Seminars
Our group meets weekly (or so) on Wednesdays for an informal seminar or discussion group at 4 pm in the Mathematical Institute, Tutorial Room 3B. All are welcome. It is also possible to participate in seminars via MS Teams. Please contact Daphné Lemasquerier for more information.
Ongoing group seminars series
- 04 October 2023: David Dritschel, “Surface buoyancy driven dynamics in the ocean: beyond SQG”
- 11 October 2023: Jean Reinaud, “QG vortex vertical alignment in near collapse interactions”
- 25 October 2023: Joseph Oloo (Edinburgh Napier)
- 1 November 2023: Richard Scott
- 8 November 2023: Daphné Lemasquerier
- 22 November 2023: Matthias Frey, “EPIC: Recent developments and results”
Seminars for 2023
- 15 February 2023: Jean Reinaud, “Vortex dipoles at finite Ro and Fr”
- 15 March 2023: Matthias Frey, “EPIC: Recent developments and results”
- 29 March 2023: Jean Reinaud, “Stability of `filaments’ of PV in QG”
- 5 April 2023: Daphné Lemasquerier, “Zonal jets emergence and equilibration: a WKB approach“
- 12 April 2023: Dan Lucas
- 26 April 2023: Russell Campbell, “Melt ponds: thermal controls of brine channel drainage”
- 04 May 2023: Meeting with the Environmental Fluid Dynamics group (University of Dundee), Anirban Guha and Tom Eaves
- 05 May 2023: Luis Zavala Sanson, “Effects of mesoscale turbulence on the wind-driven circulation in a closed basin with topography”
- 10 May 2023: David Rees Jones, “Thermodynamics of the growth of sea ice”
Seminars for 2022
- 16 February 2022: Jean Reinaud, “And now for something not that different: more on circular vortex arrays”
- 02 March 2022: David Dritschel, “Jet dynamics in topographically-forced shallow-water planetary atmospheres”
- 09 March 2022: Russell Campbell
- 16 March 2022: David Rees Jones
- 23 March 2022: Daphné Lemasquerier, “Modelling the large scale dynamics of Jupiter in the lab: vortices and zonal jets”
- 28 March 2022: Sam Wallace, “A Lagrangian study of convective boundary layer growth“
- 06 April 2022: Matthias Frey, Latest work on EPIC
- 20 April 2022: Maddie Shankle, “Southern Ocean Mechanisms of Glacial-Interglacial CO2 Changes“
- 26 April 2022: Helen Burgess, “Vortex clusters in the inverse energy cascade”
- 04 May 2022: David Rees Jones, “Sea-ice growth under steady and time-dependent forcing.”
- 05 October 2022: Daphné Lemasquerier, “Rotating thermal convection in Europa’s ocean: influence of heterogeneous tidal heating”
- 12 October 2022: Dan Lucas, “New approaches to discovering exact coherent structures in fluid turbulence”
- 02 November 2022: Richard Scott, “The limits of beta-plane turbulence”
- 16 November 2022: Georgi Sutyrin (online), “Eddy dynamics and transport in mesoscale turbulence “
- 23 November 2022: Armand Vic (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)
Seminars for 2021
- 03 March 2021: David Dritschel
- 10 March 2021: Chuong Tran
- 17 March 2021: David Rees Jones, “Channelized melt extraction at mid-ocean ridges”
- 6-9 April 2021: BMC-BAMC Joint Meeting
- 14 April 2021: Sam Wallace
- 21 April 2021: Russell Campbell
- 14 April 2021: Jean Reinaud, “Three-dimensional quasi-geostrophic staggered vortex arrays”
- 04 August 2021: David Dritschel
- 25 August 2021: Mahdi Jalali,”Generation of zonal jets in topographically-forced spherical shallow-water flows”
- 13 October 2021: Jean Reinaud, Vortex collapse in the generalised Euler and QG equations, the madness continues
- 27 October 2021: Richard Scott, Structural instability of the two-dimensional vorticity condensate
- 10 November 2021: David Rees Jones, Similarity solutions for sea-ice growth
- 24 November 2021: Matthias Frey, EPIC: the Elliptical Parcel-In-Cell Method
- 08 December 2021: David Dritschel, Shallow water MHD
Seminars for 2020
- 12 February 2020: Sam Wallace
- 19 February 2020: Jean Reinaud, “Breaking of cylindrical and toroidal ‘hetonic’ PV rods”
- 26 February 2020: Joint meeting with School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- 04 March 2020: David Rees Jones, “Reactive and shear-driven porous flow instabilities in magmatic systems”
- 01 April 2020: Alexander Chaudhri
- Week commencing 13 April 2020: Inna Polichtchouk, ECMWF (postponed)
- 22 April 2020: David Dritschel
- 29 April 2020: Joint meeting with School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (postponed)
- 28 October 2020: Helen Burgess, “Jet interactions in shallow water quasigeostrophic flow at small deformation radius”
- 04 November 2020: Jean Reinaud, “Self-similar collapse of three geophysical vortices”
- 11 November 2020: Alex Chaudhri, “Simplified QG model for monsoon depressions”
- 18 November 2020: David Rees Jones, “Icelandic deglaciation and magmatism”
- 25 November 2020: Richard Scott
- 02 December 2020: David Dritschel, “Zonal Shallow Water Flows on the Sphere”
- 09 December 2020: Chuong Tran, “Leray’s singularity criterion for the Navier-Stokes equations”
Seminars for 2019
- The group hosted the International Conference on Geophysical and Astrophysical Vortex Interactions, 11 – 14 June 2019.
