2025 LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE
Lectures/Seminars are held in Walsh Cottage in Woods Hole Village
PRINCIPAL LECTURERS
Joseph Pedlosky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Laurette Tuckerman, PMMH-CNRS, ESPCI, Paris
PRINCIPAL LECTURES
(beginning at 10:00 a.m.)
WEEK ONE
Monday, June 16
Discussion of Quasi Geostrophy, Quasi Geostrophic Potential Vorticity, Conditions for Instability and Physical Interpretation
Joseph Pedlosky
Tuesday, June 17
Weakly Nonlinear Theory: The 2-layer Model, Critical Shears for Instability, Multiple Time Scales for Supercritical Flows, Chaos
Joseph Pedlosky
Wednesday, June 18
The Role of Topography and Radiation, an Example of Radiation-induced Instability
Joseph Pedlosky
Thursday, June 19
WHOI Holiday - no lecture
Friday, June 20
10:00 a.m.
Instabilities Evolving in Space and Time: The Role of Chaos and Chaotic Shocks
Joseph Pedlosky
2:00 p.m.
Giants: A History. Eady and Charney, Their Contributions and the History of the Charney/Burger Problem
Joseph Pedlosky
WEEK TWO
Monday, June 23
Dynamical Systems and Bifurcations
Laurette Tuckerman
Tuesday, June 24
Symmetry via Taylor-Couette Flow and Rayleigh-Benard Convection
Laurette Tuckerman
Wednesday, June 25
Applications to the Eckhaus Instability, D4 Scenario, and Others
Laurette Tuckerman
Thursday, June 26
Transition to Turbulence and the Self-sustaining Process
Laurette Tuckerman
Friday, June 27
Codimension-two Birfucations
Laurette Tuckerman
SEMINARS
WEEK THREE
(beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Monday, June 30
Transition to Turbulence in Stratified Kolmogorov Flows with Horizontal Shear
Pascale Garaud, University of California Santa Cruz
Tuesday, July 1
Parametric Instabilities and Mixing Along the Ocean Seafloor
Raffaele Ferrari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, July 2
Asymptotic Transport of Exact Coherent States in Two-Dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard Convection
Baole Wen, New York Institute of Technology
Thursday, July 3
Reversals of the Large-scale Circulation in Thermal Convection
M. Nicholas Moore, Colgate University
Friday, July 4
HOLIDAY
WEEK FOUR
Monday, July 7
TBD
Adrien Lefauve, Imperial College London
Tuesday, July 8
TBD
Megan Davies Wykes, University of Cambridge
Wednesday, July 9
TBD
Basile Gallet de Saint Aurin, CEA Saclay
Thursday, July 10
TBD
Bartosz Protas, McMaster University
Friday, July 11
TBD
Florentin Daniel, Northwestern University
WEEK FIVE
Monday, July 14
TBD
Loren Matilsky, University of California Santa Cruz
Tuesday, July 15
TBD
Wanying Kang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, July 16
TBD
Mara Freilich, Brown University
Thursday, July 17
TBD
Ali Arslan, ETH Zürich
Friday,, July 18
TBD
Adrian Fraser, University of Colorado Boulder
WEEK SIX
Monday, July 21
TBD
Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
Tuesday, July 22
TBD
Kasturi Shah, University of Cambridge
Wednesday, July 23
TBD
Glenn Flierl, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, July 24
TBD
Friday, July 25
TBD
Elizabeth Carlson, California Institute of Technology
WEEK SEVEN
Monday, July 28
TBD
Arefe Ghazi Nezami, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
Tuesday, July 29
TBD
Nicole Shibley, University of Cambridge
Wednesday, July 30
TBD
Claire Valva, New York University
Thursday, July 31
TBD
Dwight Barkley, University of Warwick
Friday, August 1
TBD
David Goluskin, University of Victoria
WEEK EIGHT
Monday, August 4
TBD
Jennifer MacKinnon, University of California San Diego
Tuesday, August 5
No Morning Seminar
Sears Pubic Lecture - 5:00 p.m., Redfield Auditorium
TBD
Jennifer MacKinnon, University of California, San Diego
Wednesday, August 6
TBD
Samuel Lewin, University of California Berkeley
Thursday, August 7
TBD
Theresa Oehmke, University of New Hampshire
Friday, August 8
TBD
Nathan Magnan, Côte d'Azur University
WEEK NINE
NO SEMINARS
WEEK TEN
FELLOWS' PRESENTATIONS
Monday, August 18
TBD
Tuesday, August 19
TBD
Wednesday, August 20
TBD
Thursday, August 21
TBD