CMG Training: Summer School in Geophysical Porous Media: Multidisciplinary Science from Nanoscale (Clay) to Global (Magma) Migration

很少有学生在多学科的数学/物理项目工作得到的问题的全貌，因此对它有充分的了解。这个暑期学校的目的是开始克服这种双重模式，数学与物理，通过提供一个环境，鼓励地球科学家更认真地看待理论和数学家更认真地看待物理学，同时学习交流，彼此的语言。 为了帮助实现这一目标，将编写基本教程，并由数学和物理学领域的专家就常见问题进行演讲。 这些将使参与者了解应用领域的当前限制，并向两个小组展示如何相互沟通。 学校的“顶点”经验将是合作的学生项目，如果没有物理学和数学学生之间的密切合作，就无法完成。 这些项目将是针对概述会谈中提出的主题之一的小型研究工作。 学生团队将由两名教师导师（一名数学家和一名地球科学家）指导，并将在最后一天向学校做报告。 虽然希望这些团队项目可能是新的研究工作的种子，但主要目标是让学生与具有不同背景的研究人员密切合作的经验，即教他们做多学科科学。项目将被选择，不能没有认真的合作努力完成。从纳米到全球尺度的地球物理多孔介质将是重点领域。大多数从事多学科项目的研究生都专注于与其主要研究领域相关的项目，无论是应用数学还是物理学。例如，数学专业的学生倾向于忽视或过度简化物理学，这样他们就可以证明一个定理，而物理学专业的学生倾向于在建模过程中忽视数学的严谨性，这样他们就可以更好地理解真实的物理学。 这个暑期学校的目的是开始通过提供一个环境，鼓励地球科学家更认真地看待理论和数学家更认真地看待物理学，同时学习用彼此的语言进行交流，来克服这种双重模式的科学方法。

Rarely do students working on multidisciplinary math/geophysics projects get the whole picture of the problem and hence a full understanding of it. This summer school is designed to begin overcoming this dual-mode, mathematics vs. geophysics, way of doing science by providing an environment that encourages the geoscientists to look more seriously at the theory and the mathematicians to look more seriously at the physics while learning to communicate in each others languages. To help reach this goal, basic tutorials will be prepared and presentations will be given by experts in the fields of mathematics and geophysics working on common problems. These will expose the participants to the current limitations in the application field and show the two groups how to communicate with one another. The 'capstone' experience of the school will be collaborative student projects that can't be completed without close collaboration between geophysics and mathematics students. These projects will be small research efforts directed at one of the themes presented in the overview talks. The student teams will be guided by two faculty mentors (a mathematician and a geoscientist) and will make a presentation to the school on the final day. While it is hoped that these team projects might be the seed of new research efforts, the primary goal is to give the students the experience of working closely with researchers having different background than their own, i.e. to teach them to do multidisciplinary science. Projects will be chosen that can not be completed without a serious collaborative effort. Geophysical porous media on scales ranging from the nano to the global will be the focus area. Most graduate students working on multidisciplinary projects focus on a piece of the project of relevance to their major field of study, either applied math or geophysics. For example, mathematics students tend to neglect or over simplify the physics so they can prove a theorem, while geophysics students tend to neglect mathematical rigor in their modeling efforts so they can get a better understanding of the real physics. This summer school is designed to begin overcoming this dual-mode way of doing science by providing an environment that encourages the geoscientists to look more seriously at the theory and the mathematicians to look more seriously at the physics while learning to communicate in each others languages.