The 8th International Conference on Scientific Computing and Applications

该提案寻求对将于 2012 年 4 月 1 日至 4 日在内华达大学拉斯维加斯分校举行的第八届科学计算与应用国际会议 (SCA 2012) 的支持。该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各个领域的研究人员，以解决科学和工业导向的问题，并为与会者提供一个在计算数学、工程和工业界之间会面和交流思想的论坛。会议的学术价值体现在它解决了许多具有根本挑战性的主题：多孔介质中的多相流；地球物理流体动力学；气候模拟；可再生能源建模；波传播的数值技术；随机偏微分方程的数值方法。 NSF 的资金将用于支付约 30 名会议与会者的旅费，这些与会者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高级与会者的旅费和生活费。会议组织者将努力吸引年轻参与者，特别是来自代表性不足群体的参与者，并为他们提供与计算数学领域的领导者建立联系的宝贵机会。此次会议将为国家安全、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。具体例子包括开发用于油藏模拟、燃料电池、生物燃料、隐形斗篷设计、下一代气候模拟的冰盖模型等的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.