Waves, Coherent Structures, and Turbulence

Overview

The workshop will bring together physicists and applied mathematicians researching in the area of waves, coherent structures and turbulence. The even has four sessions corresponding to the following themes:

  • Classical vortex dynamics
  • Nonlinear waves
  • Wave interactions and turbulence
  • Coherent structures and topological excitations

Each session will have an introductory lecture on the theme (aimed at the non-experts) and then a handful of more specific talks. The participation of PhD students, postdocs and early career researchers to the event is particularly encouraged. Depending on the numbers of participants, a formal poster session might also take place.

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Programme and Talks

Wednesday 30th October 2019

09:00-09:30 Registration
09:30-10:30 Jason Laurie An introduction to two-dimensional turbulence
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Gavin Esler Decaying two-dimensional turbulence undergoes statistical heating
11:30-12:00 Andrew Gilbert Fundamentals of vortex dynamics
12:00-12:30 Laura Cope Variability of stochastically-driven zonal jets
12:30-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:30 Renzo Ricca Quantum vortex dynamics by geometric and topological methods
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Andrew Baggaley Coarse-grained pressure dynamics in superfluid turbulence
16:30-17:00 Magnus Borgh Exploring defect topology and non-Abelian vortices in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
17:00-17:30 Amit Chattopadhyay MHD turbulence in stochastic accretion flows
17:30-19:30 Poster Session

Thursday 31st October 2019

09:00-10:00 Miguel Onorato Thermalization and conduction in one-dimensional chains: a wave turbulence approach
10:00-10:30 Gennady El Breather gas in the focusing NLS equation: nonlinear spectral theory
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Emilian Parau Nonlinear waves under ice
11:30-12:00 Anna Kalogirou Wave amplification phenomena and a novel wave-energy converter
12:00-12:30 Stéphane Randoux Nonlinear propagation of one-dimensional waves: some recent experimental results
12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Sergey Nazarenko Inverse cascade and non-equilibrium condensation in BECs
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Miguel Bustamante Exact discrete resonances in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou system
16:30-17:00 Christophe Josserand Finite-time localized singularities as a mechanism for turbulent dissipation
17:00-19:30 Free discussions or discover Norwich tour
19:30 Social dinner in Norwich

Friday 1st November 2019

09:30-10:00 Thibault Congy Bidirectional soliton gas
10:00-10:30 Hayder Salman Ordering of vortex excitations in a 2D Bose gas far from equilibrium
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Thomas Gasenzer Universal dynamics and non-thermal fixed points in Bose systems
11:30-12:00 Simon Thalabard Spontaneous stochasticity of shear-layer instabilities
12:00-12:30 Pierre Suret Statistical and spectral properties of modulational instability: experiments and modeling by
using soliton gas
12:30-14:30 Closing remarks and Lunch