International Workshop on Computational Methods in Geosciences

地球科学计算方法国际研讨会

• 批准号: 0715713
• 负责人: Xiaobing Feng
• 金额: $ 2.4万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0715713&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Workshop; Computational; Methods; Geosciences

Computational methods, in particular, those for partialdifferential equations, have experienced major developments over the pastthirty years in both algorithmic advances and applications to other fields.Computational simulation of physical phenomena has now fully joinedengineering experimentation and theoretical/analyticalanalysis 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 solvethese problems by isolated individuals. The magnitude and complexityof the problems often require various expertise (such as field dataacquisition, modeling, mathematical analysis, computational methods,computer programming and visualization, and data analysis), hence,their solutions require persistent collective effort of internationalscientific communities of various disciplines. Also, because face toface interaction is important to effective exchange of ideas andcollaborations, it is vital to bring together researchers with similarresearch 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 ComputationalMethods in Geosciences", which will be held from July 5-7, 2007at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. The requested funding will beused to support U.S. researchers, in particular, graduate studentsand postdocs, to attend the workshop.The anticipated international workshop is expected to contributeto promoting, enhancing, and stimulating the cross-continentalresearch interactions and collaborations in mathematical sciences.Such community-wise research activities oftenserve the purpose of enhancing and promoting collaborationsbetween U.S. and international researchers in mathematicaland applied sciences, which in turn contributes criticallyto the course of solving challenging scientific problemssuch as flow and transport in porous media, weather prediction,nano-materials design, genome sequencing and analysis.In addition, organizing such a workshop in China willbring prominent researchers from U.S. and Europe working in suchan active scientific research area to Asia, consequently, the anticipatedworkshop will do a good service to and have a positive impact onthe international applied and computational mathematics community.

计算方法，特别是偏微分方程组的计算方法，在过去的三十年里在算法的进步和在其他领域的应用方面都有了很大的发展。物理现象的计算模拟现在已经完全结合了工程实验和理论/分析分析作为科学研究的第三种方法。随着应用问题变得越来越复杂和具有挑战性，孤立的个人解决这些问题变得越来越困难，甚至不可能。这些问题的规模和复杂性往往需要各种专业知识(如实地数据获取、建模、数学分析、计算方法、计算机编程和可视化以及数据分析)，因此，解决这些问题需要国际科学界各学科的不懈集体努力。此外，由于面对面的互动对于有效的思想交流和合作非常重要，因此将具有相似研究兴趣的研究人员聚集到各种规模的会议上是至关重要的。为了满足这种需求并促进这种互动，首席研究员(PI)将与来自美国、中国和韩国的同事一起，于2007年7月5-7日在西安交通大学中国分校举办“地球科学计算方法国际研讨会”。所申请的资金将用于支持美国研究人员，特别是研究生和博士后参加工作坊。预期的国际研讨会将有助于促进、加强和刺激数学科学中的跨洲研究互动和合作。这种基于社区的研究活动往往旨在加强和促进美国和国际研究人员在数学和应用科学方面的合作，这反过来又对解决具有挑战性的科学问题，如多孔介质中的流动和传输、天气预报、纳米材料设计、基因组测序和分析做出关键贡献。此外，在中国举办这样的研讨会将把活跃在这一科学研究领域的美国和欧洲的知名研究人员带到亚洲来，因此，预期中的研讨会将为国际应用和计算数学界带来良好的服务和积极的影响。