Dr Sophie Calabretto

Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Macquarie University

Honorary Associate Professor in

Applied Mathematics

School of Mathematics and Actuarial Science

Honorary Associate Professor,

ACE Research Group

School of Engineering

University of Leicester

Room 6.25, 12 Wally’s Walk

Macquarie University NSW 2109

Australia

contact info:

+61 2 9850 8950

sophie.calabretto{at}mq.edu.au

Recent and forthcoming talks.

2020

• • Turbulence: the maths of fluids, and chaos in the real world, NYSF Connect Webinar Series.
• • Fluids behaving badly, MQ Women Shaping the Future: A Gender Equity Week Symposium, March 2020.

2019

• • The development of spiral instabilities in the boundary layer on a rotating sphere, 72nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Seattle, US, November 2019.
• • Some new results on the flow induced by rotating bodies, Monash Fluids Seminar Series, Monash University, September 2019.
• • Boundary layers, and spatially and temporally evolving flows: they’re tricky sometimes, Physics and Astronomy Department Colloquium, Macquarie University, September 2019.
• • Some new results on the flow induced by rotating bodies (international speaker), UK Fluids Network Boundary Layers and Complexing Rotating Flows SIG Workshop, University of Leicester, UK, June 2019.
• • When tuna schools: how questionable fish lead to questionable separation and global instabilities, School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium, University of Adelaide, April 2019.
• • Global instabilities in the flow around a rotating sphere, ANZIAM2019, Nelson, NZ, February 2019.
• • A career with mathematics? (a.k.a. pretty much every career), Partners’ Day, National Youth Science Forum (Session C), January 2019.

2018

• • Boundary-layer collisions and their impact on global flow dynamics, Fluid Dynamics Seminar, Imperial College London, UK, September 2018.
• • Boundary-layer collisions and their impact on global flow dynamics, Department of Engineering Seminar, University of Leicester, UK, September 2018.
• • An experimental and computational study of the flow induced by an impulsively rotated sphere, 12th European Fluid Mechanics Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 2018.
• • Ockham’s Razor – ABC Science Live On Stage for the Sydney Science Festival, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, August 2018.
• • Life vs Science, In Situ Science live podcast recording (guest and panel member) for the Sydney Science Festival, Camelot Lounge, Sydney, August 2018.
• • Curious Minds winter camp (speaker and science communication workshop presenter), The Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS), Sydney, July 2018.
• • Objective detection of rotationally coherent vortices, ANZIAM2018, Hobart, February 2018.
• • Objective detection of rotationally coherent vortices, Applied Seminar (Mathematics for Planet Earth), School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW, January 2018.
• • A career with mathematics? (a.k.a. pretty much every career), Partners’ Day, National Youth Science Forum (Session A), January 2018.

2017

• • Flow external to a rotating torus (or sphere), Fluid Mechanics Research Group Seminar, University of Melbourne.
• • STEM: Enabling Progress Workshop (panelist), University of Melbourne (in partnership with Commonwealth Bank).
• • Extraction of submesoscale eddies, Sydney Dynamics Group, University of Sydney.
• • Flow external to a rotating torus (or sphere), The interface between stability theory and turbulence in shear flows workshop, Monash University.
• • Flow external to a rotating torus (or sphere), Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Sydney.
• • My Mathematical Journey (keynote speaker and panellist), STEM Careers - Women Employment Bootcamp Series Workshop, CSIRO Lindfield.

2015

• • The unsteady flow due to an impulsively rotated sphere, IMES Seminar, ETH Zürich.

2014

• • The complex, unsteady flow within a fluid-filled annulus and its transition to turbulence, Provisional review seminar, Department of Engineering Science, University of Auckland.
• • The complex, unsteady flow within a fluid-filled annulus and its transition to turbulence, ANZIAM2014, Rotorua, New Zealand.
• • The complex, unsteady flow within a fluid-filled annulus and its transition to turbulence, Fluids in New Zealand (FiNZ) Workshop, University of Auckland.

2013

• • The complex, unsteady flow within a fluid-filled annulus and its transition to turbulence, 14th European Turbulence Conference, Lyon, France.

2012

• • Turbulent flows, Semtex, and rainbows, Postgraduate seminar, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide.

2011

• • A squid, a barnacle and a duck walk into a bar brain: Mathematical models of neuron firing, Honours presentation, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide.