2019 Lecture Series Schedule
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
SEMINARS
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