NSF/CBMS CONFERENCE ON WATER WAVES: THEORY and EXPERIMENT

 

 

CONFERENCE  SCHEDULE

 

(All lectures will be held in Room 105, Locke Hall, 2441 6th St, N.W, Howard University)

 

 

May 13, 2008: Tuesday

 

1:15-2:00                     Registration, coffee, refreshments

                                    Auditorium, Blackburn Center, Howard University

2:00-2:10                     Welcome: James Donaldson, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

2:20-3:20                     Harvey Segur

                                    Lecture 1: Formulate the problem of water waves

3:20-3:30                     Coffee Break

3:30-4:00                     J. Douglas Wright

                                    ‘Gravity induced dispersion for nearly flat vortex sheets’

4:05-4:35                     Xinan Liu

                                    ‘An experimental study of the correlation between wave - nonlinearity and low frequency waves in shoaling water’

 

May 14, 2008: Wednesday

 

Morning Session

8:30-9:00                     Registration, coffee, refreshments

9:00-10:00                   Harvey Segur

                                    Lecture 2 : Concepts from the linearized problem

10:00-10:15                 Coffee Break

10:15-10:45                 Robert A. Dalrymple

                                    ‘Modeling water waves with particles’

10:50-11:20                 Demetrius Papageorgiou

                                    ‘Wave dynamics in electrified viscous film flows’

11:30- 12:00                Nathaniel Whitaker

                                    ‘A numerical method for a maximum entropy problem’                         

12:00-1:30                   Lunch Break

 

Afternoon Session

1:30-2:30                     Harvey Segur

                                    Lecture 3 :  Hamiltonian formulation of water waves

2:30-2:45                     Coffee Break

2:45-3:15                     Fabrice Vernon

                                    ‘Wave modulated turbulent fields at the ocean surface and related air-sea fluxes’

3:20-4:20                     Lab session (Experiments)                   

6:30-    8:30                 Banquet: Richard English, Provost, Howard University

                                    Gallery Lounge, Blackburn Center, Howard University

 

May 15, 2008: Thursday

 

Morning Session

8:30-9:00                     Registration, coffee, refreshments

9:00-10:00                   Harvey Segur

                                    Lecture 4 : Statistical descriptions of water waves

10:00-10:15                 Coffee Break

10:15-10:45                 Tadmor Eitan

                                    ‘Approximate periodic solutions for the rapidly rotating shallow- water equations’

10:50-11:20                 Hendrik L. Tolman

                                    ‘Practical wind wave forecasting’

11:30-12:00                 Alfonso Castro

                                    ‘A semilinear wave equation with smooth data and no resonance having no continuous  solution’             

12:00-1:30                   Lunch Break

 

Afternoon Session

1:30-2:30                     Harvey Segur

                                    Lecture 5 : Waves in shallow water,  I

2:30-2:45                     Coffee Break

2:45-3:15                     Shu-Ming Sun

                                    ‘Spectral stability of solitary waves on water of finite depth’

3:20-4:20                     Lab session (Experiments)                   

 

                       

 May 16, 2008: Friday

 

Morning Session

8:30-9:00                     Registration, coffee, refreshments

9:00-10:00                   Harvey Segur

Lecture 6 : Waves in shallow water, II – including the tsunami of 2004

10:00-10:15                 Coffee Break

10:15-10:45                 Harry Yeh

                                    ‘Tsunami propagation from a finite source’

10:50-11:20                 Amal El Moghraby

                                    ‘Lagrangian coherent structures and Lagrangian data assimilation of ocean systems’

11:30-12:00                 Sean D. Brooks

                                    ‘Mathematical methods for coupled nonlinear PDE’s’   

12:00-1:30                   Lunch Break

 

Afternoon Session

1:30-2:30                     Harvey Segur

                                    Lecture 7 : Waves in deep water I

2:30-2:45                     Coffee Break

2:45-3:15                     Min Chen

                                    ‘Study of two-dimensional wave patterns’

3:20-4:20                     Lab session (Experiments)                   

 

 

May 17, 2008: Saturday

 

Morning Session

8:30-9:00                     Registration, coffee, refreshments

9:00-10:00                   Harvey Segur

                                    Lecture 8 : Waves in deep water II

10:00-10:15                 Coffee Break

10:15-10:45                 James Duncan

                                    ‘Incipient breaking conditions for short wavelength spilling breakers’

10:50-11:20                 Greg Eynik                  

11:30-12:00                 David Levermore

                                    ‘Lake and great lake equations’                       

12:00-1:30                   Lunch Break

 

Afternoon Session

1:30-2:00                     Harvey Segur

                                    Lecture 9 : Well-posedness of the water wave equations

2:00-2:15                     Coffee Break

2:15-3:15                     Steve Shkoller

                                    ‘Well-posedness of water waves’

3:20-4:20                     Lab session (Experiments)

 

 

May 18, 2008: Sunday

 

Morning Session

8:30-9:00                     Coffee, refreshments

9:00-10:00                   Harvey Segur

                                    Lecture 10 : Near- shore processes

10:00-10:15                 Coffee Break

10:15-11:20                 Lab session(Experiments)