25th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics

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This proposal requests funds to help support meeting costs and travel expenses of U.S.participants to the 25th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics to be heldat Columbia University in New York City from June 16-18, 2004. The Conference onMathematical Geophysics meets every two years and is sponsored by the Committee onMathematical Geophysics of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.Intellectual merits This year's conference is titled Frontiers in Theoretical Earth Scienceand brings together earth scientists, physicists, applied mathematicians, and others whoseek to develop new ideas for better understanding the processes and properties of theEarth. This year, the meeting will survey the current and future state of theoretical Earthsciences ranging from the core and mantle to the surface, oceans, and life. In particularthe meeting emphasizes advances in theory, techniques such as advanced computation anddata analysis and new problems and observations in need of theoretical understanding.This meeting provides a single multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas andtechniques across the disciplinary boundaries in the Earth Sciences The conference website can be found at http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~mspieg/CMG2004/.Broader Impacts This meeting provides a rare opportunity for students and early-careerscientists from across the earth sciences and applied mathematics to interact with seniorscientists in a small informal setting. This meeting also forms a principal activity ofColumbia's NSF IGERT Joint Program in Applied Mathematics and Earth & Environ-mentalSciences. It will be staffed by current IGERT graduate students and will provideexcellent exposure for these students to a wide range of research opportunities, new peersand senior scientists. Space permitting, the oral sessions of this meeting will be open to thegeneral public.