Gilbert Club
Room 105
Northgate Hall
(NOTE NEW LOCATION: the wooden building just north
of McCone Hall, the usual meeting place)
UC Berkeley
(510) 642-3993
Saturday, December 13, 1997
9:00 - 10:00 The role of landsliding in the evolution of rapidly
uplifting orogens
Colin Stark (Lamont-Doherty)
10:00 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:00 Some humble thoughts of a theoretician on recent developments
in the understanding of river morphology
Giovanni Seminara (University of Genoa)
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 � 3:00 Lateral transport of fluid momentum induced by horizontal
vortices in compound open channels
Syunsuke Ikeda (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
3:00 - 3:30 Physical models in geomorphology: a discussion
please come prepared with overheads and thoughts about the value
and pitfalls of using �sand box� models geomorphology.
The discussion will be stared with a short presentation by Charles
E. Smith who has developed a means of modeling full meandering (including
cut-offs) in a small flume.
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - Pop ups: short presentations by attendees as the spirit moves them.
6:15 - Dinner, beer, and conversations at Bill Dietrich's house:
455 Vermont Ave., Berkeley.
cost: $20 for lunch and dinner and refreshments at breaks.
$10 for lunch and refreshments only.
We will collect your contributions during the event.
R.S.V.P.: Please confirm your planned attendance before December 6.
Please specify if you will join us for dinner, or only for lunch.
Reply by email: arjun@geomorph.berkeley.edu
Or, call our office & leave a message: (510) 236-7792.