The Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences
Theme for 2008: Geophysical Turbulence Phenomena

Student Presentations

• Assessing California's Offshore Wind Energy Potential, Mike Dvorak, Stanford University
• Reduced Modeling of the Magnetorotational Instability, Ben Jamroz, University of Colorado - Boulder
• The Error Estimate of the Near-Resonant Approximation of 3D Rotating Navier-Stokes Equations, Qiang Deng, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• A Reduced Model for Rotational Flows, Li Wang, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• The Response of the Tropical Precipitation to the Extratropical Thermal Forcing, Sarah Kang, Princeton University

Student Presentations

• Improvement of Meteorological Inputs for Air Quality Study, Fong Ngan, University of Houston
• Some Outstanding Issues in the Jet Formation Mechanisms, Da Zhu, University of Chicago
• Solving the Monge-Ampère Differential Equation in the Context of Semi-Langrangian Advection Schemes, Jean-Francois Cossette, University of Montreal
• Field and Numerical Investigation of High Frequency Temperature Profile in Lakes, Sultan Ahmed, Purdue University
• Biogeochemical Response of the South China Sea to the Mekong River Plume, Mesoscale Ocean Turbulence and Upwelling, Yuley Cardona, Georgia Institute of Technology

Student Presentations

• A Large System of Bubbles in Stokes Flow, Thorwald Stein, University of Warwick
• Investigating Ocean Deep Convection Using Multi-Scale Asymptotics, Ian Grooms, University of Colorado - Boulder
• Spectrally Condensed Turbulence in Two Dimensions, Hua Xia, The Australian National University, Canberra
• Internal Tide Energetics: Generation, Propagation & Breaking, Jochem Floor, University of Toulouse
• The Important Role of Cloud Microphysics in the Multi-Scale Climate System, Lulin Xue, Saint Louis University

Student Presentations

• Experimental Investigation of Boundary Layer Turbulence in a Water Flume, Daniel Dombroski, University of Colorado - Boulder
• Modeling and Evaluation of Antarctic Boundary Layer, Suraj Harshan, Atmospheric Science Group, Texas Tech University
• Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) Forced by Mesoscale Surface Heat Flux Variation, Song-Lak Kang, ASP-RAL, NCAR
• Exploiting Symmetries of MHD Flows (Another Way to Be Cheap), Ed Lee, IMAGe, NCAR
• On Numerical Realizability of Thermal Convection, Zbigniew Piotrowski, University of Warsaw, Poland
• Turbulent Internal Wave Generation ..and Other Topics, John Taylor, UCSD, MIT
• Partial (Incomplete) Thermalization in Turbulence, Jian-Zhou Zhu, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Student Presentations

• LES is More with Rica-struction
  Rica Mae Enriquez, Stanford University
• Modeling of Subgrid-Scale Mixing in Large-Eddy Simulation of Shallow Convection
  Dorota Jarecka, Institute of Geophysics, University of Warsaw
• From "Laminar" to "Turbulent" Crack Tip Morphologies
  3D Lagrangian Atmospheric Dispersion Model
  Avi Sharon, Ben-Gurion University, NRCN