Talks+&+Discussions

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 * ~ **Week 1** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Sep 23 || 12:15pm || Aud || **TBA** || //TBA// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * || 2:00 pm || SSR || **All participants** || //Organizational Meeting// ||  ||
 * Tue, Sep 24 || 10:30am || SSR || **J. McElwaine** || Powder snow avalanche || Daily Seminar ||
 * Wed, Sep 25 || 10:30am || SSR || **D. Mohrig** || Challenges with sediment gravity flows: Triggering mechanisms, high sediment concentrations, and boundary conditions || Daily Seminar ||
 * Thu, Sep 26 || 10:30am || SSR || **K. Kroy** || Where is the interesting physics in wind-blown sand? || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 3:45pm || SSR || **All participants** || Discussion on the equations and computational approaches for gravity currents ||  ||
 * Fri, Sep 27 || 10:30am || SSR || **B. Sutherland** || Particle Transport by Turbidity Currents, Solitary Waves and Turbulent Jets || Daily Seminar ||
 * ~ **Week 2** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Sep 30 || 12:15pm || Aud || **TBA** || //TBA// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * || 2:00pm || Aud || **All participants** || Organizational Meeting ||  ||
 * || 2:30pm || Aud || **B. Eckhardt** || Vortices, streaks and Coherent Structures: Lessons learned from the turbulence transition in pipe flow || Daily Seminar ||
 * Tue, Oct 1 || 10:30am || Aud || **F. Sotiropoulos** || Large-eddy simulation of hydro-morphodynamics: From ripples in scour holes to mega-dunes in large rivers || Daily Seminar ||
 * Wed, Oct 2 || 10:30am || Aud || **H. Clercx** || Lagragian Statistics of Particles in Geophysical Turbulence || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 4:00pm || Engineering Science Building (Room 2003) || **P. Diamessis** || Near-bed instabilities and turbulence under internal solitary waves: a possible mechanism for particulate resuspension and transport || Fluid Mechanics Seminar of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ||
 * Thu, Oct 3 || 10:30am || Aud || **K. Kiger** || Grain-scale measurements of particle-fluid interaction in marine and aeolian sediment transport || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 2:00pm || Aud || **M. Wilkinson** || A test-tube model for rainfall || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Oct 4 || 10:30am || Aud || **F. Rochinha** || A Multiscale Variational Large Eddy Computational Framework for Numerical Simulations of Turbidity Currents || Daily Seminar ||
 * ~ **Week 3** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Oct 7 || 2:00pm || Aud || **All participants** || Organizational Meeting ||  ||
 * || 2:15pm || Aud || **D. Issler** || Snow avalanches (and related beasts) - theory and practice || Daily Seminar ||
 * Tue, Oct 8 || 10:30am || Aud || **E. Meiburg** || Turbidity currents and river outflows || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 2;00pm || Aud || **E. Meiburg** || Continuation of Eckart's talk ||  ||
 * Wed, Oct 9 || 10:30am || Aud || **S. Balachandar** || Near-wall sediment resuspension mechanisms and the complex interaction of suspended sediments and carrier phase turbulence || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 4:00pm || Aud || **A. Valance** || Sand Ripple and Dune || Joint Geoflows and Fluid Mechanics Seminar ||
 * Thu, Oct 10 || 10:30am || Aud || **H. Herrmann** || Simulating saltation || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 2:00pm || MSR || **D. Issler** || Continuation of Dieter's talk ||  ||
 * Fri, Oct 11 || 10:30am || Aud || **A. Soldati** || Stratified and free surface turbulent flows: Dispersion and clustering of floaters. || Daily Seminar ||
 * ~ **Week 4** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Oct 14 || 12:15pm || Aud || **Jim Jenkins** || The physics of wind-blown sand and desert dunes || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * || 2:00pm || Aud || **All participants** || Organizational Meeting ||  ||
 * || 2:15pm || Aud || **J. Eggenhuisen** || Single grains, dense layers, and disperse grainsize distributions in turbidity currents; an experimental perspective. || Daily Seminar ||
 * Tue, Oct 15 || 10:30am || Aud || **L. Oger** || How discrete element method code can model dynamical phenomena such as saltation transport, multiple collision process and granular avalanches || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 2:00pm || TBA || **Interested Participants Only** || The appropriate rheological constituent relation for boundary layers with high sediment concentrations. || Feel free (not obliged) to send a single slide with your preferred rheology (Coulomb, frictional, lubricated, collisional, elasto-plastic, Newtonian, ...) describing the relation between stress and deformation at high concentrations near the bed of the GeoFlows you specialise in, to eggenhu@kitp.ucsb.edu before the discussion. ||
 * Wed, Oct 16 || 10:30am || Aud || **E. Lajeunesse** || Equilibrium morphology of alluvial rivers || Daily Seminar ||
 * Thu, Oct 17 || 10:30am || Aud || **K. Rasmussen** || Aeolian dynamics - a laboratory perspective || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Oct 18 || 10:30am || Aud || **J. Chauchat** || Intense bedload transport: from laminar bed load to turbulent sheet flow || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 2:00pm || TBA || **Interested Participants Only** || The appropriate rheological constituent relation for boundary layers with high sediment concentrations. || Feel free (not obliged) to send a single slide with your preferred rheology (Coulomb, frictional, lubricated, collisional, elasto-plastic, Newtonian, ...) describing the relation between stress and deformation at high concentrations near the bed of the GeoFlows you specialise in, to eggenhu@kitp.ucsb.edu before the discussion. ||
 * Wed, Oct 16 || 10:30am || Aud || **E. Lajeunesse** || Equilibrium morphology of alluvial rivers || Daily Seminar ||
 * Thu, Oct 17 || 10:30am || Aud || **K. Rasmussen** || Aeolian dynamics - a laboratory perspective || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Oct 18 || 10:30am || Aud || **J. Chauchat** || Intense bedload transport: from laminar bed load to turbulent sheet flow || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Oct 18 || 10:30am || Aud || **J. Chauchat** || Intense bedload transport: from laminar bed load to turbulent sheet flow || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Oct 18 || 10:30am || Aud || **J. Chauchat** || Intense bedload transport: from laminar bed load to turbulent sheet flow || Daily Seminar ||


