From ljhwang at ucdavis.edu Fri Jan 8 12:46:33 2021 From: ljhwang at ucdavis.edu (Lorraine Hwang) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 12:46:33 -0800 Subject: [CIG-ALL] CIG: A New Year Update from EC Chair(s) and HQ Message-ID: <3A34FE2D-0A6D-42FA-9CC5-52A9DDE85347@ucdavis.edu> 8 January 2021 Dear Community, On the behalf of the Executive Committee of CIG, we would like to wish you all a Happy New Year and hope that you had some opportunity over the break to recover from the challenges of 2020, or at least to take a deep breath and prepare for another challenging year. The events of the past week make me thankful for the wonderfully supportive community we have built here over the past 15 years. CIG will be focused very strongly on a renewal proposal in 2021. Much has taken place both through your direct participation - surveys, elections, and Community Meeting; and behind the scenes including the leadership search and formation of the CIG IV proposal writing committee. We are pleased to announce that Bruce Buffett, UC Berkeley, has agreed to Chair the proposal writing group for CIG IV along with Lorraine Hwang, Wolfgang Bangerth, Sylvain Barbot, Ebru Bozdag, Rene Gassmoeller, Laurent Montesi, Maxwell Rudolph, Marc Spiegelman, and Jolante van Wijk. We feel this is a very strong group that represents both the past and future of CIG. As we form a proposal that will prepare and sustain our community for the challenges ahead while enabling growth of our communities, we are grateful for the input received from you. Look for further opportunities to contribute by writing a science highlight (details will be sent late WInter). Your science will guide us in the next phase of CIG. Look for more details in the February Newsletter. Please feel free to contact the writing group through either Bruce or Lorraine. The new year always kicks off a flurry of planning activities. We will continue to be operating our workshops and hack events virtually through the summer. Registration is open for the 2nd ASPECT Virtual User Meeting January 25-26 and our first Software Developers Meeting February 23-25 (virtual). Stay tuned as we roll out more opportunities to engage in software development and training. Message from Louis Moresi, outgoing EC Chair I have been the chair of the CIG Executive committee for the past three years and it is time to hand over to new leadership. Katie Cooper of WSU has been elected as the new Chair of the EC and Claire Currie, U. Alberta, will serve as the vice-Chair. I would like to thank everyone involved in the leadership of CIG for their thoughtful and wise contributions in steering CIG through the last two very turbulent years. It was a pleasure to work with Louise, Magali and Lorraine as CIG directors and to help implement their combined vision for the future of CIG. It was particularly rewarding to have the opportunity to engage with Louise Kellogg, I learned a great deal about leadership from her and I miss our conversations very much. Many of those conversations revolved around her desire to see CIG thrive and develop to meet the changing research landscape and the evolving needs of the CIG community. We have spent much of the past year talking to you about what you need from CIG and how you would like to see the organisation evolve. We are thankful to all of those who took the time out of their busy schedules to have conversations with us on leadership and vision for CIG IV. Message from Katie Cooper, incoming EC Chair I want to offer deep gratitude to Louis Moresi for his leadership of the EC for the past two transitional years of CIG. We all benefited from his steady guidance, institutional history, and tendency toward creative and inclusive solutions. Thank you, Louis. Thank you to Magali Billen and Lorraine Hwang for shepherding CIG through this difficult time while also grieving the loss of a friend, mentor, and colleague. I look forward to serving as the next EC Chair as we shift into preparing the proposal for CIG IV. I’m excited to see the community vision that the proposal writing committee will send forward. I encourage you all to engage with the team as well with the EC and SSC – my inbox is always open. I, too, miss my conversations with Louise and suggest we all embrace her dedication to building and growing a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community within the geosciences. Please continue to stay safe. I am optimistic in 2021 that science will continue to be our guide through this pandemic and the world will emerge more resilient to the challenges that lie ahead. 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The primary themes of the workshop will be: * Leverage collective wisdom to make CIG software better and easier to develop and maintain * Make CIG software more accessible to new users * Expand the CIG software developer community * Identify and leverage common infrastructure Developers of CIG community codes, those interested in contributing code or improving their own codes, and users interested in improving CIG community codes and community practices are encouraged to attend. Workshop webpage: https://geodynamics.org/cig/events/calendar/2021-cig-developers-workshop/?eID=1901. Registration deadline: Tuesday February 16 Community Surveys The workshop discussions will be driven primarily by results of two surveys (one for code developers and one for code users). We strongly encourage everyone to complete the survey(s) appropriate for your roles. See the workshop webpage for details. 