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Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Friday, March 8, 2024 at 2 p.m., in 5-314 | Bastien Schnitzler [Announcement (PDF)] |
PhD Candidate, Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC), Toulouse, France | Trajectory Optimization in Unsteady Flow Fields: The Extremal Approach |
| Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 11 a.m. on Zoom | Prof. Francis X. Giraldo [Announcement (PDF)] |
Department of Applied Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA | Time-integration Strategies for Non-hydrostatic Atmospheric Models |
| Friday, April 5, 2024 at 2 p.m., in 5-314 | Afonso Sá [Announcement (PDF)] |
PhD Candidate, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal | Robotic Exploration of Atlantic Waters |
| Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. on Zoom | Dr. Nan Chen [Announcement (PDF)] |
Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Lagrangian Data Assimilation and Uncertainty Quantification |
| Friday, April 26, 2024 at 1:30 p.m., in 5-314 | Blake Ian Barry Cole [Announcement (PDF)] |
PhD Candidate, MIT-WHOI Joint Program, Woods Hole, MA | Wingsail Design Methodology and Performance Evaluation Metrics for Autonomous Sailing |
Fall 2023
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 11 a.m. on Zoom | Dr. Dan Lu [Announcement (PDF)] |
Senior Staff Scientist, Computational Earth Science Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Advancing Earth System Predictability with Machine Learning Methods (SIAM MPE Community Meetings: Colloquium) |
| Thursday, December 21, 2023 at 11 a.m. on Zoom | Prof. Dan Crisan [Announcement (PDF)] |
Professor of Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, UK | Noise Calibration for Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Models |
| Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 11 a.m. on Zoom | Dr. Antonio J. Busalacchi [Announcement (PDF)] |
President, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Boulder, CO | The Future of Forecasts: Earth System Prediction in the 21st Century (SIAM MPE Community Meetings: Inaugural Colloquium) |
| Friday, October 27, 2023 at 1 p.m. in 5-314 Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94953046473 |
Rachel Kahn [Announcement (PDF)] | Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science & Engineering Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) |
Broadband Acoustical Scattering in Coastal Environments: Application to Gelatinous Organisms and Gas Microbubbles |
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Friday, October 21, 2022 at 2 p.m. in 5-314 | Prof. Nuno A. Cruz [Announcement (PDF)] |
Coordinator of the Center for Robotics and Autonomous Systems, INESC TEC, Portugal Assistant Professor at the University of Porto, Portugal |
Applied Research in Marine Robotics at INESC TEC |
| Friday, October 21, 2022 at 3 p.m. in 5-314 | Michael Denes [Announcement (PDF)] |
Ph.D. Candidate School of Mathematics and Statistics University of New South Wales |
Transport and Mixing by Quasi-Coherent Ocean Structures |
| Friday, October 28, 2022 at 3 p.m. in 5-314 and Zoom | Matthew Levine [Announcement (PDF)] |
Ph.D. Candidate Computing and Mathematical Sciences California Institute of Technology |
A Framework for Machine Learning of Model Error in Dynamical Systems |
Summer 2022
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Friday, July 29, 2022 at 2 p.m. in 5-314 | Beckett Colson [Announcement (PDF)] | Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science & Engineering Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) |
Developing In Situ Instrumentation to Monitor Anthropogenic Change |
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 5 p.m. in 1-190 | Iain Couzin | Director, Department of Collective Behaviour, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Konstanz, Germany Director, DFG Excellence Cluster - Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour Chair of Biodiversity and Collective Behaviour, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany | Collective Sensing and Decision-Making in Animal Groups: From Fish Schools to Primate Societies |
| 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 and 3D Coherent Structures) |
| TBA | James J. McCarthy | Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University | (Climate and biogeochemical-ecosystems) |
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Friday, November 30, 2018 at 3 p.m. in 5-314 | Maziar Raissi [Announcement (PDF)] | Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics Division of Applied Mathematics Brown University | Hidden Physics Models: Machine Learning of Non-Linear Partial Differential Equations |
Spring 2018
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Friday, May 4, 2018 at 2 p.m. in 5-314 | Juan M. Restrepo [Announcement (PDF)] | Professor, Mathematics Adjunct Professor, Statistics Adjunct Professor, Physics of Oceans and Atmospheres Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Oregon State University | Tales of Dynamic Uncertainty and Data-Driven Dynamics |
| Friday, April 27, 2018 at 3 p.m. in 5-314 | Andone C Lavery [Announcement (PDF)] | Senior Scientist, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | The Audacious Ocean Twilight Zone Project |
