Geophysical Fluid Dynamics with a twist: in honour of Professor Raymond Hide
30 April 2018 (1.30pm-5pm) at the Royal Astronomical Society, London
This meeting is to celebrate the memory of Raymond Hide (CBE ScD FRS) who was President of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1983-1985, and of the Royal Meteorological Society, 1974-76. The meeting will cover fundamental areas of Astronomy, Geophysics, Meteorology and Oceanography, under the broader umbrella of “Geophysical Fluid Dynamics”, to which Raymond contributed so greatly.
Professor Hide had a unique approach to these areas, with a knack of drawing powerful inferences from, and connecting to reality, theoretical concepts. We intend to follow, and promote further, this spirit through the meeting with the help of speakers who have been inspired by Raymond’s life and work: Prof Chris Hughes (University of Liverpool), Prof Andrew Jackson (ETH Zurich), Prof John Marshall (MIT), Prof Tim Palmer (Oxford University) and Prof Peter Read (Oxford University).
A tentative program (titles of talks might change at a later time) is the following:
-1.30-1.45pm: Welcome and introduction (J. Haigh, J. Gibbon & A. Czaja --Imperial College)
-1.45pm-2.15pm: Prof Peter Read, Oxford University: Dynamical processes in Jupiter’s atmosphere: from the laboratory to Juno and Cassini
-2.15-2.45pm: Prof Andrew Jackson, ETH Zurich: Fluid dynamics of the Earth's core, and the dynamo problem.
-2.45-3.15pm: Prof Chris Hughes, University of Liverpool: The simultaneously linear and non linear ocean.
Coffee break 3.15-3.45pm
-3.45-4.15: Prof Tim Palmer, Oxford University: Analogues of Potential Vorticity in Magnetohydrodynamic Fluids
-4.15-5pm: Prof John Marshall, MIT: Raymond Hide’s influence on climate dynamics
-5pm: end of meeting
The meeting is free of fees but to register, please follow this
link .
Students are encouraged to attend the meeting and can apply for financial assistance if they wish to by sending a motivation statement to Arnaud Czaja at:
a.czaja@imperial.ac.uk
A short biography of Raymond Hide written by Prof Peter Read can be found here