 * ~ **Week 5** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Oct 21 || 12:15pm || Aud ||  ||   || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * || 2:00pm || Aud || **All participants** || Organizational Meeting ||  ||
 * || 2:15pm || Aud || **T. Hsu** || Selected topics on fine (cohesive) sediment and sand (non-cohesive) transport in the coastal environment. || Daily Seminar ||
 * Tue, Oct 22 || 10:30am || Aud || **N. Ouellette** || Advection of Active Particles || Daily Seminar ||
 * Wed, Oct 23 || 10:30am || Aud || **C. Johnson** || Grain segregation and levee formation in geophysical mass flows || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 4:00pm || MSR || **B. Kneller** || Buoyancy-driven currents and sediment transport in the ocean || Joint Geoflows and Fluid Mechanics Seminar ||
 * Thu, Oct 24 || 10:30am || Aud || **M. Larcher** || Kinetic theory applied to saturated debris flows || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Oct 25 || 10:30am || Aud || **A. Hogg** || The effects of wind on the rise of volcanic plumes and the dispersal of volcanic ash || Daily Seminar ||
 * Thu, Oct 24 || 10:30am || Aud || **M. Larcher** || Kinetic theory applied to saturated debris flows || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Oct 25 || 10:30am || Aud || **A. Hogg** || The effects of wind on the rise of volcanic plumes and the dispersal of volcanic ash || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Oct 25 || 10:30am || Aud || **A. Hogg** || The effects of wind on the rise of volcanic plumes and the dispersal of volcanic ash || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Oct 25 || 10:30am || Aud || **A. Hogg** || The effects of wind on the rise of volcanic plumes and the dispersal of volcanic ash || Daily Seminar ||


 * ~ **Week 6** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Oct 28 || 12:15pm || Aud ||  ||   || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * || 2:00pm || Aud || **All participants** || Organizational Meeting ||  ||
 * || 2:15pm || Aud || **O. Devauchelle** || Growth and shape of drainage networks || Daily Seminar ||
 * Tue, Oct 29 || 10:30am || Aud || **J. Morris** || Particle pressure and phase migration in suspensions: An osmotic approach || Daily Seminar ||
 * Wed, Oct 30 || 10:30am || Aud || **R. Kostaschuk** || Continuous turbidity currents in glacial lakes of western Canada || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 4:00pm || MSR || **J. Jenkins** || Particle Segregation in Dense, Inclined Flows || Joint Geoflows and Fluid Mechanics Seminar ||
 * Thu, Oct 31 || 10:30am || Aud || **D. Nguyen** || A two-phase model based on unified formulation for continuum mechanics applied to sediment transport in geophysical flows: Application to sedimentation, consolidation and erosion. Study case- the Gironde Estuary (France) || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 13:30 || TBA || **Interested participants** || Interface instabilities and pulsing flow in density currents. || Small discussion meeting ||
 * Fri, Nov 1 || 10:30am || Aud || **O. Pouliquen** || Rheology of particulate flows || Daily Seminar ||
 * Thu, Oct 31 || 10:30am || Aud || **D. Nguyen** || A two-phase model based on unified formulation for continuum mechanics applied to sediment transport in geophysical flows: Application to sedimentation, consolidation and erosion. Study case- the Gironde Estuary (France) || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 13:30 || TBA || **Interested participants** || Interface instabilities and pulsing flow in density currents. || Small discussion meeting ||
 * Fri, Nov 1 || 10:30am || Aud || **O. Pouliquen** || Rheology of particulate flows || Daily Seminar ||


