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

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

08:00-08:50
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:50-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-09:50
John Melack (University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))
Fluxes of water, solutes and gases in ecosystems: A comparative approach
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Stephen Morris (University of Toronto)
Order and scale selection in Columnar Joints
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Vakhtang Putkaradze (Colorado State University)
Meandering of a stream flowing down a partially wetting inclined plane

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Mina Ossiander (Oregon State University)
Stochastic Representations and Navier-Stokes equations
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Donald Turcotte (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))
Applications of Tokunaga Branching
17:00-18:30
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Peter Dodds (University of Vermont)
The scaling of optimal branching networks and the implications for biological and geophysical systems
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Sediment Transport in Viscous Fluids
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

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Parag Pathak (Harvard University)
The assignment model and the mathematics of school choice
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Mohammed Mahdian (Yahoo! Research)
Incentive compatibility in two-sided matching markets

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Michael Weinstein (Columbia University)
Magma Transport
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Ilya Pavlyukevich (Humboldt-Universität)
Dynamical systems perturbed by big jumps: meta-stability and non-local search
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Terri Hogue (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Improving Global Optimization of Conceptual Hydrologic Models

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Victor Chernozhukov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Title not available
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Sushil Bikhchandani (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
From the Assignment Model to Combinatorial Auctions

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
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
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

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Charles Doering (University of Michigan)
Heat Rises: Energy transport bounds for Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in an infinite Prandtl number fluid
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Panel Discussion
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