The 8th International Conference on Scientific Computing and Applications

本提案为将于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）寻求支持。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会议。该会议将汇集在科学计算及其应用的各个领域工作的研究人员，以解决科学和工业导向的问题，并为参与者提供一个论坛，以满足和交流计算数学，工程和工业社区之间的想法。会议的学术价值体现在它解决了许多具有根本性挑战性的主题：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；波浪传播的数值技术；随机偏微分方程的数值方法。美国国家科学基金会的资金将用于支付大约30名会议参与者的旅费，他们主要是来自美国的学生和初级研究人员，但组织者希望也能支付一些高级参与者的旅费和生活费用。会议组织者将努力吸引年轻的参与者，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袖交流的宝贵机会。此次会议将在国家安全、环境、纳米科学、能源等国家重要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.