GS 2011 - SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences (GS11)

From points of view ranging from science to public policy, there is a growing interest in modeling and simulation of geosystems and their applications. Some examples include petroleum exploration and recovery, underground waste disposal and cleanup of hazardous waste, earthquake prediction, weather prediction, and global climate change. Such modeling is fundamentally interdisciplinary; physical and mathematical modeling at appropriate scales, physical experiments, mathematical theory, probability and statistics, numerical approximations, and large-scale computational algorithms all have important roles to play.

This conference facilitates communication between scientists of varying backgrounds and work environments facing similar issues in different fields, and provides a forum in which advances in parts of the larger modeling picture can become known to those working in other parts. These kinds of interactions are needed for meaningful progress in understanding and predicting complex physical phenomena in the geosciences.
Funding Agency

SIAM and the Conference Organizing Committee wish to extend their thanks and appreciation to the U.S. National Science Foundation for its support of this conference.

Themes

Adaptive grids
Atmospheric modeling
Borehole geophysics
Carbon sequestration
Contaminant transport and water quality
Coupled surface and subsurface flows
Coupled flow, geochemistry, and geomechanics
Data assimilation
Earth biosphere systems
Earth dynamics
Geo-energy Geology, geophysics, and petrology
Global climate change
Inverse modeling
Iterative solution methods
Methane hydrate modeling
Modeling and analysis of coupled phenomena
Molecular level and hybrid modeling
Multiphase multicomponent flow modeling
Nuclear waste disposal
Numerical methods for flow and transport, error analysis and estimation
Ocean modeling
Polar ice flows
Porescale modeling
Quantification of uncertainty, geostatistics and stochastic modeling
Seismic modeling
Storm surge modeling
Structural modeling & grid generation
Subsurface characterization & monitoring
Surface water
Thermodynamics
Tsunami models
Upscaling and multiscale methods
Validation and verification
Watersheds
Weather prediction
Important Deadlines

SUBMISSION DEADLINES
September 13, 2010: Minisymposium proposals
October 12, 2010: Abstracts for contributed and minisymposium speakers