IGERT Joint Program
in Applied Mathematics and Earth & Environmental Sciences

 
 
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Spring 2005 Colloquium

Thursday, January 20, 2005
2:30 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

IGERT Fellows Group Orientation

Thursday, January 27, 2005
2:30 pm  Fellows' Context Briefing
3:00 pm  Main Body of Talk Begins
Mudd Rm. 214

Prof. James Hansen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Musings on Model Error - or - How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love Stochastic Differential Equations"

Thursday, February 3, 2005
2:30 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

IGERT Fellows' Presentations
Herceg, Simpson & Terenzi
Columbia University

Thursday, February 10, 2005
2:30 pm  Fellows' Context Briefing
3:00 pm  Main Body of Talk Begins
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Cristina Perez
Columbia University

"Simulation of Tropical Precipitation Using the Weak
Temperature Gradient Approximation Applied to the
Goddard Cumulus Ensemble Model"

Thursday, February 17, 2005
2:30 pm  Fellows' Context Briefing
3:00 pm  Main Body of Talk Begins
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Anton Seimon
Columbia University

"The Search for Annually Resolved ENSO Signals
in Ice Cores"

Thursday, February 24, 2005
2:30 pm  Fellows' Context Briefing
3:00 pm  Main Body of Talk Begins
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Joyce Rosenthal
Columbia University

"Climate, Health, & Cooling the Urban Environment
in New York City"

Thursday, March 3, 2005
2:30 pm  Fellows' Context Briefing
3:00 pm  Main Body of Talk Begins
Mudd Rm. 214

Prof. Joel Cohen
The Rockefeller University

"Food Webs, Human and Non-human"

Thursday, March 10, 2005
2:30 pm  Fellows' Context Briefing
3:00 pm  Main Body of Talk Begins
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Edwin Schneider
George Mason University

"Predictability of Climate: Why Do Climate Model
Sensitivities to Doubled CO2 Differ?"

Thursday, March 24, 2005
2:30 pm  Fellows' Context Briefing
3:00 pm  Main Body of Talk Begins
Mudd Rm. 214

Prof. David Neelin
University of California, Los Angeles

"Understanding Tropical Precipitation Anomalies in
Teleconnections and Global Warming"

Thursday, March 31, 2005
2:30 pm  Fellows' Context Briefing
3:00 pm  Main Body of Talk Begins
Schapiro 414

Prof. Peter Constantin
University of Chicago

"Singularities and Invariants in Fluids"

Thursday, April 7, 2005
2:30 pm  Fellows' Context Briefing
3:00 pm  Main Body of Talk Begins
Mudd Rm. 214

Prof. Duncan Watts
Columbia University

"Networks, Collective Dynamics, & the Small-World Problem"

Thursday, April 14, 2005
2:30 pm  Fellows' Context Briefing
3:00 pm  Main Body of Talk Begins
Mudd Rm. 214

Edwin Gerber
Princeton University

"Dynamical and Stochastic Models of the North Atlantic Oscillation and Annular Modes"

Thursday, April 21, 2005
2:30 pm  Fellows' Context Briefing
3:00 pm  Main Body of Talk Begins
Mudd Rm. 214

Prof. Mike Gurnis
California Institute of Technology

"Models of Subduction Zones and the Role of
Computational Frameworks in Geophysics"

Thursday, April 28, 2005
2:30 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

IGERT Professional Skills Workshop
Colloquium Evaluation and Critique