Pan-American Studies Institute: Applying Computational Models to Real-Case Scenarios for Volcanic Hazard Assessment; University of Colima, Mexico, January 2013

这项由美国国家科学基金会和能源部（DOE）共同支持的泛美高级研究院（PASI）奖将于2013年1月在墨西哥科利马大学举行。 PASI将由Eliza S博士组织。考尔德（纽约州立大学布法罗分校），在她所在机构的其他科学家以及来自墨西哥克雷塔罗的墨西哥国立自治大学、特立尼达西印度群岛大学和墨西哥科利马大学的科学家的帮助下。该研究所将促进对目前可用于进行严格的危险评估的各种方法和程序的了解。 它将结合联合收割机讲座为基础，现场和动手计算建模会议，这将通过完整的过程步骤，从收集有关火山的基本信息？的过去的活动，以提供一个危险评估的基础上计算建模使用一套最新的模拟工具。 PASI将汇集22名国际专家，涵盖五大学科群（地球科学、计算工程、数学和地理学），还包括6个国际政府机构的高级科学家或主管，向学生介绍上述学科的许多重要技术。 除了指导和暴露初级科学家在建模国家的最先进的方法，它将促进来自美国和美洲的研究人员之间的国际合作。 初级研究人员将参加高级讲习班，利用一个主要的网络基础设施资源，该资源在一个可访问的环境中提供各种模拟工具和教程，以及数据和结果传播的组织和存储结构。

This Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI) award, jointly supported by the NSF and the Department of Energy (DOE), will take place in January 2013 at the University of Colima in Mexico. The PASI will be organized by Dr. Eliza S. Calder (SUNY Buffalo), aided by other scientists from her institution, as well as scientists from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico at Queretaro, Mexico, the University of the West Indies, Trinidad, and the Universidad de Colima in Mexico. The institute will advance the understanding of the range of methodologies and procedures currently available for undertaking rigorous hazard assessments. It will combine lecture-based, field and hands-on computational modeling sessions, which will step through the complete process, from collection of rudimentary information about the volcano?s past activity to providing a hazard assessment based on computational modeling using a suite of up-to-date simulation tools. The PASI will bring together 22 instructors who are international experts covering five major discipline groups (geoscience, computational engineering, mathematics, and geography), and who also include senior scientists or directors of six international government agencies.This PASI will introduce students to many important techniques in the subjects above. In addition to mentoring and exposing junior scientists to state-of-the-art methods in modeling, it will foster international collaboration among researchers from the US and the Americas. Junior researchers will participate in advanced workshops taking advantage of a major cyber-infrastructure resource, which provides an assortment of simulation tools and tutorials in an accessible environment, as well as an organizational and storage structure for data and dissemination of the results.