Workshop III: Transport Systems in Geography, Geosciences, and Networks

Part of the Long Program Optimal Transport
May 5 - 9, 2008

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, May 5, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:50 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:50
John Melack (University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))

Fluxes of water, solutes and gases in ecosystems: A comparative approach
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Stephen Morris (University of Toronto)

Order and scale selection in Columnar Joints
PDF Presentation
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Mina Ossiander (Oregon State University)

Stochastic Representations and Navier-Stokes equations
PDF Presentation
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Donald Turcotte (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))

Applications of Tokunaga Branching
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
5:00 - 6:30 Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Sediment Transport in Viscous Fluids
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Terence Smith (University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))

The emergence of channels systems and scalings on eroding landsurfaces

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

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Michael Weinstein (Columbia University)

Magma Transport

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Terri Hogue (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Improving Global Optimization of Conceptual Hydrologic Models
PDF Presentation
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Victor Chernozhukov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Sushil Bikhchandani (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

From the Assignment Model to Combinatorial Auctions
PDF Presentation

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Dan Rothman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Channel Network Growth by Subsurface Flow

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Jinqiao Duan (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Transport by Exit under Non-Gaussian Fluctuations
PDF Presentation
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Daniel Schertzer (École Nationale des Ponts-et-Chaussées (ENPC))

Intermittency and Multifractal Transport in Geography, Geosciences and Networks

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

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50 Panel Discussion

Friday, May 9, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Bjorn Birnir (University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))

Quantifying Stochasticity in Geoscience
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)