Courges jouant au squash Toronto - Brest
2001-2006
Contact Information:
Mark FRUMAN
Institut für Atmosphäre und Umwelt
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main
Altenhöferallee 1
60438 Frankfurt/Main
Germany
Telephone: +49 (0)69 798 40238
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 40262
e-mail: mfruman@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
Research
In 2005, I completed my Ph.D. degree in atmospheric physics at the University of Toronto under the
supervision of Professor
T. G. Shepherd. Here is a
picture of our research group in Toronto as of November of 2001.
My thesis was on Equatorial
Symmetric Stability. The main result is a derivation of
conditions for the stability of east-west flows in the equatorial
atmosphere. Click on the title to see/download a .pdf version.
Below are some slideshows from talks and a poster
about my work. The Brewer
Seminar is the weekly Friday lunchtime seminar in the Atmospheric
Physics group at the University of Toronto, and "Group Meeting" refers to
a talk given to our research group. Please understand that some of the
below are rough and not designed to stand without further explanation.
Slides from a talk on oceanic
jets at IFREMER (March, 2008).
As of July 2008, I am working at the Goethe
University-Frankfurt.Here
is my page at the Institut für Atmosphäre und Umwelt, including
a list of publications.
Poster on breaking gravity waves
presented at 17th AMS Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid
Dynamics in Stowe, Vermont (June, 2009)
Travel
Being a graduate student afforded me the opportunity to travel to
interesting places to learn interesting things and meet interesting
people.
In August, 1999, I attended the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical
Sciences Summer
School in Fluid Dynamics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. I
forgot to bring my camera, so I don't have any pictures of that trip,
but
In September of 2001, I attended the Summer
School on the Physics of the Equatorial Atmosphere at the International Centre for Theoretical
Physics in Trieste, Italy. Here
are some photos from my trip to Italy.
In June of 2003, I attended the joint CAIMS/SIAMannual meeting in
Montreal. I don't have any pictures, but here is the abstract and here are the slides from a 12-minute
contributed presentation on Taylor-Couette instability that I gave on
the first day of the conference.
In 2000-2001, I worked as a tutor for PHY138
"Physics for the Life Sciences". If you were in my group (WB3,
Wednesdays 1pm), click here for
information, announcements, and some other things.
If you were in one of my first year undergraduate physics lab groups in
a previous year and feel nostalgic, click here for
information, announcements, and some other things. I might even have
one of your uncollected assignments.
Hobbies
Despite a singular dedication to my work (stop laughing), I try to make
time for other pursuits. I like drawing (like
the figure skating tree on the right), playing association football
('soccer) and ball hockey, and writing
amateurish computer games.
I'm teaching myself to play the classical guitar. Here are some
novels I've enjoyed.
You know what else is fun? Yahoo! Fantasy
Hockey. A private league with a live draft is the format of choice
if you can manage it.
During the NHL Playoffs, I run a PLAYOFFS
PICK'EM competition, and also one during the 2006 World Cup.
Strictly for fun of course.
Level IV Fawlty Towers Trivia
1. What was the surname of the family that
cancelled its reservation on Gourmet Night?
2. According to Mrs. Hamilton,
which is Harold Robbins' best novel?
Sybil:
But seriously though,
his men are all so interesting. Ruthless and sexy and
... powerful.
Basil:
Who's this, then,
dear? Proust? E. M. Forster?
Sybil:
Harold
Robbins.
Basil:
Oh, of course, yes.
My wife likes Harold Robbins. After a hard day's slaving under the
hair-dryer she needs to unwind with a few aimless
thrills.
Sybil:
Basil!
Basil:
Have you ever read
any? It really is the most awful American ... well, not America, but
trans-Atlantic tripe. A sort of pornographic muzak. Still, it keeps
my wife off the streets.
3. In what English city was the
house that Mrs. Richards was trying to sell?
Mrs. Richards:
Hallo!!
There's nobody there.
Basil:
Hallo ... yes, yes, I
know she is. Yes ... It's your sister.
Mrs. Richards:
Hallo.
Hallo. We've been cut off.
Basil:
Hallo ... look, you
tell me, and I'll tell her.
Mrs. Richards:
Even the
phones don't work.
Basil:
Your sister says
you've had an offer of eighty-seven thousand pounds for your house
in ____.
Mrs.
Richards:
Eighty-seven? Give it to me. Don't be a fool,
Stephanie. Ninety two seven fifty I said and I'm not taking a penny
less, you tell him that. Why don't people listen?
James Anstey is the
scum of the earth and also a student in our group. Dig his site
for some skanky funk, groovy jazz, and whatever else he's put up there
since I last looked. But it's very difficult to read, James.
Stephen
Griffiths knows all about inertial instability and other stuff,
I'm sure. He's now at the University of Leeds.
The XMAME arcade game emulator
for X-windows, or MAME for other
OS's. If you own an arcade game machine, then you are entitled to
download the emulator for that game from ROMnation.net (viewer discretion
advised) .
For research, check out the Killer List of Video Games or MAWS.
Jeff Miller's Earliest Known Uses
of Mathematical Terms. Did you know that the word sine
comes from the Latin word for bay or harbour? If that doesn't make
sense, it is because it comes from a mistranslation from Arabic. Read
about it here.
ATP (live scores) tennis
tour home page for current info and comprehensive match records. Same for
women's tennis at the WTA home page
(live scores).
Search for your favourite player, or see how two players have fared
against one another:
