Workshop on multiscale modeling and geosciences

Dear Colleagues,

On November 17-18, 2005, Caltech will host the CIMMS/IPAM Workshop on Multiscale Modeling and Computation: Basic Theory and the Geosciences. Everyone is welcome to attend this interesting event. There is no registration fee, but we do ask that attendees register so that we can get a head count for the coffee breaks. More information is below.

Best wishes,
Nadia Lapusta
California Institute of Technology

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CIMMS/IPAM Workshop on
Multiscale Modeling and Computation:
Basic Theory and the Geosciences

The workshop will be held at the Beckman Institute Auditorium, Building #74 on the Caltech campus, Room 134, on Thu/Fri November 17-18, 2005.

Details and the schedule may be found on the CIMMS website
http://www.cimms.caltech.edu/
(please look under "workshops") or at the direct link

http://www.cimms.caltech.edu/workshops_dir/dynamic-workshops/index.php?w...

This workshop is organized by Tom Hou (ACM), Nadia Lapusta (ME and Geophysics), Jerry Marsden (CDS) and Tapio Schneider (ESE and GPS) of Caltech, and is a satellite to an IPAM (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics) workshop on Bridging Time and Length Scales in Materials Science and Bio-Physics
(http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/ma2005/).

The CIMMS/IPAM workshop at Caltech has two general themes:
1. General mathematical techniques for multiscale modeling and simulation.
2. Applications in the geosciences.

Dynamical processes in the geosciences span scales from the fractions of a second within which ruptures in the solid earth occur to the geological time scales of plate tectonics, and from the micron scales on which ice crystals form to the planetary scales of the global circulation of the atmosphere. Because of the often tight coupling of processes across scales, simulating and understanding multiscale processes in the geosciences poses great challenges.

In addition to general presentations on multiscale methods, this workshop will bring together experts in geophysics, atmosphere dynamics, and applied mathematics with the aim of fostering exchange among geoscientists and those working on methods of multiscale analysis and simulation.