2010 Lecture Series Schedule
"Swirling and Swimming in Turbulence" - June 21 - August 27
Monday, June 21
Lecture 1 - 10:00 AM
Stirring and Mixing
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tuesday, June 22
Lecture 2 - 10:00 AM
Introduction to Biological models
Glenn Flierl, MIT
Wednesday, June 23
Lecture 3 - 10:00 AM
Effective Diffusivity and Swimming Organisms
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Lecture 4 - 2:30 PM
Tutorial: Eddy Diffusivity and Active Scalars
Glenn Flierl, MIT
Thursday, June 24
Lecture 5 - 10:00 AM
Local Stretching Theories
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Friday, June 25
Lecture 6 - 10:00 AM
Social Behavior, Mixing, and the Evolution of Schooling
Glenn Flierl, MIT
Monday, June 28
Lecture 7 - 10:00 AM
Mixing in the Presence of Sources and Sinks
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Lecture 8 - 2:30 PM
Tutorial: How to Write an Ecological Model
Antonello Provenzale, Istituto di Scienze Dell'Atmosfera
Tuesday, June 29
Lecture 9 - 10:00 AM
Examples at the Mesoscale
Antonello Provenzale, Istituto di Scienze Dell'Atmosfera
Wednesday, June 30
Lecture 10 - 10:00 AM
Dynamics of Heavy Impurities with Finite Size
Antonello Provenzale, Istituto di Scienze Dell'Atmosfera
4:30 PM
Project Discussions
Thursday, July 1
Lecture 11 - 10:00 AM
Plankton Sinking and the Role of Turbulence
Antonello Provenzale, Istituto di Scienze Dell'Atmosfera
Friday, July 2
Lecture 12 - 10:00 AM
Evolutionary Models: Movement and Mixing in Trait and Physical Space
Glenn Flierl, MIT
Monday, July 5
HOLIDAY - No lectures
Tuesday, July 6
10:30
Two Particle Separations in 2-D Turbulence
Joe LaCasce, University of Oslo
Wednesday, July 7
10:30
Sub-Mesoscale Turbulence in the Ocean: How does it Affect the Oceanic Carbon Cycle
Marina Levy, LOCEAN
1:30
Modelling Turbulent Mixing in Two-Dimensions using Stochastic Differential Equations
Lennon O'Naraigh, Imperial College London
Thursday, July 8
10:30
Biologically Generated Turbulence in the Ocean
Eric Kunze, University of Victoria
2:30
Modification of the Air-Sea Interaction and Near-Surface Turbulence by Surfactants
Alexander Soloviev, NOVA Southeastern University
Friday, July 9
10:30
Inertial Effects in G.I. Taylor's Swimming Sheet
Steve Childress, New York University
2:30
Beach Creation by Breaking Waves
Onno Bokhove, University of Twente
Monday, July 12
10:30
Double-Feature: Reactive Mixing and Turbulent Energy Injection
Yue-Kin Tsang, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Tuesday, July 13
10:30
Three Experiments: On the Morphology of Icicles, Patterns in Meandering Syrup and Electroconvection in Thin Films
Steve Morris, University of Toronto
Wednesday, July 14
10:30
Upper Bounds Yield Lower Order Models
Greg Chini, University of New Hampshire
2:30
Demographic Stochasticity versus Spatial Variation in the Competition between Fast and Slow Dispersion
Charlie Doering, University of Michigan
Thursday, July 15
10:30
Mixing in Thermal Convection: The Case of Rayleigh-Taylor Turbulence
Guido Bofetta, INFN ICTR
Friday, July 16
10:30
Title to be announced
Tom Powers, Brown University
2:30
Mesoscale Diagnosis
Baylor Fox-Kemper, University of Colorado at Boulder
Monday, July 19
10:30
Tip Growth of a Walled Cell
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Harvard University
2:30
Drumlins
Andrew Fowler, University of Limerick
Tuesday, July 20
10:30
From Bioturbation to Channelization
Amala Mahadevan, Boston University
Wednesday, July 21
10:30
Particle Diffusion in a Bubbly Liquid
Andrew Belmonte, Penn State University
Thursday, July 22
