2003 Lecture Series Schedule

Non-Newtonian Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

June 16 - August 22, 2003

Monday, June 16
10:00 AM John Hinch, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Phenomena and Rheometry

2:00 PM John Hinch
Constitutive Equations

Tuesday, June 17
10:00 AM John Hinch
Simple Flow Calculations

Wednesday, June 18
10:00 AM John Hinch
Experiments and Computing

3:00 PM John Hinch
Microstructural Studies for Rheology

Thursday, June 19
10:00 AM John Hinch
Simple Relaxation and Yield Problems

3:00 PM John Hinch
Instabilities

Friday, June 20
10:00 AM John Hinch
Strong Flows

3:00 PM John Hinch
The Success and Failure of Oldroyd-B (inc converging flows)

Monday, June 23
10:30 AM Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Imperial College, U.K.
Turbulent Polymers

2:00 PM John A. Whitehead
Discrete Jumps and Oscillations in Temperature - Salinity Driven Laboratory Experiments

Tuesday, June 24
10:30 AM John Wettlaufer, Yale University
Flow of Unfrozen Water

3:00 PM P. O. Seminar, Clark 3
No Speaker Scheduled

Wednesday, June 25
10:30 AM Linda Smolka, Duke University
Filament Dynamics of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Extensional Flows

3:00 PM Phil Morrison, University of Texas, Austin
Fluctuations in Inhomogeneous Systems using Statistical Mechanics

5:30 PM Project Discussions

Thursday, June 26
10:30 AM Oliver Buhler, New York University
Vortices in a Tea Cup

Friday, June 27
10:30 AM Claudia Cenedese, WHOI
A Laboratory Model of Thermocline Depth and Exchange Fluxes across Circumpolar Front

Monday, June 30
10:30 AM Daniel Joseph, University of Minnesota
Non-Newtonian Fluids I

3:00 PM Daniel Joseph
Videos and Demonstrations

Tuesday, July 1
10:30 AM Daniel Joseph
Non-Newtonian Fluids II

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Wednesday, July 2
10:30 AM Norman Lebovitz, University of Chicago
Fission Theory Primed

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Thursday, July 3
10:30 AM Joseph B. Keller, Stanford University
Water Waves

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Friday, July 4
10:30 AM
NO LECTURE - DUE TO INDEPENDENCE DAY HOLIDAY

Monday, July 7
10:30 AM Slava Solomatov, New Mexico State University
Mantle Convection with Realistic Rheologies

3:00 PM Andrew Fowler, Oxford University
Ice Flows

Tuesday, July 8
10:30 AM L. Mahadevan, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
The Pseudo-Elasticity of Newtonian Fluids

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Wednesday, July 9
10:30 AM Gregory Buck, Saint Anselm College
Natural Entanglements: Geometry, Topology and a Phase

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Thursday, July 10
10:30 AM Greg Hirth. Geology & Geophysics Department, WHOI
Non-Newtonian Viscous Deformation of the Earth's Mantle

3:00 PM Ross Griffiths, Australian National University
Solidification in Shear Flows

Friday, July 11
10:30 AM Alan Rempel, Yale University
Freezing Dirt: The Fluid Mechanics of Frost Heave

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Monday, July 14
10:30 AM Amala Mahadevan, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Spatial Heterogeneity at the Sea Surface

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Tuesday, July 15
10:30 AM
Informal Discussion: Horizontal Convection--turbulent or non-turbulent?

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Wednesday, July 16
10:30 AM Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Imperial College
Mixing in a Simple Map

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Thursday, July 17
10:30 AM Oliver Buhler, New York University
Wave Scattering and Remote Recoil

3:00 PM Ed Speigel, Columbia University
The Content of Shape

Friday, July 18
10:30 AM NO LECTURE

3:00 PM John Bush, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Water Walking Insects

Monday, July 21
10:30 AM Charles Doering, University of Michigan
The Stochastic Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscanov Equation, Interacting Particles and Duality

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Tuesday, July 22
10:30 AM Alexander Soloviev, NOVA Southeastern University
Horizontal Mixing in the Western Pacific Warm Pool as a Nonlinear Diffusion Process

