Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe)

 
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Theme for 2009: The Interaction of Simulation and Numerical Models


Frontiers of Geophysical Simulation

18 - 20 August 2009 Boulder, Colorado

AGENDA and Bus Schedule


Tuesday August 18

8:00 Check-in and Coffee, Main Seminar Room
 
8:15 - 8:30 Open and Welcome
Doug Nychka, NCAR IMAGe)
 
Time Stepping Methods
 
8:30 - 9:00 Time Integrators for Atmospheric Fluid Dynamics [Abstract]  [Talk(pdf)]
Jörg Wensch, Technical University of Dresden
 
9:00 - 9:30 Construction and Performance of Exponential Integrators   [Abstract]  [Talk (pdf)]
Mayya Tokman, University of California, Merced
 
9:30 - 10:00 Implicit-Explicit Time Stepping Methods for Multiphysics Problems [Abstract]    [Talk(pdf)]
Emil M. Constantinescu, Argonne National Laboratory
 
10:00 - 10:30 Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis for Two-layered Shallow Water Model in a Limited Domain   [Abstract]  [Talk(pdf)]
Vani Cheruvu, Florida State University
 
10:30 - 11:10 Coffee break
 
11:10 - 11:40 Revisiting the Anticipated Potential Vorticity Method 
Todd Ringler, Los Alamos National Laboratory
 
11:40 - 12:10 The Importance of Being on Time: Exploring Temporal Error in Geophysical Fluid Simulation  [Abstract]  [Talk(pdf)]
Katherine (Kate) Evans, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
 
12:10 - 12:40 A New Preconditioning Strategy for a Spectral-element-based Magnetohydrodynamics Solver[Abstract]  [Talk(pdf)]
Duane Rosenberg, National Center for Atmospheric Research
 
12:40 - 2:20 Lunch
 
High-Order Methods
 
2:20 - 2:50 A Low Storage, High Order Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Curvilinear Domains
Tim Warburton, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
 
2:50 - 3:20 Time Acceleration Methods for the Shallow Water Equations on the Cubed Sphere
Rick Archibald, Computational Mathematics Group,ORNL
 
3:20 - 3:50 Solving the Global Shallow Water Equations in Vorticity-Divergence Form with Element-Based Galerkin Methods   [Abstract]  [Talk (pdf)]
Michael Levy, University of Colorado at Boulder
 
3:50 - 4:20 Simulation of Stratified Mixing in Thin Aspect Ratio Domain Using a Spectral Element Method: Handling Small Scale Noise and Improving the Iterative Poisson Solver   [Abstract]  [Talk (pdf)]
Mohamed Iskandarani, University of Miami
 
4:20 End of Session
 
4:30 Chartered bus takes participants to Millennium Harvest House
 
5:00 - 8:30 Mixer   (Millennium Harvest House)
 

Wednesday August 19

 
8:15am - 8:30 Coffee
 
Scalability and Performance
 
8:30 - 9:00 Exploiting Single Precision BLAS/LAPACK for the Efficient Implementation of the Implicit Discontinuous Galerkin Method
Jean-François Remacle, Université catholique de Louvain
 
9:00 - 9:30 GPU Metaprogramming Applied to High-Order DG and Loop Generation   [Abstract]  [Talk (pdf)]
Andreas Klöckner, Applied Mathematics, Brown University
 
9:30 - 10:00 Accelerating the Implicit Integration of Stiff Chemical Systems with Emerging Multi-core Technologies   [Abstract]  [Talk (pdf)]
John Linford, Virginia Polytechnic and State University
 
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
 
Adaptive Mesh Refinements
 
10:30 - 11:00 Verification through Adaptivity   [Abstract]  [Talk (pdf)]
Brian Carnes, Sandia National Laboratories
 
11:00 - 11:30 Applications of Anisotropic Adaptive Mesh Methods in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Matthew Piggott, Imperial College London
 
11:30 - 12:00pm The Application of the Discontinuous Galerkin Method to Non-hydrostatic and Hydrostatic Atmospheric Flows
Matthias Läuter, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
 
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch
 
Spatial Discretizations
 
2:00 - 2:30 Vortex-RBF Methods on the Surface of a Sphere   [Abstract]  [Talk(pdf)]
John P. Boyd, University of Michigan
 
2:30 - 3:00 Modeling Atmospheric Circulations with High-resolution Methods
Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz, National Center for Atmospheric Research
 
3:00 - 3:30 Characteristics-Based Flux-Form Semi-Lagrangian Methods for Atmospheric Simulation[Abstract]  [Talk(pdf)]
Matthew R. Norman, North Carolina State University
 
3:30 - 4:00 Tracer Advection Using Characteristic Discontinuous Galerkin   [Abstract]  [Talk (pdf)]
Robert Lowrie, Los Alamos National Laboratory
 
4:00 - 4:45 Vertical Discretization in the Non-Hydrostatic Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) Model
Jean Côté, Environment Canada
 
4:45 End of Session
 
5:00 Chartered bus takes participants to Millennium Harvest House
 
 

Thursday August 20

 
8:15am - 8:30 Coffee
 
Scalability and Performance
 
 
8:30 - 9:00 Practical Issues in Comparing Explicit and Implicit Methods on Parallel Computers  [Abstract]  [Talk(pdf)]
Patrick Worley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
 
9:00 - 9:30 Advanced Analysis, Sensitivity, and Optimization Capabilities in the Trilinos Collection   [Abstract]  [Talk(pdf)]
Roscoe A. Bartlett, Sandia National Laboratories
 
9:30 - 10:30 Optimizing High-Resolution Climate Variability Experiments on Cray XT4 and Cray XT5 Systems at NICS and NERSC   [Abstract] and Scaling High-Resolution Climate to the Next Level  [Abstract]  [Talks(pdf)]
John Dennis, National Center for Atmospheric Research
 
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
 
HOMME: High-Order Modeling Environment
 
11:00 - 11:30 Convectively Coupled Waves in HOMME Via a Simple Multicloud Model
Boualem Khouider, University of Victoria
 
11:30 - 12:00pm Fully Implicit JFNK Solvers in the HOMME Code: A Case Study on Software Toolkit Integration
Roger Pawlowski, Sandia National Laboratories
 
12:00 - 12:30 An Overview of CAM-HOMME and Recent Simulation Results   [Abstract]  [Talk(pdf)]
Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratories
 
12:30 - 1:45 Lunch
 
Future Directions for HOMME and Geo-numerical Applications
 
1:45 - 3:15 Group session
3:15 Workshop Adjourn
3:30 Chartered bus takes participants to Millennium Harvest House