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Winter/Spring 2013
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Friday 18 Jan at 11:30AM in 5-314 | Hajoon Song [Announcement (PDF)] |
University of California, Santa Cruz | Coupled 4D-variational physical and biological data assimilation in the California Current System |
| Tuesday 26 Feb at 3:00PM in 5-314 | Matthias Morzfeld [Announcement (PDF)] |
Department of Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Implicit Sampling for Data Assimilation |
| Thursday 28 Feb at 12:00PM in 5-314 | Craig Michoski [Announcement (PDF)] |
University of Texas, Austin | Discontinuous Galerkin Methods in Nonlinear Dynamics |
| Thursday May 9 at 4:00PM in 4-237 CCE Seminar |
Dale B. Haidvogel [Announcement (PDF)] |
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University | The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Delaware Bay Oyster |
| Thursday 6 June at 11:00AM in 5-314 | Matt Rayson [Announcement (PDF)] |
Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University | Predicting Estuarine Transport in Galveston Bay – Challenges with Modelling a Complex Real-World System |
| Wednesday 19 June at 11:00AM in 5-314 | J. Nathan Kutz [Announcement (PDF)] |
Chair Applied Mathematics, Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics, University of Washington | Spatiotemporal Encoding/Decoding of Nonlinear Dynamics Using Compressive Sensing and Machine Learning |
| TBA | Qiqi Wang | MIT - Aerospace | Sensitivity Analysis of Chaotic Flows |
| TBA | Yanlai Chen | Univ. Mass. - Dartmouth | Variable-degree HDG methods |
| TBA | Andrew M. Moore | Ocean Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz | (Data Assimilation) |
| TBA | Glenn Flierl | Dept of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences, MIT | TBA |
| TBA | Larry Pratt | Phys. Oceanog. Dept., WHOI | (Strait dynamics) |
| TBA | James J. McCarthy | Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University | (Climate and biogeochemical-ecosystems) |
Fall 2012
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Friday 16 Nov. | Hyodae Seo | WHOI | Role of ocean mesoscale eddies in air-sea interaction and regional climate change |
Winter/Spring/Summer 2012
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Friday 11 May at 2:00PM in 5-314 | Tijana Janjic Pfander [Announcement (PDF)] |
Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany Visiting Scientist of Prof. Dennis B. McLaughlin, CEE |
Dynamical ocean topography from satellite measurements and its impact on Southern Ocean circulation estimates |
| Friday July 27 at 11:00AM in 5-314 | Christopher Amato [Announcement (PDF)] |
Postdoctoral Associate; MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) | Increasing Scalability in Algorithms for Centralized and Decentralized Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes |
Fall 2011
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Fri., 14 Oct. at 1:00 PM in Room 5-314 | Habib Najm [Announcement (PDF)] | Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore CA | Sources of Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Models – Joint seminar with Prof. Ghoniem’s Reacting Gas-Dynamics |
| Wed., 19 Oct. at 1:00 PM in Room 5-232 | Emmanuel de Langre [Announcement (PDF)] | Ecole Polytechnique | Vortex-Induced Vibrations and Waves in Cables, OE seminar |
| Friday, 21 Oct. at 2:00 PM in Room 5-314 | Ming-Da Chiou [Announcement (PDF)] | Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University | Sources of baroclinic tidal energy in the Gaoping Submarine Canyon off southwestern Taiwan |
Winter/Spring 2011
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Fri., 7 Jan. at 4:00 PM in room 5-314 | David Knezevic [Announcement (PDF)] | Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT | The Certified Reduced Basis Method for High-Fidelity Simulation in Many Query and Real-Time Applications |
| Wed., 27 Apr. at 4:00 PM in room 5-314 | Eugenia Kalnay [Announcement (PDF)] | Dept. Atmos. and Oceanic Sci., U. Maryland | Recent Advances in Data Assimilation |
| Thu., 28 Apr. at 2:30 PM in room 54-915 | Eugenia Kalnay | Dept. Atmos. and Oceanic Sci., U. Maryland | MASS Seminar – Population and Climate Change: Need for a Fully Coupled Model |
| Fri., 25 March at 12:00 PM in room 5-314 | Tim Duda [Announcement (PDF)] | Applied Ocean Physics and Eng. Dept., WHOI | Internal tides: Global and Local Effects |
Fall 2010
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Tue., 3 Aug. at 11:00 AM in room 5-216 | Wenbo Tang [Announcement (PDF)] | School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State Univ. | Stirring, Mixing and Lagrangian Coherence — From Mathematics to Applications |
