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URL: From ljhwang at ucdavis.edu Mon Nov 6 15:44:13 2017 From: ljhwang at ucdavis.edu (Lorraine Hwang) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 15:44:13 -0800 Subject: [CIG-ALL] CIG November 2017 Newsletter Message-ID: View this email in your browser News Elements November 2017 Volume 6 Issue 4 Research Highlight Modeling grain size evolution in the mantle with ASPECT Grain size plays a key role in controlling the mechanical properties of the Earth’s mantle, affecting both long-term flow patterns and anelasticity on the timescales of seismic wave propagation. In turn, the deformation in the Earth’s mantle also affects grain size evolution. However, dynamic models of Earth’s convecting mantle usually implement flow laws with constant grain size, stress-independent viscosity, and a limited treatment of changes in mineral assemblage. In “The importance of grain size to mantle dynamics and seismological observations”, Dannberg et al. (2017) use the community mantle convection code ASPECT to study grain size evolution in the Earth's mantle. The presented geodynamic models include the simultaneous and competing effects of grain growth, dynamic recrystallization resulting from dislocation creep (decreasing the grain size), and recrystallization at phase transitions. They show that grain size evolution drastically affects both rheology and the dynamics of mantle convection. Changes in grain size alone can lead to lateral viscosity variations of six orders of magnitude in the upper mantle, and control the shape of upwellings and downwellings. ... read full article   J. Dannberg et al., 2017 doi: 10.1002/2017GC006944 . CIG, Zenodo, and Archiving Zenodo helps researchers receive credit by making their research results citable. This free services archives data and software and its associated metadata. Research products are assigned DOIs and your citation information is passed to DataCite and other scholarly aggregators. CIG uses zenodo to assign DOIs to its software and maintains a Zenodo Community to easily find research products in geodynamics. Don't forget to join our collection when entering in your metadata. Please feel free to contact us for more information on using zenodo for your research. Shape and dynamics of subducting slabs (top) and mantle plumes (bottom) in models with dynamically evolving grain size. Snapshots show viscosity (left), grain size (center) and temperature (right). link to full caption WEBINARS November 16 - Max Rudolph February 8 - Gabriele Morra March 8 - Eri Mittelstaedt April 23 - Sabine Stanley May 10 - More info Connect to webinar MEETINGS Dec 11: CIG Business Meeting Dec 11-15: AGU 2018 April 25-27: Coupling of Tectonic and Surface Processes June 10-14: CGU joint wth CIG TBD: ASPECT Hackathon TBD: PyLith Hackathon NEW RELEASES Calypso 1.2.0 PyLith 2.2.1 click the icon for citation info ALLOCATIONS Stampede2: 40690/51070 SUs Ranch: 10,000 GB Maverick: 121/ 15,000 SUs QUICK LINKS Submit Publications Software CONTACT US contact at geodynamics.org Elections 2017 Elections are now open for positions on the Executive and Science Steering Committees. Candidates for the EC are Susanne Buiter and Carl Tape. Candidates for 3 positions on the SSC are Chris Harig or Gabriele Morra, David Ham or Moritz Heimpel, and Jessica Irving or Ying Zhou. Candidate statements are available online . Contact your member representative to vote. Many thanks to EC member Omar Ghattas and SSC members Jed Brown, David May, and Carl Tape for their contributions to the community and to the Nominations Committee, Clint Conrad, Wolfgang Bangerth, Ved Lekic and Sabine Stanley for presenting an excellent slate of candidates. CIG @AGU Looking for talks in geodynamics at AGU? Visit our website to see the latest research your CIG colleagues are presenting. Do not forget to email us your presentation information so your research can be highlighted on this list. 2017 CIG Business Meeting CIG will hold its Annual Business Meeting on Monday, December 11 at the Hilton Garden Inn New Orleans Convention Center. The Hilton Garden Inn is just one block west of the convention center. The reception begins at 6pm followed by the business meeting at 7pm. Light hors d’oevrs will be served. Results from the 2017 EC and SSC elections will be announced and join the lively discussion on HPC. See our website for more information and directions. [more info ] 2017 CIG-LLNL Computational Seismology Workshop CIG in collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) held a workshop focusing on computational seismology at the Livermore Valley Open Campus September 18-22, 2017. The workshop combined keynote lectures and training on seismic waveform processing, visualization and HPC)waveform simulation. Fifty-five predominantly early career participants from the US and 16 countries attended. This highly successful workshop was the first of its kind to feature full access to HPC resources for research grade example problems. [full article ] CIG in the News Under the leadership of John Aurnou, the Geodynamo Work Group is entering the next phase of its successful INCITE project. The GWG has been using the CIG code Rayleigh to simulate solar and planetary dynamos at unprecedented detail on ALCF's Mira supercomputer. Their work is highlighted in the ALCF magazine. [full article ] Congratulations to Julianne Dannberg for winning the KlarText Prize for Science Communication. The KlarText prize is awarded to scientists who have finished their dissertation and can explain their research to a non-scientific audience in German. Read her winning entry Up and down in the mantle. Job Opportunities at NSF NSF has openings for a Division Director in GEO/EAR and a Program Director for Geophysics. Consider making an impact on the national level and represent the geodynamics community in Alexandria, VA. Copyright © 2017 Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics All rights reserved. 