[CIG-ALL] CS, Texas Workshop -- HOTEL RESERVATIONS due date closing fast

Fri Sep 8 12:11:30 PDT 2006

Dear Members of the CIG Community,

I'd like to take this opportunity to remind all those interested in  
participating in
the Computation Sciences workshop and Roundtable, Oct. 16-18 in Austin,
Texas that the date to make your hotel reservations is fast approaching.

Details follow below.

The organizers are putting together a great interdisciplinary workshop
at the boundary between computational science and geoscience and
they have a nearly complete list of confirmed speakers (see end of  
this e-mail).

There is also a roundtable on Oct. 18 which will be an open forum to
discuss the development priorities of CIG.

We hope that you can attend! Sorry to bother you again.

Mike

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Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG) Workshop  
Announcement:

      Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities at the Interfaces of
Scientific Computing and Computational Geodynamics (Oct. 16-17, 2006)

	   Computational Science Roundtable (Oct. 18, 2006)

		    University of Texas at Austin
			    Austin, Texas

The emergence of terascale computing--and the arrival soon of the
petascale era--provide tremendous opportunities for furthering our
understanding of geodynamic systems and phenomena through large-scale
computer modeling and simulation. However, geodynamics problems
involve a number of complex features that present difficulties for
scientific computing methods and tools, particularly at large
scale. These include significant degrees of nonlinearity,
heterogeneity, anisotropy, geometric complexity, multiphysics
coupling, and multiscale/multirate behavior. Accordingly, CIG will
sponsor a two-day workshop on October 16-17, 2006 that brings together
computational geodynamicists and scientific computing experts to
identify and assess challenges and opportunities at the interfaces of
frontier computational geodynamics problems and scalable numerical and
geometric algorithms and software.

The goals of the workshop are (1) to identify the scientific computing
issues and obstacles encountered in computational geodynamics
simulations as they continue to scale up in size and complexity; (2)
to assess the prospects of state-of-the-art scientific computing
algorithms and software in addressing the complexities of
computational geodynamics problems; and (3) to define directions for
scientific computing research that meet the challenges presented by
geodynamics problems.

The workshop will include talks by application scientists discussing
contemporary modeling techniques, while highlighting open
computational science problems at the frontiers of the areas of
short-term crustal dynamics, long-term deformation, geodynamo, global
seismology, mantle convection, and magma migration. Complementing the
geodynamics presentations, scientific computing researchers will
present talks that address challenges in geology-aware large-scale
mesh generation and adaptation, linear solvers and preconditioners for
ill-conditioned problems, nonlinear solvers and operator splitting
techniques for complex coupled problems, data formats and management,
and parallel scientific visualization. Issues in software frameworks
and quality assurance of open-source libraries supporting complex
large-scale computations will also be discussed.
Immediately following the workshop, on October 18, the CIG Science
Steering Committee (SSC) will host a computational science roundtable
to focus the workshop discussions on CIG's software development
roadmap.  Members of the SSC and others involved with CIG will
describe how they think CIG should move forward, followed by open
discussion. The SSC would then use the results of this roundtable
discussion in the development of next yearís CIG Strategic Plan. All
are welcome to participate.
Computational geodynamicists and scientific computing researchers are
invited to attend and participate in the workshop discussions, and
present a poster at the poster session.

Support and Expenses

Attendees must make and pay for their own travel arrangements. This
includes reserving and paying for a hotel room. CIG has negotiated a
discount for a certain number of hotel rooms. However, the discount is
only available on a first-come, first-served basis.

A limited amount of support will be available to attendees, which will
be issued as a reimbursement after the meeting concludes. Air travel
must be via a U.S.-based carrier in order to receive reimbursement.

General information (including accommodation):

http://www.geodynamics.org:8080/cig/workinggroups/cs/workshops/
(Note: Hotel reservations must be made by Sept. 15.)
Registration:

http://www.geodynamics.org:8080/cig/workinggroups/cs/workshops/ 
registration

Organizers:

Brad Aagaard, USGS
Wolfgang Bangerth, Texas A&M University
Omar Ghattas, University of Texas at Austin