Meeting Agenda

Meeting Agenda:
This meeting is being structured to encourage collaborations between biological and physical oceanographers, numerical modelers, mathematicians and meteorologists who use Lagrangian measurements, both in-situ and simulated, to understand and model ocean and coastal dynamics. We ENCOURAGE you to present both a short talk (16 min + 4 min Q/A) in the morning session and a poster with details in the afternoon (This is not a strict requirement, you can do just one or the other).

Mon:	Session A	Observational studies and instrumentation.
Tue:	Session B & Session C	Theory of dispersion, transport, and coherent structures.   Dynamical system analysis and optimal deployment/sampling design.
Wed:		A day of interactions via a group social activity.
Thu:	Session D	Lagrangian modeling, data assimilation, and error evaluation.
Fri:	Session E	Biological, meteorological and multidisciplinary applications.

Presentations
Computers with MS PowerPoint will be available for the presentations. You may bring your own laptop computer if you like, or you can bring your presentation on CD-ROM or USB 'flash drives'. Transparencies are also welcome.

We would like to avoid an early Monday morning rush. So, Only if you will be presenting Monday morning, you can a arrange with Anne (molcard@univ-tln.fr) to transfer for presentation electronically (ie put it on an ftp site and email her the location).

Posters
We encourage people who give oral presentations to present also a poster in the afternoon of their morning talk. Posters can simply be made by hard copies of the presented material or they can serve to show details not given in your morning talk. The purpose of presenting a poster and having an afternoon poster session is to encourage individual communication stimulated by the morning presentation.

Posters should be limited to 180 cm x 100 cm (or less).
You will be able to, and we encourage you to, hang your poster in the morning of your talk.

Note: Thursday's and Friday's Poster Sessions will be concurrent on Thursday afternoon.

Favorite Trajectories
Thursday Afternoon
Please bring one or two "slides" highlighting your favorite (quasi-) Lagrangian trajectory (or cluster) from drifter, float, buoy, glider or animal-based measurements, numerical simulations, or theory.

Wifi
Uphill: wifi is available at the Astrolab where the meeting and the meals are.
Downhill: where are the rooms and the swimming pool, the only place where internet is available by wifi is in the lobby.