International Cross-Disciplinary Symposium on Physics and Biology

Symposium organized by the group Turbulence in plasmas and fluids at the Centre for Advanced Study

Date: March 3rd - March 7th 2005
Venue: Lysebu, Lysebuveien 12, 0790 Oslo

 

Tentative Program:

 

Thursday, 3. March

 

 

                       

Welcome party

 

Lysebu Conference Centre

20.00-22.00

 

Friday, 4. March

 

 

 

Registration:

 

 

09.00-09.15

Welcome:

 

 

09.15-09.30

Chair: Svein Sundby

     

Larsen, Søren E.

Risø/Denmark

Air-sea exchange of gases and particles

09.30-10.15

Guadayol, Oscar

Barcelona/Spain

Statistical models of wind events to determine turbulence in water

10.15-10.35

Coffee/the

 

 

10.35-11.00

Jonsson, Per

Göteborg/Sweden

Larval settlement as a function of local hydrodynamics and the role of instantaneous forces in a turbulent boundary-layer

11.00-11.45

Sundelöf, Andreas

Göteborg/Sweden

Hydrodynamics and the persistence of adult populations

11.45-12.05

Berti, Stefano

U.Torino/Italy

Dispersion of reacting scalars

12.05-12.25

Lunch

 

 

12.30-14.00

Chair: Andre Visser

     

Marrasé, Cèlia

Barcelona/Spain

Towards an integrated understanding of turbulence as a modulating factor in marine planktonic systems

14.00-14.45

Fiksen, Øyvind

Bergen/Norway

Larval fish visual feeding and turbulence

14.45-15.30

Coffee/the

 

 

15.30-16.00

Stiansen, Jan Erik

Bergen/Norway

A field study of turbulence and fish larvae in a region with swell-induced turbulence

16.00-16.45

Szwabinski, Janusz

Wroclaw/Poland

Monte Carlo simulations of predator – prey models - an example of embarrassingly parallel problem

16.45-17.05

Dinner

 

 

18.00-20.00

 

Saturday, 5. March

 

 

 

Chair: Øyvind Fiksen

     

Hernandez-Garcia, Emilio

Mallorca/Spain

Nonlinear scenarios for planktonic dynamics in chaotic flows

09.00–09.45

Boffetta, Guido

U.Torino/Italy

Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of Lagrangian turbulence

09.45-10.30

Coffee/the

 

 

10.30–11.00

Scheel Larsen, Poul

Lyngby/Denmark

Bio-mixing generated by benthic filter-feeders

11.00–11.45

Sintes, Tomas

Mallorca/Spain

Particle retention in flow over sea grass canopies

11.45–12.05

Lunch

 

 

12.05–14.00

Chair: Søren Larsen

     

Sundby, Svein

Bergen/Norway

Summary of field experiments on effect of turbulence on fish larval feeding

14.00–14.45

Lewis, David M.

Liverpool/UK

A model of plankton population dynamics coupled with a large eddy simulation (LES) of the surface mixed layer

14.45-15.30

Coffee/the

 

 

15.30-16.00

Einevoll, Gaute

Aas/Norway

Physics of the brain

16.00-16.45

Rippis, Peter

CAS/Norway

“Biased” random walks

16.45-17.05

Dinner

 

 

18.00-20.00

 

Sunday, 6. March

 

 

 

Chair: Cèlia Marrasé

     

Visser, Andre

Charlottenlund/Denmark

Characteristics of solute plumes trailing particles in a turbulent water column

09.00-09.45

Houshuo, Jiang

Woods Hole/USA

Flow modes and modulation of the water currents produced by free-swimming calanoid copepods

09.45-10.30

Coffee/the

 

 

10.30-11.00

Mann, Jakob

Risø/Denmark

Advances in particle tracking in turbulent flows

11.00-11.45

Luthi, Beat

Risø/Denmark

Lagrangian measurements of vorticity dynamics in turbulent flows

11.45-12.30

Lunch

 

 

12.30-14.00

Chair: Guido Boffetta

     

Vulpiani, Angelo

Rome/Italy

Multiple-scale analysis and renormalization for pre-asymptotic scalar transport

14.00-14.45

Jørgensen, Jacob Berg

Risø/Denmark

Lagrangian exit times in turbulence

14.45-15.30

Coffee/the

 

 

15.30-16.00

Matyka, Maciej

Wroclaw/Poland

Potential application of the marker and cell (tracer particles) method in predator-prey systems in turbulent flows

16.00-16.20

Conference dinner

 

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Dept. 17.45

 

Monday, 7. March

 

 

 

Chair: Jakob Mann

     

Brandenburg, Axel

Nordita/Denmark

Competition of left and right handed life forms in the presence of diffusion and turbulence

09.00–09.45

Trulsen, Jan

CAS/Norway

Numerical modeling of predator-prey encounters in turbulent waters

09.45-10.05

Pécseli, Hans

CAS/Norway

Laboratory modeling of predator-prey encounters in turbulent waters

10.05-10.25

Coffee/the

 

 

10.25-11.00

Jørgensen, Hans. E.

Risø/Denmark

Self similarity of concentration moments in a moving frame of reference

11.00-11.45

Mjølhus, Einar

CAS/Norway

Nonlinear growth models with age structure

11.45-12.05

Closing     12.05-12.15
Lunch     12.15-14.00