IGERT Joint Program
in Applied Mathematics and Earth & Environmental Sciences

 
 
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IGERT Joint Program Fall 2007 Colloquium

Thursday, September 6, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd 214

Dr. Brian Cairns
Columbia University


Thursday, September 13, 2007
2:45 pm  
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Nili Harnik
Tel Aviv University
Host: Lorenzo Polvani

"A bouyancy-vorticity wave interaction approach to stratified shear flow"


IGERT JOINT PROGRAM ORIENTATION PARTY

Tuesday, September 18, 2007
4:00-6:00 pm
Mudd Suite 200
Columbia University
Hosts: Lorenzo Polvani and Marc Spiegelman

Thursday, September 20, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Richard Seager
Columbia University

Thursday, September 27, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Lorraine Lisiecki
Boston University
Host: Mark Sidall

"Trends and Transitions in Plio-Pleistocene Climate Dynamics"

Thursday, October 4, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Alberto Malinverno
Columbia University

"Orbital tuning as an inverse problem: Dating the Selli oceanic anoxic event"


Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor George C. Papanicolaou

Stanford University

Hosts: Guillaume Bal & Michael Weinstein

Lecture 1: Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Morningside campus, Mudd 214, 2:45 pm  

Lecture 2: Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Morningside campus, *Math Dept, 12:00 pm  

Lecture 3: Thursday, October 11, 2007
Morningside campus, *Mudd 825 2:45 pm  


Thursday, October 18, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Professor Dale Durran
University of Washington
Hosts: Edwin Gerber and Nick Hoell


Thursday, October 25, 2007
2:45 pm
*750 CEPSR Interschool Lab

Dr. Chris Boxe
California Institute of Technology
Host: Frederick Palm


Thursday, November 1, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Magali Billen
University of California, Davis
Host: Marc Spiegelman


Thursday, November 8, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd 214

Dr. Eli Tziperman
Harvard University
Hosts: Edwin Gerber and Samar Khatiwala

"Dinosaur forecast: cloudy. (or: a high latitude atmospheric convection mechanism for equable climate dynamics)"


Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Carl Wunsch

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Lorenzo Polvani

Three Lectures on Inverse Methods and State Estimation

Lecture 1: Tuesday, November 13, 2:45 p.m.
Morningside Campus, Mudd 214

Lecture 2: Thursday, November 15, 2:45 p.m.
Morningside Campus, *Mudd 825

Lecture 3: Friday, November 16, 11:00 a.m.
Lamont-Doherty Campus, *Monell Auditorium


Thursday, November 29, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. James Gaherty
Columbia University


Thursday, December 6, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Professor Randy LeVeque
University of Washington
Hosts: Braxton Osting and Abby Shaw Krauss

"High-Resolution Finite Volume Methods and Applications to Tsunami Modeling"