Geometry and Fluids Schedule
Monday, April 7
8:30 Registration
9:00-10:00 John Gibbon, The 3D Euler and Navier–Stokes equations: where do we stand?
10:00-10:30 Coffee/Tea
10:30-11:30 Vladimir Rubtsov, Contact geometry and Monge–Ampère equations
11:30-12:30 Mike Cullen, Overview of semi-geostrophic theory, including optimal transport and the Monge–Ampère equation
12:30-15:30 Lunch and discussion session
15:30-16:00 Coffee/Tea
16:00-17:00 Ian Roulstone, Semi-geostrophic theory, the Euler equations, and Kähler geometry
17:00-18:00 Jock McOrist, Monge–Ampère equations and string theory
18:00-19:00 Welcome reception, MI Common Room
Tuesday, April 8
9:00-10:00 Edriss Titi, On recent advances of the 3D Euler equations by means of examples
10:00-10:30 Coffee/Tea
10:30-11:30 Marco Gualtieri, Generalized complex geometry
11:30-12:30 Daniel Waldram, The exceptional geometry of N=2 flux backgrounds: further generalising Calabi–Yau
12:30-15:30 Lunch and discussion session
15:30-16:00 Coffee/Tea
16:00-16:40 Bertrand Banos, Monge–Ampère structures and generalized geometric structures
16:40-17:20 Sylvain Delahaies, Hyper-Kähler geometry and semi-geostrophic theory
17:20-18:00 Martin Wolf, Applications of twistor theory
Wednesday, April 9
9:00-10:00 Yann Brenier, Monge–Ampère and Born–Infeld equations
10:00-10:30 Coffee/Tea
10:30-11:30 Cesare Tronci, Relabelling symmetry in fluid dynamics
11:30-12:30 Wilfrid Gangbo, Analysis of almost axisymmetric flow energy
12:30-14:30 Lunch and discussion session
14:30-15:30 Bob Kerr, Leray scaling in Navier-Stokes reconnection
15:30-16:00 Coffee/Tea
16:00-16:40 Philippe Delanoë, Smoothness of optimal transport potential for nearly spherical surfaces
16:40-17:20 Mike Cullen, Shallow water semi-geostrophic theory with variable rotation
17:20-18:00 John Gibbon, Regimes of nonlinear depletion and regularity in the 3D Navier–Stokes equations
Thursday, April 10
9:00-10:00 Edriss Titi, Global regularity of the anisotropic viscous primitive equations of oceanic and atmospheric dynamics, and finite-
time singularity for the inviscid case
10:00-10:30 Coffee/Tea
10:30-11:30 Mikhail Feldman, Renormalized Langrangian solutions of SG in physical space
11:30-12:30 Chuong Tran, Growth of velocity norms in the Navier–Stokes eqautions
12:30-15:30 Lunch and discussion session
15:30-16:00 Coffee/Tea
16:00-16:40 Bin Cheng, Time-averaging and error estimates for reduced fluid models
16:40-17:20 Cesare Tronci, Multiscale turbulence models based on convected fluid microstructure
17:20-18:00 John Norbury, Weak solutions of convection in a column
Friday, April 11
10:00-10:30 Coffee/Tea
10:30-11:30 Xenia de la Ossa, Introduction to Conifolds