Third meeting: programme

Monday 14 June

8.30-9.00: Arrival, registration and welcome
9.00-9.30: Jacques Vanneste (Edinburgh): Modelling mixing by leaky surface acoustic waves
9.35-10.05: Stuart Murray (Edinburgh): Quasimodes in a dispersive Lamb model
10.10-11.00: Coffee
11.00-11.30: David Forehand (Edinburgh): Some hydrodynamic aspects of ocean wave energy converters
11.35-12.05: Tim Stallard (Manchester): Marine Energy Devices: loading due to waves and currents
12.10-13.50: Lunch and discussions
13.50-14.20: Sergei Lukaschuk (Hull): Statistical characteristics of surface gravity wave turbulence in the laboratory flume
14.25-14.55: Robert Bedard (Hull): Modelling of water surface wave turbulence in the laboratory
15.00-15.50: Tea
15.50-16.20: Onno Bokhove (Twente): Creation of a beach by breaking waves
16.25:16.55: Alan Hood (St Andrews): Current problems in solar MHD
17.00-17.20: Discussions

9.00-9.30: David Dritschel (St Andrews): Waves on jets
9.35-10.05: Boris Galperin (USF): Diffusion of momentum and scalar in anisotropic 2D and 3D turbulence with dispersive waves
10.10-11.00: Coffee
11.00-11.30: Brenda Quinn (Warwick): Turbulence of Rossby waves and the generation of zonal flows
11.35-12.05: Benjamin Willcocks (UCL): tba
12.10-13.50: Lunch and discussions
13.50-14.20: Eugene Benilov (Limerick): Hyper-reflection of gravity waves by ageostrophic jets (with Vladimir Lapin)
14.25-14.55: Will McKiver (St Andrews): Inertia-gravity wave instabilities on ellipsoidal vortices
15.00-15.50: Tea
15.50-16.20: Riwal Plougonven (LMD/ENS): Spontaneous generation of gravity waves from jets in idealized simulations
16.25-16.55: Victor Shrira (Keele): New exact solutions for internal waves
17.00:17.20: Discussions

9.00-9.30: Jonas Nycander (Stockolm): Analysing ocean overturning with a thermodynamic stream function
9.35-10.05: Richard Scott (St Andrews): Potential vorticity constraints on the wave-driven residual circulation in the stratosphere
10.10-11.00: Coffee
11.00-11.30: Michael McIntyre (Cambridge) Progress on generalized Paparella-Young ε theorems: the strange affair of κ log κ
11.35-12.05: Karima Khusnutdinova (Loughbourough): Structure formation in the oceanic subsurface bubble layer by an internal wave field
12.10-13.50: Lunch
14.00-18.00: Collaborations/walk
19.30-21.20: Conference dinner

9.00-9.30: John Methven (Reading): Role of large-amplitude Rossby waves and mean-flow interaction in seasons with highly anomalous weather
9.35-10.05: Vladimir Zeitlin (LMD/ENS): Moist vs dry barotropic instability in a shallow-water model of the atmosphere with moist convection
10.10-11.00: Coffee
11.00-11.30: Fenwick Cooper (UCL): Estimation of the forced response of non-Gaussian systems
11.35-12.05: Keith Ngan (Met Office): Predictability of the Met Office's Unified Model
12.10-13.50: Lunch and discussions
13.50-14.20: Marcel Oliver (Bremen) New results on the convergence of the HPM method
14.25-14.55: Mike Cullen (Met Office): Solving Craig's equations for almost axisymmetric flow
15.00-15.50: Tea
15.50-16.20: Ian Roulstone (Surrey): Geometry and duality in the semi-geostrophic equations
16.25:16.45: Discussions

9.00-9.30: Ben Harvey (Reading): Surface quasi-geostrophic vortices
9.35-10.05: Paul Williams (Reading): Testing the limits of quasi-geostrophic theory
10.10-11.00: Coffee
11.00-11.30: Will Townsend (Keele): Singular focusing of inertia-gravity waves on a sphere
11.35-12.05: Oliver Buhler (Courant): The rapid decay of large-scale internal tides due to interactions with random small-scale topography
12.10: Meeting ends