[CIG-ALL] CIG News - February 2007

[Sue Kientz]

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              CIG News
            February 2007
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Also available at
http://geodynamics.org/cig/proposalsndocs/newsdocs/newsletter-feb07

CIG Software Releases

1. Gale release 1.1.1 - Gale is an Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian code
for the long term tectonics community. The code solves problems related
to orogenesis, rifting, and subduction with coupling to surface erosion
models. This latest release features a number of bug fixes and includes
visualizations of the cookbook examples in the documentation. Gale is a
joint effort between CIG, Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
(VPAC), and Monash University. See
http://geodynamics.org/cig/software/packages/long/gale/ for binaries,
source code, and manual.

2. MAG 1.0.1 - MAG is a serial version of a rotating spherical
convection/magnetoconvection/dynamo code that solves the non-dimensional
Boussinesq equations for time-dependent thermal convection in a rotating
spherical shell filled with an electrically conducting fluid. The latest
release includes three MAG examples, offers a movie output option and
the IDL script to generate the movie, and fixes a bug in the spherical
harmonic coefficient file. See
http://geodynamics.org/cig/software/packages/geodyn/MAG/ for source code
and manual.

Upcoming Meetings/Training Sessions

     * CIG Training Session, EarthScope - At EarthScope on March 27,
2007, in Monterey, CA, CIG will conduct a training session in the use of
the Gale and CitComS software packages. Financial support is available,
with priority given to graduate students and post-docs who wish to
attend. See
http://geodynamics.org/cig/proposalsndocs/newsdocs/cig-earthscope07-training 

for details and to register or request financial support.

     * Community Finite Element Models for Fault Systems and Tectonic
Studies 2007 Workshop - The next CFEM workshop will be held from June
25-29, 2007, in Golden, Colorado on the campus of the Colorado School of
Mines. Limited reimbursement is available for all participants, for a
portion of costs incurred. There are no registration fees. More
information will be posted when received.

     * Joint CIG/SPICE/IRIS Computational Seismology Workshop - A joint
workshop between SPICE (Seismic wave Propagation and Imaging in Complex
media: a European network), IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for
Seismology), and the CIG Seismology Working Group is planned for October
9-11th, 2007, in Jackson, NH, at the Eagle Mountain House. It will be a
joint meeting between European and American Seismologists to discuss
current "hot topics": algorithm development, imaging developments, and
the future goals of a united American-European scientific community.
Funding will hopefully be available to support up to 100 participants
who will examine the current and future possibilities for computational
seismology. Stay tuned for details.

Nominations for New EC Seat Solicited

     * In December 2006 at the CIG Business Meeting, representatives of
the member institutions voted to expand the membership of the Executive
Committee from four to five. A detailed description of the duties of the
EC can be found in the recently updated CIG By-laws
(http://geodynamics.org/cig/proposalsndocs/documents/CIG_By-Laws_Dec_2006.pdf). 

E-mail your nominations, suggestions, and other recommendations to the
Nominating Committee (nominations at geodynamics.org), which consists of
Brad Hager (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Laurent Montesi
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), and Magali Billen (University of
California, Davis).


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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 Knepley, 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

Mantle convection codes and benchmarks:
Eh Tan, (626) 395-1693,
tan2 at geodynamics.org

Web site and user manuals:
Sue Kientz, (626) 395-1694
sue 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
Peter Olson (Johns Hopkins),
olson at jhu.edu

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


-- 
Sue Kientz

Technical Writer/Web Manager
Computational Infrastructure of Geodynamics (CIG)
    http://www.geodynamics.org/
sue at geodynamics.org
ofc: (626) 395-1694
    ~Metaphors Be With You~