27th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics: student and early career scientist support, June 15-20, 2008 in Longyearbyen, Norway

该提案要求提供资金，以帮助支持美国机构的学生和早期职业科学家参加第27届数学地球物理国际会议的差旅和会议费用。地球系统的动力学：流动、断裂和波？2008年6月15日至20日在挪威斯瓦尔巴群岛斯匹次卑尔根岛的朗伊尔城举行。会议网址是http://www.fys.uio.no/cmg2008/。本次会议汇集了来自各个学科的地球科学家与物理学家，应用数学家和计算科学家，讨论数学和计算技术的进步，以了解地球的性质和过程。今年？这次会议强调了固体和流体地球的各个方面，其中的动力学是由波的传播和破碎，应力积累和断裂来调节的。这些包括冰盖的流动和断裂、断层的滑动和地震的发生、地球物理湍流和多孔介质中的输运、雪崩的动力学。这次会议提供了一个单一的多学科论坛，为地球科学跨学科界限的思想和技术交流。要求提供资金，以支持15名学生、博士后和早期职业科学家的差旅费和住宿费，这大约是出席过去会议人数的三分之一。这次会议是高度跨学科和国际性的，为美国学生和来自地球科学和应用数学的早期职业科学家提供了一个重要的机会，让他们在一个小型的非正式环境中与高级科学家互动。今年还将更加重视断裂动力学的数学方面，断裂可能产生突然和破坏性的后果，如冰盖破裂（最近认识到对气候研究和海平面上升预测至关重要，因为观察到冰盖的质量损失意外加速）和地震的发生。

This proposal requests funds to help support travel and meeting costs for students and early career scientists at U.S. institutions to the 27th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics ?Dynamics in Earth Systems: Flow, Fracture, and Waves? to be held in June 15-20, 2008 in Longyearbyen, Norway, on the Spitsbergen Island of the Svalbard Archipelago. The conference website is http://www.fys.uio.no/cmg2008/. This conference brings together Earth scientists from across the disciplines with physicists, applied mathematicians, and computational scientists to discuss advances in mathematical and computational techniques for understanding properties and processes in the Earth. This year?s meeting emphasizes aspects of the solid and fluid earth in which the dynamics is regulated by wave propagation and breaking, stress accumulation and fracture. Those include flow and fracture of ice sheets, slips in faults and generation of earthquakes, transport in geophysical turbulent flows and porous media, dynamics of avalanches. This meeting provides a single multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas and techniques across the disciplinary boundaries in the Earth Sciences. Funds are requested to support travel and lodging costs for 15 students, post-docs, and early career scientists which is approximately one third of the number attending past meetings. This meting is highly interdisciplinary and international in nature and provides an important opportunity for U.S. students and early career scientists from across the earth sciences and applied mathematics to interact with senior scientists in a small informal setting. This year there will also be an increased emphasis on mathematical aspects of the dynamics of fracture, which can have sudden and destructive consequences, as in the breaking of ice sheets (recently recognized of crucial importance for climate studies and sea level rise predictions, given the unexpected observed acceleration of mass loss from the ice sheets) and in the generation of earthquakes.