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Waves

 

A conference in honor of Kristian Dysthe's 80th birthday

 

November 30 - December 1,  2017

 

University of Bergen, Norway

 

Program

Thursday, November 30th

08:30 - 09:00   Registration and welcome

09:00 - 09:15   Opening

09:15 - 9:45  Miguel Onorato: "The key role played by Kristian Dysthe in the understanding of rogue waves"

09:45 - 10:15 Takuji Waseda: "Spectral downshifting and rogue waves in directional seas: outstanding questions posed by K. Dysthe"

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee

10:45 - 11:15 Christian Kharif: "Rogue waves on shear current in shallow water"

11:15 - 11:45 Alexey Slunyaev: "The Dysthe equation and rogue waves in the ocean"

11:45 - 12:15 Karsten Trulsen: "Wave modulations and freak waves"

12:15 - 13:45   Lunch

13:45 - 14:15 Guillemette Caulliez: "Nonlinear evolution of wind waves observed in laboratory"

14:15 - 14:45 John Carter: "The viscous Dysthe equation"

14:45 - 15:15 Coffee

15:15 - 15:45 Maria Bjørnestad: "Shallow water dynamics on shear flows and sloping beaches"

15:45 - 16:15 Daniel Ratliffe: "Phase dynamics of surface waves"

16:15 - 16:45 Geir Pedersen: "Amplification in non-planar geometries"

 

18:30 - 22:00    Dinner

 

Friday, December 1st

09:00 - 09:30  Odd Faltinsen: "Hydrodynamics of marine structures"

09:30 - 10:00  Simen Ellingsen: "Waves on currents with arbitrary depth dependence: solution procedure for general linear problems in 3D, and some applications"

10:00 - 10:30  Coffee

10:30 - 11:00  Peder A. Tyvand: "The nonlinear Cauchy-Poisson problem"

11:00 - 11:30  Atle Jensen: "Water wave experiments"

11:30 - 12:00  John Grue: "Mini-tsunamis generated by ships"

12:00 - 13:30   Lunch

13:30 - 14:00  Tomas Torsvik and Ira Didenkulova: "In the wake: What wake structures can tell us about ship motion"

14:00 - 14:30  Tor Eldevik: "Spiral eddies, an anecdotal review"

14:30-15:00   Closing