Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and Assimilation Systems (MSEAS)

Seminars are on Mondays at 1 pm, in room 5-314 at MIT, unless otherwise specified

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Summer/Fall 2009 Seminar Schedule

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Talk Title
Thurs., 30 July
at 12:30 PM in room 5-232
Ilson da Silveira
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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
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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
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University of Bologna, Italy The Operational Oceanographic Service in Europe and in the Mediterranean Sea
TBA John Marshall Dept of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences, MIT (Climate Modeling)
TBA Carl Wunsch Dept of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences, MIT (Ocean Circulation)
TBA Larry Pratt Phys. Oceanog. Dep., WHOI (Strait dynamics)
TBA Tim Duda Applied Ocean Physics and Eng. Dept., WHOI (Internal tides and Waves with Acoustical Effects)
TBA James J. McCarthy Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University (Climate and biogeochemical-ecosystems)
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Fall 2008 Seminar Schedule

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Talk Title
5 Nov. 2008 at 4:00 PM Kamran Mohseni
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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
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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
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Dept of MechE and EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA Empirical Orthogonal Functions: Snapshots, Biases, Variances and Connections to Random Matrices and Adaptive Array Processing      [Abstract (PDF)]
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
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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. pdf
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. pdf
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). pdf
29 May 2007
Prof. Art Baggeroer MIT, Dept of MechE and EECS, Cambridge, MA Acoustic Communications and Ocean Observatories
(Estimation and Control, Signal Processing)