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Talks

I try to keep an up-to-date list of my conferences and invited seminars, and I share some of my slides, posters and video recordings.

Past

France

23-27 Sep 2024

Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas Conferece, Bordeaux, France

“The structure of stratified mixing in baroclinically forced shear flows" (poster)

Germany

16-20 Sep 2024

1st European Fluid Dynamics Conference, Aachen, Germany

“Geophysical stratified turbulence and mixing in the laboratory”

EFDC Aachen talk 12min
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USA

9 Jul 2024

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Seminar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

“The structure of stratified mixing in baroclinically forced shear flows"

USA

8-13 Jun 2024

Gordon Research Conference on Ocean Mixing, Massachussetts, USA

“Geophysical sheared stratified turbulence and mixing in the laboratory" (poster)

Italy

6-8 May 2024

EUROMECH Colloquium on Microplastic dispersion pathways, Lerici, Italy

“An experimental testbed for estuarine stratified turbulence and mixing"

UK

1 May 2024

Seminar in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London

“Advancing the modelling of environmental stratified turbulence with data-rich laboratory experiments"

Austria

15-19 Apr 2024

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria

“Geophysical stratified turbulence and mixing in the laboratory”

UK

18 Mar 2024

Physical Oceanography Seminar, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton

“Advancing the modelling of ocean turbulence with data-rich laboratory experiments”

USA

19-23 Feb 2024

Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, USA

“A new canonical laboratory experiment to study ocean turbulence and mixing”

Netherlands

24 Nov 2023

Physics of Fluids Seminar, University of Twente, The Netherlands

“Tackling stratified turbulence with big laboratory data”

Netherlands

23 Nov 2023

Fluids Seminar, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

“Tackling stratified turbulence with big laboratory data”

UK

2 Aug 2023

Mander Portman Woodward (MPW) Summer School, London

Invited Lecture in the London Senate House (Outreach)

“The simple mathematics of flight: from insects to jumbo jets”

The simple mathematics of flight
The simple mathematics of flight
USA

26 Jul 2023

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Seminar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

“The stratified inclined duct experiment: a rich paradigm for stratified turbulence”

July 2023 WHOI GFD seminar
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UK

3 Mar 2023

G. K. Batchelor Lab Lunch, DAMTP, Cambridge

“Unsupervised classification of experimental shadowgraphs of stratified turbulence”

Greece

13-16 Sep 2022

14th European Fluid Mechanics Conference, Athens

“Experimental properties of continuously-forced, shear-driven, stratified turbulence”

Greece

7-9 Sep 2022

7th European Congress of the International Association for Hydro-environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), Athens

“Buoyancy-driven exchange flows in inclined ducts: insights from laboratory experiments and mathematical modelling”

UK

29 Aug - 1 Sep 2022

IXth International Symposium on Stratified Flows, Cambridge

“Experimental properties of continuously-forced, shear-driven, stratified turbulence”

August 2022 ISSF talk 15 min
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UK

22 Jul 2022

Mander Portman Woodward (MPW) Summer School, Cambridge

Invited Lecture in the Cambridge Union Debating Hall (Outreach)

“The simple mathematics of flight: from insects to jumbo jets”

The simple mathematics of flight
UK

18 Feb 2022

Fluid Mechanics Seminar, Cambridge University Engineering Department

“Probing density-stratified turbulence and mixing using simultaneous volumetric Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF)”

UK

10 Sep 2021

UK Fluids Conference, Southampton & Virtual

“Experimental properties of continuously-forced, shear-driven, stratified turbulence”

Italy

25 Aug 2021

 25th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM), Milan & Virtual

“Regime transitions and energetics of sustained stratified shear flows”

August 2021 ICTAM talk 15min
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UK

12 Jun 2021

G. K. Batchelor Lab Lunch, DAMTP, Cambridge

“Stratified Inclined Duct (SID): What is it all about?”

