Sponsored by the Divisions of Mathematical Sciences (DMS), Atmospheric Sciences (ATM), Earth Sciences (EAR) and Ocean Sciences (OCE), National Science Foundation

Organizers:

Louise Kellogg (chair)	Earth Sciences, University of California, Davis	lhkellogg@ucdavis.edu
Hal Caswell	Ocean Science/Math. Ecology, Woods Hole Oceanographics Institute	hcaswell@whoi.edu
Kelvin Droegemeier	Atmospheric Science, University of Oklahoma	kkd@ou.edu
Darryl Holm	Mathematics, Los Alamos National Laboratories	dholm@lanl.gov
Christopher K.R.T. Jones	Applied Mathematics, Brown University	cjones@whoi.edu
Doug Nychka	Statistics, National Center for Atmospheric Research	nychka@ucar.edu
Annick Pouquet	Atmospheric Science, CNRS,Observatory of the Cote d'Azur	pouquet@ucar.edu
Jim Rosenberger	Statistics, Penn State University	jlr@psu.edu
Dan Rothman	Earth Science, MIT	dan@segovia.mit.edu
Roger Samelson	Ocean Science, Oregon State University	rsamelson@oce.orst.edu
Don Turcotte	Earth Science, Cornell University	turcotte@geology.cornell.edu
Bruce Turkington	Mathematics, University of Massachusetts	turk@math.umass.edu

 

Description:     Mathematics is a fundamental tool of the geosciences, with many branches of the geosciences using sophisticated mathematics to address research problems. However, there is an increased need for communication among geoscientists and mathematicians to encourage the development of mathematical frontiers for geoscience research, to understand how mathematical methods can be applied across disciplinary boundaries in the geosciences, and to identify areas of the geosciences that could benefit from new developments in mathematics.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together scientists from the broad spectrum of disciplines within both geoscience and mathematics who are interested in a mathematical approach to geoscience problems.

The workshop has two goals:

(1) To identify geoscience research topics that would benefit from a sophisticated mathematical approach, or are likely to stimulate new mathematics research.

(2) To foster interdisciplinary communication among researchers who may potentially collaborate on mathematical and geoscience research topics and, in particular, to promote contacts between geoscientists and mathematicians.

The workshop will be structured so as to encourage cross-disciplinary communication, with many opportunities for discussion among participants.  We hope that one of the outcomes of the workshop will be to stimulate new research collaborations both in mathematics and in geosciences. One of NSF's hopes is that this program will provide an assessment of research opportunities that NSF can use for future programs.

The capacity of this workshop is limited.

The conference, a brainstorming meeting, will be organized around alternating plenary sessions and smaller breakout groups, with few talks. Among the topics to be discussed are:

- Theory, simulation, and visualization of systems with very large numbers of interacting components;

- Quantifying uncertainty in complex systems;

- Langrangian transport in geofluids;

- The dynamics of the geodynamo;

- Links between geostrophic and inertial turbulence;

- Mixing and stirring in geofluid systems;

- Analysis of sparse and intermittent data (and intermittency itself);

- The evolution of complex hydrological structure;

- Mathematical approaches to biogeochemical systems

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

MONDAY, MARCH 5 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
8:30 am	Coffee and Registration	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:10 am	Willard Miller, Fred Dulles, and Louise Kellogg	Welcome and Introduction
9:30 am	Michael Ghil UCLA	Hilbert Problems for Earth's Fluid Envelope in the Next Decades Slides
10:30 am	Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00 am- 12:00 pm	Neil Balmforth University of California Santa Cruz	Some Perspectives on Applied Mathematics in the Geosciences
1:30 pm	Peter Olson Johns Hopkins University	Mathematical Perspectives for the Solid Earth
2:30 pm	Formation of Breakout Groups. Geoscience Themes Breakout groups will be organized along broad themes, with a discussion facilitator and recorder identified for each group.
3:30 pm	IMA Tea A variety of appetizers and beverages will be served.	IMA East, 400 Lind Hall
4:00 pm	Breakout Group Meetings	Various Rooms
Evening:	Informal discussion	Lind Hall
TUESDAY, MARCH 6 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
8:15 am	Coffee	Lind Hall 400
8:30 am	Breakout Group (cont'd.)	Various Rooms
10:30 am	Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00am- 12:00 pm	Breakout Group Summaries and Open Discussion
1:30 pm	Formation of new breakout groups. Mathematical Topics The second set of breakout groups will be organized along themes that cut across those that formed the first breakout groups. A new discussion facilitator and recorder will be identified for each group.
2:00 pm	Breakout Group Meetings	Various Rooms
3:30 pm	Break	Lind Hall 400
4:00 pm	Breakout Group Meetings	Various Rooms
Evening:	Informal discussion	Lind Hall
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
8:15 am	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
8:30 am	Stephen Meacham &Tom Fogwell NSF	Frontiers of Mathematics in the Geosciences and the NSF Portfolio
9:00 am	Breakout Group Summaries and Open Discussion
10:00 am	Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
10:30-11:30 am	Overview and Conclusions

