Workshop on

Complex Geophysical Gravity Currents

Friday March 2 - Sunday March 4, 2007

University of British Columbia, Vancouver

organized by the Collaborative Research Group on Complex Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

The workshop aimed to bring together experts in granular media, non-Newtonian fluids dynamics and plasticity theory with researchers actively studying geological hazards such as landslides, mud-slides and avalanches. The emphasis was on the dynamics of granular avalanches, fluid suspensions, the phenomenology of fluid-particle and particle-particle interactions, and upon the geological hazard that such slides pose.

Location:

Sage Bistro (map)
6331 Crescent Road
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC

Directions to UBC can be found here.



Schedule:

Friday March 2

Location: Sage Bistro, Music Room
  8:00 -   9:15am Breakfast
  9:15 -   9:30am Neil Balmforth and Mark Jellinek,
University of British Columbia
Welcome
  9:30 - 10:30am Herbert Huppert,
University of Cambridge
Granular collapses
10:30 - 10:45am Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15am Contributed talks
11:15 - 12:15pm Christophe Ancey,
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Dynamics of rapid surges
12:15 - 1:30pm Lunch
  1:30 - 2:30pm Joe Dufek,
University of California, Berkeley
Self-organization in geophysical transport processes: Integrating multi-scale observations with macroscopic models of explosive volcanic eruptions
  2:30 - 3:15pm Contributed talks
  3:15 - 3:30pm Coffee break
  3:30 - 4:30pm Eckart Meiburg,
University of California, Santa Barbara
High-Resolution Simulations of Gravity and Turbidity Currents
  4:30 - 5:00pm Discussion
  5:00 - 6:00pm Reception

Saturday March 3

Location: Sage Bistro, Main Dining Room
  8:00 -   9:30am Breakfast
  9:30 - 10:30am Jim McElwaine,
DAMTP, Cambridge
Powder snow avalanches
10:30 - 10:45am Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15am Contributed talks
11:15 - 12:15am Arshad Kudrolli,
Clark University
Physics of Channelization: Theory, experiment, and observation
12:15 - 1:30pm Lunch
  1:30 - 2:30pm Roger Denlinger,
US Geological Survey
Granular avalanches: theory, experimentation, and application to natural hazards
  2:30 - 3:15pm Contributed talks
  3:15 - 3:30pm Coffee break
  3:30 - 4:30pm Richard Iverson,
US Geological Survey
Beyond granular avalanches: key issues in modeling dense geophysical flows
  4:30 - 5:30pm Discussion and wrap up
TBA Conference Dinner

Sunday March 4

TBA Open for discussion and a group outing