2006 Lecture Series Schedule

Ice

All lectures are held at Walsh Cottage unless otherwise indicated

Principal Lecturers Schedule

Monday, June 19 - Friday, June 23, lectures at 10:00 AM

    Grae Worster, University of Cambridge

Thursday, June 22, 5:00 PM
Public Lecture - Redfield Auditorium

    Greg Dash, University of Washington
    Nine Ices, Cloud Seeding and a Brother's Farewell; (how Kurt Vonnegut
    learned the science for Cat's Cradle (but conveniently left some out)

Monday, June 26 - Friday, June 30, 10:00 AM

    Grae Worster, University of Cambridge

Regular Seminar Schedule

Monday, July 3

10:30 AM
    Large scale heat and mass balance of sea ice in the Arctic
    Norbert Untersteiner, University of Washington

2:30 PM
    Glacier mass balance, lithotripsy and porters in the Karakorum
    Norbert Untersteiner, University of Washington

Tuesday, July 4 - HOLIDAY 

Wednesday, July 5

10:30 AM
    Global climate modeling: simulations of the Polar regions
    John Walsh, University of Alaska

2:30 PM
    Arctic Ocean circulation, structure and freshwater balance
    Andrey Proshutinsky, WHOI, Physical Oceanography Department 

10:30 AM
   Ice/Ocean interaction from the ocean side: teleconnections
    Doug Martinson, Columbia University  

Friday, July 7

Monday, July 10

10:30 AM
    Strings, Ice and Cosmology  
    Lam Hui , Columbia University  

Tuesday, July 11, 10:00 AM, Smith Conference Room
Steinbach Scholar and Physical Oceanography Deptartment Seminars

10:30 AM
    Thickness distribution of sea ice: Theory and observation
    Dick Moritz , University of Washington

3:00 PM - Carriage House, Quissett Campus
Steinbach Scholar Seminar 

    Turbulence, scales, eddy viscosity/diffusivity, and simple models
    for the ocean boundary layer
    Miles McPhee , McPhee Research Corporation

Thursday, July 13

10:30 AM
    Sea ice dynamics
    Dan Feltham, University College

3:00 PM, Clark 201, Quissett Campus
Special P.O. Seminar

2:30 PM - Walsh Cottage  
    Mixing in the deep Canada basin of the Arctic Ocean
    Mary-Louise Timmermans, Physical Oceanography Department, WHOI

Monday, July 17

10:30 AM
    Convection in the Arctic
    Bert Rudels, Finnish Institute of Marine Research

Tuesday, July 18

10:30 AM
    Internal waves
    Colm-cille Caufield, University of Cambridge

Wednesday, July 19

10:30 AM
    Biota in sea ice
    Hajo Eicken, University of Alaska

2:30 PM
    Sea ice optics
    Don Perovich, Cold Regions Research and Eng. Laboratory

Thursday, July 20

10:30 AM
    Influence of horizontal stress gradients on ice-sheet stability
    Richard Hindmarsh, British Antarctic Survey

Friday, July 21

10:30 AM
    Ponytail motion, Hill's equation and body weight
    Joseph Keller, Stanford University

Monday, July 24

10:30 AM
    Shaken not stirred: mixing in stratified flows
    Michael Patterson, Yale University

Tuesday, July 25

10:30 AM
    Thermodynamic response of sea ice with a thickness distribution
    Goran Bjork , Goteborg University    

Wednesday, July 26

10:30 AM
    Glaciers rubbed the wrong way
    Christian Schoof, University of British Columbia

2:30 PM
    Low-dimensional models of subcritical instability in shear flows
    Norman Lebovitz, University of Chicago

Thursday, July 27

10:30 AM
    The new view of ice sheet dynamics
    Robert Bindschalder, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

2:30 PM
    Simulating moving boundaries in thin liquid layers
    Petri Fast, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Friday, July 28

10:30 AM
    Time-periodic flow in a corner at low Re
    Keith Moffatt, University of Cambridge

Monday, July 31

2:30 PM
    Dynamical Problems in Glaciology
    Andrew Fowler, Oxford University

Tuesday, August 1

10:30 AM
    Do Martian Ice Caps Flows
    Dale Winebrenner, University of Washington

Wednesday, August 2

10:30 AM
    Peeling back the ice layers by listening to what's underneath
    Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Penn State University

    Derivation of macroscopic equations for rarified gases by elimination of fast variables
    Paul Dellar, Imperial College

Thursday, August 3

10:30 AM
    H-Bombs, Icebergs and other GFD Problems
    Doug MacAyeal, University of Chicago

2:30 PM
    Wind Pumping, Porous Media and the Fate of Ice Sheets
    om Neumann, University of Vermont

Friday, August 4

10:30 AM
    Transition Zones in Ice Sheets
    Sophie Nowicki, University College, London

Monday, August 7

10:30 AM
    Cavity Ripples in Water
    Andrew Belmonte, Penn State University

Tuesday, August 8

10:30 AM
    Orbital Calculations and Mission Design
    Herb Keller, Caltech 

Wednesday, August 9

10:30 AM
    Avalanches
    Jim McElwaine, University of Cambridge

2:30 PM
    Rattleback Diversions & the Geodynamo
    Keith Moffatt, University of Cambridge

Thursday, August 10

10:30 AM
    The Stress of it All...the Entire Glacier
    Alan Rempel, University of Oregon

2:30 PM
    Experimental Attempts to Simulate Continental Drift
    Jun Zhang, NYU

Friday, August 11

10:30 AM
    The Demise of Spiegel's Periodic Orbits in Turbulence Relativity for Cyclist
    Predrag Cvitanovic, George Tech

6:00 PM
    On the bifurcation of species
    Ed Spiegel, Columbia University

Monday, August 14

2:30 PM
    Of things Strombolian
    Eliza Calder, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Tuesday, August 15

10:30 AM
    What good is a tetrakaidecahedron?
    Louis Howard, MIT/FSU

FELLOWS' PRESENTATIONS ARE AT WALSH COTTAGE

Tuesday, August 22

10:30 AM
    Salty droplets: Solidification and instabilities
    Robert Style, Cambridge University

1:30 PM
    Dambusters: Catastrophic incisions in natural dams
    Rachel Zammett, Oxford University

2:45 PM
    On thin ice
    Dominic Vella, Cambridge University

Wednesday, August 23

10:00 AM
    Mush! Convective patterns in mushy layers
    Shane Keating, University of California, San Diego

11:15 AM
    Growth of a mushy layer in a corner flow
    Devin Conroy, University of California, San Diego

2:15 PM
    Glancing interactions of large internal waves
    Daniel Goldberg, New York University

3:30 PM
    Ice stars
    Victor Tsai, Harvard University

Thursday, August 24

10:00 AM
    Mixing efficiency
    Takahide Okabe, University of Texas

11:15 AM
    Arctic catastrophes in an idealized sea ice model
    Ian Eisenman, Harvard University