[CIG-ALL] CIG News - June 2006

[Cassie Ferguson]

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              CIG News
             June 2006
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Software Development & Releases

CIG Software Releases

1. PyLith alpha release. PyLith (a descendant of LithoMop) is a finite 
element code for the solution of visco-elastic/plastic deformation that 
was designed for lithospheric modeling problems.
http://www.geodynamics.org:8080/cig/software/packages/pylith/

Non-CIG Software Releases

1. Plasti. Plasti is a 2-D ALE (Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian) code 
donated to CIG by Sean Willett and Chris Fuller of the University of 
Washington. The code  originated at Dalhousie University in Canada.
http://www.geodynamics.org:8080/cig/software/packages/plasti/

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CIG Development Priorities. CIG posts its latest development priorities 
on the Geodynamics.org website. This feature provides information about 
the availability of new software with our best estimate of release dates.
http://www.geodynamics.org:8080/cig/priorities

CIG Strategic Plan. The Science Steering Committee (SSC) has completed a 
draft strategic plan covering Sept. 1, 2006 to Aug. 31, 2011. We’ve 
posted the document on the CIG website and the SSC welcomes your 
comments before the final version is submitted to the National Science 
Foundation.
http://www.geodynamics.org:8080/cig/proposalsndocs/documents/2006cigplan

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Workshops & Training Sessions

1. July 9-14. Studies of Earth's Deep Interior (SEDI). An informal 
discussion of community geodynamo codes under the CIG umbrella is 
planned. Prague, Czech Republic. Please contact: Peter Olson <olson at jhu.edu>

2. July 16-Aug 04. CIDER Workshop. A CIG training session for mantle 
dynamics will be held as part of the CIDER workshop to be held at the 
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara. Please contact: 
  Peter van Keken <keken at umich.edu>

3. August 5-12. GALE Training. A training session for GALE will be held 
as part of the ISES summer program at Colorado College in Colorado 
Springs. For GALE-specific information, please contact:  Walter Landry 
<walter at geodynamics.org>. For workshop information, please visit
http://acad.coloradocollege.edu/dept/gy/ises/ISESSummerProgram.php

4. August 18-19. Computational Magma Dynamics Workshop. The purpose of 
this meeting is to discuss current progress and future goals for 
understanding and modeling magmatic processes in the Earth. In 
particular, we want to discuss opportunities for new software 
development afforded by CIG that would enable researchers to explore new 
science and better integrate theory with observations. Columbia 
University, New York. Please contact: Marc Spiegelman 
<mspieg at ldeo.columbia.edu> or Laurent Montesi <lmontesi at whoi.edu>
http://www.geodynamics.org:8080/cig/workinggroups/magma/workshops

5. October 16-17. CIG Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities at the 
Interfaces of Scientific Computing and Computational Geodynamics. The 
workshop, designed to bring together mathematicians, computational 
scientists and geoscientists, will address meshing, solvers, graphics, 
and other common issues in computational geophysics. Austin, Texas. 
Please contact members of the steering committee: Wolfgang Bangerth 
<bangerth at math.tamu.edu>,Omar Ghattas <omar at ices.utexas.edu>, or Brad 
Aagaard <baagaard at usgs.gov>
http://www.geodynamics.org:8080/cig/workinggroups/cs/workshops/announcement

6. October 31-November 2. Earthscope Imaging Science/CIG Seismology 
Joint Workshop on Computational Seismology. Topics will include aspects 
of forward modeling and imaging with teleseismic data. Limited to 40 
participants. Please contact: Alan Levander <alan at mail.mail.rice.edu>
http://www.geodynamics.org:8080/cig/events/issc

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Committees, Staff, Etc.

Institutional Member Representative Rotation. Existing Institutional 
Members with more than one researcher involved with CIG should consider 
switching representatives from time to time to ensure a  healthy balance 
of input and decision making. If your institution  would like to change 
member representatives, please send an e-mail to <ariel at geodynamics.org>.

New Staff. Wei Mi has joined the CIG staff as a software engineer and 
system administrator.

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Who to contact:

CIG Administration, contracts, travel, etc.
Ariel Shoresh: (626) 395-1699
ariel at geodynamics.org

Equation solvers (PETSc) & PyLith development
Matt Kepley: knepley at mcs.anl.gov

SVN software repository & GALE development
Walter Landry: (626) 395-4621
walter at geodynamics.org

Benchmark problems, visualization & CitCom
Luis Armendariz: (626) 395-1695
luis at geodynamics.org

Build procedure & computational seismology
Leif Strand: (626) 395-1697
leif at geodynamics.org

Web site and user manuals
Cassie Ferguson: (626) 395-1694
cassie at geodynamics.org

Geodynamo and systems administration
Wei Mi: (626) 395-1692
wei at geodynamics.org

Software architecture & Pyre framework
Michael Aivazis: (626) 395-1696
aivazis at caltech.edu

Administration
Mike Gurnis: (626) 395-1698
gurnis at caltech.edu

Science Steering Committee, contact Chairman
Marc Parmentier (Brown U.)
em_parmentier at brown.edu

Executive Committee, contact Chairman
Mark Richards (Berkeley)
markr at seismo.berkeley.edu



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Cassie Ferguson
Technical Writer
Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics
626.395.1694
www.geodynamics.org