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

As of 3/6/2001

Name	Department/Discipline	Affiliation
David Archer	Oceanic Sciences	University of Chicago
Barbara Bailey	Statistics	University of Illnois
Neil Balmforth	Mathematics	University of California Santa Cruz
Sukanta Basu	Civil Engineering	University of Minnesota
Mark Berliner	Statistics	Ohio State University
Jim Berryman	Earth Sciences	Stanford University
Craig Bishop	Atmospheric Sciences	Pennsylvania State University
John Boyd	Atmospheric Sciences	University of Michigan
Roberto Camassa	Mathematics	University of North Carolina
George Carnevale	Oceanic Sciences	University of California, San Diego
Jagdish Chandra	System Engineering	George Washington University
Ping Chang	Oceanic Sciences	Texas A&M University
Shijyi Chen	Mathematics	Johns Hopkins University
Alan Clarke	Oceanic Sciences	Florida State University
Noel Cressie	Statistics	Ohio State University
Jinqiao Duan	Applied Mathematics	Illinois Institute of Technology
Fabien Dubuffet	Minnesota Supercomputing Institute	University of Minnesota
Gary Egbert	Oceanic Sciences	Oregon State University
Mark Everett	Earth Sciences	Texas A&M University
Gregory Eyink	Mathematics	University of Arizona
Thomas Fogwell	Mathematical Sciences	National Science Foundation
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou	St. Anthony Falls Laboratory	University of Minnesota
Montserrat Fuentes	Statistics	North Carolina State University
Scott Fulton	Atmospheric Sciences	Clarkson University
Dave Furbish	Geological Sciences	Florida State University
Andrei Gabrielov	Earth Sciences	Purdue University
Michael Ghil	Atmospheric Sciences	University of California, Los Angeles
Danny Grunbaum	Mathematics	University of Washington
Karl Helfrich	Oceanic Sciences	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Frank S. Henyey	Applied Physics Lab	University of Washington
Catherine Hier	Geophysics	University of Minnesota
Darryl Holm	Mathematics	Los Alamos National Laboratories
Lou Howard	Mathematics	Florida State University
Glenn Ierley	Oceanic and Mathematical Sciences	University of California, San Diego
Andy Jackson	Earth Sciences	Leeds University
Chris Jones	Mathematics	Brown University
Mark Kaiser	Statistics	Iowa State
Bill Kamp	Mathematics	IAGP
Louise Kellogg	Earth Sciences	University of California, Davis
Richard Kleeman	Mathematics	New York University
Arlene Laing	Atmospheric Sciences	University of Southern Florida
Steve Meacham	Ocean Sciences	National Science Foundation
Igor Mezic	Mathematics	Harvard University
Marc Monnereau	Laboratoire de Dynamique terrestre et Planetaire	Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse
Doug Nychka	Statistics	National Center for Atmospheric Research
Peter Olson	Earth Sciences	Johns Hopkins University
Mina Ossiander	Statistics	Oregon State University
Mercedes Pascual	Biology	University of Michigan
Ray Pierrehumbert	Atmospheric Sciences	University of Chicago
Andrew Poje	Mathematics	City University of New York
Annick Pouquet	Atmospheric Sciences	CNRS
Robin Reichlin	Earth Sciences	National Science Foundation
Paul Roberts	Mathematics	University of California, Los Angeles
Roddy Rogers	Atmospheric Sciences	National Science Foundation
Jim Rosenberger	Statistics	Pennsylvania State University
Rich Rotunno	Atmospheric Sciences	NCAR
John Rundle	Earth Sciences	University of Colorado
Tom Russell	Mathematics	University of Colorado at Denver
Roger Samelson	Ocean Sciences	Oregon State University
Charlie Sammis	Earth Sciences	University of Southern California
Wayne Schubert	Atmospheric Sciences	Colorado State University
George Sell	Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Alan Shapiro	Meteorology	University of Oklahoma
Leslie Smith	Mathematics	University of Wisconisin-Madison
Roel Snieder	Geophysics	Colorado School of Mines
John Stufken	Mathematical Sciences	National Science Foundation
Kyle Swanson	Atmospheric Sciences	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Paul Tackley	Earth Sciences	University of California, Los Angeles
Amit Tandon	Ocean Sciences	University of Massachusetts
Alan Thorndike	Physics	University of Puget Sound
Jeroen Tromp	Earth Sciences	California Institute of Technology
Ka-Kit Tung	Atmospheric and Mathematical Sciences	Unviersity of Washington
Don Turcotte	Earth Sciences	Cornell University
Bruce Turkington	Mathematical Sciences	University of Massachusetts
Ben Tustison	Civil Engineering	University of Minnesota
Geoff Vallis	Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences	Princeton University
Brani Vidakovic	Statistics	Georgia Institute of Technology
Venugopal Vuruputur	St. Anthony Falls Laboratory	University of Minnesota
Shouhong Wang	Mathematics	Indiana University
Xiaoming Wang	Mathematics	Iowa State University
Renata Wentzcovitch	Chemical Engineering & Materials Science	University of Minnesota
Stephane Woerther	Civil Engineering	University of Minnesota
Paul Woodward	Astronomy	University of Minnesota
Bill Young	Oceanic Sciences	University of California, San Diego
David Yuen	Earth Sciences	University of Minnesota

 

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