The 8th International Conference on Scientific Computing and Applications

该提案寻求对将于2012年4月1-4日在内华达大学拉斯维加斯分校举行的第八届国际科学计算和应用大会(SCA 2012)的支持。这次会议是每两年在北美和亚洲不同国家举行的一系列国际会议中的第八次。拟议的会议将汇集科学计算及其应用的各个领域的研究人员，以解决科学和工业方面的问题，并为与会者提供一个论坛，在计算数学、工程和工业界之间会面和交流想法。会议的学术价值体现在它解决了许多具有根本挑战性的课题：多孔介质中的多相流；地球物理流体动力学；气候模拟；可再生能源的建模；波传播的数值技术；随机偏微分方程组的数值方法。NSF的资金将用于支付约30名与会者的旅费，这些人将主要是来自美国的学生和初级研究人员，但组织者预计还将支付一些资深与会者的旅费和生活费。会议主办方将努力吸引年轻与会者，特别是来自代表性不足群体的与会者，并为他们提供宝贵的机会与计算数学领域的领导者建立联系。这次会议将在国家安全、环境、纳米科学和能源等对国家重要的领域提供更好的理解和应用。具体的例子包括为油藏模拟、燃料电池、生物燃料、隐形斗篷的设计、下一代气候模拟的冰盖模型等开发强大而高效的科学计算工具。

This proposal seeks support for The 8th International Conference on Scientific Computing and Applications (SCA 2012) to be held at University of Nevada Las Vegas during April 1-4, 2012. The conference is the eighth in a sequence of international meetings held every two years in different countries in North America and Asia. The proposed conference will bring together researchers working in various fields of scientific computing and its applications to solve scientific and industrially oriented problems, and to provide a forum for the participants to meet and exchange ideas between computational mathematics, engineering and industrial communities. The intellectual merit of the conference is embodied in its addressing many fundamentally challenging topics: Multiphase Flow in Porous Media; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; Climate Simulation; Modeling of Renewable Energy; Numerical Techniques for Wave Propagations; Numerical Methods for Stochastic PDEs. The NSF funding will be used to cover the travel cost for about 30 conference participants, who will be predominantly students and junior researchers from U.S., but the organizers expect to also cover the travel and subsistence expenses of some senior participants. The conference organizers will make their great efforts in attracting young participants, especially participants from under-represented groups, and providing valuable opportunities for them to network with leaders of computational mathematics. The conference will provide a better understanding and applications in areas of importance to the nation such as national security, environment, nano science, and energy. Specific examples include developing robust and efficient scientific computing tools for oil reservoir simulation, fuel Cells, biofuels, design of invisibility cloak, ice-sheet models for the next generation climate simulation, etc.