Collaborations in Mathematical Geosciences

LIST OF STUDENTS

LIST OF LECTURES

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Scope and participation

Mathematical methods are becoming an increasingly important part of physical oceanography. This summer school aims to provide graduate students with an exciting survey of recent developments in this area. There is no registration fee. Those accepted for the summer school will have free lodging with full board. However, travel costs cannot be reimbursed.

Programme

Lectures will be given in the morning and exercises (including computer projects) in the afternoon. Mathematical topics to be covered include turbulence, dynamical systems theory, stochastic differential equations, numerical analysis, control and sensitivity theory and information theory. These methods will be applied to relevant areas of physical oceanography including numerical ocean modeling, ocean general circulation theory, mixing processes, predictability, data assimilation as well as stochastic and chaotic climate modeling.

Lecturers

Organizers

• Henk Dijkstra, Department of Physics and Astronomy
• Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Phone: +31-30-2533276
• E-mail: dijkstra@phys.uu.nl

• Bill Dewar, Department of Oceanography
• Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
• Phone: (850) 644-4099
• E-mail: dewar@ocean.fsu.edu

• Richard Kleeman, Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Sciences
• Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, USA
• Phone: (212) 998 3233
• E-mail: kleeman@cims.nyu.edu

Special lecturer:

• Antonello Provenzale, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
• Italian National Research Council, Torino, Italy
• Phone: -11-3839833
• E-mail: anto@icg.to.infn.it