Fall 2017
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Thursday, November 9, 2017 at 2:30PM in 3-333 | Deepak Narayanan Subramani [Announcement (PDF)] |
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT | Probabilistic Regional Ocean Predictions: Stochastic Fields and Optimal Planning |
Summer 2017
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at 1 p.m. in 5-232 | Sandor Mulsow [Announcement (PDF)] | Director, Office of Environmental Management and Mineral Resources International Seabed Authority Kingston, Jamaica | Deep Sea Mineral Resources and Habitat: Towards a Solid Environmental Impact Assessment |
Spring 2017
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Monday June 5, 2017 at 2 p.m in 5-314 | Ibrahim Hoteit [Announcement (PDF)] | Associate Professor, Earth Sciences and Engineering, Applied Mathematics & Computational Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia | An Integrated Data-Driven Modeling System to Study and Predict the Circulation, Productivity and Climate of the Red Sea |
| Tuesday January 24, 2017 at 11 a.m in 5-314 | George Haller [Announcement (PDF)] | Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics Institute for Mechanical Systems ETH Zurich Zurich, Switzerland | Objective Eulerian Coherent Structures in Fluids |
Fall 2016
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 11 a.m in 5-231 | Bruno Sainte-Rose [Announcement (PDF)] | Lead computational modeler, The Ocean Cleanup Delft, Netherlands | The Oceans Clean Again, An Impossible Dream Made Possible |
| Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 12 p.m in 37-212 CCE Seminar | Pierre F.J. Lermusiaux [Announcement (PDF)] | Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Ocean Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Bayesian Inference of High-Dimensional Dynamical Models: The Survival of the Fittest |
| Friday October 28, 2016 at 4 p.m in 3-270 | Pierre F.J. Lermusiaux | Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Ocean Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Marine Science of Autonomy: From Theory to Practice |
Summer 2016
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Thursday August 11, 2016 at 3 p.m in 5-234 | Gianandrea Mannarini [Announcement (PDF)] | Scientist, Fondazione CMCC (Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici) Divisione OPA (Ocean Predictions and Applications) Lecce, Italy | Optimal Ship Routing for Crossing the Atlantic |
| Tuesday August 9, 2016 at 3 p.m in 5-234 | Gianandrea Mannarini [Announcement (PDF)] | Scientist, Fondazione CMCC (Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici) Divisione OPA (Ocean Predictions and Applications) Lecce, Italy | VISIR (discoVerIng Safe and effIcient Routes) for Ship Routing |
| Postponed. New Date and Time to be announced soon. | Ngoc Cuong Nguyen [Announcement (PDF)] | Research Scientist Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Center for Computational Engineering School of Engineering, MIT | Implicit large eddy simulation of compressible flows using the hybridized discontinuous Galerkin approach |
Spring 2016
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Thursday April 28, 2016 at 12 p.m in 37-212 CCE Seminar |
Eric Chassignet [Announcement (PDF)] | Director, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies Professor of Oceanography, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science Florida State University | Impact of horizontal resolution (1/12 to 1/50 degree) on Gulf Stream separation and penetration in a series of North Atlantic HYCOM numerical simulations |
| Tuesday March 15, 2016 at 1 pm in 3-350 | Gregory Wagner [Announcement (PDF)] | Ph.D Candidate Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at University of California, San Diego | An Asymptotic Model for the Coupled Evolution of Near-Inertial Waves and Quasi-Geostrophic Flow |
Fall 2015
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Friday November 20, 2015 at 2:30 p.m in 5-314 | Fuqing Zhang [Announcement (PDF)] | Director, Penn State Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques (ADAPT) Professor, Department of Meteorology and Department of Statistics | Simultaneous state and parameter estimation with an ensemble Kalman filter for land surface and boundary layer processes |
| Thursday November 12, 2015 at 4 p.m in 3-370 MIT SIAM-CCE Seminar |
Florian Feppon | 1st Year Graduate Student Department of Mechanical Engineering and CSE, MIT | Design and topology optimization for wear of bi-composite material surfaces |
| Thursday October 29, 2015 at 4 p.m in 3-370 MIT SIAM-CCE Seminar |
Deepak Subramani | PhD Candidate Department of Mechanical Engineering and CSE, MIT | Optimal Path Planning in Dynamic Environments |
| Thursday October 22, 2015 at 12 p.m in 37-212 CCE Seminar |
Bernardo Cockburn [Announcement (PDF)] | Distinguished McKnight University Professor School of Mathematics University of Minnesota | An overview of the development of the HDG methods |
| Thursday October 15, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. in 5-314 | Jeffrey L. Anderson [Announcement (PDF)] | Senior Scientist Section Head, Data Assimilation Research Section, The Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe), UCAR | Building State-of-the-Art Forecast Systems with the Ensemble Kalman Filter |