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First, I will present my philosophy and approach to teaching modeling at the undergraduate level using jupyter notebooks and python. I will describe a set of exercises designed to familiarize students with the conservation laws and the properties of partial differential equations relevant to modeling geologic processes as well as simple numerical approaches based on low-order finite differences. I will my share experiences and provide a brief demonstration of the functionality of the jupyterhub environment with nbgrader, which provides an integrated environment for assignment creation, distribution, and automated grading of computer laboratory assignments. Second, I will discuss approaches used in a graduate level geodynamic modeling class. I will provide examples of curricular materials and student projects that use the ASPECT mantle convection code. 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I will describe a set of exercises designed to familiarize students with the conservation laws and the properties of partial differential equations relevant to modeling geologic processes as well as simple numerical approaches based on low-order finite differences. I will my share experiences and provide a brief demonstration of the functionality of the jupyterhub environment with nbgrader, which provides an integrated environment for assignment creation, distribution, and automated grading of computer laboratory assignments. Second, I will discuss approaches used in a graduate level geodynamic modeling class. I will provide examples of curricular materials and student projects that use the ASPECT mantle convection code. I will demonstrate the integration of ASPECT with jupyter notebooks to reproduce classic results associated with the onset of convection and mantle mixing processes. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Duties include administering the peer review process and helping to identify and support emerging trends in the science. > > This position is a temporary appointment of 1 to 3 years, and would be located at the NSF’s Alexandria, VA headquarters. If you have any questions please contact one of the program directors listed below. If you know anyone who may be interested in this position, please forward this message. > > The deadline for applications is November 20, 2017. > https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/479207600 > > USAJOBS - Job Announcement > www.usajobs.gov > Create an account to get started — build your profile, create or upload resumes and apply for jobs. > > > Robin Reichlin, Program Director Geophysics > rreichli at nsf.gov > > Eva Zanzerkia, Program Director Geophysics > ezanzerk at nsf.gov -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I will my share experiences and provide a brief demonstration of the functionality of the jupyterhub environment with nbgrader, which provides an integrated environment for assignment creation, distribution, and automated grading of computer laboratory assignments. Second, I will discuss approaches used in a graduate level geodynamic modeling class. I will provide examples of curricular materials and student projects that use the ASPECT mantle convection code. I will demonstrate the integration of ASPECT with jupyter notebooks to reproduce classic results associated with the onset of convection and mantle mixing processes. https://zoom.us/j/384711375 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please note that the November 26th deadline for minisymposia proposals is rapidly approaching! CONFERENCE PASC18 is the fifth edition of the PASC Conference series, an international platform for the exchange of competences in scientific computing and computational science, with a strong focus on methods, tools, algorithms, application challenges, and novel techniques and usage of high performance computing. The theme of PASC18 is Fast and Big Data, Fast and Big Computation, emphasizing our vision of the close coupling of data and computation. Exposing and expressing massive and irregular parallelism in computational problems are key challenges for exploiting the massive and heterogeneous parallelism available in current, and expected in future, HPC systems, as well as to find new ways of generating scientific insight from data and models. Through its rich and interactive program, PASC18 aims to highlight the computational approaches that computational scientists, computer scientists, and practitioners employ today and will employ over the next decades to address these challenges. CONTRIBUTIONS PASC18 welcomes submissions for minisymposium, paper, and poster contributions that demonstrate innovative research in scientific computing related to the following scientific domains: * Chemistry and Materials * Life Sciences * Physics * Climate and Weather * Solid Earth Dynamics * Engineering * Computer Science and Applied Mathematics * Emerging Applications Domains (e.g. Social Sciences, Finance,…) Upcoming Submission Deadlines * Minisymposia: November 26, 2017 * Papers: January 19, 2018 * Posters: February 4, 2018 Minisymposia A minisymposium at PASC18 is a two-hour session of four presentations on a topic of current importance in computational science that showcases research related to domain science, applied mathematics, computer science or software engineering. Proposals should describe research that is of significant current interest to a given PASC scientific domain, and ideally, have potential application to additional domains. Proposals should include speakers from multiple institutions and/or countries, and be designed such that the speakers bring a range of different perspectives to the topic. PASC18 encourages gender balance and diversity. Papers The goal of the PASC papers program is to advance the quality of interdisciplinary exchange between the various specific fields of computational science and engineering. We welcome high-quality contributions of original research related to scientific computing in any of the eight PASC scientific domains. Papers will be evaluated by domain experts primarily on their significance, technical soundness, originality, and