[BlindMath] Reminder: Speaker to present on Thursday, December 5 at 5:00 PM Pacific!

[Kennedy Stomberg]

Kennedy Stomberg, M.S. she/her/hers
Ph.D. Student and Graduate Assistant, Developmental Neurolinguistics Lab
Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences 
The Graduate Center | City University of New York
365 5th Ave. New York, NY 10016 
Hello, friends,

Just a reminder that the NFBs Science and Engeneering Division's mentorship program, Systemic Access, is hosting a speaker on Thursday, December 5 at 5:00 PM Pacific. Information below!


Title: Ocean modeling using high-order Galerkin methods

Abstract: Oceans cover more than two-thirds of the surface or Earth, and as such are the primary control of our planet's climate. Understanding the dynamical behavior of the ocean is therefore paramount for both understanding the long-term consequences of climate change, as well as short term weather predictions, among other things. The complex nature of the fluid motion makes it impossible to analytically solve the partial differential equations describing the conservation of mass, momentum and energy of water moving on the surface of rotating sphere, and affected by the complex boundaries of ocean basins, as well as rugged ocean bottom. We can, however, approximate the dynamics of the ocean using numerical methods and computer simulation.
The current generation of ocean models uses a mixture of low-order finite volume and finite difference methods to approximate the partial differential equations governing the fluid motion. Those methods has been developed over the past half-century, and with the advent of modern computing platforms are approaching a limit of usability due to limited parallel performance. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the benefits and costs of using high-order Galerkin methods for ocean modeling compared with traditional methods. I will also go go over the modeling assumptions we make in the formulation of the governing equations for the ocean, and fundamental forces which affect the motion of fluid on the surface of the Earth.

Speaker and Bio: Michal Kopera, Ph.D.
Michal has earned a Ph.D. In Engineering (Scientific Computing) from the University of Warwick, UK in 2011. He then moved to the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA as a National Research Council Postgraduate Fellow. He also held a Visiting Fellow position at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK, and was an Assistant Researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Michal is interested in computational and applied mathematics, specifically numerical methods for ocean modeling, high performance scientific computing, computational fluid dynamics, adaptive mesh refinement, and scientific software development.

Date/Time/Zoom: Dec 5, 2024 06:00 PM Mountain Time (5:00PM PT/7:00PM CT/8:00PM ET)

Kennedy Stomberg, M.S. she/her/hers
Ph.D. Student and Graduate Assistant, Developmental Neurolinguistics Lab
Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences 


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