Workshop à Kigali, Rwanda
Du 2 au 7 juillet 2023 : https://indico.ictp.it/event/10183/
Joint ICTP-EAIFR-IUGG Workshop on Computational Geodynamics: Towards Building a New Expertise Across Africa
Note: The school will start on Sunday, 2 July.
This workshop will bring together cutting-edge researchers in computational geodynamics to Kigali (Rwanda) with the aim to expose young African talents to this field. This event is co-sponsored by the ICTP-East African Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-EAIFR) of the University of Rwanda and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG).
Topics that will be covered consisting of the basic toolkit include:
- An introduction to geodynamics with particular emphasis on Africa. This activity will show the forces acting on the Earth, and the resulting movement and deformation on the Earth.
- An introduction to the theoretical physical background. Emphasis will be placed on the essentials of continuum mechanics and rheological models.
- Scaling analysis and dimensional analysis.
- Model Validation.
- The concepts of parallel computing and the scalability of models on parallel architecture.
The activities will combine formal lectures and practical work using some open source softwares for geodynamics.
Speakers:
- G. DUCLAUX, Côte d’Azur University, France
- I. GIROTTO, ICTP, Italy
- R. KATZ, University of Oxford, UK
- B. KAUS, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany
- D. MAY, UC San Diego, USA
W. SCHELLART, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
Call for Contributed Abstracts: All applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster presentation. Abstract templates are available on the workshop website (https://indico.ictp.it/event/10183/) for download.
Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.