quality of communication. Papers accepted for PASC18 will be presented as talks, and published in the Proceedings of the PASC Conference, accessible via the ACM Digital Library. A selection of the highest quality papers may be given the opportunity of a plenary presentation. In selecting papers for plenary presentation, the Scientific Reviewing Committee will place particular weight on impact, interdisciplinarity and interest to a broad audience. Following the conference, authors will have the opportunity to further develop their PASC papers for publication in a relevant, computationally focused, domain-specific journal. Authors thus stand to benefit from the rapid and broad dissemination of results afforded by the conference venue and associated published proceedings, as well as the impact associated with publication in a high-quality scientific journal. Posters Poster presentations provide an ideal opportunity for the exchange of ideas and expertise within and between the various computational science domains represented at the conference. Poster submissions should describe topical research related to domain science, applied mathematics, computer science or software engineering. Poster presenters will be given the possibility to "pitch" their posters to the conference audience in a rapid-fire flash session, and posters with the most stimulating content will be recognized in an award ceremony on the final day of the conference. Submission guidelines: pasc18.pasc-conference.org/submission/submissions-portal/ Papers, Minisymposia, and Posters Program Chairs Sabine Roller (University of Siegen, Germany) Jack Wells (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US) ________________________________ PASC18 is sponsored by: [http://files.crsend.com/104000/104839/images/PASC/Loghi_3.jpg] To unsubscribe from these communications please send an email to: info at pasc-conference.org ----------------- Ebru Bozdag Assistant Professor COLORADOSCHOOLOFMINES Department of Geophysics bozdag at mines.edu | tel: +1-303-273-3578 | fax: +1-303-273-3478 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Language and logos can be found here: https://geodynamics.org/cig/software/about/ Don’t forget to help your colleagues and attendees find your research by listing it on the CIG website (if you have included the software package name in your abstract we may have already found it!): https://geodynamics.org/cig/events/calendar/agu-2017-week/2017-agu-abstracts/ To do so, please reply to this email (events at geodynamcis.org ) by simply cutting and pasting information from your acceptance email AND the link to your abstract, e.g., Abstract ID: 215078 Abstract Title: The Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics: An Example of Software Curation and Citation in the Geodynamics Community Final Paper Number: IN43F-04 https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/215078 And don’t forget to catch up on CIG activities and colleagues at this years CIG Business Meeting. The meeting will be held on Monday, December 11. Reception begins at 6p featuring flavors of New Orleans. 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We expect a broad and diverse audience drawn from domestic and international research communities, including graduate students, post-docs, and early career scientists, who are interested in coupling landscape evolution to tectonic processes. The workshop will occur over 2 ½ days at the University of Colorado (Boulder). The first two days will be dedicated to a survey of existing questions and numerical techniques and challenges through a combination of breakout discussions and presentations by leading experts in the field. The last ½ day will be dedicated to developing a white paper that outlines different mechanisms through which the LTT and surface processes communities can collaborate to tackle the science questions and the numerical challenges defined over the first two days. The hope is that such a white paper will serve to set the stage for new educational and method development efforts, including the submission of a NSF Research Collaboration Network proposal. 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Confirmed solicited presentation: – Marion Thomas, Oxford University * The deadline for a travel support is December 1st (tomorrow). With best regards, Luca Dal Zilio Marcel Thielmann Romain Jolivet Jean-Philippe Avouac Ylona van Dinther - - - Session description: Long- and short-term tectonic processes shape the stress conditions under which faults operate. At the time scale of the earthquake cycle, these stresses are released by various modes of deformation ranging from steady, aseismic deformation to dynamic, seismic slip on faults. The physical processes in action at the various characteristic spatial and temporal scales motivate the integration of dynamic rupture and short term fault processes with long-term crustal deformation modeling. Reconciling observations and mechanisms will improve our understanding of the physical processes governing the seismic cycle and the construction of topography and geological structures, the rheology of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system. Specific questions include: How long-term crustal and lithospheric dynamics and structures affect short-term seismicity and earthquake cycle behaviour? How earthquake cycles result in the construction of topographic features? What are the relative contributions of rheology (temperature, fluids, chemistry) and geometry behaviour of seismic and aseismic slip? What are the roles of faulting and off-fault deformation in shaping the landscape and partitioning seismic and aseismic energy dissipation? These example questions are intended to stimulate a discussion about the interplay between seismicity, earthquake cycle dynamics and the geological and geodynamic evolution of deforming zones. We seek contributions from across the fields of geology, geodynamics, seismology and geodesy, encouraging both modelling and observational studies. 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