2004 Lecture Series Schedule

Tides

June 21 - August 27, 2004

General Schedule

Weeks 1-2: June 21 - July 2, Principal Lectures
Weeks 3-8: July 5 - August 13, Seminar Series
Week 9: August 16-20, Quiet Week
Week 10: August 23-27, Fellows' Presentations

There will be no seminars from visitors in Weeks 1, 2, 9 and 10.

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There will be three themes in Week 4-6.

Week 4: July 12-16 - Oceanic Tides

Week 5: July 12-16 - Planetary Tides

Week 6: July 12-16 - Tides in Astrophysics

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Principal Lectures

Myrl Hendershott, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Christopher Garrett, University of Victoria

Week 1 - Myrl Hendershott

Monday, June 21
10:00 AM Introduction to Ocean Tides

Tuesday, June 22

10:00 AM The Role of Tidal Dissipation and the Laplace Tidal Equations

Wednesday, June 23
10:00 AM Solutions to Laplace's Tidal Equations

Thursday, June 24
10:00 AM Resonance and Solutions to the LTE

Friday, June 25
10:00 AM The Spectrum of Free Waves Possible along Coasts

Week 2 - Christopher Garrett

Monday, June 28
10:00 AM Internal Tides

Tuesday, June 29
10:00 AM Tidal Bores

Wednesday, June 30
10:00 AM Tidal Rectification and Stokes Drift

Thursday, July 1
10:00 AM Tidal Rectification, Stratification and Mixing

Friday, July 2
10:00 AM Tidal Power

Regular Seminar Schedule

Week 3

Monday, July 5

HOLIDAY

Tuesday, July 6
10:30 AM Jean-Paul Zahn, Observatoire de Paris
Tidal Evolution of Binary Stars

3:00 PM P.O. Department Seminar, Clark 507

Wednesday, July 7
10:30 AM Jonas Nycander, Stockholm University
Generation of Internal Waves in the Deep Ocean by Tides

Thursday, July 8
10:30 AM Sarah Gille and Stefan Llewellyn-Smith, University of California, San Diego
Global Land and Sea Breeze

2:30 PM Jennifer MacKinnon, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
A Primer on Internal Waves

Friday, July 9
10:30 AM Ed Spiegel, Columbia University
On the Bifurcation of Species

2:30 PM Claudia Cenedese
Monopolar Vortices Interaction with Different Geometry Obstacles

Week 4

Monday, July 12
10:30 AM Rob Pinkel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
HOME

2:30 PM Luc Rainville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Internal Wave Propagation from the Hawaiian Ridge

Tuesday, July 13
10:30 AM Maura Hagan, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Thermal Tides in Earth's Atmosphere

2:30 PM Jeff Forbes, University of Colorado
Nonmigrating Tides in Planetary Atmospheres

Wednesday, July 14
10:30 AM Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ocean Tides and Climate Change

2:30 PM Alexander Soloviev, NOVA Southeastern University
Energetic Baroclinic Tides in the Florida Straits

Thursday, July 15
10:30 AM Brian Arbic, Princeton University
Global Barotropic and Baroclinic Tide Models

3:30 PM Peter Rhines, Steinbach Scholar - PO Seminar - Carriage House, Quissett Campus
Rossby Waves and Potential Vorticity in Oceans and Atmospheres

Friday, July 16
10:30 AM James Girton, Physical Oceanography Department, WHOI
Internal Tide Generation and Dissipation: A Nearfield View

3:00 PM Peter Rhines, Steinbach Scholar - Institute Seminar - Clark 507
Exploring the Subpolar Atlantic: Climate, Dynamics and Seagliders

Week 5

Monday, July 19
10:30 AM Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Imperial College
Knitting and Mixing

Tuesday, July 20
10:30 AM Doug Lin, University of California
Tidal Interaction between Extrasolar Planets and their Host Stars

3:00 PM Harper Simmons, IARC, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, P.O. Department Seminar, Clark 507
Baroclinic Wave Generation in a Tidal Model

Wednesday, July 21
10:30 AM Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
Internal Wave Propagation: Ray Theory and Beyond

2:30 PM Jody Klymak, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
The Tidal Graveyard: Turbulent Dissipation near the Hawaiian Ridge

Thursday, July 22
10:30 AM Richard Kerswell, University of Bristol
lo, Tides and Magnetic Fields