10:30
Vertical Velocities and the Ocean Mesoscale
Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Institute of Technology
Friday, July 23
10:30
Magma Transport in the Mantle
Ian Hewitt, University of British Columbia
Monday, July 26
10:30
Onset and Cessation of Convection in Porous Media
Anja Slim, Harvard University
Tuesday, July 27
10:30
Flagellated Bacteria, Motility and Mixing
Ken Breuer, Brown University
Wednesday, July 28
10:30
Nonequilibrium Fluctuations and Climate Variability
Jeff Weiss, University of Colorado, Boulder
2:30
Lateral Mixing by Submesoscale Processes
Gualtiero Badin, Boston University
Thursday, July 29
10:30
Some Doubly Diffusive Memories of Melvin Stern
George Veronis, Yale University
Friday, July 30
10:30
Bacteria Foraging in Turbulent Waters
John Taylor, MIT
Monday, August 2
10:30
Transport by River Plumes and Collapsing Mixed Regions
Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
2:30
Boundary Layers in Braginsky Magneto Hydro Dynamics
Paul Dellar, University of Oxford
Tuesday, August 3
10:30
Non-gaussian Buoyancy Statistics in Fingering Convection
Francesco Paparella, University of Salento
Wednesday, August 4
10:30
Mechanism of a Splash
Shreyas Mandre, Harvard University
2:30
Hotspots
Matt Finn, University of Adelaide
Thursday, August 5
10:30
Convection and Biological Productivity at Fronts
Raffaele Ferrari, MIT
2:30
On the Efficiency and Stability of a Size Dependent Ecosystem Model
Amit Tandon, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Friday, August 6
10:30
Title to be announced
Roman Stocker, MIT
2:30
Optimal Solute Fluxes in Solidification: Variational Principles, Hysteresis and Chimney Spacing
Andrew Wells, Yale University
Monday, August 9
10:30
Transforming the Mean Meridional Circulation of the Atmosphere
Tiffany Shaw, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
2:30
Feeding and Swimming Currents and Jumping Vortices in Planktonic Copepods
Houshuo Jiang, WHOI
Tuesday, August 10
10:30
Reducing Continuous Symmetries of Flows between Planes and Down Pipes
Predrag Cvitanovic, Georgia Institute of Technology
Wednesday, August 11
10:30
Transport and Collective Dynamics in Bacterial Swimming
Michael Graham, University of Wisconsin, Madison
5:00
Public Lecture, Redfield Auditorium - Reception to follow (see link above)
Mathematics in the Real World: From Brain Tumors to Saving Marriages
James Murray, University of Washington and University of Oxford
Thursday, August 12
10:30
Tibetan Singing Bowls (and the nature of reality)
John Bush, MIT
2:30
Title to be announced
Tom Peacock, MIT
Friday, August 13
10:30
The Teapot Effect and Free Boundary Flows
Joe Keller, Stanford University
August 16 - 20
No lectures scheduled this week
Fellows Presentations
Tuesday, August 24
10:00
Finding Lagrangian Structures via the Application of Braid Theory
Michael Allshouse, MIT
11:00
Dynamics of Vorticity Defects in Stratified Shear
Anubhab Roy, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)
2:30
On-Off Intermittency in Locally Connected Maps
Woosok Moon, Yale University
3:30
Optimal Mixing on a Sphere
Amanda O'Rourke, Princeton University
Wednesday, August 25
10:00
Mixing in Stratified Sheared Flows - Dynamics of the Staircases
Georgy Manucharyan, Yale University
11:00
Cave Rings
Emma Thompson, University of Cambridge
2:30
Trajectories of a Treadmilling Swimmer - Can it Escape from its Image?
Kiori Obuse, Kyoto University
3:30
Who ate Whom? Age-Structured Trophic Dynamics
David Goluskin, Columbia University
Thursday, August 26
10:30
Swimming in Mud
Sam Pegler, University of Cambridge