International Workshop on Computational Methods in Geosciences

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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.