- 18 September 2019: Helen Burgess, “Scaling behaviour of clustered and free vortices in the inverse energy cascade”
- 25 September 2019: Helen Burgess, “Scaling symmetries, thin jet curvature, and PV staircase structure in large-scale equivalent barotropic flow”
- 2 October 2019: Jein Reinaud, “The stability of rods of uniform quasi-geostrophic PV”
- 9 October 2019: David Rees Jones, “Variable magma and carbon fluxes at mid-ocean ridges and on Iceland; glacial/interglacial cycles” (held in School Earth and Environmental Sciences)
- 23 October 2019: Chuong Tran, seminar postponed to 27 November 2019
- 30 October 2019: Richard Scott, “Building a hurricane”
- 6 November 2019: David Dritschel, “Models of shallow water flows”
- 13 November 2019: Michael Byrne, University of St Andrews (from Earth Sciences), “Width of the InterTropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ): energetic and dynamical constraints”
- 20 November 2019: Group discussion (website)
- 27 November 2019: Chuong Tran, “Velocity-pressure correlation in Navier—Stokes flows and the problem of global regularity”
Seminars for 2018
- 2 May 2018: Mr. Luke A. Hatfield, “Low-frequency variability of the polar vortex in a spherical single-layer shallow water system”
- 25 April 2018: Mr. Samuel Wallace, “Topics in cloud modelling”
- 18 April 2018: Mr. Thibault Jougla, “Vortex and wave formation in a rotating tank”
- 11 April 2018: Dr. Richard K. Scott, “A scenario for finite-time singularity in the surface quasi-geostrophic equations”
Seminars for 2014-2015
- 7 October 2014: Dr. Yue-Kin Tsang from the University of Edinburgh, “Advection-condensation of water vapour in a model of coherent stirring”
Seminars for 2013-2014
- 1 April 2014: Chuong Van Tran “The growth of velocity norms in Navier-Stokes flows”
- 25 March 2014: Dr. Dan Lucas from University College Dublin, “Recurrent flows embedded in 2D turbulence”
- 18 March 2014: No meeting
- 11 March 2014: David Dritschel “Dynamics and statistics of point vortices on a sphere”
- 4 March 2014: No meeting
- 25 February 2014: Richard Scott “A self-similar cascade of filament instabilities in the surface quasigeostrophic system”
- 18 February 2014: No meeting
- 11 February 2014: Stuart King “Advanced computational methods for stratified flows”
- 4 February 2014: No meeting
- 28 January 2014: No meeting
- 21 January 2014: Dr. Stefanella Boatto from UFRJ Brazil, “The N-body, the N-vortices and N-charges dynamics on surfaces: a common view point”
- 14 January 2014: Dr. Xavier Perrot from LMD Paris, “Atmospheric response to sea-surface temperature mesoscale structures”
- Christmas Break…
- 10 December 2013: Dr. Will McKiver from CMCC Italy, “Impact of mesoscale dynamics on global marine plankton models”
- 3 December 2013: No meeting
- 26 November 2013: Chuong Van Tran, “Regularity for the 3D Navier-Stokes equations”
- 19 November 2013: Prof. Marcel Oliver from Jacobs University, Bremen.
“Reaction-diffusion systems” - Mid-term break…
- 29 October 2013: David Dritschel “On the limitations of balance” continued…
- 22 October 2013: David Dritschel: “On the limitations of balance”
- 15 October 2013: Greg King “Meanders through sea-surface winds” continued…
- 8 October 2013: Greg King “Meanders through sea-surface winds”
- 1 October 2013: Discussion of topics raised by Greg King
- 24 September 2013: Discussion of group website