International Conference on Modeling and Simulation

University Of Houston, Houston TX

Investigators

Abstract

The investigators and their colleagues propose to organize an International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, which will be held from July 9-12, 2008 in Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China. In the last two decades, the rapid development of computer power and sophisticated computational methodology has permitted the application of high performance computing to simulation and modeling of unprecedented accuracy and scope applied to a wide range of important problems. These applications have had profound implications and applications in mathematics, science, engineering and industry. Scientific computing is in fact the only feasible tool for analyzing many different types of critical important phenomena such as flow and transport, weather prediction, wave propagation, novel material design, computational chemistry, genome sequencing and analysis. The proposed conference will bring prominent researchers from U.S. and Europe working in these active areas to Asia, as to enhance and facilitate contacts and dialogs between specialists of different fields dealing with modeling and simulation so that new concepts can be discovered and new methodologies can express their power. In the past quarter of a century, along with rapid economical developments and advancements in the Far East Asian countries, particularly the phenomenal growth in China, there has been ever increasing collaborations between U.S.- and Asia-based (also between Europe- and Asia-based) researchers in all fields of scientific research. Such a phenomenon and trend is clearly exemplified by what has taken place in mathematical sciences latterly (thanks to the effort and initiatives of the NSF). These cross-continental research collaborations have already made a large impact on many fields of scientific research, most noticeably, on the human genome sequencing project in biological sciences and on the proof of the Poincare Conjecture in mathematical sciences. The proposed conference will be a contribution to promoting, enhancing, and stimulating such cross-continental research interactions and collaborations in mathematical sciences, more specifically, in applied and computational mathematics,