Thematic Season Program

Université Côte d'Azur and Observatoire Côte d'Azur are hosting a one-week conference on the topic of " Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics: Experiments and Models " (GAFDEM), from 11th to 15th September 2023 in Nice, France .GAFDEM aims at bringing together the international community studying the nonlinear dynamics of stratified, rapidly rotating, and possibly magnetized flows - whether applied to the modeling of oceans, planetary atmospheres or stellar plasmas. The conference will be the opportunity to discuss, in an informal setting, the latest experimental, theoretical and numerical progress toward understanding the fundamental mechanisms of instabilities, turbulence and transport in naturally occurring flows.

The phenomenology of fluid turbulence, and its stochastic representation.

Prof. Alexei Mailybaev will be visiting from the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro. His current research interests tie to the mathematical physics of turbulent phenomena, in particular but not limited to spontaneous stochasticity, blow-ups and hidden symmetries.

Finite time blowup of incompressible flows surrounding compressible bubbles evolving under soft equations of state

Dr. Robert Van Gorder is visiting from the University of Otago, New Zealand. As an applied mathematician, he uses tools from physical applied mathematics to study theoretical questions arising in fluid dynamics, pattern formation, quantum theory, and nonlinear waves.