Student profiles | Mathematics of Planet Earth

Click on the profiles below to read interviews with some of our students.

Cohort 2014

Tobias Schwedes

Cohort 2015

Tom Bendell Jemima Tabeart Lea Oljaca

Cohort 2016

Giulia Carigi Imogen Dell

Tsz Yan Leung Birgit Sutzl

Calendar

	October 2018
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	1	2 MPE CDT Exam Board MPE CDT Exam Board October 2, 2018 See more details •	3 MPE Weds - Imperial MPE Weds - Imperial October 3, 2018 ICL, EPSRC CDT hub, room 402 Title: "A Brief, Incomplete, and Biased View of Stochastic Dynamics in Weather and Climate." Abstract: Neither Henri Poicaré nor David Ruelle ever saw any contradiction between chance and determinism. What, then, is a random variable? Where does stochasticity come from? How can we use centuries of theory, observations, and modeling to inform state-of-the art General Circulation Models? I will address, if not completely answer, these and other questions in a somewhat random walk through issues in stochastic climate modeling. See more details MPE Weds (inc. Inaugural seminar, Cecile Penland, NOAA Federal ) - Imperial MPE Weds (inc. Inaugural seminar, Cecile Penland, NOAA Federal ) - Imperial October 3, 2018 @ 11:00 - 12:00 ICL, EPSRC CDT hub, room 402 Title: "A Brief, Incomplete, and Biased View of Stochastic Dynamics in Weather and Climate." Abstract: Neither Henri Poicaré nor David Ruelle ever saw any contradiction between chance and determinism. What, then, is a random variable? Where does stochasticity come from? How can we use centuries of theory, observations, and modeling to inform state-of-the art General Circulation Models? I will address, if not completely answer, these and other questions in a somewhat random walk through issues in stochastic climate modeling. See more details • •	4 MPECDT coffee MPECDT coffee October 4, 2018 @ 10:00 - 10:30 Huxley common room See more details •	5 Cecile Penland Seminar (NCAS) Cecile Penland Seminar (NCAS) October 5, 2018 @ 10:00 - 11:00 Met GU01 Stochastically Generated Skew: Implications for Forecast Probabilities Cécile Penland NOAA/ESRL/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO ABSTRACT The salient non-Gaussian features of observed climatological distributions are captured by so-called stochastically generated skewed (SGS) distributions that include Gaussian distributions as special cases. SGS distributions are associated with damped linear Markov processes perturbed by asymmetric stochastic noise and as such represent the simplest physically based prototypes of the observed distributions. As is true in most dynamical systems, an ensemble-mean forecast based on this process is generally not the most likely forecast, and the forecast uncertainty depends on the initial conditions, even when the initial conditions are perfect. Further, the heavy tails associated with SGS distributions have large ramifications for prediction of extremes. In this talk, I will discuss these and other annoyances. See more details •	6
7	8	9	10 Reading Reading October 10, 2018 See more details management meeting management meeting October 10, 2018 @ 14:00 - 15:00 See more details MPE Seminar - Prof Owen Jones - MPE Seminar - Prof Owen Jones - October 10, 2018 @ 15:00 - 16:00 JJT Slingo Lecture Theatre Title: Runoff processes on trees Abstract: The volume of catchment discharge that reaches a stream via the overland flow path is critical for water quality prediction, because it is via this pathway that most particulate pollutants are generated and transported to the stream channel, via surface erosion processes. When it rains, spatial variation in the soil infiltration rate leads to the formation and reabsorption of rivulets on the surface, and local topography determines the coalescence of rivulets. We consider the question of how coalescence facilitates overland flow using a highly abstracted version of the problem, in which the drainage pattern is represented by a Galton-Watson tree. We show that as the rate of rainfall increases there is a distinct phase-change: when there is no stream coalescence the critical point occurs when the rainfall rate equals the infiltration rate, but when we allow coalescence the critical point occurs when the rainfall rate is less than the infiltration rate, and increasing the amount of coalescence increases the total expected runoff. Afternoon tea to be served in Slingo foyer at 4pm See more details • • •	11 MPECDT coffee MPECDT coffee October 11, 2018 @ 10:00 - 10:30 Huxley common room See more details •	12	13
14	15	16	17 MOTR presentation day, Reading MOTR presentation day, Reading October 17, 2018 Met 1L61 Whiteknights Campus See more details Reading Reading October 17, 2018 See more details Management meeting Management meeting October 17, 2018 @ 16:00 - 17:00 See more details • • •	18 MPECDT coffee MPECDT coffee October 18, 2018 @ 10:00 - 10:30 Huxley common room See more details •	19	20
21	22	23	24 Sandpit in Imperial Sandpit in Imperial October 24, 2018 ICL, EPSRC CDT hub, room 402 See more details •	25 Sandpit at Reading Sandpit at Reading October 25, 2018 Meadow Suite See more details MPECDT coffee MPECDT coffee October 25, 2018 @ 10:00 - 10:30 Huxley common room See more details • •	26	27
28	29	30	31 Imperial (Seminar by Prof Jonathan Rougier from University of Bristol) Imperial (Seminar by Prof Jonathan Rougier from University of Bristol) October 31, 2018 EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training, 402, ICSM Building, South Kensington Campus, Exhibition Rd, Knightsbridge, London SW7 2AZ, UK See more details •