December 2009: Ms. Melissa Kaufman (a MechE undergraduate UROP student in our group) has been accepted as a PhD student at the Graduate School of Oceanography of the University of Rhode Island. Congratulations Melissa!

Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Modeling – session on Predictability and Data Assimilation, Mount Holyoke College, So. Hadley, MA. A group photo of the attendees can be found here (as a PDF).

Prof. Pierre Lermusiaux has given and been invited to give lectures at the following workshops and schools:

• 22-27 September 2013 – International Workshop on “Uncovering Transport Barriers in Geophysical Flows”, Banff, Canada.
• 8-12 July 2013 – Uncertainty Quantification in Climate Modeling and Prediction” mini-symposium, SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
• 24-28 June 2013 – Advanced School on Data Assimilation. University of Bologna, Italy.
• 27-29 May 2013 – 8th workshop on data assimilation methods for large models (EnKF 2013), Bergen, Norway.
• 17-22 February 2013 – International Workshop on “Probabilistic Approaches to Data Assimilation for Earth Systems”, Banff, Canada.
• 27-29 November 2012 – “SANGOMA – Stochastic Assimilation for the Next Generation Ocean Model Applications”, University of Liege, Belgium.
• 4-5 June 2012 – “Modeling the Shelfbreak Front” for the “Oceanography of the Continental Shelf and Slope: Pioneer Array Science” Workshop, SMAST, New Bedford, MA.
• 18 November 2011 – Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory Seminar, MIT
• 15 November 2011 – Gloucester’s New Maritime Port Economy Summit, Gloucester, MA
• 4 November 2011 – Mechanical Engineering Colloquium: Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Ocean Engineering, MIT
• 24 October 2011 – “Working with Uncertainty Workshop: Representation, Quantification, Propagation, Visualization, and Communication of Uncertainty”, Providence, RI.
• 27-29 September 2011 – Ocean Integration in Earth System Prediction Capability Data Assimilation, University of Maryland
• 26 June – 1 July 2011 – Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Modeling – session on Predictability and Data Assimilation, Mount Holyoke College, So. Hadley, MA
  A group photo of the attendees can be found here (as a PDF).
• 6-10 June 2011 – Large-scale Inverse Problems and Quantification of Uncertainty, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota
• 22 April 2011 – Physical Oceanography Seminars, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
• 19 October 2010 – Maritime Rapid Environmental Assessment Conference: Quantifying, Predicting, Exploiting Uncertainties in Marine Environments, Keynote Lecture, NURC, Lerici, Italy
• 5 August 2010 – ASME 2010 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, Montreal, Canada
• 28-30 June 2010 – 2^nd International Conference on Computational Sustainability, Cambridge, MA
• 23-25 June 2010 – Workshop on Data Assimilation and Climate Research, Boulder, CO
• 7-11 June 2010 – Advanced School on Data Assimilation, Bologna, Italy
• 27 April 2010 – MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS)

Members of the group will be attending IMUM 2011 – The 10th InternationalbWorkshop on Multiscale (Un-)structured Mesh Numerical Modelling for coastal, shelf and global ocean dynamics. Prof. Lermusiaux is a member of the Organizing Committee.

Prof. Pierre Lermusiaux was the MIT representative, NSF Pioneer Array Science Workshop, February 22-24, 2011.