Organizing Committee
Abstract

The theory of water waves has been at the forefront of mathematics for over two centuries. In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in the subject. This workshop will bring together researchers contributing to all aspects of water waves: experiments, computation and analysis. Currently active topics in water waves include the effects of viscosity, surface tension, vorticity, surface wind and bottom topography on both time-dependent and steady waves. However, the workshop will range well beyond these topics.

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Three stages in the instability of capillary-gravity solitary waves.
Photo Credit: Paul Milewski and Zhan Wang

Confirmed Speakers & Participants

Talks will be presented virtually or in-person as indicated in the schedule below.

  • Speaker
  • Poster Presenter
  • Attendee
  • Virtual Attendee

Workshop Schedule

Monday, April 24, 2017
TimeEventLocationMaterials
8:30 - 8:55am EDTRegistration121 South Main Street Providence RI 11th Floor Collaborative Space 
8:55 - 9:00am EDTWelcome - ICERM Director11th Floor Lecture Hall 
9:00 - 9:40am EDTNew asymmetric gravity-capillary and flexural waves - Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck, University College London11th Floor Lecture Hall
9:40 - 10:10am EDTCoffee Break11th Floor Collaborative Space 
10:10 - 10:50am EDTInstabilities in Fluids Under Linear Shear - Katie Oliveras, Seattle University11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:00 - 11:40am EDTStability of traveling water waves with a point vortex - Samuel Walsh, University of Missouri11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:40 - 2:00pm EDTBreak for Lunch / Free Time  
2:00 - 2:40pm EDTOn long term regularity of water wave models - Alexandru Ionescu, Princeton University11th Floor Lecture Hall
2:50 - 3:30pm EDTComputing Stokes waves with constant vorticity - Vera Mikyoung Hur, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:30 - 4:00pm EDTCoffee/Tea Break11th Floor Collaborative Space 
4:00 - 4:40pm EDTExperimental investigation of gravity-capillary solitary waves in deep water - Naeem Masnadi, University of Maryland11th Floor Lecture Hall
5:00 - 6:30pm EDTWelcome Reception / Poster Session11th Floor Collaborative Space 
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
TimeEventLocationMaterials
9:00 - 9:40am EDTon Zakharov's wave turbulence theory for capillary waves - Toan Nguyen, Penn State11th Floor Lecture Hall 
9:40 - 10:10am EDTCoffee Break11th Floor Collaborative Space 
10:10 - 10:50am EDTIll-posedness of truncated series models of water waves - David Ambrose, Drexel University11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:00 - 11:40am EDTControl and stabilization of water waves - Thomas Alazard, CNRS and ENS Paris-Saclay11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:40 - 11:50am EDTGroup Photo11th Floor Lecture Hall 
11:50 - 2:00pm EDTBreak for Lunch / Free Time  
2:00 - 2:40pm EDTShoaling of Solitary Waves - Harry Yeh, Oregon State University11th Floor Lecture Hall
2:50 - 3:30pm EDTInstability of Steep Ocean Waves and Whitecapping - Sergey Dyachenko, University of Illinois11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:30 - 4:00pm EDTCoffee/Tea Break11th Floor Collaborative Space 
4:00 - 4:40pm EDTOn two dimensional gravity water waves with angled crests - Sijue Wu, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor11th Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
TimeEventLocationMaterials
9:00 - 9:40am EDTModified Serre-Green-Naghdi equations with improved or without dispersion. - Didier Clamond, University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis11th Floor Lecture Hall
9:40 - 10:10am EDTCoffee Break11th Floor Collaborative Space 
10:10 - 10:50am EDTFrequency Downshift in a Viscous Fluid - John Carter, Seattle University11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:00 - 11:40am EDTBoussinesq systems for water waves - Min Chen, Purdue University11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:40 - 2:00pm EDTBreak for Lunch / Free Time  
2:00 - 2:40pm EDTThe nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a potential - Fabio Pusateri, Princeton University11th Floor Lecture Hall
2:50 - 3:30pm EDTSmall-amplitude solitary waves for the full-dispersion Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation - Mats Ehrnstrom, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:30 - 4:00pm EDTCoffee/Tea Break11th Floor Collaborative Space 
4:00 - 4:40pm EDTSurface water waves over bathymetry - Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto11th Floor Lecture Hall
6:30 - 8:00pm EDTPublic Lecture: Modeling Sea Ice in a Changing Climate - Ken Golden, University of Utah11th Floor Lecture Hall 
Thursday, April 27, 2017
TimeEventLocationMaterials
9:00 - 9:40am EDTThe shoreline problem for the nonlinear shallow water and Green-Naghdi equations - David Lannes, Université de Bordeaux and CNRS11th Floor Lecture Hall
9:40 - 10:10am EDTCoffee Break11th Floor Collaborative Space 
10:10 - 10:50am EDTComputing Flexural-Gravity Waves - Olga Trichtchenko, ICERM11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:00 - 11:40am EDTThe stability of contact lines in fluids - Ian Tice, Carnegie Mellon University11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:40 - 2:00pm EDTBreak for Lunch / Free Time  
2:00 - 2:40pm EDTSteady three-dimensional ideal flows with vorticity - Erik Wahlén, Lund University11th Floor Lecture Hall
2:50 - 3:30pm EDTWind turbulence over surface water waves in strongly forced conditions - Tetsu Hara, University of Rhode Island11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:30 - 4:00pm EDTCoffee/Tea Break11th Floor Collaborative Space 
4:00 - 4:40pm EDTAsymptotic behavior of solitary waves with localized vorticity in deep water - Ming Chen, University of Pittsburgh11th Floor Lecture Hall
5:00 - 6:30pm EDTPizza Social11th Floor Collaborative Space 
Friday, April 28, 2017
TimeEventLocationMaterials
9:00 - 9:40am EDTTransverse stability of periodic waves in water-wave models - Mariana Haragus, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté11th Floor Lecture Hall
9:40 - 10:10am EDTCoffee Break11th Floor Collaborative Space 
10:10 - 10:50am EDTWater Waves Affect Ocean Currents, Turbulence, and Climate - Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown DEEPS & IBES11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:00 - 11:40am EDTNonlinear Modulational Instability of Dispersive PDE Models. - Zhiwu Lin, Georgia Tech11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:40 - 2:00pm EDTBreak for Lunch / Free Time  
2:00 - 2:40pm EDTA model for wind-driven water waves as an instability of viscous fluids - Vishal Vasan, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR)11th Floor Lecture Hall
2:50 - 3:30pm EDTGlobal bifurcation of rotating vortex patches - Miles Wheeler, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:30 - 4:00pm EDTCoffee/Tea Break11th Floor Collaborative Space 
4:00 - 4:40pm EDTThe three-wave PDEs for resonantly interacting triads. - Harvey Segur, University of Colorado, Boulder11th Floor Lecture Hall

