IGERT Joint Program
in Applied Mathematics and Earth & Environmental Sciences

 
 
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Spring 2008 Colloquium

IGERT JOINT PROGRAM OUTREACH PARTY

Thursday, January 24, 2008
12:00-2:00 pm
Mudd Suite 200
Columbia University
Hosts: Lorenzo Polvani and Marc Spiegelman


Thursday, January 24, 2008
2:45 pm
Mudd 214

Dr. Michel Bourqui
McGill University
Host: Lorenzo Polvani

"Stratosphere-troposphere exchange: From small-scales to global-scales"


Thursday, January 31, 2008
2:45 pm  
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Beate Liepert
Columbia University

"An assessment of global dimming and its implications for the water cycle in a warmer world"


Thursday, February 7, 2008
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Kris Karnauskas
Columbia University

"The effect of the Galapagos Islands on the mean state and ENSO dynamics in the equatorial Pacific Ocean"


Thursday, February 14, 2008
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Faye McNeill
Columbia University

"Atmospheric Chemistry of Environmental Interfaces"


Thursday, February 21, 2008
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Fuqing Zhang
Texas A&M University
Host: Lorenzo Polvani

"Spontaneous balance adjustment and gravity wave excitation in baroclinic lifecycles"


Thursday, February 28, 2008
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Bruce Shaw
Columbia University

"The Physics of Earthquakes: Integrating Theory and Observations"


Thursday, March 6, 2008
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Jason Smerdon
Columbia University

"Spaghetti plots, hockey sticks, pseudo-realities and congressional oversight: A decade of attempts to reconstruct the climate of the last millennium"


Thursday, March 13, 2008
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Richard Kleeman
Courant Institute, NYU
Host: Lorenzo Polvani and Nick Hoell

"Statistical predictability of the mid-latitude atmosphere"


Thursday, March 27, 2008
2:45 pm
Mudd 214

Dr. Roseanna Neupauer
UC Boulder
Host: Brice Loose

"Principles and Applications of Backward-in-time Modeling of Contaminants in the Environment"


Thursday, April 3, 2008
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Michael Previdi
Columbia University

"Dynamic and thermodynamic controls of the water cycle under global warming"


Thursday, April 10, 2008
2:45 pm
Mudd 214

Dr. Karsten Pruess
UC Berkeley
Host: Brice Loose

"Numerical Modeling of Coupled Processes in Geologic Storage of Greenhouse Gases - Recent Results and Open Challenges"


Thursday, April 17, 2008

CANCELED


Thursday, April 24, 2008
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Dian Seidel
NOAA
Host: Lorenzo Polvani

"Observed recent tropopause changes and relation to tropical widening"


Thursday, May 1, 2008
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Professor Richard Lindzen
MIT
Host: Lorenzo Polvani

"Recent results on the iris and some thoughts on the early faint sun paradox"