IGERT Joint Program
in Applied Mathematics and Earth & Environmental Sciences

 
 
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Spring 2009 Colloquium

Thursday, January 22, 2009
2:45 pm  
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Raffaele Ferrari
M.I.T.
Host: Ben Diehl

"The energy cycle of the ocean circulation"

Thursday, January 29, 2009
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Paul Hall
Boston University
Host: Lisa Streit

"A viscous plug in the ridge sink: Melting, dehydration and plume-ridge interaction"

Thursday, February 5, 2009
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Paul Olsen
Columbia University

"Calibration of the Chaotic Evolution of the Solar System using a "Geological Interferometer"

Thursday, February 12, 2009
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Jack Whitehead
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

"Hysteresis in Thermohaline Laboratory Models"

Thursday, February 19, 2009
2:45 pm  
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Zhiming Kuang
Harvard University

"Convectively coupled equatorial waves and the MJO"

Thursday, February 26, 2009
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Steven Cavallo
University of Washington
Host: Lorenzo Polvani

"Tropopause polar vortex characteristics and mechanisms of intensity change"


Thursday, March 5, 2009
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Paul O'Gorman
M.I.T.

"Intensities of precipitation and extratropical storms under climate change"


IGERT Spring 2009 Distinguished Lecture Series
Tuesday, March 24, - Thursday, March 26, 2009

Dr. Brian Soden
University of Miami
Host: Adam Sobel

Lecture 1: Tuesday, March 24, 2:45-3:45 pm
Morningside Campus, Mudd 214
"Robust Responses of the Hydrological Cycle to Global Warming"

Lecture 2: Wednesday, March 25, 11:00 am-12:00
Lamont-Doherty Campus, Monell Auditorium
"Extreme Makeover: Global Warming Edition"

Lecture 3: Thursday, March 26, 2:45-3:45 pm
Morningside Campus, Mudd 214
"An Assessment of Climate Feedbacks and Radiative Forcings in IPCC Models"



Thursday, April 2, 2009
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Christian Klose
Columbia University

"Understanding the complexity of earth systems aided by machine intelligence"


Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Joint Applied Math/IGERT Seminar
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Jonathan Aurnou
UCLA

"Mapping Regime Transitions in Deep Convection Models of the Outer Planets"


Thursday, April 23, 2009
IGERT Seminar
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

"Attributing Physical and Biological Impacts to Anthropogenic Climate Change"


Thursday, April 30, 2009
IGERT Seminar
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Doug Martinson
Columbia University

"Ocean's Role in Dramatic Climate Change on Antarctic Peninsula"