Program
Workshop Program
All talks will be held in the SOE Simularium (E2-180), adjacent to the Engineering 2 Courtyard.
Sunday August 26th:
(Not part of the official program): Informal brunch at the Aquarius lounge, 10am-11am. Pickup at 9:45am at Porter College Squiggle.
4pm-6pm: Workshop Reception. Porter College Patio
6pm-8pm: Dinner. Porter College Patio.
Monday August 27th: Double-diffusive convection in Physical Oceanography
8 am - 9 am : Breakfast (E2-courtyard)
9 am: Welcome address
- 9:15 am - 10:00 am : Herbert Huppert. "Double-diffusive convection: a process across disciplines"
- 10:00 am - 10:45 am : Ray Schmitt. "Flux ratio and density ratio in a thermohaline staircase"
Coffee Break (E2-courtyard)
- 11:15 am - 12:00 pm : Barry Ruddick. "Double-diffusive and other dynamics of thermohaline intrusions"
- 12:00 0m - 12:45 pm : Mary Louise Timmermans. "Double diffusion in the Arctic Ocean"
Lunch (E2-Courtyard)
- 2:15 pm - 2:40 pm : Tobias Sommer. "Resolving salinity and temperature interfaces of double-diffusive staircases in Lake Kivu"
- 2:40 pm - 3:05 pm : Alfred Wuest. "Comparison of diffusive staircases in two lakes heated from below at different time scales"
- 3:05 pm - 3:30 pm : Jeff Carpenter: "Simulating diffusive convection in Lake Kivu"
Coffee Break (E2-courtyard)
- 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm : Ulrich Hansen. "Double-diffusive convection in geological systems"
- 4:45 pm - 5:30 pm : Eckart Meiburg. "Instabilities in sediment-laden systems"
- 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm : Poster session, discussion and social hour
8pm: Dinner (Olita's on the Wharf)
Tuesday August 28th: Modeling Double-diffusive convection
8 am - 9:15 am : Breakfast (E2-courtyard)
- 9:15 am - 10:00 am : Matthew Wells. "Experiments in double-diffusive convection"
- 10:00 am - 10:25 am : Andreas Tilgner. "Experimental scaling laws for double diffusive fingers"
- 10:25 am - 10:50 am : Anne de Wit: "Asymmetric double-diffusive patterns in reactive systems"
Coffee Break (E2-courtyard)
- 11:20 am - 12:05 pm : Mike Proctor. "Applied mathematical modeling in DD convection"
- 12:05 pm - 12:50 pm : Timour Radko. "Small-scale fluxes and large-scale instabilities"
Lunch (E2-courtyard)
- 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm : Bill Merryfield. "Numerical simulation of double diffusion in nature"
- 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm : Stephan Stellmach. "Numerical modeling of double diffusive phenomena"
Coffee Break (E2-courtyard)
- 4:30 pm - 4:55 pm : Francesco Paparella. "Finger clustering leads to staircases"
- 4:55 pm - 5:20 pm : Jason Flanagan. "The interaction of shear and diffusive convection with application to mixing in the Weddell Sea"
- 5:20 pm - 5:45 pm : Laurence Rongy. "Double-diffusive Marangoni convection around exothermic chemical fronts in free-surface solution layers"
- 5:45 pm - 6:00 pm : Ray Schmitt. "The tortuous history of salt fingers" (Reference 1, Reference 2)
8pm: Conference Dinner (Shadowbrooks in Capitola)
Wednesday August 29th: Double-diffusive convection across disciplines
8 am - 9:15 am : Breakfast (E2-courtyard)
- 9:15 am - 10:00 am : David Hughes. "Double diffusion in magnetic buoyancy"
- 10:00 am - 10:45 am : Pascale Garaud. "Double-diffusive convection in astrophysics"
Coffee Break (E2-courtyard)
- 11:15 am - 11:40 am : Justin Brown. "Fingering convection in astrophysics"
- 11:40 am - 12:05 pm : Sylvie Vauclair. "Thermohaline convection in stars, as consequences of element levitation and/or heavy matter accretion"
Lunch (E2-courtyard)
- 2:00 pm - 2:25 pm : Matthew Buckley. "Magnetoconvection in sunspots"
- 2:25 pm - 2:50 pm : Tuguldur Suckbold. "Semiconvection in massive stars" (cancelled)
- 2:50 pm - 3:15 pm : Ryan Moll. "Diffusive convection in astrophysics"
- 3:15 pm - 3:40 pm : Toby Wood. "Numerical simulations of layered semiconvection in stars and planets"
Coffee Break (E2-courtyard)
- 4:10 pm - 5:10 pm : Discussion Session
- 5:15 pm - 5:30 pm : Closing Words
Dinner (not provided, although we will be organizing something informal downtown for anyone still in Santa Cruz at this point)