Workshops

Opportunities and Challenges in Computational Geophysics

The workshop will address scientific activities involving state-of-the art software such as that being supported by CIG, innovations and opportunities in computational geophysics, and ways to support and grow computational geoscience through community education programs. An important objective is to obtain community input on the future of the CIG initiative. The overall format will combine invited talks, discussion sessions and posters. Participants in all areas of our science are expected, including experts in computational science and in geophysics. Young investigators are encouraged to participate. Financial support is available for participants.

CIG Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Solid Earth Geosciences

Held on Sept. 15-17, 2008, in Santa Fe, NM, this workshop brought together solid-earth geoscientists, mathematicians, computational and computer scientists to focus on specific issues arising from a range of solid-Earth dynamics problems that have proven both difficult and critical for progress in studying and modeling the dynamics of the planet.

Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) Tutorial Workshop

A tutorial workshop hosted by CIG on Oct 24-27, 2007, in Boulder, CO, which was devoted to the technical aspects of the AMR method.

Scientific Computing & Computational Geodynamics Workshop 2006

Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities at the Interfaces of Scientific Computing and Computational Geodynamics (Oct. 16-17) and Computational Science Roundtable (Oct. 18), held at the University of Texas at Austin. The two-day workshop brought together computational geodynamicists and scientific computing experts to identify and assess challenges and opportunities at the interfaces of frontier computational geodynamics problems and scalable numerical and geometric algorithms and software. Following the workshop, the CIG Science Steering Committee (SSC) hosted a one-day computational science roundtable to focus the workshop discussions on CIG's software development roadmap.