[CIG-MC] CIG workshop on Mantle Convection and Lithosphere Deformation

[Ariel Shoresh]

Dear all:
 
Please find the announcement for the 4th CIG sponsored workshop on modeling
of mantle convection and lithosphere dynamics attached and pasted below.

The meeting will take place from July 30-August 1 on the University of
California at Davis campus. Registration is open. We have a budget for
partial travel support. Please note that priority will be given to
participants registering before June 1. Please feel free to contact me with
any questions.
 
On behalf of the organizing committee,
 
Peter E. van Keken
Professor of Geological Sciences
Associate Chair for Curriculum/Undergraduate Advisor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1005
USA
 
 
CIG workshop on mantle convection and lithosphere deformation
University of California at Davis, July 30-August 1, 2012

Organizing committee
            Peter van Keken, University of Michigan (keken at umich.edu)
            Shijie Zhong, University of Colorado(shijie.zhong at colorado.edu)
            Roger Buck, Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory(earth2buck at gmail.com)
            Marc Spiegelman, Columbia University (mspieg at ldeo.columbia.edu)
            Claire Currie, University Alberta (claire.currie at ualberta.ca)
            Mousumi Roy, University of New Mexico (mroy at unm.edu)
            Louise Kellogg, University of California at
Davis(kellogg at ucdavis.edu)
            CIG contact: Ariel Shoresh (ashoresh at ucdavis.edu)


****Description****
This workshop is the 4th CIG sponsored workshop intended to bring together
researchers who study the dynamics of the Earth’s mantle and lithosphere
through numerical modeling. This workshop follows the meetings in Boulder,
Colorado (2005), UC Davis (2008) and UC San Diego (2010). The meeting will
focus on new numerical techniques, showcase existing and publicly supported
software, and demonstrate scientific advances made using these
computational techniques. There will be a balance between scientific
presentations, technical discussions, hands-on opportunities and benchmark
discussions. Technical issues of particular interest are: 1) Adaptive Mesh
Refinement (AMR); 2) robust energy and Stokes’ equations solvers; 3) the
interface of mantle and lithosphere dynamics and the role of melting and
faulting; 4) implementation of multi-scale physics.

We expect to be able to host up to 90 participants and provide partial
support for airfare and accommodation to US-based participants and provide
support for accommodation to international participants. We expect that we
can provide between $250 and $500 towards participants’ travel, with
higher priority of funding to graduate students, postdocs and early career
scientists. We recommend that participants book their air travel early.

****Location and Accommodation****
The meeting will take place at the University of California at Davis. The
nearest airport is SMF (Sacramento) and is about half an hour by car from
campus.  Taxis and shuttles (including SuperShuttle) are available for
transport between airport and campus. Participants will be housed in
residence halls on campus. Accommodation is in single rooms with shared
facilities. A full meal plan is part of the accommodation package. 

****Registration****
Registration will remain open as long as space is available. Participants
who will request partial travel support from CIG are requested to register
before **June 1**. The registration form is available at
http://geodynamics.org/cig/community/workinggroups/mc/workshops/MantLith2012





***Tentative schedule***

Sunday July 29. 
Arrival of participants and check in.

Monday July 30.   Overview, Technical Advances and Challenges, and Broad
Goals.
Registration starts at 7:30.
Welcome (Peter van Keken and Louise Kellogg).
Introductions and overview of CIG (Louise Kellogg).
Session 1: Numerical methods.
Keynote A (Wolfgang Bangerth): AMR, Deal.II, and ASPECT
Keynote B (Cian Wilson): Fluidity package
Session 2 : Solvers for Stokes’ flow and complicated rheology
     Keynote A (David May): Robust and efficient Stokes’ flow solver
     Keynote B (Jed Brown): Stokes’ flow solvers for complicated rheology
     Discussions: AMR, directions of geodynamics software development and
CIG.
Lunch     
Session 3: Tutorials and benchmarks.
Overview for breakout/tutorials:
make your own AMR model, benchmarking (3D spherical etc.), GPlates, ...
Session 4: Poster introduction and view.
            

Tuesday July 31.  Advances in Computational Geodynamics
Session 1: Large scale mantle dynamics and plate tectonics
     Keynote A: Deep mantle and core-mantle boundary regions
(AllenMcNamara)
     Keynote B: Planetary mantle dynamics (Scott King)
     Keynote C: (Julian Lowman)
     Contributed presentations.
Lunch 
Session 2: Regional scale mantle dynamics and surface observables
     Keynote A: Rheological effects (Magali Billen)
     Keynote B: (Clint Conrad)
     Keynote B: (Lijun Liu)
     Contributed presentations



Wednesday August 1.
Session 1: Interfacing the mantle and lithosphere; melting and faulting
     Keynote A: Lithosphere dynamics and deformation (Jolante van Wijk)
     Keynote B: Subduction zones and magma dynamics (Ikuko Wada)
     Contributed presentations.
Lunch
Session 2: Mountain building and rifting
     Keynote A: Fault Modeling (Eunseo Choi)
     Keynote B: TBA
     Contributed presentations.
 
Final discussion: Future directions and 2014 workshop.


Daily schedule:
            Breakfast 7:30-8:30
            Morning session I: 8:30-10
            Long coffee break & posters: 10-11
            Morning session II: 11-12:30
            Lunch: 12:30-1:30
            Afternoon session I: 1:30-3
            Coffee break: 3-3:30
            Afternoon session II: 3:30-5
            Evenings free (except perhaps for some break out sessions).