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Wednesday, July 23
10:30 AM Misha Chertkov, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Phenomenology of Rayleigh Taylor Turbulence

3:00 PM Dr. Stephen Wolfram, H. Burr Steinbach Scholar
A New Kind of Science - Redfield Auditorium

Thursday, July 24

10:30 AM Steve Childress, New York University
Experiments on Flapping Flight as a Symmetry Breaking Bifurcation

3:00 PM Jennifer MacKinnon, University of California, San Diego
Missing Mixing or Missing Physics: the Nonlinear Evolution of Internal Gravity Waves over Rough Topography

Friday, July 25
10:30 AM Andrew Belmonte, Penn State University
Introduction to the Dynamics of Wormlike Micellar Fluids

3:00 PM Andrew Belmonte
Instabilities of Viscoelastic Free Surfaces

Monday, July 28
10:30 AM Ian Frigaard, University of British Columbia
Viscoplastic Fluids

3:00 PM Amy Shen, Washington University
Coating Dynamics with Complex Fluids

Tuesday, July 29
10:30 AM Ian Frigaard, University of British Columbia
Stability of Multi-Layer Viscoplastic Flows

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Wednesday, July 30
10:30 AM Pascale Garaud, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Dusty Accretion Disks

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Thursday, July 31
10:30 AM Chiang Mei, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Slow Flows of Mud Down a Channel or a Conical Surface

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Friday, August 1
10:30 AM Joe Pedlosky, Physical Oceanographic Dept, WHOI
Rossby Basin Modes and Their Instabilities

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Monday, August 4
10:30 AM Colm-cille Caulfied, Univ. of California, San Diego
The Consequences of Stress: Rigorous Bounds for Environmental Flows

3:00 PM Antonello Provenzale, Instituto de Cosmogeofisica
Patterns of Blown Sand

Tuesday, August 5
10:30 AM George Field, Harvard University
Dynamo Theory and Magnetic Helicity

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Wednesday, August 6
10:30 AM Gordon Ogilvie, University of Cambridge
The Visco-Elastic/MHD Connection

3:00 PM Andrew Woods, University of Cambridge
Gravity Currents in Porous Media

Thursday, August 7
10:30 AM Yoel Forterre, Universite de Provence, France
Long-surface Wave Instability in Dry Granular Flows

3:00 PM Shreyas Mandre, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dynamics of Roll Waves

Friday, August 8
10:30 AM Richard Craster, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Evolving and Cooling Domes of Lava

3:00 PM George Haller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kinematic Theory of Unsteady Separation

Monday, August 11
10:30 AM NO LECTURE

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Tuesday, August 12
10:30 AM NO LECTURE

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Wednesday, August 13
10:30 AM NO LECTURE

3:00 PM TBA
TBA

Thursday, August 14
5:00 PM Andrew Woods, BP Professor, University of Cambridge
Volcano Mechanics - a public lecture at Redfield Auditorum, reception to follow

Friday, August 15
10:30 AM NO LECTURE

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Monday, August 18
10:30 AM NO LECTURE

3:00 PM NO LECTURE

Tuesday, August 19 PROJECT TALKS
10:30 AM Christopher Wolfe, Oregon State University
Eddy Formation over Variable Topography

2:00 PM Andrew Thompson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Diffusively Driven Overturning from a Stable Density Gradient

3:15 PM Amit Apte, University of Texas at Austin
Wave-Mean-Flow Interaction in Oldroyd-B Fluid

Wednesday, August 20
10:00 AM Anshuman Roy, University of Michigan
Viscoelastic Catenary

11:15 AM Neil Burrell, University of Colorado-Boulder
1 3/4 Layer Quasigeostrophic Equations

2:15 PM Julia Mullarney, Research School of Earth Sciences
Laboratory Experiments on Non-linear Rossby Adjustment in a Channel

3:30 PM Alison Rust, University of Oregon
Volcanic Tremor

Thursday, August 21
10:00 AM Junjun Liu, California Institute of Technology
Stability of Viscoplastic Flow

11:15 AM Joel Miller, Cambridge University
Elastic Critical Layers

Friday, August 22
10:30 AM NO LECTURE

3:00 PM NO LECTURE