1997

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.