2005 Lecture Series Schedule
Fast Times and Fine Scales
June 20 - August 26, 2005
Principal Lecturers Schedule
Monday, June 20 - Friday, June 24, 10:00 AM
- Joseph B. Keller, Stanford University
Monday, June 27 - Wednesday, June 29, 10:00 AM
- Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Courant Institute, New York University
Thursday, June 30, 10 AM and Friday, July 1, 10:00 AM and 2:30 PM
- George C. Papanicolaou, Stanford University
Please note that there are two lectures on Friday, July 1st.
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Joseph B. Keller
- Review of ideal fluid dynamics; derivation of surface and gravity wave equations.
- Linear perturbation theory, short wave asymptotics and ray methods.
- Applications: shoaling, scattering, and waves in channels of variable depth.
- Heat conduction in inhomogeneous media, effective conductivities and multiscale analysis.
- Longwave dynamics; example: harbor with a small opening and energy exchange with the outside.
Eric Vanden-Eijnden
- Brownian motion, stochastic integrals, stochastic differential equations.
- Kolmogorov backward and forward equations, Feynman-Kac formula, Girsanov theorem.
- Averaging theorems for Markov chains and stochastic differential equations.
George C. Papanicolaou
- Introduction to the use of variational methods for high-contrast diffusivity problems.
- Variational principles for convection-diffusion and their use for the analysis of high Peclet number behavior.
- The notion of eddy viscosity for 2D cellular flows and its behavior at large Rayleigh numbers.
Regular Seminar Schedule
Thursday,
June 23
2:30 PM Edriss Titi, Weizman
Institute and University of California, Irvine
Global
Regularity for the 3-D Primitive Equations of Large Scale
Ocean
and Atmosphere Dynamics
Monday,
June 27
2:30
PM Stefan Llewellyn-Smith, University of Callifornia, San
Diego
Impact
of a Cylinder
Tuesday,
June 28
3:00
PM Physical
Oceanography Department Seminar, Clark 507, Quissett Campus
Olaf
Dahl, Goteborg University
Development
of Perturbations on a Buoyant Coastal Current
Monday,
July 4
HOLIDAY
Tuesday,
July 5
10:00 AM Salvatore Torquato, Princeton University
Random
Heterogeneous Materials for Fun and Profit
Wednesday,
July 6
10:00 AM Jacques Vanneste, University of Edinburgh
Passive-scalar
Decay in Smooth Random Flows
Thursday,
July 7
10:00 AM Charles Doering, University of Michigan
and Bill Young, University of California, San Diego
Stirring
up Trouble: Estimates of Mixing Efficiency for Incompressible Flows
Friday,
July 8
10:00 AM Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Imperial College
Mixing
with Ghost Rods
Monday,
July 11
10:00 AM Rachel Kuske, University of British
Columbia
Multiscale
and Noise Sensitivity
Tuesday,
July 12
10:00 AM Oliver Buhler, Courant Institute
Wave
Capture, Wave-Vortex Duality, and the Gait of the Waterstrider
Wednesday,
July 13
10:00 AM Onno Bokhove, University of Twente
Reservoir
Formation in Shallow Granular Flows through a Contraction
Thursday,
July 14
10:00 AM Matt Finn, Imperial College
Topological
Chaos in Spatially Periodic Mixers
Friday,
July 15
10:00 AM Rachel Zammett, Oxford University
Spiral
Troughs and Katabatic Winds on Mars
Geoff
Evatt, Oxford University
Dansgaard-Oeschger
Events and Subglacial Formation
Andrew Fowler, Oxford University
The
Day after Tomorrow
Monday,
July 18
10:00 AM Andrew Majda, Courant Institute
A
New Multi-scale Model for the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Tuesday,
July 19
10:00 AM Marcel Oliver, International University,
Bremen
Averaging
by Degenerate Asymptotics
Wednesday,
July 20
10:00 AM Herbert Keller, Caltech
Kolmogorov
Flows via Continuation, Bifurcation and RPM
Thursday,
July 21
10:00 AM Norman Lebovitz, University of Chicago
and Joseph Biello, Courant Institute/UC Davis
Hamiltonian
Reduction and Dirac Brackets
Friday,
July 22
10:00 AM Andrew Belmonte, Penn State University
Fast
Times and Fine Pasta: Stress Waves, Buckling, and Breaking
ALL LECTURES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEASON WILL BEGIN AT 10:30
AM
Monday,
July 25
10:30 AM Jack Whitehead, P.O. Department, Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution
Temperature-salinity
Laboratory Climate Experiments
Tuesday,
July 26
10:30 AM William Young, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography
Bugery
and Fockery
Wednesday,
July 27
10:30 AM Alexey Fedorov, Yale University
ENSO
Dynamics in a Quasi-fast-wave Approximation and Energy Dissipation
Rates
in the Tropical Ocean
Thursday,
July 28
10:30 AM Joel Rogers, Naval Research Laboratory
and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
Nonclassical
Hydrodynamics
Friday,
July 29
10:30 AM Neil Balmforth, University of British
Columbia and David Vener, M.I.T.
