3rd STUOD Annual Workshop

Welcome

The 5th Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics (STUOD) Annual Workshop will be held at the Inria Centre in Rennes, France on 23-26 September 2024. 

“Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics” (STUOD) is a project funded by the highly prestigious ERC Synergy Grant, led by Imperial College London, National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automatic Control (INRIA) and the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER). The project aims to deliver new capabilities for assessing variability and uncertainty in upper ocean dynamics. It will provide decision makers a means of quantifying the effects of local patterns of sea level rise, heat uptake, carbon storage and change of oxygen content and pH in the ocean. Its multimodal monitoring will enhance the scientific understanding of marine debris transport, tracking of oil spills and accumulation of plastic in the sea.

For September 2024, STUOD is planning to focus on a range of fundamental topic areas, including:

1. Observations at high resolution of upper ocean properties such as temperature, salinity, topography, wind, waves and velocity
2. Large scale numerical simulations
3. Data-based stochastic equations for upper ocean dynamics that quantify simulation error
4. Stochastic data assimilation to reduce uncertainty

Scientific Committee

  • Prof Bertrand Chapron (IFREMER)
  • Prof Dan Crisan (Imperial College London)
  • Prof Darryl Holm (Imperial College London)
  • Prof Etienne Mémin (INRIA)

Programme and Format

This 4-day event will include a variety of presentations with speakers that include leading mid-career and senior researchers as well as early-career researchers. This forum will yield opportunities for early career investigators to have discussions with established scientists, fostering potential future research collaborations, networking and training of the next generation of researchers.

The workshop will be delivered in-person with hybrid options being advised in due course.

Upon arrival, please have your photo ID to present to security at the reception.

Please view our published programme.

Confirmed Speakers

  • Prof Bertrand Chapron (IFREMER)
  • Prof Dan Crisan (Imperial College London)
  • Prof Darryl Holm (Imperial College London)
  • Prof Etienne Memin (INRIA)

Please see our list of speakers and schedule overview.

Workshop Venue

Inria center at Rennes University
Campus universitaire de Beaulieu
Avenue du Général Leclerc
35042 Rennes Cedex

Please see the map.

Getting to Rennes

Arriving by Plane

The Rennes Bretagne airport has connections to 20+ French and European cities on a daily basis.

There are two main airports in Paris: Charles de Gaulle and Orly with connections to Rennes.

Alternative airports: Nantes Atlantique airport with connections to Rennes via train and bus of around an hour.

Arriving by Bus

Bus C6 takes you daily to the city centre of Rennes (Republique Bus station) in 20 minutes. From Monday to Sunday, the bus stop Aéroport is served.

Check STAR to plan your trip and further information.

Arriving by Train

Departing from Gare Montparnasse and taking just under 90 minutes, trains run daily between Rennes and Paris, every half hour or so, with one out of every two being direct, express routes.

Check SNCF to plan your trip and further information.

Accommodation

Please see the map for a list of hotels in proximity to the venue with the list below indicating the ones closest to the Republic bus and train station:

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