| Friday October 9, 2015 at 2:30 p.m. in 5-314 | John Harlim [Announcement (PDF)] | Associate Professor of Mathematics and Meteorology The Pennsylvania State University | Diffusion Forecasts: A nonparametric modeling approach |
| Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 3:00PM in 5-314 | Sri Venkata Tapovan Lolla [Announcement (PDF)] |
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT | Path Planning and Adaptive Sampling in the Coastal Ocean |
| Friday September 11, 2015 at 10 a.m in 5-314 | Oliver B. Fringer [Slides] | Associate Professor Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Stanford University | Developing a nonhydrostatic isopycnal-coordinate ocean model |
Summer 2015
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Thursday June 11 at 1 pm in 5-314 | Mostafa Momen and Prof. Elie Bou-Zeid [Announcement (PDF)] | PhD Candidate and Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University | Large-eddy simulations and mean and turbulence dynamics in unsteady Ekman flows |
| Friday June 5 at 2 pm in 5-231 | Yanlai Chen [Announcement (PDF)] | Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Univ. Mass. - Dartmouth | Hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods for convection-diffusion equations on nonconforming meshes and KdV-type of equations |
Spring 2015
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Friday February 27 at 2 pm in 5-134 | Brooks Reed [Announcement (PDF)] | MIT Postdoctoral Associate | Controller Design for Underwater Vehicle Systems with Communication Constraints |
| Friday May 22 at 2 pm in 5-314 | Panagiotis Tsiotras [Announcement (PDF)] | Visiting Faculty Scholar, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT College of Engineering Dean’s Professor, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering and Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA | Optimal Trajectory Planning and Assignment Problems for Kinematic Agents with State-Dependent Metrics |
Fall 2014
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Friday December 5 at 2 pm in 5-234 | Ali Mashayek [Announcement (PDF)] | Post Doctoral Associate Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, MIT | Ocean mixing: From large scale ocean circulation to molecular diffusion |
| Friday October 3 at 2 pm in 5-234 | Steve Ramp [Announcement (PDF)] | President and CEO SOLITON Ocean Services, Inc. 691 Country Club Drive Carmel Valley, CA 93924 | Observations of the Mesoscale Variability in the Western Philippine Sea |
Summer 2014
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Friday Aug 22 at 11 am in 5-314 | Marco Cococcioni [Announcement (PDF)] | Assistant Professor Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy |
Two-class classification tasks: a novel way to assess the performance of one-class classifiers using unlabeled data |
| Tuesday Aug 19 at 9:30 am in 5-314 | Marco Cococcioni | Assistant Professor Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy |
Some recent advances on optimal sampling and adaptive sampling of ocean fields using fleets of underwater gliders |
| Friday Aug 1 at 11 am in 5-314 | Toni Viskari [Announcement (PDF)] | Post Doctoral Associate Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University |
State Data Assimilation in Forest Ecology: Estimating Leaf-Phenology |
| Friday July 18 at 11 a.m in 5-314 | Ping Zhai [Announcement (PDF)] |
PhD, MIT-WHOI Joint Program | On the Crossover of Boundary Currents in an Idealized Model of the Red Sea |
Winter/Spring 2014
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Thursday May 1 at 4pm in 4-237 | Joannes J. Westerink [Announcement (PDF)] |
Joseph and Nona Ahearn Professor in Computational Science and Engineering Henry J. Massman Chairman Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences |
Hurricane Storm Surge Models Using Integrated Ocean Basin to Shelf to Inland Floodplain Unstructured Grids |
| Friday April 11 at noon in 5-314 | Christopher Amato [Announcement (PDF)] |
Postdoctoral Associate; MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) | Scalable Multiagent Coordination in Noisy, Uncertain Environments |
| Friday 13 December at noon in 5-314 | Maciej Balajewicz [Announcement (PDF)] |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University | Low-dimensional modeling of high-Reynolds-number flows |
Fall 2013
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Talk Title |
| Thursday 5 September at 10:00AM in 5-314 | Mattheus P. Ueckermann [Announcement (PDF)] |
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT | High Order Hybrid Discontinuous Galerkin Regional Ocean Modeling |
| Friday 26 September at noon in 5-314 | Ibrahim Hoteit [Announcement (PDF)] |
Assistant Professor, KAUST | Stochastic vs. Deterministic EnKFs for Storm Surge Forecasting and Undersampling of Observational Errors |
| Friday 8 November at 11:00AM in 5-314 | Qiqi Wang [Announcement (PDF)] |
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Taming the Butterfly Effect — Long Time Sensitivity Analysis of Unsteady and Chaotic Systems |
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 |
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) |
