Roland Young

My office hours for Fall 2023 are as follows:

Female side: Tuesdays 09:30-10:30 in C6-2043
Male side: Tuesdays 14:00-15:00 in F1-0090

GEOG670 Planetary Atmospheres (Fall 2023)
Atmospheric composition, thermodynamics, radiation, and dynamics, comparative planetary atmospheres.

PHYS200 Introduction to Space Sciences (Spring/Fall 2023)
Gravitation and orbits, Earth, the Solar System, the Sun, space physics.

PHYS420 Space Applications II (Spring/Fall 2022, Spring/Fall 2023)
Atmospheric and ionospheric physics, weather and climate monitoring, space data processing.

PHYS100 Astronomy (Fall 2019, Spring/Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
Astronomy for a general audience.

PHYS270 Celestial Mechanics (Spring 2021)
Kepler's laws, celestial coordinate systems, orbital elements, 2- and 3-body problems, rotating reference frames, tides, orbital perturbations, rocket equation.

PHYS698 Selected Topics I (Fall 2020, Spring 2022)
Fundamental, rotating, and geophysical fluid dynamics.

COSS711 Seminar I (Spring 2020)
Presentation skills for PhD students.

3rd year Physics paper B1: Flows, Fluctuations and Complexity (2010-2014, 2015-2016).
Topics: Fluid dynamics, waves, convection, dynamical systems, chaos, stochastic physics, biophysics.

2nd year Physics paper A2: Electromagnetism (2014-2015).
Topics: Radiation, dielectric/magnetic media, conductors, plasmas, transmission lines.

3rd year Physics paper B3: Atmospheric Physics (2010).
Topics: Fluid dynamics, waves, rotating fluids, atmospheric structure, thermodynamics, general circulation, thermohaline circulation, radiative transfer, greenhouse effect, carbon cycle, climate change.

Mohammad Ahli - UAE University BSc in Physics internship student (2023)
Shahed Hussein - UAE University BSc in Mathematics internship student (2023)
The fractal dimension of Mars' topopgraphic contours.

Darin Moussa - UAE University BSc in Mathematics internship student (2023)
The fractal dimension of giant planet rings.

Shama Alkindi - UAE University BSc in Physics internship student (2022)
Weather at the Perseverance landing site on Mars.

Mohammed Al Minhali - UAE University BSc in Physics internship student (2022)
New observations for the EMM extended mission.

Reem Fararah - UAE University BSc in Physics internship student (2022)
Mars cloud tracking using MARCI imaging.

Haneen Abouhaligah - UAE University MSc in Space Science student (2022-)
Ahmed Almutawa - UAE University MSc in Space Science student (2021)
Estimating Mars surface wind stress and dust lifting using reanalyses based on EMM and other spacecraft.

Shaimaa Alblooki - UAE University MSc in Space Science student (2021-2023)
Cloud tracking winds on Mars using EMM-EXI imaging.

Maryam Alhmoudi - UAE University BSc in Mathematics internship student (2021)
Mohammed Alfahim - EMM Research Experience for Undergraduates internship student (2021)
Mohammed Alawadhi - UAE University BSc in Physics internship student (2020)
Atmospheric turbulence at the InSight landing site on Mars.

Monia Eltayeb - UAE University BSc in Physics internship student (2021)
Comparison between Mars Express PFS and MACDA.

Malak Ali Hamed - UAE University MSc in Physics student (2019-)
Measuring Jupiter’s winds from Cassini spacecraft observations.

Chin-Min Liu - Oxford Physics DPhil student (2016-2017, secondary supervisor to Peter Read)
Studying ice giants with Oxford's giant planet GCM.

Daniel Kennedy - Met Office Academic Partnership undergraduate summer student (2016, with Peter Read)
Modelling Jupiter’s energy cycle.

Sylvie Su - Visiting M1 Physique stagiaire from ENS Lyon (2015, with Hélène Scolan and Peter Read)
Simulating the new AOPP freely convecting rotating annulus experiment. Work published in Fluids.

Caitlin Bromfield - Nuffield Foundation A-level summer student (2014, with Peter Read)
Potential vorticity dynamics on Jupiter.

Jake Smith - Oxford Physics 4th year MPhys student (2013, with Peter Read)
Modelling the rotating annulus in a "tidally-locked" configuration.

David Thomas - Oxford Physics 4th year MPhys student (2012, with Peter Read)
Modelling the rotating annulus in a "tidally-locked" configuration.

David Armstrong - Oxford Physics 3rd year summer student (2010, with Peter Read)
Cloud tracking in Jupiter's atmosphere. Work published in Icarus.

Andrew Lancaster - Oxford Physics 4th year MPhys student (2010, with Peter Read)
Cloud tracking in Jupiter's atmosphere. Work published in Icarus.