 * ~ **Week 7** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Nov 4 || 12:15pm || Aud ||  ||   || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * || 2:00pm || Aud || **All participants** || Organizational Meeting ||  ||
 * || 2:15pm || Aud || **N. Vriend** || Granular physics in Southern California -- booming sand dunes & other fascinating mysteries || Daily Seminar ||
 * Tue, Nov 5 || 10:30am || Aud || **A. Ould El Moctar** || Saltation transport in a turbulent boundary layer || Daily Seminar ||
 * Wed, Nov 6 || 10:30am || Aud || **N. Gray** || Grain segregation and levee formation in geophysical mass flows || Daily Seminar ||
 * Thu, Nov 7 || 10:30am || Aud ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || 2:00pm || FR || **Informal discussion driven by K. Rasmussen** || What may happen to a cliff-top dune when man interferes with Nature || Informal meeting for interested participants ||
 * Fri, Nov 8 || 10:30am || Aud || **B. Birnir** || Simulations of Fluvial Landscapes and Optimal Transport || Daily Seminar ||
 * Thu, Nov 7 || 10:30am || Aud ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || 2:00pm || FR || **Informal discussion driven by K. Rasmussen** || What may happen to a cliff-top dune when man interferes with Nature || Informal meeting for interested participants ||
 * Fri, Nov 8 || 10:30am || Aud || **B. Birnir** || Simulations of Fluvial Landscapes and Optimal Transport || Daily Seminar ||


 * ~ **Week 8** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tue, Nov 12 || 2:00pm || Aud || **All participants** || Organizational Meeting ||  ||
 * || 2:15pm || Aud || **J. Fischer** || Connecting computational and experimental snow avalanche dynamics || Daily Seminar ||
 * Wed, Nov 6 || 10:30am || Aud || **M. Nasr-Azadani** || Turbidity currents interacting with three-dimensional seafloor topographies: A depth-resolved numerical investigation || Daily Seminar ||
 * Thu, Nov 7 || 10:30am || Aud || **R. Govindarayan** || Instabilities in viscosity-stratified flows || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Nov 8 || 10:30am || Aud || **L. Fraccarollo** || Intense Bed Load and Surroundings || Daily Seminar ||
 * Thu, Nov 7 || 10:30am || Aud || **R. Govindarayan** || Instabilities in viscosity-stratified flows || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Nov 8 || 10:30am || Aud || **L. Fraccarollo** || Intense Bed Load and Surroundings || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Nov 8 || 10:30am || Aud || **L. Fraccarollo** || Intense Bed Load and Surroundings || Daily Seminar ||


 * ~ **Week 9** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Nov 18 || 12:15pm || Aud || **A. Valance** || Physics of Sand dunes || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * || 2:00pm || Aud || **All participants** || Organizational Meeting ||  ||
 * || 2:15pm || Aud || **M. Sorensen** || Aeolian sand transport rates and mid-air collisions || Daily Seminar ||
 * Tue, Nov 19 || 10:30am || Aud || **S. Radhakrishnan** || Interaction between turbulence and stratification in buoyancy-driven, and tidally-driven flows || Daily Seminar ||
 * Wed, Nov 20 || 10:30am || Aud || **J. McElwaine** || Avalanche Dynamics || Daily Seminar ||
 * Thu, Nov 21 || 10:30am || Aud || **N. Lancaster** || Development of large aeolian bedforms - time matters || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Nov 22 || 10:30am || Aud || **D. Berzi** || From dry granular flows to collisional sediment transport || Daily Seminar ||
 * Thu, Nov 21 || 10:30am || Aud || **N. Lancaster** || Development of large aeolian bedforms - time matters || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Nov 22 || 10:30am || Aud || **D. Berzi** || From dry granular flows to collisional sediment transport || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Nov 22 || 10:30am || Aud || **D. Berzi** || From dry granular flows to collisional sediment transport || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Nov 22 || 10:30am || Aud || **D. Berzi** || From dry granular flows to collisional sediment transport || Daily Seminar ||