Snail
Balls and More
Monday,
August 1
10:30 AM John D. Gibbon, Imperial College, London
Cluster
Formation on Complex Multi-Scale Systems
Tuesday,
August 2
10:30 AM Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Courant Institute
Large
Deviations (A pseudo-pedagogical lecture!)
Wednesday,
August 3
10:30 AM Leslie Smith, University of Wisconsin
A
Mechanism for the Formation of Jets and Vortices in Rotating Flows
Thursday,
August 4
10:30 AM Fabian Waleffe, University of Wisconsin
Structures
of Shear Turbulence
Friday,
August 5
10:30 AM Predrag Cvitanovic, Georgia Tech
Unstable
Recurrent Patterns in Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Dynamics
Monday,
August 8
10:30 AM George Veronis, Yale University
Experiments
and Theory on the Dynamics and Energetics of Double Diffusive Systems
Tuesday,
August 9
10:00 AM Paul Milewski, University of Wisconsin
Breaking
Waves and Mixing in Shallow Water
2:00 PM Christopher Wolfe, Oregon
State University
Special
Seminar - Disturbance Growth in a Time Periodic Baroclinic System
Wednesday,
August 10
10:30 AM Ed Spiegel, Columbia University
Phenomenological
Photofluiddynamics in Hot Stars
Thursday,
August 11
10:30 AM Jost von Hardenberg, ISAC-CNR, Torino
Vegetation
Patterns in Drylands
Friday,
August 12
10:00 AM Antonello Provenzale, ISAC-CNR, Torino
Ibex
in the Snow
2:00 PM Esteban Tabak, NYU
Internal
Wave Spectrum in the Ocean
GFD FELLOWS PRESENTATIONS
Monday, August 22
10:00 - 11:00 AM Benjamin Akers, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Shallow water flows through a contraction
11:00 AM - 12:00
Tiffany Shaw, University of Toronto
Bounds on multiscale mixing efficiency
2:00 - 3:00 PM Walter
Pauls, University of Nice
Diffusion processes
in cellular flow
Tuesday, August 23
10:00 - 11:00 AM John Rudge, University of Cambridge
Scattering past a cylinder with weak circulation
11:00 AM - 12:00 Khachik Sargsyan, University of Michigan
Fluctuations in
chemical systems in the large volume regime
Simple models with cascade of energy and anomalous dissipation
Wednesday, August 24
10:00 - 11:00 AM Inga Koszalka,
Politecnico di Torino
The vibrating pendulum
and stratified fluids
11:00 AM - 12:00 Alexander
Hasha, New York University
A search for
baroclinic structures
Intermittency in simple models for turbulent transport
Thursday, August 25
10:00 - 11:00 AM Marcus Roper, DEAS, Harvard University
Internal wave breaking and mixing in the deep ocean
11:00 AM - 12:00 Aya Tanabe,
Imperial College of London
Laboratory experiments
on mesoscale vortices colliding with multiple islands