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GeoMath08 Workshop Program - Santa Fe Hilton, Mesa Room A

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Day 1: September 15 (Monday)

Time	Topic	Speaker
7:30-8:30	Breakfast (Mesa Room B)
8:30-8:45	Opening Remarks and Introduction	(e.g., Marc Spiegelman, Omar Ghattas)
8:45-10:30	Session I: Mantle Convection/Lithospheric Deformation
	*Problem Description/Challenges*	Louis Moresi (Monash University) - Mantle-scale geodynamics Shijie Zhong (UC Boulder) - Mantle Convection: Current Status and Future Challenges
	*Optimal Solvers/Preconditioners for Stokes*	David May (Monash University) - Preconditioners for Variable Viscosity Stokes Flow
	Discussion
10:30-11:00	Coffee
11:00-12:30	Session II: Mantle Convection/Lithospheric Deformation
	*Multi-grid/Optimal solvers*	Ray Tuminaro (Sandia) - Multigrid and Optimal Solvers
	*Multi-scale adaptive methods for Stokes*	Wolfgang Bangerth (Texas A&M) - Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Geodynamics Applications
	Discussion
12:30-2:00	Lunch (Mesa Room B)
2:00-4:00	Session III: Magma Dynamics
	*Problem Description/Challenges:*	Richard Katz (Univ Oxford) - Problems in Magma Dynamics (and a few solutions) Mark Hesse (Brown/UT Austin) - Reservoir Simulation Magma Dynamics
	*Thermodynamics of mantle systems*	Paula Smith (Caltech) - Thermodynamics of Mantle Systems
	Discussion
4:00-4:30	Coffee/Snacks
4:30-6:00	Session IV: Multi-physics/Multi-Scale Methods I
	*Methods for Multi-physics Coupled Solvers*	Dan Reynolds (SMU) - Multi-Physics/Multi-Scale Methods I: Methods for Multi-Physics Coupled Solvers John Shadid (Sandia) - Robust and Flexible Newton-Krylov based Solution Methods for Nonlinear Coupled Multiphysics Systems
	Discussion
6:00-8:00	Poster Session [View Poster Collection] and Reception (Mesa A)

September 16 (Tuesday)

Time	Topic	Speaker
7:30-8:30	Breakfast (Mesa Room B)
8:30-10:00	Session V: Crustal Deformation and Earthquake Physics
8:30-10:00	*Problem Description/Challenges*	Jean Paul Ampuero (Caltech) - Current Challenges in Computational Earthquake Dynamics Yehuda Ben Zion (USC) - Constraining the physics governing collective behavior of earthquakes and faults through numerical modeling and observations Yuri Fialko (UCSD) - Problems in Solid Earth Deformation: Crust and Upper Mantle
10:00-10:30	Coffee
10:30-11:30	*Coupling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Deformation*	Adrian Lenardic (Rice University) - Cancelled (Hurricane Ike)
10:30-11:30	Discussion
11:30-12:30	Synthesis Discussion I:
	*Open Problems*
	*Looking forward*
12:30-2:00	Lunch (Mesa Room B)
2:00-4:00	Session VI: Multi-physics/Multi-Scale II
	*Multi-scale methods for heterogeneous systems*	Todd Arbogast (UT Austin) - Multiscale Finite Element Methods for Heterogeneous Porous Media Yalchin Efendiev (Texas A&M University)- Multiscale finite element methods using limited global information David Moulton (Los Alamos) - Multilevel Modeling: Multigrid's Lost Twin
	Discussion
4:00-4:30	Coffee
4:30-6:00	Session VII: Inverse Theory, Inference and Uncertainty I
	*Data Assimilation: Geophysical data*	Malcolm Sambridge (ANU) - Non-deterministic approaches to inverse problems
	*Error Estimation*	Don Estep (Colorado State) - Adjoint-Fueled Advances in Error Estimation for Multiscale, Multiphysics Systems
	Discussion

September 17 (Wednesday)

Time	Topic	Speaker
7:30-8:30	Breakfast (Mesa Room B)
8:30-10:00	Session VIII: Inverse Theory, Inference and Uncertainty II
	*Inverse theory*	Klaus Mosegaard (Univ Copenhagen) - Limits to Nonlinear Inversion
	*PDE Constrained Optimization*	George Biros (U Penn) - Fast Algorithms for Inverse Problems Governed by PDEs
	Discussion
10:00-10:30	Coffee
10:30-12:00	Synthesis and Cross-Cutting Themes:
	*Open Problems*
	*Best practice discussion, Collaborative software design and Visualization*
	*Software and Implementation Roundtable*
12:00	Meeting Adjourns

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GeoMath08 Workshop Program - Santa Fe Hilton, Mesa Room A

Day 1: September 15 (Monday)

September 16 (Tuesday)

September 17 (Wednesday)