28th Conference on Mathematical Geophysics: Request for Student and Early Career Scientist Support

这项提案要求提供资金，以帮助支付学生和美国机构早期职业科学家参加第28届国际数学地球物理会议？地球动力学建模：复杂性、不确定性和有效性？的旅费和会议费用。将于2010年6月7日至11日在意大利比萨举行。会议网址为：http://cmg2010.pi.ingv.it/index.html.这次会议将来自各学科的地球科学家与物理学家、应用数学家和计算科学家聚集在一起，讨论数学和计算技术方面的进展，以了解地球的性质和过程。今年的S会议强调了地球动力学的数学建模的各个方面，特别强调了模型在预测环境现象中的使用和有效性。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。请拨资金用于支付9名学生、博士后和早期职业科学家的旅费和住宿费，这大约是参加过去会议人数的三分之一。这次会议具有高度跨学科和国际性的性质，为美国学生和来自地球科学和应用数学领域的早期职业科学家提供了一个在小型非正式场合与资深科学家互动的重要机会。我们将直接联系代表不足群体学生较多的高校地球物理学教职员工，鼓励其学生和同事申请旅费和住宿补助参加会议。今年还将更加重视数学模型在预测环境现象方面的使用和有效性。这一专题不仅对科学界而且对全人类都非常感兴趣，因为地球模型的结果影响到各国政府关于人类引起的地貌和气候变化的决策。

This proposal requests funds to help support travel and meeting costs for students and early career scientists at U.S. institutions to the 28th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics ?Modelling Earth Dynamics: Complexity, Uncertainty and Validation? to be held in June 7-11, 2010 in Pisa, Italy. The conference website is http://cmg2010.pi.ingv.it/index.html. 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 mathematical modeling of the Earth dynamics, with particular enphasis on the use and effectiveness of models in predicting environmental phenomena. 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 9 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. We will directly contact faculty members in Geophysics in universities and colleges that have a large number of students from under-represented groups, to encourage their students and collegues to apply for a travel and lodging grant to attend the conference. This year there will also be an increased emphasis on the use and effectiveness of mathematical models in predicting environmental phenomena. This topic is of great interest not only to the scientific community but to the whole humanity, as the outcome of Earth models impacts the decisions of governments regarding the human induced changes on landscapes and climate.