Layering — A structure formation mechanism in oceans, atmospheres, active fluids and plasmas
ADIW01
15 January 2024 to 19 January 2024
Workshop theme
Fluid and plasma dynamics often manifest the spontaneous formation of ‘staircases’ or layered structures — arrays of finite homogenized domains separated by sharp gradients, which act as transport barriers. Anti-diffusion is a common route to staircase formation. Layered states exert a critical control on transport and dynamics in:
i) Geophysical fluids — for example, potential vorticity staircases are associated with jets.
ii) Density-stratified fluids — an important application where ‘self-sharpening’ effects are poorly understood.
iii) Double-diffusive convection — which occurs in planetary atmospheres, oceans and stellar interiors. Double-diffusive convection is especially important in many climate applications.
iv) Plasmas — where staircases in magnetized plasmas constitute a new confinement state, and are related to internal transport barrier formation.
v) Active fluids — where anti-diffusion and layering are important in a wide variety of applications, including biological systems.
The workshop will foster dialogue and interaction among oceanographers, plasma physicists, geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamicists, soft-condensed-matter physicists, applied mathematicians and biophysicists. The central aim of the workshop is cross-fertilization, formation of new collaborations, and progress toward collective understanding.
Application details
Deadline for applications: 15 Sep 2023
ADI programme participants DO NOT need to apply, programme participants with visit dates during ADIW01 will automatically be added to the attendee list.
Please note members of Cambridge University are welcome to turn up and sign in as a non-registered attendee on the day(s) during the workshop and attend the lecture(s). Please note that we cannot provide you with any support including name badge, meals or accommodation.
In addition to visiting the INI, there are multiple ways in which you can participate remotely.
Organisers
- Patrick Diamond University of California, San Diego
- Alexis Kaminski University of California, Berkeley
Participants
- Alexandros Alexakis École Normale Supérieure
- Neil Balmforth University of British Columbia
- Dwight Barkley University of Warwick
- Daniel Boutros University of Cambridge
- Till Bretschneider University of Warwick
- Nicholas Brummell University of California, Santa Cruz
- Livio Carenza Lorentz Institute, Leiden University; Koç University
- Mike Cates University of Cambridge
- Greg Chini University of New Hampshire
- Laura Cope University of Leeds
- Sujit Datta Princeton University
- Robert Dewar Australian National University
- Patrick Diamond University of California, San Diego
- Guilhem Dif-Pradalier CEA, Cadarache
- Benjamin Favier CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Aix Marseille Université
- Rafael Fuentes University of Colorado Boulder
- John Gibbon Imperial College London
- Celine Guervilly Newcastle University
- Weixin Guo Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- Özgür Gürcan CNRS & École polytechnique
- David Hughes University of Leeds
- Eun-jin Kim Coventry University
- Michael LeBars CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
- Philip Marcus University of California, Berkeley
- Alexander Milovanov ENEA C.R. Frascati; Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden
- Dhrubaditya Mitra NORDITA
- Francesco Paparella New York University
- Paul Edward Pruzina
- Samriddhi Sankar Ray International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
- Bruce Sutherland University of Alberta
- Dario Vincenzi CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
- Lu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- Nobumitsu Yokoi University of Tokyo
- Qi Zhou University of Calgary
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