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Workshop III: Transport Systems in Geography, Geosciences, and Networks
May 5 - 9, 2008
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Organizing Committee
Andrea Bertozzi
(University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Mathematics)
Bjorn Birnir
(University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))
Dan Rothman
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
William Zame
(University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Economics)
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Scientific Overview
In recent years a large number of scaling laws in geomorphology have been found to be
equivalent to only two scaling laws. Recent results on river meanders indicate that there
may be only one universal scaling law, implying all the others. Moreover, recent
theoretical results on turbulent flow in rivers indicate that turbulent flow is the source
of the universal scaling of river basins and river networks.
These results provide a key to the understanding of the fundamental structure of the
surface of the earth, that layers of complexity such as tectonic uplift, earthquake rifts
and the action of glaciers can then be added to. It provides a way of quantifying transport
of water, sediments and chemicals over the surface and exchanges of dissolved chemicals
between the water and the atmosphere. In particular this seems to provide a method to
quantify the transfer of carbon dioxide from rivers to the atmosphere. This workshop will
explore why and how this transport due to turbulent flow takes place and is optimal.
Other transport such as transport of magma in volcanoes will also be covered and how
similar ideas can be used to identify and quantify transport in social networks and
economics.
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Invited Speakers
Andrea Bertozzi
(University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Hakima Bessaih
(University of Wyoming)
Sushil Bikhchandani
(University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Bjorn Birnir
(University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))
Peter Dodds
(University of Vermont)
Charles Doering
(University of Michigan)
Jinqiao Duan
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
Terri Hogue
(University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Mohammed Mahdian
(Yahoo! Research)
John Melack
(University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))
Stephen Morris
(University of Toronto)
Mina Ossiander
(Oregon State University)
Maya Paczuski
(University of Calgary)
Parag Pathak
(Harvard University)
Ilya Pavlyukevich
(Humboldt-Universität)
Vakhtang Putkaradze
(Colorado State University)
Dan Rothman
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Daniel Schertzer
(École Nationale des Ponts-et-Chaussées (ENPC))
Terence Smith
(University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))
Donald Turcotte
(University of California, Davis (UC Davis))
Michael Weinstein
(Columbia University)
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Contact Us:
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
Attn: OTWS3
460 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles CA 90095-7121
Phone: 310 825-4755
Fax: 310 825-4756
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http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/otws3/
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