We are pleased to announce the programme for term 2, MPE Wednesday Seminar Series.
Location | Speaker | Title | |
JANUARY 2016 | |||
20 January | Imperial College London | Prof Raymond Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford) | Frontiers in exoplanet climate dynamics |
27 January | University of Reading | Dr Hannah Christensen (University of Oxford) | Stochastic parametrisation and model uncertainty in weather and climate models |
FEBRUARY 2016 | |||
3 February | University of Reading | Dr Ben Calderhead (Imperial College London) | TBC |
10 February | Imperial College London |
Prof Geoffrey West (Santa Fe Institute) |
Is a Quantitative, Predictive, Science of Cities, Urbanisation and Global Sustainability Conceivable? What Can We Learn from Biology and Physics? |
17 February | Imperial College London | Dr Claudia Neves (University of Reading) | A general estimator for the right endpoint with an application to supercentenarian women’s records |
24 February | University of Reading | Dr Matt Piggott (Imperial College London) | Simulating and optimising the coastal zone |
MARCH 2016 | |||
2 March | Imperial College London | Dr Joy Singarayer (University of Reading) | Why model palaeoclimates? The case of the problematic desert |
9 March | Imperial College London | Dr Erik van Sebille (Imperial College London) | How many oceans are there really? Using Lagrangian ocean dynamics to study climate, marine ecosystems and plastic accumulation |
16 March | University of Reading | Prof Irene Moroz (University of Oxford) | A simple Plankton Model with Complex Behaviour |
23 March | University of Reading | Prof Peter Lynch (University College Dublin) | The Emergence of Numerical Weather Prediction: Fulfilment of a Dream & Realization of a Fantasy |