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
Thin Jet Instabilities
Glenn Flierl, MIT
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
Ultrasound for Estuaries: Imaging the Hidden Life of Stratified Turbulence
Adrien Lefauve, Imperial College London
Tuesday, July 8
Two Openings Are Better Than One: The Fluid mechanics of Natural Ventilation
Megan Davies Wykes, University of Cambridge
Wednesday, July 9
Transport by 2d Turbulence: A Surprising Failure of the Standard Inverse Cascade Theory
Basile Gallet de Saint Aurin, CEA Saclay
Thursday, July 10
Systematic Search for Singularities and Instabilities in Euler Flows (joint work with Xinyu Zhao and Roman Shyvdkoy)
Bartosz Protas, McMaster University
Friday, July 11
Angular Momentum Transport in Stellar Stably Stratified Layers: Impact of Dynamo Action (and Waves)
Florentin Daniel, Northwestern University
WEEK FIVE
Monday, July 14
A Dynamo Confinement Scenario for the Solar Tachocline in the Appropriate Parameter Regime
Loren Matilsky, University of California Santa Cruz
Tuesday, July 15
Interaction Between Tides, Convection and Baroclinic Eddies on Icy Satellites
Wanying Kang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, July 16
Cross Scale Energy and Tracer Fluxes from Observations and Theory
Mara Freilich, Brown University
Thursday, July 17
From Surface Tension in a Two-layer Model to Breaking Wave-induced Bioluminescence: GFD at Scales < O(1 m)
Xuanting Hao, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Friday, July 18
Spontaneous Generation of Helical Flows by Salt Fingers
Adrian Fraser, University of Colorado Boulder
WEEK SIX
Monday, July 21
Internal Waves Created and Absorbed by Turbulence
Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
Tuesday, July 22
Fluid Dynamics of Aerosol-filled Vortices in the Stratosphere
Kasturi Shah, University of Cambridge
Wednesday, July 23
Parametric Instabilities and Mixing Along the Ocean Seafloor
Raffaele Ferrari, MIT
Thursday, July 24
Consistent Spectral Approximations of Koopman Operators and an Application to the Quasi-biennial Oscillation
Claire Valva, New York University
Friday, July 25
Assimilation as a Tool for Understanding Large-Time Behavior of Dynamical Systems
Elizabeth Carlson, California Institute of Technology
WEEK SEVEN
Monday, July 28
Ocean Dynamics of Rapidly Rotating Ice-covered Satellites Due to Heterogeneous Seafloor Heating
Arefe Ghazi Nezami, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
Tuesday, July 29
A Discussion about Ice
Nicole Shibley, University of Cambridge
Wednesday, July 30
Coupled Effects of Vortex Dynamics and Shape Change on Ice Cylinders in a Cross-Flow
Sarah Morris, Montana State University
Thursday, July 31
Topics in Instability and Transition
Dwight Barkley, University of Warwick
Friday, August 1
Internal Wave-breaking in a Horizontally Sheared Mean Flow
Samuel Lewin, University of California Berkeley
WEEK EIGHT
Monday, August 4
Thinking Outside of the Non-dimensional Box
Jennifer MacKinnon, University of California San Diego
Tuesday, August 5
No Morning Seminar
Sears Public Lecture - 5:00 p.m., Redfield Auditorium
Fresh, Salty or Spicy: How Layering of Different Types of Water Controls Heat, Hurricanes and Habitats in the Gulf of Mexico
Jennifer MacKinnon, University of California, San Diego
Wednesday, August 6
Exact Solutions to Euler's Equations
Nick Pizzo, University of Rhode Island
Thursday, August 7
An Experimental Exploration of Mass Flux with Applications to Particles and Turbulence
Theresa Oehmke, University of New Hampshire
Friday, August 8
Resonant Drag Instabilities, or What Happens When You Sprinkle Dust on a Wave?
Nathan Magnan, Côte d'Azur University
WEEK NINE
NO SEMINARS
WEEK TEN
FELLOWS' PRESENTATIONS
Monday, August 18
No presentations
Tuesday, August 19
10:00 a.m.
Secondary Shear Instabilities on Kelvin-Helmholtz Braids
Emma Bouckley, University of Cambridge
10:45 a.m.
Optimal Heat Transport in Steady Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Theo Lewy, University of Cambridge
11:30 a.m.
Ray Theory for Rotating Hyperbolic “Instabilities”
Farid Rajkotia-Zaheer, University of Victoria
2:00 p.m.
Linear Waves vs. Nonlinear Potential Vorticity Mixing—Which Determines the Equatorial Jet Direction in Planetary Atmospheres?
Heng Quan, Princeton University
2:45 p.m.
Weakly Nonlinear Dynamics of Vorticity Patches from Hamiltonian Contour Theory
Alexandre Tlili, CEA
Wednesday, August 20
10:00 a.m.
Pattern Transitions in Faraday Waves: From Hexagons to Beaded Stripes
Kyle McKee, MIT
10:45 a.m.
Upslope and Downslope Flow Along Ocean Bottom
Isabela Conde, University of New South Wales
11:30 a.m.
The Interaction of a Gravity Wave with an Unstable Horizontal Shear at Low Froude Number
Marion Cocusse, École Polytechnique
2:00 p.m.
Effect of Burger Number on Two Rotating Currents
Edoardo Bellincioni, University of Twente
2:45 p.m.
Submarine Waterfalls: Dynamics of Gravity Currents over Stepped Slopes
Andrés Posada, Queen's University
Thursday, August 21
10:00 a.m.
Global Stability Beyond the Energy Method
David Darrow, MIT
10.45 a.m.
Baroclinic Instability as a Driver of Polar Vortices on Giant Planets
Lin Yao, University of Chicago