25th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics

该提案要求提供资金，以支持美国与会者参加将于2004年6月16日至18日在纽约哥伦比亚大学举行的第25届国际数学地球物理会议的会议费用和旅费。数学地球物理会议每两年召开一次，由国际大地测量和地球物理联合会数学地球物理委员会主办。今年的会议名为理论地球科学的前沿，聚集了地球科学家、物理学家、应用数学家和其他寻求更好地了解地球过程和性质的新思想。今年，会议将调查从核心和地幔到地表、海洋和生命的理论地球科学的现状和未来。会议特别强调理论和技术的进步，如高级计算和数据分析，以及需要理论理解的新问题和新观察。这次会议为跨越地球科学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。会议网站可在http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~mspieg/CMG2004/.Broader Impons上找到。这次会议为来自地球科学和应用数学的学生和早期职业科学家提供了一个难得的机会，在小型非正式环境中与资深科学家互动。这次会议也是哥伦比亚大学NSF IGERT应用数学和地球与环境科学联合项目的一项主要活动。它的工作人员将是现有的IGERT研究生，并将为这些学生提供接触广泛的研究机会、新同行和资深科学家的极好机会。在空间允许的情况下，本次会议的口头会议将向公众开放。

This proposal requests funds to help support meeting costs and travel expenses of U.S.participants to the 25th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics to be heldat Columbia University in New York City from June 16-18, 2004. The Conference onMathematical Geophysics meets every two years and is sponsored by the Committee onMathematical Geophysics of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.Intellectual merits This year's conference is titled Frontiers in Theoretical Earth Scienceand brings together earth scientists, physicists, applied mathematicians, and others whoseek to develop new ideas for better understanding the processes and properties of theEarth. This year, the meeting will survey the current and future state of theoretical Earthsciences ranging from the core and mantle to the surface, oceans, and life. In particularthe meeting emphasizes advances in theory, techniques such as advanced computation anddata analysis and new problems and observations in need of theoretical understanding.This meeting provides a single multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas andtechniques across the disciplinary boundaries in the Earth Sciences The conference website can be found at http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~mspieg/CMG2004/.Broader Impacts This meeting provides a rare opportunity for students and early-careerscientists from across the earth sciences and applied mathematics to interact with seniorscientists in a small informal setting. This meeting also forms a principal activity ofColumbia's NSF IGERT Joint Program in Applied Mathematics and Earth & Environ-mentalSciences. It will be staffed by current IGERT graduate students and will provideexcellent exposure for these students to a wide range of research opportunities, new peersand senior scientists. Space permitting, the oral sessions of this meeting will be open to thegeneral public.