Workshop III: Geophysical and Astrophysical Turbulence - IPAM

Workshop III: Geophysical and Astrophysical Turbulence

Part of the Long Program Mathematics of Turbulence
October 27 - 31, 2014

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, October 27, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:40
Baylor Fox-Kemper (Brown University)
What's Waves Got to Do with It? Stokes Effects on Turbulence, Fronts, and Instabilities of the Upper Ocean
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Raffaele Ferrari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Upper ocean turbulence
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Ian Grooms (New York University)
Stochastic Superparameterization

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:10
Nicholas Brummell (University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz))
Interaction of turbulent and laminar effects in the dynamics of the solar tachocline
15:30-15:45
Break
15:45-16:25
Michael Calkins (University of Colorado Boulder)
Rotating compressible convection and the breakdown of the anelastic approximation
16:45-18:00
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-in/Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:40
Emmanuel Dormy (CNRS/École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Non-linearities in Geodynamo models and their connection to the Weak-field and Strong-field branches
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Benjamin Favier (Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre)
Turbulent flows in librating ellipsoids
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
James Cho (Queen Mary, University of London)
Ageostrophic Shallow-Water Turbulence on the Sphere

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:40
Annick Pouquet (University of South Florida St. Petersburg)
A large direct numerical simulation of rotating stably stratified turbulence: Evidence for Bolgiano-Obukhov scaling
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-15:55
Celine Guervilly (University of Leeds)
Formation of large-scale cyclones in rotating convection

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-in/Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:40
Leslie Smith (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Minimal Models for Precipitating, Turbulent Convection
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Michael Le Bars (Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre)
Understanding exchanges across stratified/convective zones interfaces
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Joao Teixeira (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Turbulence, Convection and Climate Prediction

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-14:30
Afternoon Free

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-in/Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:40
William Young (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Coupling between oceanic near-inertial waves and balanced flow
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Stuart Bishop (California Institute of Technology)
The influence of mesoscale eddies on air-­‐sea interaction in the Kuroshio Extension region
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Oliver Bühler (New York University)
A new wave-vortex decomposition method for one-dimensional turbulence spectra in the atmosphere and ocean.

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:40
Alex Mahalov (Arizona State University)
Three-dimensional turbulence in the UTLS and Ionospheric plasmas: non-equilibrium layer dynamics and neutral-plasma interactions at fine scales
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-15:55
Hubert Klahr (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)
Linear stability of accretion disks under the influence of stratification and thermal relaxation
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:10
Jonathan Aurnou (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Convective Turbulence in Earth and Planetary Cores

Friday, October 31, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-in/Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:40
Edgar Knobloch (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Geostrophic turbulence and the formation of large scale structure
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Keith Julien (University of Colorado Boulder)
Approaching the Asymptotic Regime of Rapidly Rotating Convection: Boundary Layers vs Interior Dynamics
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Steve Tobias (University of Leeds)
Large-scale dynamos at high Rm: do they work and can we get a statistical theory?

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:40
Nathanael Schaeffer (Université de Grenoble I (Joseph Fourier))
Rotating dynamo turbulence: theoretical and numerical insights
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-15:55
Toby Wood (Newcastle University)
Electron-MHD turbulence in neutron stars
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