Associated Semester Workshops

Singularities and Waves In Incompressible Fluids
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Jan 30 - May 5, 2017
Semester Program
Dynamics of Small Scales in Fluids
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Feb 13 - 17, 2017
Semester Workshop
Computational Aspects of Water Waves
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Apr 21, 2017
Semester Workshop

Lecture Videos

The three-wave PDEs for resonantly interacting triads

Harvey Segur
University of Colorado, Boulder
April 28, 2017
Water Waves
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Global bifurcation of rotating vortex patches

Miles Wheeler
New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
April 28, 2017
Water Waves
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A model for wind-driven water waves as an instability of viscous fluids

Vishal Vasan
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
April 28, 2017
Water Waves
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Nonlinear Modulational Instability of Dispersive PDE Models

Zhiwu Lin
Georgia Tech
April 28, 2017
Water Waves
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Transverse stability of periodic waves in water-wave models

Mariana Haragus
Université de Franche-Comté
April 28, 2017
Water Waves
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Asymptotic behavior of solitary waves with localized vorticity in deep water

Ming Chen
University of Pittsburgh
April 27, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract

Wind turbulence over surface water waves in strongly forced conditions

Tetsu Hara
University of Rhode Island
April 27, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract

Steady three-dimensional ideal flows with vorticity

Erik Wahlén
Lund University
April 27, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract

The stability of contact lines in fluids

Ian Tice
Carnegie Mellon University
April 27, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract

Computing Flexural-Gravity Waves

Olga Trichtchenko
University of College London
April 27, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract     Slides

Small-amplitude solitary waves for the full-dispersion Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation

Mats Ehrnstrom
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
April 26, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract

Boussinesq systems for water waves

Min Chen
Purdue University
April 26, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract     Slides

Frequency Downshift in a Viscous Fluid

John Carter
Seattle University
April 26, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract     Slides

Modified Serre-Green-Naghdi equations with improved or without dispersion

Didier Clamond
University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis
April 26, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract     Slides

Instability of Steep Ocean Waves and Whitecapping

Sergey Dyachenko
University of Illinois
April 25, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract

Shoaling of Solitary Waves

Harry Yeh
Oregon State University
April 25, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract     Slides

Ill-posedness of truncated series models of water waves

David Ambrose
Drexel University
April 25, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract

Experimental investigation of gravity-capillary solitary waves in deep water

Naeem Masnadi
University of Maryland
April 24, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract

Computing Stokes waves with constant vorticity

Vera Mikyoung Hur
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
April 24, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract     Slides

On long term regularity of water wave models

Alexandru Ionescu
Princeton University
April 24, 2017
Water Waves
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Stability of traveling water waves with a point vortex

Samuel Walsh
University of Missouri
April 24, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract     Slides

Instabilities in Fluids Under Linear Shear

Katie Oliveras
Seattle University
April 24, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract

New asymmetric gravity-capillary and flexural waves

Jean Marc Vanden Broeck
UCL - IRIS
April 24, 2017
Water Waves
Play     Abstract     Slides