AMR Workshop Agenda

Wednesday, October 24

8:25 am - Opening remarks
Session chair: Scott King from Virginia Tech

8:30 am - Adaptive Mesh Refinement in CLAWPACK and GeoClaw
Randall J. LeVeque
University of Washington

9:20 am - Parallel octree-based adaptive finite elements for large-scale geoscience applications
Carsten Burstedde, Omar Ghattas, Georg Stadler, Tiankai Tu, and Lucas Wilcox
University of Texas at Austin

10:10 am - Coffee break

10:30 am - Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement: Lessons and Experiences in Geophysical Modeling
Charles D. Norton
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

11:20 am - Adaptive Finite Element Methods for 2- and 3-D Geodynamical Simulations
Rhodri Davies
Cardiff University, United Kingdom

12:10 pm - Lunch

1:30 pm - deal.II Tutorial and Practice
Part 1: Basic structure of adaptive finite element codes and their representation in deal.II; tutorial programs step-1 through step-3
Wolfgang Bangerth
Texas A&M University

5:30 pm - End of day 1

Thursday, October 25

8:30 am - deal.II Tutorial and Practice
Part 2: Dimension independent programming; adaptive mesh refinement; tutorial programs step-4 through step-6
Wolfgang Bangerth
Texas A&M University

12:00 pm - Lunch

1:30 pm - deal.II Tutorial and Practice
Part 3: Parallelization on multiprocessor machines and clusters; tutorial programs step-9, step-17. Problems with multiple solution components; tutorial programs step-20, step-21. Time-dependent problems; tutorial program step-18 or step-21.
Wolfgang Bangerth
Texas A&M University

5:30 pm - End of day 2

Friday, October 26

8:30 am - A Strategy for optimal solvers in PyLith
Matt Knepley
Argonne National Laboratory

9:00 am - Evaluation of Existing AMR Frameworks
Walter Landry
Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG)

9:30 am - AuScope infrastructure and Lagrangian-Eulerian consistent AMR
Steve Quenette
Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC)

10:00 am - Coffee break

10:20 am - Discussions on future directions
lead: Shijie Zhong from University of Colorado at Boulder

12:30 pm - Lunch

2:00 pm - deal.II Tutorial and Practice
Part 4: Definition and work on a project, possibly related to mantle convection (Boussinesq flow)
Wolfgang Bangerth
Texas A&M University

5:30 pm - End of day 3

Saturday, October 27

8:30 am - deal.II Tutorial and Practice
Part 5: Work on a project, possibly related to mantle convection (Boussinesq flow)
Wolfgang Bangerth
Texas A&M University

12:00 pm - End of the workshop