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Registration: Ninety participants were confirmed for the workshop, including 34 graduate students and 13 postdocs. Due to limits on lecture-hall space, housing space and travel support funds, registration was closed early.
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Conveners: Magali I. Billen (UC Davis), Scott King (Virginia Tech), Thorsten Becker (USC), Jolante van Wijk (LANL)
Recent developments in cluster computing, tera-scale resources, and software support and code-sharing efforts of the CIG have brought about major opportunities for scientific progress, such as the prospect of truly combining lithospheric-scale deformation models with mantle convection computations. However, several current science issues remain unresolved and understanding the dynamics of these in a predictive, quantitative sense, is intimately connected to computational issues, for example:
- How can we efficiently model thermo-chemical convection numerically, in spherical geometries, with adequate treatment of entrainment?
- How can we incorporate faulted and moving plate boundaries in spherical geometry, and study regionally realistic subduction system evolution?
- How can we accurately incorporate strain localization and large viscosity variations, and what are the appropriate macroscopic descriptions for sub-scale processes?
The workshop conveners worked together to propose a diverse and stimulating group of speakers and topics. The conference format included a range of keynote and workshop style presentations, with ample room for poster viewing and structured, as well as unstructured, discussion.
We expect participants to arrive on Tuesday evening and depart on Saturday morning. In order to keep the workshop to just three days, on Wednesday through Friday the sessions will run from 8:00 am through 5:30 pm (with morning and afternoon breaks and a lunch break). In the evening on Wednesday and Thursday, poster session will be held in the residence halls. And, on Friday evening, there will be a demonstration of the KeckCAVES Virtual Reality and Visualization research facility.
| Location: |
UC Davis Campus in Davis, California (near Sacramento) |
| Dates: |
July 9-11, 2008 (see planned schedule and invited speakers below) |
| Registration: |
Closed as we have reached the maximum number of participants that our space can accommodate |
| Participants: |
90 participants are confirmed from the fields of mantle convection and long-term lithospheric dynamics |
| Support: |
Due to generous support from CIG and NSF, accommodations and meals will be provided forall participants at newly renovated residence halls and dining facilities on the UC Davis Campus. In addition, we will provide support for airfare for all graduate students and post-docs (including non-U.S. participants). The amount of support available will depend on the total number of participants, but should be about $250-$550 per person, and this applies to U.S. carriers only, or airlines flying under U.S. code share (e.g., a British Airlines flight flying as "United Airlines #312" while in U.S. airspace). Some support may be available for other participants - please contact the conveners for more information. |
| Travel: |
The closest airport to UC Davis is the Sacramento Airport (SMF), which is 30 minutes from Davis, and has many flights on Southwest, United, American, America West and some other airlines. The next closest airport is Oakland, which is 1.5 hours away by car (without traffic). |
| Schedule: |
July 8 (Tuesday): afternoon/evening arrival and social gathering.
July 9 (Wednesday): sessions, mini-lectures and evening posters session.
July 10 (Thursday): sessions, mini-lectures and evening posters session.
July 11 (Friday): sessions, mini-lectures and evening demonstration of KeckCAVES.
July 12 (Saturday): morning departure of participants. |
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Day 1: July 9 (Wednesday)
| | Speaker | Topic |
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| Breakfast 6:30 - 7:45 am |
| Session 1: Spherical Convection Modeling: Thermo-Chemical Problems and Phase Changes |
| 8 - 8:30 am |
Paul Tackley, ETH Zurich |
