From ljhwang at ucdavis.edu Mon May 4 21:44:13 2020 From: ljhwang at ucdavis.edu (Lorraine Hwang) Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 21:44:13 -0700 Subject: [CIG-ALL] CIG May 2020 Newsletter Message-ID: <93921F68-9F8D-4059-9F9C-18C14877912F@ucdavis.edu> May 2020 Volume 9 Issue 2 Research Highlight Composition of the Symphonic poem SEIS, InSight No.1, PhiloGaïa Orchestra Being a seismologist at IPGP with its first seismometer SEIS on the red planet for the NASA InSight project (led by Philippe Lognonné), I am actively involved in the project to analyze marsquake seismograms. During a science team meeting in Pasadena just after the landing (November 26th, 2018 my birthday!), we were impressed by a video made by Andrew Huang who started to make music on instrumental noise sent from Mars. At the end of my talk, I said “challenge accepted” and promised to write a small music for the upcoming science team meeting in Paris on June 2019 featuring the seismic noise from Mars. InSight Suite No. 0 or later the third movement Seismic noise on Mars of the symphonic poem was recorded during the Paris Internationale Festival 2019 (thanks to Performance Agency Production). Subsequently, I asked Thomas Ferrand (UCSD postdoc and professional poet) and Pauline Bonnet (IPGP PhD candidate) to write poems for InSight. These became the second movement, Poems that Vibrate, Pauline and Thomas, of my symphonic poem - the first classic music on martian seismology! The first movement Pictures of Dream is accompanied by images drawn during several famous Friday beer ateliers in IPGP, organized by Aurélie Coudurier. The first full performance took place Fall 2019. See the full article to find out how to participate in the sing-along. contributed by Nobuaki Fuji, Université de Paris, Institut de physique du globe de Paris full article Connecting at HQ This quarter's Research Highlight reminds us that we are not just scientists - we are artists, runners, cooks, adventurers, ... the list is endless. In the year since the passing of Louise K., I reflect on her passion for the arts and especially dance in her collaboration that integrated data and software into an award winning dance production, Collapse . Many of us, like Louise, have many interests and diverse connections that will carry us through this strange time. So much has changed in the past months. In early March at HQ, we were busy preparing for a summer of travel and looking forward to reconnecting with many of you at workshops around the world. Working with a community adept at virtual collaborations has made the transition to remote work straightforward but requires more care to maintain a healthy work-life balance. If you feel the need to stay more connected, using the CIG forums is one way to stay in touch with your geodynamics communities. Or try a quick video call to break-up the day - people are oddly available. During this time we have worked with our workshop leaders to reschedule or reformat events. Early registrations have exceeded expectations for our 2-week series of virtual tectonics meetings featuring a hands-on modeling tutorial in week 1 and science workshop in week 2. We are excited to be able to meet this demand and accommodate a larger and more international group of participants. The 22 hour span in time zones will be challenging! The PyLith Hack and SPECFEM Developers' Workshop will be postponed until 2021, and a Rayleigh Hack is still under discussion. The ASPECT Hack organizers have modified the event dates for our first virtual hackathon. Look for more details soon. Lastly, I hope with a strong adoption and practice of recommended public health measures, we will be able to see many of you at the CIG Community Workshop in October and gather your input for the next phase of CIG. In the meantime, I look forward to connecting with you at one of our virtual events this summer or simply over virtual coffee and porch sitting. Lorraine Hwang, Director News Contributing Software Checklist Contributing software for use by the geodynamics community has just gotten easier. Accompanying CIG's Code Donation Policy and Software Best Practices is our new Software Checklist . The checklist aims to take the guesswork out of how to apply our best practices. A sample repo (repository template) and all of our best practices can be found in our github best practices repository. Create an issue or pull request to contribute to the conversation on best practices to improve our software community. Awards Congratulations to Ebru Bozdag, Colorado School of Mines, recipient of a 2020 NSF CAREER award to improve seismic images of Earth's deep interior. [press release ] Speaker Series Congratulations to our 2020-2021 CIG Distinguished Speakers: Jacqueline Austermann, Columbia University. How mantle flow changes sea level and ice sheets Jenny Suckale, Stanford University. To slide or to flow: Studying extremes in different natural systems sheds light on common physical processes We look forward to increasing the awareness of careers in computation and creating connections to broader STEM communities and more diverse audiences. If you are interested in hosting a speaker, please send your request by the deadline. More information can be found on our website. Deadline is May 31, 2020. [info ] [apply ] speaker series Governance Privacy Policy CIG tracks a minimal amount of information on the users of its website and event participants. Our new privacy policy covers the information we collect but does not cover the third party websites we use. Check out our full privacy policy to learn more. Spring Joint EC-SSC Meeting The Executive and Science Steering Committees will be meeting jointly May 12-13 to launch discussions on shaping the future for CIG. Joint discussions will give committee members an opportunity to exchange ideas while looking in retrospect and identifying current needs and trends in our community. We encourage all of you to participate in these discussion by providing feedback to members of the EC and SSC. We are looking forward to hearing