June 2021 GKB Lab Lunch talk 35min recording
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USA

24 Nov 2020

73rd American Physical Society DFD, Chicago & Virtual

“Buoyancy-driven exchange flows in inclined ducts”

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November 2020 APS DFD talk 20min recording
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UK

9 Mar 2020

STEM for Britain, House of Commons, London

“Finding structures in the chaos of stratified turbulent flows”

Won the "Silver Medal for Mathematics"

Canada

29 Nov 2019

Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

“The structure and origin of confined Holmboe waves”

Canada

28 Nov 2019

Coanda R&D Corporation, Burnaby

“Tackling stratified turbulence using 3D measurements of the velocity and density”

USA

24-26 Nov 2019

72nd American Physical Society DFD, Seattle

“Regime transitions and energetics of sustained stratified shear flows”

Italy

3-6 Sep 2019

17th European Turbulence Conference, Turin

“Regime transitions and energetics of sustained stratified shear flows”

UK

28 Aug 2019

UK Fluid Conference Plenary Talk, Cambridge

“Finding Nessie: The structure and origin of confined Holmboe waves”

In recognition of my UK Fluids Network "Dissertation Prize"

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UK

27-29 Aug 2019

UK Fluids Conference, Cambridge

“Regime transitions and energetics of sustained stratified shear flows”

Switzerland

11 Jun 2019

Fluid Mechanics and Instabilities Seminar, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

“The structure and origin of confined Holmboe waves”

Italy

3-7 Jun 2019

Summer School on Coherent Structures in Unsteady Flows, CISM, Udine

“The structure and origin of confined Holmboe waves”

UK

21 Feb 2019

BPI Seminar, BP Institute for Multiphase Flow

“The structure and origin of confined Holmboe waves”

USA

18-20 Nov 2018

71th American Physical Society DFD, Atlanta

“The structure and origin of confined Holmboe waves”

UK

8 Oct 2018

Geophysical and Environmental Seminar, DAMTP, Cambridge

“Waves and turbulence in sustained stratified shear flows”

Austria

9-13 Sep 2018

12th European Fluid Mechanics Conference, Technical University of Vienna

“The structure and origin of confined Holmboe waves”

Won "Young Scientist Award"

UK

14 Jul 2017

ERCOFTAC Osborne Reynolds Award Day, Manchester University

“Linear stability and coherent structures in laboratory stratified turbulence”

Won "Osborne Reynolds First Prize"

USA

20-22 Nov 2016

69th American Physical Society DFD, Portland

“Stratified shear flow in an inclined duct: coherent structures and mixing”

USA

29 Aug - 1 Sep 2016

VIIIth International Symposium on Stratified Flows, Hotel Del Coronado, San Diego

“Novel velocity and density measurements of the stratified flow in an inclined duct”

UK

21-22 Mar 2016

Stratified Turbulence in the 21st century, Chicheley Hall, Royal Society

“Experiments on stratified turbulence and mixing in an inclined duct”

USA

22-24 Nov 2015

68th American Physical Society DFD, Boston

“Spatio-temporal intermittency in stratified shear flow: effects of Prandtl number”

France

14-16 Oct 2015

 New challenges in Internal Wave Dynamics, ENS Lyon

“Worldwide estimates of internal-tide-driven mixing at small-scale abyssal hills” 

UK

16 Jul 2015

Fluids, Energy and Turbomachinery Expo, Duxford Imperial War Museum

“Laboratory experiments on density-stratified shear flows”

UK

24 Jun 2015

Polar Oceans Seminar, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge

“Global tidal dissipation estimates using a simple analytical tool”

UK

8 May 2015

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science Symposium

“A global estimate of tidal mixing in the deep ocean”

UK

14 Nov 2014

Fluid Mechanics Seminar, Cambridge University Engineering Department

“Collective dynamics in confined bacterial suspensions” 

France

1 Sep 2014

Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique de l’X (LadHyX), École Polytechnique

“A global map of tidal dissipation in the deep ocean” (MSc defence)

France

18 Jul 2013

Bio-mechanics and Bio-engineering Lab, Université de Technologie de Compiègne

“Theory and simulations of confined active suspensions” (MSc defence)

USA

8 Jul 2013

Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

“Theory and simulations of confined active suspensions”

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