The seminar is sponsored by NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU Shanghai.
Abstract:
PDEs govern the motion of fluids. Of particular interest are the geophysical fluids in which we live, i.e. the ocean and the atmosphere, and their response to climate change. Here we will discuss how solving PDEs numerically can help shed some light into the physical processes that are important for climate science and for current model predictions of climate change.
Biography:
Caroline Muller is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at NYU Shanghai. She is also a CNRS researcher (Chargée de Recherche) and ENS lecturer (Maître de Conférence associée à l’ENS) in France. She holds a PhD from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU. After her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral associate at MIT and an associate research scholar at Princeton University, before joining the CNRS. Professor Muller’s research interests lie in the fields of geophysical fluid dynamics and climate science. She is particularly interested in the study of processes which are too small in space and time to be explicitly resolved in coarse-resolution General Circulation Models (GCMs) used for climate prediction.