27th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics: student and early career scientist support, June 15-20, 2008 in Longyearbyen, Norway

这项提案要求提供资金，以帮助支付学生和美国机构早期职业科学家参加第27届国际数学地球物理会议？地球系统中的动力学：流动、破裂和波？的旅费和会议费用。将于2008年6月15日至20日在挪威斯瓦尔巴群岛斯皮茨卑尔根岛的朗伊尔宾举行。会议网址为：http://www.fys.uio.no/cmg2008/.这次会议将来自各学科的地球科学家与物理学家、应用数学家和计算科学家聚集在一起，讨论数学和计算技术方面的进展，以了解地球的性质和过程。今年，S会议强调了固体和流体地球的一些方面，在这些方面，地球的动力学受波的传播和破裂、应力积累和破裂的调节。这些包括冰盖的流动和破裂，断层的滑动和地震的发生，地球物理湍流和多孔介质中的运移，雪崩的动力学。这次会议为跨越地球科学学科边界的思想和技术交流提供了一个单一的多学科论坛。请拨资金用于支付15名学生、博士后和早期职业科学家的旅费和住宿费，这大约是参加过去会议人数的三分之一。这次会议具有高度跨学科和国际性的性质，为美国学生和来自地球科学和应用数学领域的早期职业科学家提供了一个在小型非正式场合与资深科学家互动的重要机会。今年还将更加重视断裂动力学的数学方面，这可能会产生突然和破坏性的后果，如冰盖的破裂(最近认识到，鉴于观测到的冰盖质量损失意外加速，这对气候研究和海平面上升预测具有至关重要的意义)和地震的发生。

This proposal requests funds to help support travel and meeting costs for students and early career scientists at U.S. institutions to the 27th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics ?Dynamics in Earth Systems: Flow, Fracture, and Waves? to be held in June 15-20, 2008 in Longyearbyen, Norway, on the Spitsbergen Island of the Svalbard Archipelago. The conference website is http://www.fys.uio.no/cmg2008/. This conference brings together Earth scientists from across the disciplines with physicists, applied mathematicians, and computational scientists to discuss advances in mathematical and computational techniques for understanding properties and processes in the Earth. This year?s meeting emphasizes aspects of the solid and fluid earth in which the dynamics is regulated by wave propagation and breaking, stress accumulation and fracture. Those include flow and fracture of ice sheets, slips in faults and generation of earthquakes, transport in geophysical turbulent flows and porous media, dynamics of avalanches. This meeting provides a single multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas and techniques across the disciplinary boundaries in the Earth Sciences. Funds are requested to support travel and lodging costs for 15 students, post-docs, and early career scientists which is approximately one third of the number attending past meetings. This meting is highly interdisciplinary and international in nature and provides an important opportunity for U.S. students and early career scientists from across the earth sciences and applied mathematics to interact with senior scientists in a small informal setting. This year there will also be an increased emphasis on mathematical aspects of the dynamics of fracture, which can have sudden and destructive consequences, as in the breaking of ice sheets (recently recognized of crucial importance for climate studies and sea level rise predictions, given the unexpected observed acceleration of mass loss from the ice sheets) and in the generation of earthquakes.