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Exploring Deep Convection in the Sun: A Lecture by Prof. Katepalli Sreenivasan

Join the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Group for an invited EDISON lecture by Prof. Katepalli Sreenivasan, esteemed President of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. This session will delve into the phenomena of deep convection within our Sun, emphasizing findings from the notable paper "Anomalously Weak Solar Convection." Prof. Sreenivasan brings extensive expertise in turbulence and complex fluids. This presentation will occur on November 5, 11am-12noon, at the Dean’s Boardroom, 258 Fitzpatrick. Don’t miss this insightful discussion!

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Exploring Deep Convection in the Sun: A Lecture by Prof. Katepalli Sreenivasan

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  1. The Environmental Fluid Dynamics Group Presents an Invited EDISON LECTURE Prof. KatepalliSreenivasan, NAE, NAS, NAAS President, Polytechnic Institute of New York University Dean of Engineering Professor of Physics, (Arts and Sciences) Professor of Mathematics (Courant Institute) Tuesday, November 5 Dean’s Boardroom, 258 Fitzpatrick 11am-12noon Convection at Rayleigh Numbers of the Order 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ABSTRACT The talk will consider the deep convection in our Sun and abstract the work reported in "Anomalously weak solar convection", by S.M.Hanasoge, T.L. Duvall, Jr. and K.R. Sreenivasan, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (30), 11928-11932, 2012. BIOGRAPHY Dr. Sreenivasan came to NYU from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy) where he was the Director, and from the University of Maryland, where he was a Distinguished University Professor, Professor of Physics and Engineering and the Director of the Institute for Physical Science and Technology. Dr. Sreenivasan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An active researcher, Dr. Sreenivasan’s research is in the areas of turbulence, complex fluids, geophysical turbulence, cryogenic helium, and nonlinear dynamics.

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