Resources

Seminar Series

The APS Topical Group on the Physics of Climate (GPC) is starting a monthly virtual seminar series on climate physics and variability. We hope that these seminars will introduce the physics community to various aspects of the climate system, the latest results, and the outstanding questions and challenges. The seminars will be hosted by APS through Zoom.

We aim to have a diverse group of speakers at different stages of their careers presenting on a broad range of topics studied in the group. If you have suggestions for speakers or topics, please email Ching-Yao Lai.

GPC Virtual Seminar Series Organizing Committee:
Ching-Yao Lai, Albion Lawrence, Tiffany Shaw, Pedram Hassanzadeh

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Recent and Upcoming Seminars:

Registration is required for each event.

Date: Time: Speaker: Title:

May 15, 2024

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12-1pm EST

Prof. Eli Tziperman
(Harvard University)

 "The dynamics of very warm climates, past and future"

Apr 17, 2024

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12-1pm EST

Prof. Jeremy Bassis
University of Michigan Ann Arbor

”Instabilities, tipping points and projections of sea level rise: coastal resilience in an uncertain world”

Mar 13, 2024

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12-1pm EST

Prof. David Marshall
University of Oxford

"On the Physics of Ocean Eddies and their Impact on Global Ocean Circulation"

Feb 14, 2024

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12-1pm EST

Prof. Raffaele Ferrari
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"The abyssal ocean: its dynamics and its role in climate"

Jan 17, 2024

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12-1pm EST

Prof. Alex Robel
Georgia Institute of Technology

"What physics can tell us about ice sheets and future sea level rise"

Nov 15, 2023

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12-1pm EST

Prof. Geoffrey Vallis
University of Exeter

“Planetary Climates and Paleoclimates: Old Problems and New Approaches”

Oct 18, 2023

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12-1pm EST

Prof. Pedram Hassanzadeh
Rice University

“Integrating physics, data and scientific machine learning to predict climate variability and extremes"

Sep 13, 2023

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12-1pm EST

Prof. Allison Wing

Florida State University

“Organization of Convection and Climate”

July 19, 2023

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12-1pm EST

Prof. Morgan O’Neill

Stanford University

"Storms and climate"

May 17, 2023

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12-1pm EST

Prof. Andy Thompson 
Caltech

"The Southern Ocean and Global Climate Change"

April 19, 2023

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12pm ET

Prof. Justin Burton 
Emory University

"The shaping of Earth's soft matter landscape - new physics from a changing climate"

February 15, 2023

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12-1pm EST

Prof. Mara Freilich
Brown University

“Life in a Fluid Environment: Ocean Turbulence and the Global Carbon Cycle”

November 16, 2022

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12-1pm EST

Prof. John Wettlaufer
Yale University

"Whither Sea Ice?"

October 19, 2022

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12-1 pm EDT

Prof. Tiffany Shaw
University of Chicago

“Uncovering the physics of climate change using the climate model hierarchy”

September 21, 2022

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12-1 pm EDT

Prof. Laure Zanna
New York University

“Multiscale physics in the climate system”

July 20, 2022

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12-1 pm EDT

Prof. Tapio Schneider
Caltech

"Turbulence: The great unsolved problem of classical and climate physics"


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