<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">A 3-month program that will run in 2014 in Santa Barbara may be of interest:<br><br>Wave-Flow Interaction in Geophysics, Climate, Astrophysics, and Plasmas <br><<a href="http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/dbdetails?acro=waveflows14">http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/dbdetails?acro=waveflows14</a>><br><br>Coordinators: James Cho, Patrick Diamond, Brad Marston, and Steve Tobias <br><br>Scientific Advisors: Oliver Bühler, David Dritschel, and Rick Salmon <br><br>Description: Waves that interact strongly with the flowing media in which <br>they propagate are fundamental to many systems. Examples of <br>such wave-flow systems are gravity waves in atmospheres and <br>oceans, planetary waves in weather and climate, tides and <br>inertial waves in planets and stars, density waves in <br>planetary rings and accretion disks, and Alfvén waves in <br>tokomaks and solar wind. However waves and background flows <br>are often characterized by very different spatial and temporal <br>scales. Hence, modeling their interaction poses considerable <br>technical and conceptual challenges. <br><br>Significant advances in wave-flow interaction theory, <br>simulation, experiment, and observation over the past decade <br>make this KITP program timely. For example, there is now a <br>better understanding of the role of the interaction in the <br>long-term behavior of the atmosphere and oceans. The program <br>will bring together international researchers with expertise <br>in wave-flow interactions to help solve critical problems <br>across the disciplines of applied mathematics, geophysics, <br>climate, astrophysics, and plasma physics. <br><br>The program will begin with a week-long conference (March 24 <br>-- 28, 2014) that will include overviews and perspectives on <br>eddy -- mean-flow interactions in fluids. <br></body></html>