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We also welcome feedback on codes developed, supported, and/or of interest to the CIG community, such as (but not limited to) Relax, Virtual Quake, SELEN, CitcomCU, CitcomS, ConMan, BurnMan, AxiSEM, SW4, SEISMIC_CPML, Flexwin, TerraFERMA, Underworld2, Badlands, SeisSol, and Pangeo. DEADLINE: Survey responses will be accepted through Tuesday February 9. IMPORTANT: If you use more than one code, please complete the survey for each code that you use. For more information, see the CIG Developers Workshop webpage at: https://geodynamics.org/cig/events/calendar/2021-cig-developers-workshop/?eID=1901. Thank you, Brad Aagaard Jed Brown Katie Cooper Rene Gassmoeller Lorraine Hwang Marc Spiegelman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rene.gassmoeller at mailbox.org Mon Jan 11 08:27:39 2021 From: rene.gassmoeller at mailbox.org (Rene Gassmoeller) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:27:39 -0500 Subject: [CIG-ALL] ASPECT Virtual User Meeting 2021, Jan 25th/26th Message-ID: Dear all, The ASPECT community is happy to announce that we will continue our tradition of a virtual mini user workshop in January. This is an informal opportunity to present latest feature additions, discuss interesting science applications, get to know other community members, and join ASPECT discussions with our users and developers. All of this will happen virtually organized via Zoom and Google Docs. The program is distributed over two days (Jan 25th/26th), which will only be filled part-day to leave people room to continue their daily routines and to make the schedule work for as many time zones as possible. What? ASPECT virtual user meeting, open to anyone interested in ASPECT When? Jan 25th/26th, virtually, 8 am - 1:30 pm Pacific time, preliminary schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LUCpnYTuW7dl5R_XuP0mGWyH5CJvGGosmJCE3YuHHA0/edit#gid=0 How to participate? Zoom invite link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/97096173698?pwd=amRGa056RVJsekl3dWFoeUpnVGNzUT09 More information will be posted in the relevant forum thread (https://community.geodynamics.org/t/aspect-virtual-user-meeting-2021-jan-25th-26th/1621) and the CIG website (https://geodynamics.org/cig/events/calendar/2021-aspect-user-workshop/?eID=1891) when it becomes available. Looking forward to meeting many of you in this new year. Kind regards, Rene Gassmoeller on behalf of all ASPECT maintainers -- Rene Gassmoeller https://gassmoeller.github.io/ From ljhwang at ucdavis.edu Mon Jan 11 10:25:54 2021 From: ljhwang at ucdavis.edu (Lorraine Hwang) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:25:54 -0800 Subject: [CIG-ALL] Reminder: TOMORROW MCS RCN - CIG - CSDMS Webinar Series Message-ID: <2B1EA24A-F663-4F76-9FB6-7F94D15EC127@ucdavis.edu> Do not forget to register for the MCS RCN - CIG - CSDMS Webinar Series on “The Role of Computational Geoscience in the Predictive Assessment of Plate Boundary Systems and Hazards.” Please note that you must register separately for each week, Series A and Series B, if you haven’t done so already. Please see details on the attached flyer or visit our website: www.sz4dmcs.org/webinars . Recordings will be made available online in the coming weeks. Series A) Induced Seismicity and Fault system Dynamics - Register here Jan. 12, 11am PST, 8pm CET: James H. Dieterich (UCR), intro by Kayla A. Kroll (LLNL): Induced Seismicity; A multidisciplinary issue spanning the energy sector Convener: Thorsten Becker and Thomas Goebel Jan. 13, 11am PST, 8pm CET: Joshua A. White and Kayla A. Kroll (LLNL) Modeling Induced Seismicity in the HPC-era Convener: Magali Billen and Thorsten Becker Jan. 14: 11am PST, 8pm CET: Kayla A. Kroll and Joshua A. White (LLNL) The Future of Induced Seismicity with Exascale Computing Convener: Magali Billen and Thorsten Becker Series B) Quantifying the Links Between Surface Processes and Tectonics - Register here Jan. 19, 9am PST, 6pm CET: Nicole Gasparini (Tulane) and Greg Tucker (CUB) Cyberinfrastructure for modeling surface processes across scales Convener: Alison Duvall and Mark Behn Jan. 20, 9am PST, 6pm CET: Susanne Buiter (RWTH Aachen) How coupled tectonics and surface processes shape extensional plate boundaries Convener: Leif Karlstrom Jan. 21, 9am PST, 6pm CET: Katy Barnhart (USGS Landslide Hazards Program) Testing surface process models with numerical experiments: examples from landscape evolution and debris-flow inundation Convener: Alison Duvall Thank you, Gabriel Lotto SZ4D Modeling Collaboratory for Subduction RCN 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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Frontiers in Earth Science has launched a new Research Topic, High-Performance Computing in Solid Earth Geohazards: Progresses, Achievements and Challenges for a Safer World: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/17804/high-performance-computing-in-solid-earth-geohazards-progresses-achievements-and-challenges-for-a-safer-world We would like to invite you to submit your contribution to this special issue. We welcome interdisciplinary expertise conveying scientific progress into achievements and challenges for supercomputing that empowers a better understanding of solid earth hazards and the natural processes driving them. A variety of types of manuscripts will be considered, namely: Original Research, Methods, Review, Technology and Code, and Perspective. 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Workshop webpage: https://geodynamics.org/cig/events/calendar/2021-cig-developers-workshop/?eID=1901. Check the list of registered participants (“Participants” in the left navigation panel) if you are unsure if you have already registered. Registration deadline: Tuesday February 16 Community Surveys The workshop discussions will be driven primarily by results of two surveys (one for code developers and one for code users). We strongly encourage everyone to complete the survey(s) appropriate for your roles. See the workshop webpage for details. Thank you, Brad Aagaard, Jed Brown, Katie Cooper, Rene Gassmoeller, Lorraine Hwang, Marc Spiegelman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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