Instabilities and transitions in geophysical flows

18 mai 2026, 08:30 → 22 mai 2026, 17:30 Europe/Paris

Amphithéâtre Hermite (Institut Henri Poincaré)

Mathematical developments in geophysical fluid dynamics

Workshop 2:  Instabilities and transitions in geophysical flows

May 18 to 22, 2026 - IHP, Paris

Instabilities and sharp transitions are ubiquitous in geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD). This Workshop will gather experts on instabilities in GFD as well as on abrupt transitions (saddle-node bifurcations).

List of speakers:

• Alexandros Alexakis (CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure)
• Bruno Andreoti (LPENS)
• Roberta Bianchini (CNR, Roma)
• Miguel Bustamente (University College Dublin)
• Keaton Burns (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Colm Caulfield (University of Cambridge)
• Peter Constantin (Princeton University)
• Lucas Ertzbischoff (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL)
• Anna Frishman (Technion)
• Emmanuel Grenier (Beijing Institute of Technology)
• Stephen Griffies (Princeton University)
• Nicolas Grisouard (University of Toronto)
• Celine Guervilly (Newcastle University)
• Julien Guillod (Sorbonne Université)
• Edgar Knobloch (University of California, Berkeley)
• Peter Korn (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)
• Sam Krupa (Ecole Normale Superieure)
• Michael Le Bars (CNRS, IRPHE)
• Stefan Llewellyn Smith (University of California, San Diego)
• Nader Masmoudi (New-York University Abu Dhabi)
• Louis-Philippe Nadeau (Université du Québec à Rimouski)
• Charlotte Perrin (CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université)
• Miguel Rodrigues (Univ Rennes)
• Catherine Sulem (University of Toronto)
• László Székelyhidi (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)
• Remi Tailleux (University of Reading, Department of Meteorology)
• Ian Tice (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Antoine Venaille (CNRS, ENS Lyon)
• Mahendra Verma (IIT Kanpur, India)
• Vlad Vicol (New York University)
• Jincheng Yang (Johns Hopkins University)
• Chongchun Zeng (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Organising Committee:

• Emmanuel Dormy
• Christophe Lacave
• Ludivine Oruba
• Alexis Vasseur

lun. 18 mai

09:15 → 09:45 Welcome coffee & registration

09:45 → 10:00 Introduction

10:00 → 10:50 Long talk

10:50 → 11:20 Talk

11:20 → 12:10 Long talk

12:10 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:20 Long talk

14:20 → 14:50 Talk

14:50 → 15:20 Break

15:20 → 16:20 poster presentation 2min each

16:20 → 18:00 Poster session

mar. 19 mai

09:30 → 10:20 Long talk

10:20 → 10:50 Break

10:50 → 11:20 Talk

11:20 → 12:10 Long talk

12:10 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:20 Long talk

14:20 → 14:50 Talk

14:50 → 15:20 Break

15:20 → 16:10 Long talk

16:10 → 16:40 Talk

16:40 → 17:10 Talk

18:00 → 21:00 Cocktail

mer. 20 mai

09:30 → 10:20 Long talk

10:20 → 10:50 Break

10:50 → 11:20 Talk

11:20 → 12:10 Long talk

12:10 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:20 Long talk

14:20 → 14:50 Talk

14:50 → 15:20 Break

15:20 → 16:10 Long talk

16:10 → 16:40 Talk

16:40 → 17:10 Talk

jeu. 21 mai

09:30 → 10:20 Long talk

10:20 → 10:50 Break

10:50 → 11:20 Talk

11:20 → 12:10 Long talk

12:10 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:20 Long talk

14:20 → 14:50 Talk

14:50 → 15:20 Break

15:20 → 16:10 Long talk

16:10 → 16:40 Talk

16:40 → 17:10 Talk

ven. 22 mai

09:30 → 10:20 Long talk

10:20 → 10:50 Break

10:50 → 11:20 Talk

11:20 → 12:10 Long talk