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European Research Council Advanced Grant MULTIWAVE workshop
When and where
Date and time
Wed, 4 Jun 2014 09:00 - 17:00 IST
Location
William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium UCD John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies Belfield Dublin 4 Ireland
Description
The third workshop of the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant MULTIWAVE on extreme waves in hydrodynamics and optics will take place in the UCD Clinton Auditorium on Wednesday, 04 June 2014.
The date has been fixed to coincide with the kickoff of the ERC Proof of Concept Grant WAVEMEASUREMENT on the measurement of extreme waves in the ocean.
Please find the preliminary program below.
9:00-9:30 Registration and Coffee – Clinton Institute
9:30-9:45 Welcome
09:45-11:15 Progress on MULTIWAVE
Frédéric Dias (UCD, Ireland)
John Dudley (FEMTO, France)
With participation from Claudio Viotti (UCD), Miguel Bustamante (UCD), Thomas Godin (FEMTO) and others …
11:15-11:45 Discussions and Coffee
11:45-12:30 Hydrodynamics Session
11:45-12:00 Charlotte O’Kelly (Techworks, Ireland)
State of the art in wave measurement
12:00-12:15 Ray McGrath (Met Eireann, Ireland)
Extreme Atlantic weather: an Irish perspective
12:15-12:30 Ken Doherty (Aquamarine Power, UK)
Ocean wave measurements: The challenges and consequences for the
wave energy industry
12:30-14:15 Discussions and Lunch
14:15-14:45 Optics Session
14:15-14:30 Bertrand Kibler (ICB, Burgundy, France)
Higher order breathers in nonlinear fiber optics
14:30-14:45 Alexandre Kudlinski (Lille, France)
Topographic fibres
14:45-15:15 Hydrodynamics Session
14:45-15:00 H. Branger (Marseille, France)
Experiments on breathers and rogue waves
15:00-15:15 D. Henderson (Penn State, US)
Recovering the surface profile from pressure measurements
15:15-15:45 Discussions and Coffee
15:45-16:00 Hydrodynamics Session
N. Hoffman (Imperial College, London, UK)
Experiments on the role of breathers in rogue water waves
16:00-17:00 Panel discussion and Work for 2014
19:00-23:00 Dinner (TBA)
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