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

该提案要求提供资金，以帮助支持美国机构的学生和早期职业科学家参加第 27 届国际数学地球物理学会议“地球系统动力学：流动、断裂和波浪”的旅行和会议费用。将于2008年6月15日至20日在挪威斯瓦尔巴群岛斯匹次卑尔根岛朗伊尔城举行。会议网站为http://www.fys.uio.no/cmg2008/。这次会议汇集了来自各个学科的地球科学家、物理学家、应用数学家和计算科学家，讨论用于理解地球属性和过程的数学和计算技术的进展。今年的会议强调了固体和流体地球的各个方面，其中动力学受到波传播和破碎、应力积累和断裂的调节。这些包括冰盖的流动和破裂、断层的滑动和地震的产生、地球物理湍流和多孔介质的传输、雪崩的动力学。这次会议为地球科学跨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。需要资金来支持 15 名学生、博士后和早期职业科学家的旅行和住宿费用，这大约相当于参加过去会议人数的三分之一。这次会议本质上是高度跨学科和国际性的，为来自地球科学和应用数学领域的美国学生和早期职业科学家提供了一个在小型非正式环境中与资深科学家互动的重要机会。今年，人们还将更加重视断裂动力学的数学方面，这可能会产生突然的破坏性后果，例如冰盖的破裂（鉴于意外观察到的冰盖质量损失加速，最近认识到这对于气候研究和海平面上升预测至关重要）和地震的产生。

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.