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Current Topic and Lecture Schedule

Program Dates: June 17 to August 23, 2013


"Buoyancy-Driven Flows"

Introductory lectures will be a total of 2 hours each with a short break.


Monday, June 17 - 9:45 AM

Introduction

Claudia Cenedese, Eric Chassignet and Stefan Llewellyn Smith, GFD Co-Directors

June 17-21– Principal Lectures - 10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon

Gravity Currents
Paul Linden, University of Cambridge

Week 2

June 24-28 – Principal Lectures - 10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon

Gravity Currents
Paul Linden, University of Cambridge


Lectures begin at 10:30 AM

Week 3

Monday, July 1
Falling into structured fluids
Philip Yecko, Montclair State University

Tuesday, July 2
Gravity-driven interfacial flows: Vorticity-based models
Eckhart Meiburg, University of California

Wednesday, July 3
Dense overflows in ocean general circulation models
Sonya Legg, Princeton University

Thursday, July 4
HOLIDAY

Friday, July 5
Large amplitude acoustic streaming
Greg Chini, University of New Hampshire

Week 4

Monday, July 8
Title to be announced
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin

Tuesday, July 9
Title to be announced
Keith Julien, University of Colorado at Boulder

Wednesday, July 10
Title to be announced
Brian White, University of North Carolina

Thursday, July 11
Title to be announced
Jim Rottman, University of California, San Diego

Friday, July 12
Eddy generation by topographic transformation of coastal-trapped waves
Ted Johnson, University College London

Week 5


Monday, July 15
Layers, layers everywhere: The dynamics of mixing-induced layering in turbulent stratified flow
Colm Caulfield, University of Cambridge

Tuesday July 16
A refined life at high resolution:  subgrid modelling in the eddy-rich regime
Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University

Wednesday, July 17
Title to be announced
Michael Patterson, University of Bristol

Thursday, July 18
Harmonic forcing in rotating flows: zonal flow, instabilities and inertial waves
Alban Sauret, Princeton University

Friday, July 19
Stability Criteria for Inhomogeneous Equilibria in the Single Wave Model
George Hagstrom, New York University

Week 6


Monday, July 22
Title to be announced
Richard Katz, University of Oxford

Tuesday, July 23
Title to be announced
Basile Gallet, Laboratoire FAST

Wednesday, July 24
Shoaling and tunnelling internal solitary waves
Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta

Thursday, July 25
A turbulent model of the Arctic halocline
Michael Spall, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Friday, July 26
Title to be announced
Pascale Garaud, University of California, Santa Cruz

Week 7


Monday, July 29
Sea breezes and land breezes along coastlines and semi-enclosed seas: Diurnal gravity currents
Sarah Gille, University of California, San Diego

Tuesday, July 30
Title to be announced
Jean-Marc Chomaz, CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique

Wednesday, July 31
Title to be announced
Andrew Hogg, University of Bristol

Thursday, August 1
Title to be announced
Joseph Pedlosky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Friday, August 2
Title to be announced
Andreas Thurnherr, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory

Week 8


Monday, August 5
Extreme multiplicity in convection patterns
Laurette Tuckerman, PMMH-ESPCI

Tuesday, August 6
Title to be announced
Andrew Stewart, California Institute of Technology

Wednesday, August 7
Title to be announced
Susan Lozier, Duke University

Thursday, August 8
The influence of mesoscale eddies of the Arabian Sea on the slope currents of Red Sea and Persian Gulf outflow water
Xavier Carton, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale

Public Lecture - 5 PM - Redfield Auditorium, reception to follow
Title to be announced
Susan Lozier, Duke University

Friday, August 9
Title to be announced
Andrew Thompson, California Institute of Technology

Week 9

Quiet Week - no lectures

Week 10

Fellows' presentations