International Workshop on Computational Methods in Geosciences

University Of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville TN

Investigators

Abstract

Computational methods, in particular, those for partial differential equations, have experienced major developments over the past thirty years in both algorithmic advances and applications to other fields. Computational simulation of physical phenomena has now fully joined engineering experimentation and theoretical/analytical analysis as the third method of scientific investigation. As the application problems become ever complicate and challenging, it becomes more and more difficult or even impossible to solve these problems by isolated individuals. The magnitude and complexity of the problems often require various expertise (such as field data acquisition, modeling, mathematical analysis, computational methods, computer programming and visualization, and data analysis), hence, their solutions require persistent collective effort of international scientific communities of various disciplines. Also, because face to face interaction is important to effective exchange of ideas and collaborations, it is vital to bring together researchers with similar research interests to conferences of various scales. To meet the need and to facilitate such an interaction, the principal investigator (PI), together with colleagues from U.S., China, and Korea, will organize the ``International Workshop on Computational Methods in Geosciences", which will be held from July 5-7, 2007 at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. The requested funding will be used to support U.S. researchers, in particular, graduate students and postdocs, to attend the workshop. The anticipated international workshop is expected to contribute to promoting, enhancing, and stimulating the cross-continental research interactions and collaborations in mathematical sciences. Such community-wise research activities often serve the purpose of enhancing and promoting collaborations between U.S. and international researchers in mathematical and applied sciences, which in turn contributes critically to the course of solving challenging scientific problems such as flow and transport in porous media, weather prediction, nano-materials design, genome sequencing and analysis. In addition, organizing such a workshop in China will bring prominent researchers from U.S. and Europe working in such an active scientific research area to Asia, consequently, the anticipated workshop will do a good service to and have a positive impact on the international applied and computational mathematics community.