Winter/Spring 2010
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Wed., 13 Jan. at 3:30 PM in room 5-314 | Mattia Gazzola [Announcement (PDF)] | Computational Science and Engineering Lab, ETH Zurich | Stochastic optimization of flow simulations using particles |
| Fri., 12 Feb. at 12:00 PM in room 5-314 | Sukru Besiktepe [Announcement (PDF)] | NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC), La Spezia, Italy | Observations of the Water Exchange Between the Black and Aegean Seas During the TSS-08 and TSS-09 Experiments |
| Fri., 19 Feb. at 12:30 PM in room 5-217 | John Marshall [Announcement (PDF)] | Dept of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences, MIT | Exploring the role of the ocean in climate using coupled models |
| Mon., 3 May. at 12:00 PM in room 5-314 | Carl Wunsch [Announcement (PDF)] | Dept of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences, MIT | Determining Global Sea Level Rise |
Summer 2009
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Thurs., 30 July at 12:30 PM in room 5-232 | Ilson da Silveira [Announcement (PDF)] | Universidade de Sao Paolo, Brazil | An overview of the Western Boundary Current off Brazil |
| Friday, 7 Aug. at 12:30 PM in room 5-231 | Ngoc Cuong Nguyen [Announcement (PDF)] | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT | Hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods for incompressible flows |
| Wednesday, 19 Aug. at 12:00 PM in room 5-231 | Nadia Pinardi [Announcement (PDF)] | University of Bologna, Italy | The Operational Oceanographic Service in Europe and in the Mediterranean Sea |
Fall 2008
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| 5 Nov. 2008 at 4:00 PM | Kamran Mohseni [Announcement (PDF)] | Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder | Bio-Inspired Aerial and Underwater Vehicles for Distributed Mobile Sensor Networking |
| 12 Nov. 2008 at 4:00 PM in room 5-234 | Frans-Peter Lam [Announcement (PDF)] | Scientist, Underwater Technology, TNO Observation Systems, The Hague, The Netherlands | Attractive internal waves over topography: a Dutch treat |
Spring 2008
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| 31 March 2008 at Noon | Prof. Art Baggeroer [Announcement (PDF)] | Dept of MechE and EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA | Empirical Orthogonal Functions: Snapshots, Biases, Variances and Connections to Random Matrices and Adaptive Array Processing |
| 2 May 2008 at 2:15 in room 3-370 | Prof. Benoit Cushman-Roisin | Prof. of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth | Beyond Eddy Diffusivity – an Alternate Model for Turbulent Dispersion |
| 7 May 2008 at 2:30 | Prof. Sharan Majumdar [Announcement (PDF)] | Research Asst. Professor, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami | Introduction to Ensemble-based Adaptive Sampling |
Fall 2007
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| 10 Sep 2007 | Chuck McVinney | McVinney & Company, Inc. | Leadership Skills for Engineering and Science Research Groups |
| 1 Oct 2007 | Raffaele Ferrari | MIT, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA | Upper Ocean Turbulence |
| Tuesday 9 Oct 2007, at Noon | Peter Rhines | University of Washington, Dept of Oceanography and Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA | Exploring the (not so-) cold oceans of the North with satellites and robotic Seagliders |
| 5 Nov 2007 | Avijit Gangopadhyay | Oceanographic Modeling and Analysis Laboratory, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | Synoptic Ocean Forecasting Using Multiscale Feature Models: From Eddies to Integrated Ocean Observing Systems |
Spring 2007
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| 9 Apr 2007 | Yeon G. Gwack Ph.D. candidate | Univ. of California, Dept. of Computer Science, Santa Cruz, CA | Scientific Visualization for Ocean Data |
| 23 Apr 2007 | Jinshan Xu Ph.D. Candidate | MIT/WHOI Joint Program, AOPE, Woods Hole, MA | Simulation of Sound Wave Propagation in the Random Deep Ocean |
| 30 Apr 2007 10:30am | Prof. Eli Tziperman | Harvard University, Dept. of EPS and SEAS, Cambridge, MA | Dinosaur Forecast: Cloudy. (a high latitude atmospheric convection mechanism for equable climate dynamics) |
| 14 May 2007 11:00am | Dr. Patrick Heimbach | MIT, Dept. of EAPS, Cambridge, MA | Application of the MITgcm Modeling Framework for Global Ocean State Estimation (Technical aspects of building adjoints and automatic differencing) |
| 29 May 2007 | Prof. Art Baggeroer | MIT, Dept of MechE and EECS, Cambridge, MA | Acoustic Communications and Ocean Observatories (Estimation and Control, Signal Processing) |