 * ~ **Week 10** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Nov 25 || 12:15pm || Aud ||  ||   || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * || 2:00pm || Aud || **All participants** || Organizational Meeting ||  ||
 * || 2:15pm || Aud || **L. Laragione** || Modelling dense suspensions || Daily Seminar ||
 * Tue, Nov 26 || 10:30am || Aud || **M. Colombini** || Stability of river bed forms || Daily Seminar ||
 * Wed, Nov 27 || 10:30am || Aud || **N. Ledantec** || Bedforms and sediment transport in aquatic environments || Daily Seminar ||
 * Wed, Nov 27 || 10:30am || Aud || **N. Ledantec** || Bedforms and sediment transport in aquatic environments || Daily Seminar ||
 * Wed, Nov 27 || 10:30am || Aud || **N. Ledantec** || Bedforms and sediment transport in aquatic environments || Daily Seminar ||


 * ~ **Week 11** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Dec 2 || 12:15pm || Aud ||  ||   || No blackboard lunch ||
 * || 2:00pm || Aud || **All participants** || Organizational Meeting ||  ||
 * || 2:15pm || Aud || **P. Dupont** || Saltation transport over various types of bed: field and laboratory measurements || Daily Seminar ||
 * Tue, Dec 3 || 10:30am || Aud || **A. Aliseda** || Turbulence effects on collisions and gravitational settling of inertial particles || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 2:30pm || Aud || **M. Colombini** || Ripple instability for river beds || Part II of Marco's talk ||
 * Wed, Dec 4 || 10:30am || Aud || **All** || Discussion on open issues in fluid-mediated particle transport || informal discussion ||
 * || 4:00 pm || MSR || **V. Kumaran** || Fluctuating force models for turbulent gas-particle suspensions || Joint Geoflows and Fluid Mechanics Seminar ||
 * Thu, Dec 5 || 10:30am || Aud || **J. Eggenhuisen** || Single grains, dense layers, and disperse grainsize distributions in turbidity currents; an experimental perspective. || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 4:00pm || Chemical Ingineering Department (second floor) || **V. Kumaran** || A multifold reduction in the transition Reynolds number, and ultra-fast mixing, in flow through soft channels and tubes || Chemical Engineering Seminar ||
 * Fri, Dec 6 || 10:30am || Aud || **H. Tsoar** || Climatic Factors Affecting Mobility and Stability of Sand Dunes || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 2:00pm || SMR ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || 4:00pm || Chemical Ingineering Department (second floor) || **V. Kumaran** || A multifold reduction in the transition Reynolds number, and ultra-fast mixing, in flow through soft channels and tubes || Chemical Engineering Seminar ||
 * Fri, Dec 6 || 10:30am || Aud || **H. Tsoar** || Climatic Factors Affecting Mobility and Stability of Sand Dunes || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 2:00pm || SMR ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || 2:00pm || SMR ||  ||   ||   ||


 * ~ **Week 12** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Dec 9 || 12:15pm || Aud || **D. Loss** || TBD || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * || 2:00pm || Aud || **All participants** || Organizational Meeting ||  ||
 * || 2:15pm || Aud || **R. Kostaschuck** || A brief history of dunes || Daily Seminar ||
 * Tue, Dec 10 || 10:30am || Aud || **S. Elghobashi** || On the multi-way interactions between turbulent flows and suspended particles || Daily Seminar ||
 * || 2:00pm || SSR || **D. Issler** ||  || Informal discussion ||
 * Wed, Dec 11 || 10:30am || Aud || **A. Kudrolli** || Erosion of a granular bed by fluid flow || Daily Seminar ||
 * Thu, Dec 12 || 10:30am || Aud || **G. Bewley** || the decay of turbulence: experimental scrutiny || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Dec 13 || 10:30am || SSR || **All** || Discussion on open issues in fluid-mediated particle transport || Informal disucssion ||
 * Thu, Dec 12 || 10:30am || Aud || **G. Bewley** || the decay of turbulence: experimental scrutiny || Daily Seminar ||
 * Fri, Dec 13 || 10:30am || SSR || **All** || Discussion on open issues in fluid-mediated particle transport || Informal disucssion ||
 * Fri, Dec 13 || 10:30am || SSR || **All** || Discussion on open issues in fluid-mediated particle transport || Informal disucssion ||
 * Fri, Dec 13 || 10:30am || SSR || **All** || Discussion on open issues in fluid-mediated particle transport || Informal disucssion ||

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