Spherical Multigrid Finite Volume |
| 8:35 - 9:05 am |
Allen McNamara, ASU |
Chemical Heterogeneity: Tracers and Entrainment |
| 9:10 - 9:40 am |
Luce Fleitout, ENS Paris |
Convection with Phase Changes |
| 9:45 - 10 am |
Magali Billen, UC Davis |
Discussion |
| Morning Break 10 - 10:30 am |
| Session 2: Lithosphere Deformation and Surface Processes |
| 10:30 - 11:30 am |
Sean Willett, ETH Zurich |
Implementing Erosional Crustal Deformation |
| 11:30 - 11:45 am |
Dennis Harry, Colorado C |
Discussion |
| Lunch 11:45 am - 1:15 pm |
| Session 3: Lithospheric Large-Scale Deformation Codes and Free Surface Problems |
| 1:15 - 1:45 pm |
Boris Kaus, ETH Zurich |
Lagrangian Large Deformation Finite Elements |
| 1:50 - 2:20 pm |
H. Muhlhaus, U of Queensland |
Level Sets |
| 2:25 - 2:55 pm |
Walter Landry, CIG |
CIG Software and Gale |
| Afternoon Break 3 - 3:30 pm |
| Session 4: Mini-Lectures on Numerical Methods |
| 3:30 - 5:15 pm |
Walter Landry |
Gale Hands-On Tutorial |
| Dinner 5:15 - 6:30 pm |
| Posters in the Residence Halls: 7 - 10 pm |
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Day 2: July 10 (Thursday):
| | Speaker | Topic |
|---|
| Breakfast 6:30 - 7:45 am |
| Session 1: Lithosphere-Mantle Coupling and Spectral Methods in Mantle Convection |
| 8 - 8:30 am |
Mike Gurnis, Caltech |
G-Plates and Mantle Convection |
| 8:35 - 9:05 am |
Robert Moucha, UQAM |
Spectral Methods for Mantle Convection with 3D Viscosity Variations |
| 9:10 - 9:40 am |
Alex Forte, UQAM |
Spectral Methods for Time-Dependent Mantle Convection |
| Morning Break 9:45 - 10:15 am |
| Session 2: Convergent Margins |
| 10:15 - 10:45 am |
Eugeni Burov, Paris VI |
Convergent Margin Processes |
| 10:50 - 11:20 am |
Boris Kaus, ETH Zurich |
Subduction Benchmarks |
| 11:25 - 11:45 am |
Thorsten Becker, USC |
Discussion |
| Lunch 11:45 am - 1:30 pm |
| Session 3: Lithospheric Deformation and Extensional Tectonics |
| 1:30 - 2 pm |
Mian Liu, Missouri |
Lithospheric Deformation with Faults |
| 2:05 - 2:35 pm |
Garrett Ito, U of Hawaii |
Extensional Tectonics and Magmatism |
| 2:40 - 3 pm |
Magali Billen, UC Davis |
Discussion |
| Afternoon Break 3 - 3:30 pm |
| Session 4: Mini-Lectures on Numerical Methods |
| 3:30 - 3:55 pm |
Dell Computers (Workshop Sponsor) |
High-Performance Computing |
| 4 - 4:30 pm |
Shijie Zhong, CU Boulder |
Multigrid Methods |
| 4:35 - 5:05 pm |
Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Karlsruhe U |
Data Assimilation |
| 5:10 - 5:15 pm |
Magali Billen, UC Davis |
Travel Reimbursement and Future Workshops |
| Dinner 5:15 - 6:30 pm |
| Posters in the Residence Halls: 7 - 10 pm |
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Day 3: July 11 (Friday)
| | Speaker | Topic |
|---|
| Breakfast 6:30 - 7:45 am |
| Session 1: Mantle Convection and Rheology: Results and Technical Challenges |
| 8 - 8:30 am |
Slava Solomatov, Washington U |
Grain-Size Dependent Convection |
| 8:35 - 9:05 am |
Einat Lev, MIT |
Anisotropic Convection |
| 9:10 - 9:40 am |
Dave May, Monash U |
Rheology of Plates and Mantle Convection |
| Morning Break 9:45 - 10:15 am |
| Session 2: More on Numerical Methods |
| 10:15 - 10:45 am |
Matt Knepley, Argonne Nat. Lab |
PetSc |
| 10:50 - 11:20 am |
Huw Davies, Cardiff |
Adaptive Mesh Refinement |
| 11:25 - 11:45 am |
J. van Wijk, LANL |
Discussion |
| Lunch 11:45 - 1:15 pm |
| Session 3: Dynamic Topography and Gravitational Potential Energy: Results and Technical Challenges |
| 1:15 - 1:45 pm |
Eh Tan, CIG |
Exchange, CitcomS, Coupling Mantle Convection Codes |
| 1:50 - 2:20 pm |
Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, UC London |
Modeling Sources of Topography and Stress |
| 2:25 - 2:55 pm |
Lucy Flesch, Purdue |
The Role of Mantle Tractions and the Crust |
| Afternoon Break 3 - 3:30 pm |
| Session 4: Modern Clusters and Visualization of Dynamic Simulations |
| 3:30 - 4 pm |
B. Broadley, UC Davis |
Next Generation Parallel Machines |
| 4:05 - 4:35 pm |
O. Kreylos, UC Davis |
Interactive Visualization Tools for Large-Scale Dynamic Simulations |
| 4:40 - 5:15 pm |
Scott King, V Tech |
Discussion, Feedback, Wrap-Up |
| Dinner 5:15 - 6:30 pm |
| Demonstration of KeckCAVES: 7 - 10 pm |
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