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
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
Raffaele Ferrari, MIT

Thursday, July 24
TBD
Xuanting Hao, University of California San Diego

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