Simulating Our Complex World: Modeling, Computation and Analysis

Simulating our Complex World will be organized around seven workshops. Each workshop will contain a mixture of mathematical analysis, practical analysis and applications; the specific emphasis will shift throughout the year but the goal is to keep different facets of the subject wholly engaged at all times. The kick-off workshop on computing with uncertainty will provide a broad overview of many of the important computational problems of today, in the context of the general question of how to quantify and manage uncertainty on the ever larger computations that are required for solving the problems that computers are being asked to solve. As is traditional, the annual year will have as foundation a group of long-term visitors and postdocs, as well as a mixture of intermediate and short term visitors. Each workshop will be preceded by a 1-2 day tutorial outlining the main ideas of the workshop, to make it accessible to a broader audience. The topic of the annual year lends itself very well to strong participation with industry and the national labs, and it is our intent to facilitate their vigorous involvement in the workshops. Indeed, many of the workshop topics are themselves of central importance to the national labs, and it is our hope that this will lead to strong and productive interactions.