2011-12 UQ Program: Geosciences Applications Opening Workshop
Workshop Information
General Information
The Opening Workshop for the Geoscience theme of the SAMSI program on Uncertainty Quantification will be held on Wednesday-Friday, September 21-23, 2011, at the Radisson RTP in Research Triangle Park, NC. The location is in close proximity to SAMSI.
From mid-day Wednesday to Friday evening, invited speakers will give presentations. For each of the four themes described below, one presentation will be introductory. There will be a poster session and reception on Wednesday, September 21. Additional activities will be organized later during the weekend.
The workshop will focus on the following four complementary themes
(1) determination of spatial distribution of geologic materials in the subsurface based on sound wave and/or radar (many spatial points, low accuracy),
(2) determination of location of oil reservoirs or underground water based on exploratory drilling (few spatial points, high accuracy),
(3) forecast of contaminant transport,
(4) modeling of hurricanes, volcanos and tsunamis.
Organizers: Souheil Ezzedine (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Mary C. Hill (USGS), Wolfgang Nowak (University of Stuttgart, Germany), Gowri Srinivasan (Los Alamos NL), Daniel Tartakovsky (University of California, San Diego).
Prospective speakers include: Vladimir Cvetkovic (KTH Royal Inst. of Technology), Michael Fienen (US Geological Survey), Omar Ghattas (U. of Texas), George Karniadakis (Brown), Peter Kitanidis (Stanford), Lucy Marshall (U. of Montana), Sean McKenna (Sandia), Sergey Oladyshkin (U. of Stuttgart), Christine Shoemaker (Cornell), Margaret Short (U. of Alaska), Gowri Srinivasan (LANL).
APPLICATION
To begin the application process login and register, then click on "Apply for workshop" at the top of this page. Be sure to click on the green "Sign Up" button at the end of the application form.
This form also includes the application for financial support. You will be notified as soon as possible after your application if your participation will be possible; regrettably, limited seating will preclude acceptance of all applications. New researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty in the early stages of their careers) and members of underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
The application/registration deadline is August 19. Note, however, that capacity might be reached before this deadline. Also, any application that requests support for expenses should typically be submitted at least 6 weeks in advance of the workshop. Click here for the workshop Payment Form.
Please make your reservation at the Radisson RTP as soon as possible.
If you need further information please send an email to [email protected].
Schedule
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Radisson RTP
| 11:00-12:00 | Registration |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch |
| Data Assimilation and Inverse Modeling in Geosciences (contamination transport, CO2 storage) | |
| 1:30-2:15 | Christine Shoemaker, Cornell University Uncertainty Quantification with SOARS for Computationally Expensive Simulations Including Applications to Carbon Sequestration |
| 2:15-3:00 | Sergey Oladyshkin, University of Stuttgart Data-Driven Polynomial Response Surfaces As Efficient Tool For Applied Tasks Under Uncertainty |
| 3:00-3:30 | Break |
| 3:30-4:15 | Omar Ghattas, Univ of Texas-Austin A Stochastic Newton Method for Large-Scale Statistical Inverse Problems with Application to Geophysical Inverse Problems |
| 4:15-5:00 | Peter Kitanidis, Stanford Recent Advances in the Geostatistical Approach to Inverse Problems |
| 5:00-5:30 | Poster Advertisement |
| 5:30-6:00 | Break |
| 6:00-8:00 | Poster Session and Reception SAMSI will provide poster presentation boards and tape. The board dimensions are 4 ft. wide by 3 ft. high. They are tri-fold with each side being 1 ft. wide and the center 2 ft. wide. Please make sure your poster fits the board. The boards can accommodate up to 16 pages of paper measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches. |
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Radisson RTP
| 8:15-9:00 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| Mathematical Methods for UQ in Models of Contaminant Transport | |
| 9:00-9:45 | Margaret Short, University of Alaska Predicting Vertical Connectivity within an Aquifer System: A Process Convolution Approach to Reconstructing a Binary Field |
| 9:45-10:30 | Daniele Venturi, Brown University A new approach for developing evolution equations for probability density functions |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-11:45 | Mina Ossiander, Oregon State University Stochastic Parameterizations of Heterogeneous Reservoirs Using Prior Information |
| 11:45-12:30 | Gowri Srinivasan, LANL Uncertainty Quantification for Reactive Transport of Contaminants |
| 12:30-1:45 | Lunch |
| 1:45-2:30 | Vladimir Cvetkovic, Royal Institute of Technology A New Approach for Addressing Model Uncertainty in Hydrological Transport |
| 2:30-3:15 | Mary Hill, USGS The “How” of Environmental Modeling: Toward Enhanced Transparency and Refutability |
| 3:15-3:45 | Break |
| 3:45-5:00 | Panel (link to methodology side of program; initial working group discussion) |
Friday, September 23, 2011
Radisson RTP
| 8:15-9:00 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| UQ in Subsurface Modeling | |
| 9:00-9:45 | Souheil Ezzedine, LLNL Uncertainty Quantification of Flow, Heat and Mass Transport in Discrete Fracture Network |
| 9:45-10:30 | Lucy Marshall, University of Montana Advancing Multi-model Approaches for Dynamic Hydrologic Systems |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-11:45 | Sean McKenna, Sandia Estimation of Fine-Scale Conductivity Fields from Multi-Scale Observations |
| 11:45-12:30 | Daniel Tartakovsky, UCSD |
| 12:30-1:45 | Lunch |
| 1:45-3:00 | Working Group Formation and Initial Meeting |
| 3:00-3:30 | Working Group Reports |