Schedule for: 17w5048 - Transport in Unsteady Flows: from Deterministic Structures to Stochastic Models and Back Again

Beginning on Sunday, January 15 and ending Friday January 20, 2017

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).

Sunday, January 15
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
Monday, January 16
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Station Manager (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:15 Stephen Griffies: [Perspective] An overview of ocean mesoscales and climate: theory, observations, and models (TCPL 201)
09:15 - 09:30 Discussion on Perspective (Chair: Shane Keating) (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 09:45 Michael Ghil: [Perspective] The atmosphere and oceans as unsteady flows: Intrinsic variability and time-dependent forcing (TCPL 201)
09:45 - 10:00 Discussion on Perspective (Chair: Judith Berner) (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 10:45 Adam Monahan: [Perspective] An overview of atmospheric transport (TCPL 201)
10:45 - 11:00 Discussion on Perspective (Chair: Cecile Penland) (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:15 Judith Berner: [Perspective] Predictability limits in the presence of model-error (TCPL 201)
11:15 - 11:30 Discussion on Perspective (Chair: Valerio Lucarini) (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 14:00 Guided Tour of The Banff Centre (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
14:00 - 14:20 Group Photo (TCPL Foyer)
14:20 - 14:45 Problem-Solving Group Session (TCPL 201)
14:45 - 15:00 Jonathan Lilly: [Perspective] Opportunities and challenges in Lagrangian observations of turbulence (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:15 Discussion on Perspective (Chair: Adam Monahan) (TCPL 201)
15:15 - 15:30 Cecile Penland: [Perspective] What problem are you solving? (TCPL 201)
15:30 - 15:45 Discussion on Perspective (Chair: Daan Crommelin) (TCPL 201)
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
16:15 - 16:30 Guido Boffetta: [Perspective] Microbes in turbulence (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 16:45 Discussion on Perspective (Chair: Nicholas Ouellette) (TCPL 201)
16:45 - 17:45 Problem-Solving Group Session (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, January 17
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:15 Nicholas Ouellette: [Perspective] TBA (TCPL 201)
09:15 - 09:30 Discussion on Perspective (Chair: Sanjeeva Balasuriya) (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 09:45 Gary Froyland: [Perspective] A perspective on set-oriented and global techniques for quantifying transport and coherence (TCPL 201)
09:45 - 10:00 Discussion on Perspective (Chair: Jean-Luc Thiffeault) (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 10:45 Oliver Junge: [Perspective] Computational methods for transport and coherence based on transfer operators (TCPL 201)
10:45 - 11:00 Discussion on Perspective (Chair: Gary Froyland) (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:15 Jason Frank: [Perspective] Preserving geometric structure (and coherent structures) under discretization (TCPL 201)
11:15 - 11:30 Discussion on Perspective (Chair: Michael Ghil) (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 15:00 Problem-Solving Group Session (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 15:45 Cecilia Gonzalez-Tokman: Optimal mixing enhancement by local perturbation (TCPL 201)
15:45 - 15:50 Questions/Discussion (TCPL 201)
15:50 - 16:05 Hussein Aluie: A coarse-graining approach to understanding scale-coupling in unsteady inhomogeneous complex flows (TCPL 201)
16:05 - 16:10 Questions/Discussion (TCPL 201)
16:10 - 17:45 Problem-Solving Group Session (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
19:30 - 21:30 Poster Session (Allshouse, Balasuriya, Crommelin, Holdsworth, Kelley, Schmalfuss, Stastna) (TCPL Foyer)
Wednesday, January 18
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:15 Alexis Tantet: Spectrum of transfer operators in the presence of noise and along bifurcations (TCPL 201)
09:15 - 09:20 Questions/Discussion (TCPL 201)
09:20 - 09:35 Thomas Peacock: Uncovering coral reef connectivity via coherent structures (TCPL 201)
09:35 - 09:40 Questions/Discussion (TCPL 201)
09:40 - 09:55 Valerio Lucarini: Multistability and melancholia states in the climate aystem (TCPL 201)
09:55 - 10:00 Questions/Discussion (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 10:45 Jeroen Wouters: Beyond the limit of infinite time-scale separation: Edgeworth approximations for subgrid-scale parameterization (TCPL 201)
10:45 - 10:50 Questions/Discussion (TCPL 201)
10:50 - 11:05 Kathrin Padberg-Gehle: Trajectory-based study of coherence in flows (TCPL 201)
11:05 - 11:10 Questions/Discussion (TCPL 201)
11:10 - 11:25 Jacques Vanneste: Dispersion in the large deviation regime (TCPL 201)
11:25 - 11:30 Questions/Discussion (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 11:45 Daniel Karrasch: Lagrangian coherent structures as almost-invariant sets of a geometric heat equation (TCPL 201)
11:45 - 11:50 Questions/Discussion (TCPL 201)
11:50 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, January 19
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:05 Problem-Solving Group Session (individual groups) (TCPL 201)
09:40 - 09:55 Philippe Miron: A dynamical geography of the Gulf of Mexico (TCPL 201)
09:55 - 10:00 Questions/Discussion (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 10:45 Nikki Vercauteren: Data-driven investigations of flow structures in different regimes of the stable atmospheric boundary layer (TCPL 201)
10:45 - 10:50 Questions/Discussion (TCPL 201)
10:50 - 11:05 Ryan Abernathey: Transport by Coherent Lagrangian Vortices (TCPL 201)
11:05 - 11:10 Questions/Discussion (TCPL 201)
11:10 - 11:25 Irina Rypina: Trajectory encounter number as a diagnostic of mixing potential in fluid flows (TCPL 201)
11:25 - 11:30 Questions/Discussion (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 15:00 Problem-Solving Group Session -- meet TOGETHER FIRST (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 17:45 Problem-Solving Group Session (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, January 20
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:15 Georg Gottwald: Getting the climate right: Statistical consistency of numerical integrators for deterministic multi-scale systems (TCPL 201)
09:15 - 09:20 Questions/Discussion (TCPL 201)
09:20 - 09:35 Péter Koltai: Space-time characterization of coherence (TCPL 201)
09:35 - 09:40 Questions/Discussion (TCPL 201)
09:40 - 09:55 Shane Keating: Stochastic turbulence modelling for satellite observations of the ocean (TCPL 201)
09:55 - 10:00 Questions/Discussion (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Workshop Discussion and Wrapup (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Checkout by Noon (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)