3:00 PM Anand Gnanadesikan, GFDL, Princeton University, Special P.O. Dept. Seminar, Clark 507
Connecting the ACC and THC: The Role of Southern Ocean Winds and Eddies

Friday, July 23
10:30 AM Tom Mullin, University of Manchester
Sticky Balls

2:30 PM Colin Cutter, Imperial College
The Imperial College Ocean Model: Simulating the Oceans Using Finite Elements

Week 6

Monday, July 26
10:30 AM Sonya Legg, Physical Oceanography Department, WHOI
Internal Tide Reflection from Topography

2:30 PM Steve Childress, Courant Institute
Geometric Constraints on Vortex Stretching

Tuesday, July 27
10:30 AM Alexey Fedorov, Princeton University
Generation of Breaking Waves by Strong Winds

Wednesday, July 28
10:30 AM Gary Egbert, Oregon State University
Long-period Tides

2:30 PM Gordon Ogilvie, University of Cambridge

Tidal Dissipation in Rotating Giant Planets

Thursday, July 29

10:30 AM Andrew Belmonte, Pennsylvania State University
Viscoelastic Craters

Friday, July 30
10:30 AM Pin-Gao Gu, Academia Sinica
Thermal Adjustment of Hot Jupiters due to Tidal Dissipation

Week 7

Monday, August 2
10:30 AM Joel Miller, University of Cambridge
Zero Reynolds Number Elastic Fluid Instabilities

2:30 PM Antonello Provenzale, ICG Torino
Two Short Stories in Turbulent Convection: The Clustering of Plumes and a Simple Model of Atmospheric Convection

Tuesday, August 3
10:30 AM Rui Xin Huang, Physical Oceanography Department, WHOI
Energetics of the Oceanic Circulation: Sandstrom Theory and Lab Experiments

Wednesday, August 4
5:00 PM Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Climate Change Stories - A public lecture at Lilly Auditorum, reception to follow

Thursday, August 5
10:30 AM Amala Mahadevan, Boston University
Phytoplankton, Nutrients and CO2 in the Surface Ocean

2:30 PM L. Mahadevan, Harvard University
Particulate Interfaces

Friday, August 6
10:30 AM Charles Doering, University of Michigan
A Bound on Mixing Efficiency

Week 8

Monday, August 9
10:30 AM Leo Maas, NIOZ
Wave Attractors

Tuesday, August 10
10:30 AM Matthew Wells, Yale University
Laboratory Experiments on Entrainment in Gravity Currents with Stratification and Rotation

2:30 PM Jennifer MacKinnon, Scripps Institution of Oceanograpy - P.O. Dept. Seminar, Clark 507
Mixing Hotspots and other Catastrophes: Mechanisms of Tidal Dissipation

Wednesday, August 11
10:30 AM Norman Lebovitz, University of Chicago
Elliptical Instabilities

Thursday, August 12
2:30 PM Paul Dellar, Imperial College
The Revolutionary Shallow Water Equations

Friday, August 13
10:30 AM NO LECTURE

2:30 PM NO LECTURE

Week 9

NO LECTURES

Week 10 - Project Talks

Tuesday, August 24
10:00 AM Danielle Wain, University of Illinois
Laboratory Experiments on the Effects of Baroclinic Eddies on a Dense Plume in a Rotating Stratifeid Fluid

11:15 AM Eleanor Williams Frajka, University of Washington
Convection in a Fluid Loop

2:00 PM Lisa Neef, University of Toronto
Resonant Triads of Tidally-Forced Internal Gravity Waves

3:15 PM Yaron Toledo, Technion
High Order Boussinesq Models for Internal Interfacial Waves and Layered SQG

Wednesday, August 25
10:00 AM Anja Slim, University of Cambridge
Exotic Gravity Currents

11:15 AM Josefina Arraut, Brazilian Institute for Space Research
Rossby Wave Scattering between Homogeneous Media

2:00 PM Marshall Ward, Florida State University
Double Diffusive Gravity Currents under Rotation

3:15 PM David Vener, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Two-Dimensional Vortex Shedding from a Corner

Thursday, August 26
10:00 AM Vineet Birman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Non-Normal Convection

11:15 AM Visweswaran Nageswaran, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Parametric Instability of Internal Waves with Rotation