chaos and the Magnetic Dynamo Problem
Wednesday, July 29
10:00-11:00 am Harry L. Swinney
Anomalous Diffusion and Levy Flights in a Quasi-Geostrophic Flow
2:00-2:45 pm William Young
Horizontal Mixing in the Mixed Layer
2:45-3:00 pm Coffee break
3:00-3:45 pm Patrick Tabeling
Dispersion and Turbulence in 2D Systems
Thursday, July 30
10:00-11:00 am Stephen Wiggins
A Dynamical Systems Approach to Lagrangian Transport in a Double-Gyre
2:00-2:45 pm Vered Rom-Kedar
Chaotic Cooling of a Hot Core
2:45-3:00 pm Coffee break
3:00-3:45 pm Nathan Paldor
Dynamical Systems Approach to Balance Flows
3:45-4:15 pm Michel Speetjens
Mixing in a 3D Cylindrical Container
Friday, July 31
9:30-11:30 am Open discussion
Redfield Auditorium
August 3 -- August 7
Monday, August 3
10:30 am Andy Ingersoll
Dynamics of giant planet atmospheres
Tuesday, August 4
10:30 am Ron Taam
Variability in black hole x-ray binary systems
Wednesday, August 5
10:30 am Peter Goldreich
MHD Turbulence
August 10 -- 14, 1998
Monday, August 10
10:30 am Melvin Stern
Beyond Chaos
Tuesday, August 11
10:30 am Mike Shelley
Modelling the Visual Cortex
Thursday, August 13
10:30 am Joe Keller
Random Problems
2:30 pm Alistair Adcroft
How do ocean models really work?
(or Do ocean models really work???)
Friday, August 14
2:00 pm Vachtang Putkaradze
Selective withdrawal in oil/water systems
August 17 -- 21, 1998
no lectures
August 24 -- 28, 199
Monday, August 24
10:30 am Fellow's Lecture
Panayotis Kevrekidis, Rutgers University
What If the World Were Discrete?
2:15 pm Fellow's Lecture
Mark Roulston, California Institute of Technology
Data Assimilation in Chaotic Systems
3:30 pm Fellow's Lecture
Aaron Birch, Stanford University
Spicules?
Tuesday, August 25
10:00 am Fellow's Lecture
Carolyn Mockett, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, UCSD
Dispersion & Reconstruction
11:15 am Fellow's Lecture
Andy Jacobson, Pennsylvania State University
"Pandora's Lattice"
2:15 pm Fellow's Lecture
Claudia Pasquero, CNR, University of Turin, Italy
Hill's Horseshoes: Chaos in a Forced System
3:30 pm Fellow's Lecture
Sarah Dance, Brown University
Optimal Forecasting, A Toy Model
Wednesday, August 26
10:30 am, Fellow's Lecture
Amy Shen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Models of Lava Domes
2:15 pm Fellow's Lecture
Andrew Kiss, Australian National University, Australia
Chaos in the "Sliced Cone" Model of Ocean Circulation
3:30 pm Fellow's Lecture
Blanca Gallego, University of California at Los Angeles
Oscillations in the Mid-Latitude Ocean/Atmosphere System