Events & News

Visitors

• Dr. Andro Mikelic from Université Lyon 1, Department of Mathematics, will be visiting CSM for a few weeks beginning in April 2012.
• Dr. Vivette Girault from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, will be visiting CSM for a few weeks beginning in October 2011.
• Dr. Ivan Yotov from University of Pittsburgh, Department of Mathematics, will be visiting CSM for a few weeks in August 2011. Research Area: Computational Modeling of Porous Media.
• Dr. Martin Vohralik from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), will be visiting CSM for three weeks beginning in March 2011.

CSM Announcements

• We are pleased to announce that Professor Todd Arbogast was selected to receive the ICES Distinguished Research Excellence Award. The award is given to ICES core faculty who have demonstrated a sustained level of distinguished research in computational sciences and engineering.
• We are pleased to announce that the Center for Subsurface Modeling research team together with researchers from The Center for Autonomic Computing (Rutgers University) and the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center were awarded first place in the IEEE SCALE 2011 Challenge for their demonstration, "A Scalable Ensemble-based Oil-Reservoir Simulations using Blue Gene/P-as-a-Service". Check out the article and the demo.
  Paper: Scalable Ensemble-based Oil-Reservoir Simulations using Blue Gene/P as-a-Service
• We are pleased to announce that Professor Todd Arbogast was selected to receive the W. A. "Tex" Moncrief Grand Challenge Faculty Awards in ICES for the 2011-2012 academic year. Proposed work: "Characteristic Methods for Simulating Long-Time Carbon Sequestration Transport".
• We are pleased to announce that Professor Mary Wheeler was selected to receive the 2011 Humboldt Senior Research Prize. The highest ranking granted to a foreigner in Germany.
• The 21st SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium (RSS) will be held 21-23 February 2011 in The Woodlands, Texas, USA. This Symposium is held once every two years. RSS is SPE's premier meeting on Modeling Flow and Transport Processes in Porous Media. The symposium brings together leading experts from Industry and Academia. RSS has a strong track record of great contributions to the Reservoir Simulation and the wider Numerical Modeling communities. Please consider participating in RSS 2011. Please submit your Abstract online at http://www.spe.org/events/rss/index.php Click on the "Call for Papers" Quick Link, then Click the Green Button. Abstract Submission Deadline: 16 August 2010. Upon acceptance of the Abstract, a Full Manuscript is required by December 13, 2010.
• The role of Computation in Protecting the Environment: A workshop on Carbon Sequestration Simulation for High School Mathematics and Science Teachers...continue reading.
• Engineer Reduces Big Problems to Manageable Numbers Mary Wheeler solves the unsolvable by modelling the invisible, and in the process, provides solid answers for those seeking to improve groundwater quality or find oil and gas. Her research requires the world’s most powerful computers to parse the mathematical equations she develops to model the underground world...continue reading.
• We are pleased to announce that Professor Mary Wheeler has been elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for her outstanding contributions to her profession, the nation, and the world. “The men and women we elect today are true pathbreakers who have made unique contributions to their fields, and to the world”, said Academy Chair Louis W. Cabot. “The Academy honors them and their work, and they, in turn, honor us”. Professor Wheeler will be inducted at a ceremony on October 9, at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

CSM Industrial Affiliates Program

CSM Industrial Affiliates Meeting will be held on November 8th & 9th 2011.

Feature Announcements

• Dr. Reza Tavakoli has joined the CSM research team as a postdoctoral fellow.
• Dr. Ben Ganis has joined the CSM research team as a postdoctoral fellow.
• CSM will begin a collaboration with the Centre for Mathematics at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in April 2009 to study reaction-diffusion in porous media.