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                   THE 
                    MATHEMATICS OF EXTREME SEA WAVES: 
                    Tsunamis, Rogue Waves, And Flooding 
                    June 
                    13- 16, 2011 
                    Hosted 
                    by Fields,  
                    held at Wallberg Building (WB 116),184-200 College Street 
                    University of Toronto (map to venue) 
                  Organizing 
                    Committee:  
                    W. Craig, D. Henderson, E. Pelinovsky & C. Sulem 
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            OVERVIEW
            This workshop is on the dynamics of extreme ocean waves, such as 
              tsunamis and rogue waves, and the hazards that they present to coastal 
              regions and to shipping. Our purpose is to inform the mathematics 
              community about problems of prediction and of description of extreme 
              ocean waves, that in particular may be addressed in part by mathematical 
              tools and techniques. As well, our purpose is to provide a venue 
              from which collaborations are developed between the two communities 
              of mathematicians and ocean scientists. 
            Invited Speakers:
             
               
                Diego Arcas, NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory 
                  O. Bokhove, Twente 
                  John Dudley, FEMTO-ST, Université de Franche Comté 
                  Denys Dutykh, Université de Savoie-CNRS 
                  Isaak Fine, Institute of Ocean Sciences, BC 
                  Johannes Gemmich, University of Victoria  
                  Diana Greenslade, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne 
                  Christian Kharif, IRPHE 
                  Emile Okal, Northwestern  
                  Miguel Onorato, Università di Torino  
                  Geir Pedersen, Universitetet i Oslo 
                  Efim Pelinovsky, Institute of Applied Physics, Russian 
                  Academy of Sciences 
                  Harvey Segur, University of Colorado  
                  Harry Yeh, Oregon State 
               
             
            Tentative Schedule
             
               
                
                   
                    | Monday June 13 Wallberg 
                      Building (WB 116) 184-200 College 
                      Street | 
                   
                   
                    | 12:30 | 
                    On site registration  | 
                   
                   
                     1:00  
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                    H. Segur (Boulder) 
                      Tsunamis | 
                   
                   
                    |  2:00 | 
                    H. Yeh (Oregon State) 
                      Solitary-Wave Amplification along a Vertical Wall: Theory 
                      and Experiment  | 
                   
                   
                     3:00  
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                    Tea Break | 
                   
                   
                    3:30  
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                     D. Greenslade (Melbourne) 
                      Operational tsunami forecast and warning | 
                   
                   
                    4:30 
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                    E. Okal (Northwestern) 
                      Tsunamis as normal modes of the Earth, and a venture 
                      into extracurricular geophysics  | 
                   
                   
                    |  5:30  | 
                    Reception | 
                   
                   
                    |  Tuesday June 14  | 
                   
                   
                    | 10:00 | 
                    E. Pelinovsky (RAS - Nizhny Novgorod) 
                      Rogue Waves in the Ocean; Facts, Theories and Modelling | 
                   
                   
                    11:00 
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                    G. Pedersen (Oslo) 
                      Topics related to tsunamis generated by rock slides | 
                   
                   
                    12:00 
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                    Lunch | 
                   
                   
                    2:00  
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                    J. Dudley (Franche - Comte) 
                      Light on nonlinearity: what optics can reveal about the 
                      science of extreme ocean waves  | 
                   
                   
                    3:00 
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                     Tea | 
                   
                   
                    |  Wednesday 15 June | 
                   
                   
                    10:00  
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                    Diego Arcas (NOAA) 
                      Operational 
                      Aspects of Tsunami Modeling and Detection | 
                   
                   
                    11:00  
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                    M. Onorato (Torino) 
                      Triggering breathers in currents  | 
                   
                   
                    12:00 
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                     Lunch | 
                   
                   
                    | 2:00  | 
                    I. Fine (Institute of Ocean Sciences, 
                      Sydney, BC) 
                      The NEPTUNE Canada measurements of approaching tsunamis 
                      off the British Columbia coast: an opportunity for regional 
                      modelling and forecasting | 
                   
                   
                    | 3:00 | 
                    Tea | 
                   
                   
                    | 3:30  | 
                    O. Bokhove (Twente) 
                      Makings Waves at Beaches  | 
                   
                   
                    | Thursday 16 June | 
                   
                   
                    | 10:00 | 
                    D. Dutykh (Chambery) 
                      Dispersive and non-dispersive wave runup and some related 
                      phenomena  | 
                   
                   
                     
                      11:00 | 
                    J. Gemmrich (Victoria) 
                      Dynamical and statistical explanations of rogue wave 
                      occurrence rates  | 
                   
                   
                    | 12:00  | 
                    Ch. Kharif (Marseille) 
                      Extreme sea wave modelling : Application to rogue waves 
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            Final List of Participants:
            
               
                | Full Name | 
                University Name | 
               
               
                | Aechtner, Matthias | 
                McMaster University | 
               
               
                | Arcas, Diego | 
                NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory | 
               
               
                | Ayala, Diego | 
                McMaster University | 
               
               
                | Bayram, Saziye | 
                Buffalo State College | 
               
               
                | Bell, Jordan | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Bokhove, Onno | 
                University of Twente | 
               
               
                | Chabchoub, Amin | 
                Hamburg University of Technology | 
               
               
                | Cher, Yuri | 
                McGill University | 
               
               
                | Coles, Matthew | 
                McMaster University | 
               
               
                | Craig, Walter | 
                McMaster University | 
               
               
                | Dudley, John M. | 
                University of Franche-Comté | 
               
               
                | Dutykh, Denys | 
                Université de Savoie-CNRS | 
               
               
                | Dyachenko, Alexander | 
                Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics | 
               
               
                | Fine, Issak | 
                Institute of Ocean Sciences | 
               
               
                | Gemmrich, Johannes | 
                University of Victoria | 
               
               
                | Graham, Ian | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Greenhalgh, Scott | 
                University of Guelph | 
               
               
                | Greenslade, Diana | 
                Bureau of Meteorology | 
               
               
                | Gustafsson, Jonathan | 
                McMaster University | 
               
               
                | Henderson, Diane | 
                Pennsylvania State University | 
               
               
                | Kevlahan, Nicholas | 
                McMaster University | 
               
               
                | Kharif, Christian | 
                Institut de Recherche sur les Phenomenes Hors Equilibre | 
               
               
                | Lamb, Kevin | 
                University of Waterloo | 
               
               
                | Liu, Xiao | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Okal, Emile | 
                Northwestern University | 
               
               
                | Onorato, Miguel | 
                Università di Torino | 
               
               
                | Pedersen, Geir Kleivstul | 
                University of Oslo | 
               
               
                | Pelinovsky, Efim | 
                Russian Academy of Sciences | 
               
               
                | Rogers, Nick | 
                McMaster University | 
               
               
                | Segur, Harvey | 
                University of Colorado | 
               
               
                | Sulem, Catherine | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Valenta, George | 
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                | Yeh, Harry | 
                Oregon State University | 
               
             
              
              
             
               
                 
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