your ideas on new directions as well as what current programs you value. governance Events 2020 Summer Workshops 2020 Tectonics Modeling Workshop. Virtual. July 20-24, [info ] [register ] 2020 Tectonics Community Science Workshop. Virtual. July 27-31, [info ] [register ] 2020 ASPECT Hackathon Virtual. August 3-7, 10-14. [info ] registration is closed 2020 Rayleigh Hackathon tbd 2020 Fall Workshops 2020 CIG Community Workshop October 23-24, UC Davis, Davis, CA Remember to join our forum to receive announcements for these events. forum webinars begin @ 2P PT Webinars May 14 Rene Gassmoeller, CIG UC Davis. Discovering and addressing social challenges during the evolution of scientific software projects. Send us your great ideas for themes to explore and speakers for Fall 2020. [email ] Links Have a question? Start a discussion! Citation builder for CIG software. Notify us of your recent publications. Copyright © 2020 Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics, All rights reserved. You are trying out MailChimp! 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The webinar on May 14 will be presented by Rene Gassmoeller (CIG, UC Davis) on Discovering and addressing social challenges during the evolution of scientific software projects. For additional details, please see the abstract below. To join the webinar, please connect at: https://zoom.us/j/955605274 For additional information, please visit https://geodynamics.org/cig/events/webinars/. As this webinar may be of interest to the broader Earth Sciences community, we encourage forwarding this announcement on to additional mailing lists or colleagues that may not normally receive CIG announcements. We look forward to your attendance and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions! Sincerely, John Naliboff Discovering and addressing social challenges during the evolution of scientific software projects (Rene Gassmoeller, CIG) In the last decade geodynamic software projects have increasingly incorporated state-of-the-art technical best practices like version control, documentation, and continuous integration into their development cycle. However, many projects still struggle to create and grow an active and welcoming user/developer community, and there exists little documentation on what makes a scientific software community successful. In this CIG webinar I will summarize the work of my Better Scientific Software fellowship (https://bssw.io/), which collects typical social challenges and potential solutions that arise during the evolution of a scientific software project. Aimed at current and prospective software maintainers and community leaders, I will discuss topics such as building and maintaining a welcoming community atmosphere, overcoming skepticism of sharing science and software, mediating between users working on conflicting topics or publications, and providing credit and growth opportunities for community members. Finally, I hope to initiate a conversation about what makes communities successful so that we can earn from each other and improve scientific software together. CIG has promoted best software practices for years (https://github.com/geodynamics/best_practices), and can act as a discussion forum for what we think the future of scientific software development should look like. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To join the webinar, please connect at: https://zoom.us/j/955605274 For additional information, please visit https://geodynamics.org/cig/events/webinars. As this webinar may be of interest to the broader Earth Sciences community, we encourage forwarding this announcement on to additional mailing lists or colleagues that may not normally receive CIG announcements. We look forward to your attendance and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions! Sincerely, John Naliboff Discovering and addressing social challenges during the evolution of scientific software projects (Rene Gassmoeller, CIG) In the last decade geodynamic software projects have increasingly incorporated state-of-the-art technical best practices like version control, documentation, and continuous integration into their development cycle. However, many projects still struggle to create and grow an active and welcoming user/developer community, and there exists little documentation on what makes a scientific software community successful. In this CIG webinar I will summarize the work of my Better Scientific Software fellowship (https://bssw.io/), which collects typical social challenges and potential solutions that arise during the evolution of a scientific software project. Aimed at current and prospective software maintainers and community leaders, I will discuss topics such as building and maintaining a welcoming community atmosphere, overcoming skepticism of sharing science and software, mediating between users working on conflicting topics or publications, and providing credit and growth opportunities for community members. Finally, I hope to initiate a conversation about what makes communities successful so that we can earn from each other and improve scientific software together. 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The winner will be announced on 30 December, 2020. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/awards# Best, Blink Yu Managing Editor of Computers On 2020/3/12 19:30, Blink Yu wrote: > *** 2020 MDPI Computers Travel Award *** > > We are pleased to announce that the application period is now open for > the Computers Travel Award 2020. The applications will be assessed by an > Evaluation Committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief of Computers. > This prize provides financial support for the winner to attend an > international conference in the field of computer science & engineering > to be held in 2020 in order to hold a presentation, present a poster, or > both. > Requirements: > • Applicants must be postdoctoral fellows or PhD students involved in > computer science, broadly defined as any discipline covered within > Computers. > Required application documents: > • Outline of current and future research; > • CV, including a complete list of publications; > • Details of the conference to be attended (conference name and website) > and an abstract of the work that will be presented; > • Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or > department head that confirms the applicant’s status as a postdoctoral > fellow/Ph.D. student. > > The award will be 800 CHF for one winner > > Please apply by clicking the link below before 1 June, 2020. The winners > will be announced on 30 June, 2020. > https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/awards/submit/876 > > Kind regards, > Computers Editorial Office > > > -- > Mr. Blink Yu > Managing Editor > E-Mail: blink.yu at mdpi.com > Skype: live:c91693ac8277e1f0 From ljhwang at ucdavis.edu Fri May 22 09:12:34 2020 From: ljhwang at ucdavis.edu (Lorraine Hwang) Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 09:12:34 -0700 Subject: [CIG-ALL] Host a CIG Distinguished Speaker: Deadline June 1 Message-ID: 22 May 2020 Dear Community, The deadline to apply to host a CIG Distinguished Speaker is rapidly approaching - JUNE 1, 2020. Our two speakers this year are: Asst. Prof. Jacqueline Austermann, Columbia University How mantle flow changes sea level and ice sheets Asst. Prof. Jenny Suckale, Stanford University To slide or to flow: Studying extremes in different natural systems sheds light on common physical processes We strongly encourage applications from colleges and universities that serve or have strong partnerships with under represented minorities. For more information, see our website: https://geodynamics.org/cig/events/speaker-series/ For full consideration, apply before June 1, 2020 by sending an inquiry to: speakers at geodynamics.org Please feel to forward and share this email with others. Best, -Lorraine ***************************** Lorraine Hwang, Ph.D. - Director Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics UC Davis 530.752.3656 geodynamics.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This effort aims to provide two-year post-doctoral fellowships, serving as a critical career-enhancing bridge experience for recent and soon-to-be PhD graduates in computer and information science and engineering. We encourage your participation in the CIFellows Project, as mentors and new PhDs. A similar CISE-funded CIFellows Project instituted in the aftermath of the 2008 economic downturn supported over 120 postdoctoral fellows; the community has seen tremendous long-term benefits from that activity, which successfully retained many scholars in research career pathways. Additional information about the current CIFellows Project is available at the following website, which will be updated as application materials and deadline details are finalized: https://cifellows2020.org Representatives from CRA and CCC will be hosting an informational webinar about the program onTuesday, May 26 at 3pm ET. You can register for the program via a link on the above website, and a recording of the webinar will be made available at that link afterwards. We are grateful to the community members and NSF program officers whose time and energy were instrumental to the timely creation of this opportunity. Now more than ever, CISE research topics are central to mitigating and moving past the medical, economic, and societal impacts we currently face. We are all committed to working together to support the health of our early-career research pathways, to sustain a vibrant CISE research and education community for years to come. Best, Margaret and Erwin Margaret Martonosi, National Science Foundation Assistant Director (AD) for CISE Erwin Gianchandani, National Science Foundation Deputy AD for CISE Information about this listserv: If you do not wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe at any time by sending an email tocise-announce-unsubscribe-request at listserv.nsf.gov . 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As a replacement for the many department seminars which were cancelled as a result of COVID-19 and lockdowns, I am starting an International Virtual Seminar Series in Geophysics and Tectonics. This G&T Seminar will be held on Zoom at 11:00am Eastern time on Wednesdays. The seminars will be 50 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. If you are interested in joining in the seminar series, please sign up for the mailing list on the seminar website: https://sites.google.com/g.uky.edu/gtseminar/ (or by emailing me directly). Each week I will send out the Zoom link and details of our upcoming seminar speaker to the mailing list. Our first seminar will be next week on Wednesday June 3rd. Our speaker is Fabio Crameri from CEED at Oslo University. His talk will be: A trans-disciplinary and community-driven database to unravel subduction zone initiation I will provide an overview over subduction zone initiation (SZI) and its study involving geologic evidence, plate reconstructions, seismic tomography, and geodynamic modelling. Moreover, I will introduce our brand-new trans-disciplinary, community-driven SZI database and timely online platform, how to use it, and what we already learned from it. Here is the Zoom link and password for our first seminar: https://uky.zoom.us/j/96579702112?pwd=NWpDVjdCUGNIcHZKTXJidEtOMlhMUT09 Please forward these details to any colleagues you think might be interested in joining the seminar series and direct them to sign up for the mailing list by visiting our website: https://sites.google.com/g.uky.edu/gtseminar/ (or emailing me directly). More details about the seminar, including upcoming and past speakers can be found on the website. If you have any questions, or would like to give a talk in the future, please email me (k.ofarrell at uky.edu). Take care and stay safe, Keely Dr. Keely O’Farrell Assistant Professor Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences 108B Slone Research Building University of Kentucky k.ofarrell at uky.edu 859-323-4876 (work) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: