Mathematics of Dispersion in the Environment

April 4-5 2016 School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham
Organisers: Gavin Esler (UCL), Alexandra Tzella (Birmingham) and Jacques Vanneste (Edinburgh)

Workshop supported by the EPSRC network Maths Foresees.


Programme of the workshop

All talks will take place in the Small Lecture Theatre (S06, second floor) in the Poynting Building (building R13 on the map).




Monday 4th April, 2016
  12.00 - 13.30 Registration and Lunch (Staff House, Noble Room)
  13.40 - 13.45 Welcome and opening remarks
  13.45 - 14.10 Greg Pavliotis
Data-driven coarse-graining and applications
  14.10 - 14.35Rob Scheichl
Multilevel Monte Carlo Approaches for Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling
  14.35 - 15.00David Thomson
Some problems in the design of applied stochastic Lagrangian dispersion models
  15.00 - 15.25Poster introductions
  15.25 - 16.05 Coffee Break and Poster session
  16.05 - 16.30Gavin Esler
Adaptive stochastic trajectory modelling of transport in geophysical flows
  16.30 - 16.55Peter Haynes
Modelling the interplay between large-scale flow and small-scale mixing processes in ocean and atmosphere
  16.55 - 17.20Ignacio Pisso
Lagrangian transport in atmospheric flows and environmental applications
  17.20 - 17.45Ben Devenish
Non-Gaussianity in turbulent pair dispersion
  17.45 - 18.10Yue-Kin Tsang
Stochastic modelling and parametrization of atmospheric moisture transport
Tuesday 5th April, 2016
  9.00 - 9.25Colm Caulfield
The Efficiency of Deep and Abyssal Ocean Turbulent Mixing
  9.25 - 9.50William Durham
Turbulent unmixing: how flow drives patchiness in the distribution of phytoplankton
  9.50 - 10.15Erik van Sebille
Dispersion and accumulation of plastic litter by ocean currents and eddies
  10.15 - 10.40Branko Bijeljic
Imaging and Modelling to Determine Signatures of Transport and Reaction in Porous Media
  10.40 - 11.10 Coffee Break and Poster Session
  11.10 - 11.35Alexandra Tzella
Dispersion in rectangular networks: effective diffusivity and large-deviation rate function
  11.35 - 12.00Omduth Coceal
Dispersion from localised sources in complex urban environments
  12.00 - 12.25Ruth Doherty
Nested regional to urban modelling of air pollution transport
  12.25 - 12.50Discussion
  12.50 - 13.50Lunch (Staff House, Noble Room)