2023 LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE
Lectures/Seminars are held in Walsh Cottage in Woods Hole Village
PRINCIPAL LECTURERS
Heather Knutson, California Institute of Technology
Geoffrey Vallis, University of Exeter
WEEK 1 - PRINCIPAL LECTURES
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
(Lectures start at 10:30 a.m.)
Monday, July 3
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
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, University of Aix-Marseille
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 Tunneling through a Thermohaline Staircase
Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
Friday, July 28
Enhancement of Ice Melting in Isotropic Turbulence
Blair Johnson, University of Texas
WEEK 7 - SEMINARS
Monday, July 31
Turbulence, Waves, and Stars
DanieL Lecoanet, Northwestern University
Tuesday, August 1
Curious Convection in Vertical Channels
Chris 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