Workshop II: Turbulent Transport and Mixing

Part of the Long Program Mathematics of Turbulence
October 13 - 17, 2014

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, October 13, 2014

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:50
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:20
Jean-Luc Thiffeault (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

How swimming microorganisms displace fluid particles
PDF Presentation

4:30 - 6:00 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Alexei Novikov (Pennsylvania State University)

Exit times of diffusions with incompressible drift

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Yao Yao (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Mixing and un-mixing by incompressible flows

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Christian Seis (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

Optimal bounds on mixing rates

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:50
Jörg Schumacher (Technische Universität Ilmenau)

Numerical studies of mixing in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:05
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:20
Igor Mezic (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))

Koopman Mode Decomposition, Mesohyperbolicity and Mixing


Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Francisco Beron - Vera (University of Miami)

Inertial transport near oceanic coherent Lagrangian eddies

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
James McWilliams (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Two-Dimensional Turbulence in Irregular Domains

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Peter Haynes (University of Cambridge)

Dispersion in the large-deviation regime
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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Alexander Kiselev (Rice University)

Reaction enhancement by chemotaxis

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:20
Alexandra Tzella (University of Birmingham)

FKPP fronts in cellular flows: the large-Péclet regime

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50

Friday, October 17, 2014

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Charles Doering (University of Michigan)

Models & measures of mixing and effective diffusion

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:50
Richard McLaughlin (University of North Carolina)

Bodies, Buoyant Jets and Vortex Rings in Stratification

3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:05