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.
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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 | |
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