Program


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Sunday, January 24  
   
18:00 - 20:00 Registration
   
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome reception
   
   
Monday, January 25  
   
08:45 - 09:00 Roderich Moessner (Managing Director MPIPKS) & Scientific coordinators
  Opening
   
09:00 - 09:45 Francesco Ginelli (CNRS Paris)
  Characterizing nonlinear dynamics with covariant Lyapunov vectors
   
09:50 - 10:35 Günter Radons (Chemnitz University of Technology)
  Lyapunov modes in extended dynamical systems
   
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
   
11:10 - 11:55 Brian Hunt (University of Maryland)
  Ensemble methods and data assimilation
   
12:00 - 12:45 Olivier Talagrand (ENS Paris)
  Predictability and assimilation of observations in chaotic systems
   
12:50 - 14:30 Lunch break
   
14:30 - 15:00 Miki Kobayashi (Kyoto University)
  Mechanism of a temporal intermittency in the GOY shell model turbulence
   
15:00 - 15:30 Pavel Kuptsov (Saratov State Law Academy)
  Hyperbolic chaos in extended systems constructed of elements with hyperbolic dynamics
   
15:30 - 16:00 Yoshitaka Saiki (Kyoto University)
  Analysis of nonhyperbolicity of the Lorenz system through periodic orbits
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
   
16:30 - 17:30 ECODYC10 Colloquium: (Chairperson: Holger Kantz)
  Eugenia Kalnay (University of Maryland)
  Use of breeding to find the physical causes of instabilities
   
18:00 - 19:30 Supper
   
19:30 - 21:30
Poster session I
  (with wine and beer)
   
   
Tuesday, January 26  
   
09:00 - 09:45 Víctor Homar Santaner (University of the Balearic Islands)
  Short-range dynamical probabilistic prediction of extreme atmospheric events
   
09:50 - 10:35 Roger Samelson (Oregon State University)
  Lyapunov vectors for large systems
   
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
   
11:10 - 11:55 Harald Posch (University of Vienna)
  Lyapunov instability of hard-particle systems
   
12:00 - 12:45 Gary Morriss (University of New South Wales)
  Lyapunov modes and localization for hard-particle system
   
12:50 - 14:30 Lunch break
   
14:30 - 15:00 Jürgen Vollmer (MPI Dynamics and Self-Organization)
  Lifetimes and Lyapunov modes of a coupled-map lattice model for turbulent pipe flow
   
15:00 - 15:30 Valerio Lucarini (University of Reading)
  Evidence of dispersion relations for the nonlinear response of the Lorenz 63 system
   
15:30 - 16:00 Ulrike Feudel (University Oldenburg)
  The interplay of hydrodynamics and plankton growth in the wake of an island
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
   
16:30 - 17:15 Leonard Smith (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Evaluating high dimensional models given only a few observations: Anomalies, re-analyses and reality
   
17:20 - 17:50 Cristina Primo (DWD Offenbach)
  Comparison of initial perturbation methods using the MVL diagram
   
17:50 - 18:20 Marcus Werner Beims (Federal University of Paraná)
  Detecting focusing motion in nonintegrable Hamiltonian system
   
18:30 - 19:30 Supper
   
20:00 - 21:30
Poster session II
  (with wine and beer)
   
   
Wednesday, January 27  
   
09:00 - 09:45 Henk Dijkstra (Utrecht University)
  A nonlinear theory of the bimodality of the Kuroshio extension
   
09:50 - 10:35 Bernard Legras (ENS Paris)
  Lyapunov diffusivity for atmospheric shear dominated flows
   
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
   
11:10 - 11:55 Istvan Szunyogh (Texas A&M University)
  A toolkit to predict the utility of ensemble based forecasts of high-dimensional chaotic systems
   
12:00 - 12:45 Zoltan Toth (NOAA Boulder)
  Application of Lyapunov vectors in complex nonlinear systems
   
12:50 - 14:30 Lunch break
   
14:30 - 15:00 Michael Siek (UNESCO-IHE Delft)
  Predicting storm surges: Multi-models, computational intelligence, chaos, uncertainty
   
15:00 - 15:30 Ana Maria Mancho (CSIC Madrid)
  Generalizing dynamical systems concepts for time dependent flows
   
15:30 - 16:00 Alberto Carrassi (Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium)
  Accounting for model error in data assimilation
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
   
16:30 - 17:15 Klaus Fraedrich (University of Hamburg)
  Continuum climate variability: Long-term memory, extremes, and predictability
   
17:20 - 18:05 Sebastian Reich (University of Potsdam)
  Data assimilation using continuous ensemble Kalman filters
   
18:30 - 19:30 Supper
   
20:00
Discussion round
   
   
Thursday, January 28  
   
09:00 - 09:45 Eugenia Kalnay (University of Maryland)
  Relationship between Bred vectors, singular vectors, ensemble Kalman filter and 4D-Var
   
09:50 - 10:35 Diego Pazó (CSIC Santander)
  Analysis of Lyapunov-like vectors (singular, bred and characteristic) for ensemble forecast. Spatio-temporal MVL-analysis.
   
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
   
11:10 - 11:55 Martin Leutbecher (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts)
  The ECMWF ensemble prediction system: Design, diagnosis and developments
   
12:00 - 12:45 Ronald Errico (NASA Greenbelt)
  Atmospheric predictability: Some aspects we have recently learned and other aspects awaiting our investigation
   
12:50 Lunch
   
14:00
Excursion and workshop dinner
  (further details soon)
   
   
Friday, January 29  
   
09:00 - 09:45 Emilio Hernández-García (CSIC and University of the Balearic Islands)
  Stretching fields and lines from finite-size Lyapunov exponents: Ocean transport and biological impact
   
09:50 - 10:35 Leonid Bunimovich (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Isospectral networks reduction
   
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
   
11:10 - 11:40 François-Xavier Le Dimet (Université de Grenoble & INRIA)
  Error propagation and data assimilation
   
11:40 - 12:10 Jochen Bröcker (MPIPKS Dresden)
  Accounting for model error in variational data assimilation
   
12:10 - 12:40 Renate Wackerbauer (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
  Transient spatiotemporal chaos
   
12:40 - 14:30 Lunch break
   
14:30 - 15:15 José Manuel Gutiérrez (CSIC Santander)
  Spatiotemporal MVL analysis of ensemble prediction systems: Application to the DEMETER multimodel seasonal predictions
   
15:20 - 16:05 Sergey Kuznetsov (Kotel'nikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Saratov)
  Approaches to design of realizable systems with structurally stable chaotic attractors
   
16:10 Closing and coffee
   
   



Last update: 22/01/2010