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The Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences
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Symposium on
Turbulence & Dynamos at Petaspeed
Boulder, CO   15-19 October 2007

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Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics

Agenda

Location: Center Green Campus 1, 3080 Center Green Drive, Boulder

Monday, 15 October

The morning session start in the Center Green 1 South Bay Auditorium
The afternoon session will continue in Room 3131

9:30-10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00-10:15 Opening Remarks
Juri Toomre, JILA and University of Colorado, Boulder
10:15-11:15Turbulence at Petascale
Annick Pouquet, NCAR Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Geodynamo Simulation Using Yin-Yang Grids on the Earth Simulator
Akira Kageyama, The Earth Simulator Center, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology. Lecture
12:30-1:00pm Discussion
1:00-2:30 Lunch
  The session continues in Room 3131
2:30-3:30 Solar Convection and Dynamo Modeling
Mark Miesch, NCAR High Altitude Observatory
Lecture
3:30-3:45 Discussion
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Round table 1
Mark Miesch, Moderator

Tuesday, 16 October, Room 3131

9:30-10:00 Coffee
10:00-11:00 Round Table 2
Juri Toomre, Moderator
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-11:45 Development of a Petascale Conservative Dynamical Core for Climate Simulation
Ramachandran Nair, NCAR Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences
Lecture
11:45-12:15pm Preparing for Petascale through Expedition Computing
Mariana Vertenstein , NCAR Climate & Global Dynamics Division &
John Dennis, NCAR Computer Science Section
Lecture
12:15-1:00 Discussion
1:00-2:30 Lunch
2:30-3:30 EULAG: High-resolution Computational Model for Research of Multi-scale Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Piotr Smolarkiewicz, NCAR Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology and IMAGe
Lecture
3:30-3:45 Discussion
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Round Table 3
Joe Tribbia, Moderator

Wednesday, 17 October, Room 3131 (unless indicated otherwise)

9:30-10:00 Coffee
10:00-11:00 VAPOR
John Clyne & Alan Norton, NCAR Data Analysis Services Group
Lecture
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:30pm Visualization at Earth Simulator Center
Akira Kageyama, The Earth Simulator Center, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology
Lecture
12:30-1:30 Lunch
 
1:30-2:30 Two recommended seminars:
 

  Room 2126, HAO Seminar: Local Helioseismology of Active Regions and Quiet-Sun Granulation
  Aaron Birch, NorthWest Research Associates, Colorado Research Associates

 
  Foothills Lab Room 1001, GTP Seminar: 3D Euler in a 2D Symmetry Plane
  Miguel Bustamante, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick
 
 
2:30-5:00 Free Time

Thursday, 18 October, Room 3131

9:30-10:00 Coffee
10:00-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:00pm High Performance Computing and Space Weather
Michael Wiltberger, NCAR High Altitude Observatory
Lecture
12:00-1:00 Discussion
1:00-2:15 Lunch
2:15-3:15 Scalable Spectral Element Methods
Paul Fischer, Argonne National Laboratory
Lecture
3:15-3:45 AMG for a Peta-scale Navier-Stokes Code
James Lottes, Argonne National Laboratory
Lecture
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Round Table 4
Paul Fischer, Moderator

Friday, 19 October, Room 3131

9:30-10:00 Coffee
10:00-11:00 Title TBA
Dimitri Mavriplis, University of Wyoming
Lecture
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-11:45pm A High-order Optimized Schwarz Algorithm for Massively Parallel Climate Modeling
Amik St-Cyr, NCAR Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences
Lecture
11:45-12:45pm Programming Issues at Petascale
Katherine Yelick, Department of Engineering and Computer Sciences, Berkeley
12:45-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Concluding Remarks
Symposium adjourns