MIT on Chaos and Climate Symposium
Join us for a symposium celebrating the diverse and enduring scientific legacies of former MIT professors Jule Charney and Ed Lorenz, groundbreaking contemporaries of the 20th Century whose seminal contributions to atmospheric dynamics and chaos theory helped establish modern meteorology and spread to inform many other disciplines. Their stories illustrate the critical and far-reaching value of basic scientific research.
MIT on Chaos and Climate: Celebrating the Science of Jule Charney and Ed Lorenz
Thursday, Feb 1, 2018 | Room 54-100—Please note this is a change to the originally advertised location
1:00PM – 5:30PM | An afternoon of presentations and informal remarks by former colleagues, friends, family, and students to mark the recent centenary of the births of Jule Charney and Ed Lorenz. Also, sneak previews of two short films about their lives and their science woven in to the history of Meteorology at MIT, which goes back to Rossby in the 1920s.
Friday, February 2, 2018 | MIT Wong Auditorium - Bldg. E51-115
8:30AM-5:30PM - More info: HERE
Agenda
8:30 am Registration & Coffee
9:00 am Welcome & Introduction - Rob van der Hilst
Opening Keynote
9:10 am Basic Research—The Lifeblood of a Successful Society - Ernest Moniz
Life and Science of Charney & Lorenz
9:30 am Jule Charney as Role Model - Joe Pedlosky (WHOI)
10:00 am Edward Lorenz and the End of the Cartesian Universe - Kerry Emanuel (MIT)
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:20 am Atmospheric Dynamics - Richard Lindzen (MIT)
11:40 am Convective Aggregation, Clouds and Climate - Allison Wing (FSU)
12:00 pm From Charney's Hypothesis to Multiple Climate Equilibria in the Sahel - Elfatih Eltahir (MIT)
12:20 pm From Weather to Climate Prediction (by Numerical Process) - Mark Cane (Columbia)
12:40 pm Carbon and Climate - Inez Fung (Berkley)
1:00 pm Lunch Buffet
Beyond Earth Science
2:20 pm Non-linear Dynamics & Turbulence - Michael Brenner (Princeton)
2:40 pm Chaos and the Solar System - Jack Wisdom (MIT)
3:00 pm Hydrodynamic quantum analogs - John Bush (MIT)
3:20 Coffee Break
4:00 pm Fluid Dynamics and Health - Lydia Bourouiba (MIT)
4:20 pm Biological Population Dynamics - Jeff Gore (MIT)
Perspectives
4:40 pm The Legacy of Jule Charney and Ed Lorenz - Sir Brian Hoskins (Reading University)
5:00 pm Predictably Unpredictable: Charney, Lorenz and the High Value of Basic Research - Panel Discussion
5:45 Adjourn
Reception to follow
Please contact John Marshall for inquiries about the meeting agenda and Faith Zhang for travel and accomodation.
This symposium is presented by: The Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences - Co-sponsored by the Lorenz Center and the Houghton Fund.
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