MPE 2013+ Workshop on Material Transport in Geophysical Flows

July 27 - 28, 2016
Montclair State University - Center for Environmental and Life Sciences (CELS)

Organizer:

Eric Forgoston, Montclair State University

Workshop Program:

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

 7:00pm        Dinner at Verona Inn

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

 8:15 -  8:45  Breakfast 

 8:45 -  9:10  Stochastic Switching and Optimal Vehicle Navigation in Flows
               Eric Forgoston, Montclair State University

 9:10 -  9:35  Learning Uncertainty in Ocean Current Predictions for Safe and Reliable
               Navigation of Underwater Vehicles
               Geoffrey Hollinger, Oregon State University

 9:35 - 10:00  Motion Tomography and Collective Mobile Sensing in the Ocean  
               Fumin Zhang, Georgia Tech

1O:00 - 10:30  Break

10:30 - 10:55  Transient Transport Boundaries  
               A. D. Kirwan, Jr., University of Delaware

10:55 - 11:20  Capturing Diffusive and "Ballistic" Transport from Lagrangian Observations               
               Jonathan Lilly, NorthWest Research Associates

11:20 - 11:45  Geophysical Transport Structure, Forecasting, and Connections with Field Experiments
               Shane Ross, Virginia Tech

11:45 -  1:00  Lunch 

 1:00 -  3:00  Discussion
 
 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  5:30  Discussion

 6:30          Dinner - Stamna Taverna in Little Falls


Thursday, July 27, 2016

 8:30 -  9:10  Breakfast 

 9:10 -  9:35  Teacup in a Tempest: Closing Gaps between Experiment and Theory of Lagrangian Transport in Fluids
               Philip Yecko, Cooper Union

 9:35 - 10:00  Nearshore Sticky Waters
               Juan M. Restrepo, Oregon State University

1O:00 - 10:30  Break

10:30 - 10:55  Lagrangian Coherent Structures for Stochastic Ocean Flow Transports
               P.F.J. Lermusiaux and the MSEAS group, MIT

10:55 - 11:20  Data-driven Methods for Modal Decomposition and Model Reduction of Fluid Flows
               Mark Luchtenburg, Cooper Union

11:20 - 11:45  Optimal Deployment for Persistent Autonomy in Geophysical Flows
               M. Ani Hsieh, Drexel University

11:45 -  1:00  Lunch 

 1:00 -  3:00  Discussion
 
 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  5:30  Discussion

 6:30          Dinner 

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