MPE Wednesday Seminar Series – term 1 Academic Year 2016/17

We are pleased to present our MPE Wednesday Seminar Series for term 1 of the Academic Year 2016/17. This series will be given by climate and weather scientists, industrial partners and mathematicians who will present an overview of their current research activity and how it’s shaping and contributing to tackle global challenges in oceans, weather and climate.

The inaugural lecture will be delivered by Prof  Juan M. Restrepo  from Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University, on Wednesday, 12 October at Imperial College London. Prof Restrepo will be speaking on “ How can you tell whether it is warming up?”.

MPE Wednesday – Programme for Term 1

OCTOBER Location Speaker Institution Title
12 ICL Prof Juan Restrepo Oregon State University  How can you tell whether it is warming up?
19 ICL SandPit event
26 UoR Prof Irene Moroz Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Chaos in an NPPZ Plankton Model
NOVEMBER
2 ICL Prof Heather Graven Imperial College London  The Carbon Cycle in a Changing Climate
9 UoR Prof Nick Gould, Prof Tyrone Rees and Prof Jennifer Scott  Joint DARC seminar (G74) with
16 UoR Prof Tim Palmer University of Oxford Department of Physics
23 ICL Prof Daniel Rothman Massachusetts Institute of Technology Earth System Dynamics and Mass Extinctions
30 UoR Prof Jason Frank Utrecht University  A tangent space splitting method for data assimilation: shadowing and synchronization
DECEMBER
7 ICL Prof Bernard Geurts University of Twente Can mathematical regularization accurately represent small-scale turbulence?