IGERT Joint Program
in Applied Mathematics and Earth & Environmental Sciences

 
 
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Spring 2007 Colloquium

Monday, January 8, 2007
11:00 am
Mudd 214

Dr. Joe Galewsky
University of New Mexico
Host: Adam Sobel and Lorenzo Polvani

"Probing subtropical humidity dynamics with water vapor isotopes"


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

Dr. Andreas Thurnherr
Columbia University
Host: Adam Sobel

"Valley  Dynamics --- A Good Reason to Go Diving in a Yellow Submarine"


Thursday, January 25, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Professor Alan Plumb
M.I.T
Host: Edwin Gerber

"Eddy transport and the general circulation of the troposphere, stratosphere, and the Southern Ocean"

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

Dr. Ivana Cerovecki
M.I.T
Host: Samar Khatiwala

"Eddy transport and mixing in a wind and buoyancy driven flow on the sphere"

Thursday, February 8, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Eric Dunham
Harvard University
Host: Bruce Shaw

"Thermal and poroelastic effects in earthquake rupture dynamics"


Thursday, February 15, 2007
2:45 pm  
Mudd Rm. 214

Professor Marc Spiegelman
Columbia University

"Plumbing the Depths"


Thursday, February 22, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Bruce Buffett
University of Chicago
Host: Martin Collier

"Unsound Methods for Probing the Earth's Core"


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

Professor Ron Smith
Yale University
Host: Adam Sobel

"Orographic precipitation and isotope fractionation along the American Cordillera"


Thursday, March 8, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Fellows' Presentations
Martin Collier, Christy Field, Abby Shaw Krauss
Columbia University


Thursday, March 22, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd 214

Dr. Gang Chen
GFDL/Princeton University
Host: Professor Lorenzo Polvani

"Mechanisms that control the latitude of the midlatitude jet and surface westerlies"


Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Achi Brandt

The Weizmann Institute of Science
Host: Professor David Keyes

Multiscale Computation:
From Fast Solvers to Systematic Upscaling

Lecture 1:  Tuesday, March 27, 2:45 p.m.
Morningside Campus, Mudd 633
“Scaling challenges and fast solvers”

Lecture 2:  Wednesday, March 28, 9:30 a.m.
Morningside Campus, Mudd 825
“Multiscale approaches to systems of
equations, graphs, clustering and images”

Lecture 3:  Thursday, March 29, 2:45 p.m.
Morningside Campus, Mudd 825
“Systematic upscaling:  micro, macro
and in between”


Thursday, April 5, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. Arlene Fiore
GFDL/NOAA
Host: Edwin Gerber

"Tropospheric ozone response to methane emission controls: Implications for climate and global air quality"


Thursday, April 12, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Peng Xian
Columbia University
Host: Christy Field

"Abrupt seasonal migrations of the ITCZ into the summer hemisphere"


Thursday, April 19, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 825

Professor David Keith
University of Calgary
Host: Jonathan Levine

"Wind power in a carbon-constrained world: Capacity, cost and environmental impact"

Thursday, April 26, 2007
2:45 pm
Mudd Rm. 214

Dr. David Nolan
University of Miami
Host: Professor Lorenzo Polvani

"Environmental controls of tropical cyclone formation as seen in high resolution simulations"