The rapid progress and expansion of computational power will soon reach the exascale, and provide the compute to solve a new class of problems. The enabling science of high-performance computing is computational mathematics: permitting solution to high dimensional problems, improve the efficiency of calculation, and robustly quantify uncertainty.

Mathēmatica Sōlis et Terrae, an Australian Academy of Science Elizabeth and Frederick White Research Conference, is a two-day research conference. It will bring together a diverse group of disciplines to share challenges and explore synergies in high performance computing simulation in the fields of the solid Earth (geophysics), land-atmosphere carbon exchange (earth systems science), and solar physics.

The conference will cover topics in numerical analysis (e.g. Galerkin methods, spline-based techniques, sparse-grids, uncertainty quantification and matching layers) and applications in geophysics, Earth system science and solar and astrophysics.

Plenary speakers

Numerical analysis

• Santiago Badia (Monash University)
• Jerome Droniou (Monash University)
• Ulrich Rüde (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Solar / Fusion

• Amitava Bhatarcharajee (Princeton University)
• Michael Wheatland (University of Sydney)
• Paul Cally (Monash University)

Geophysics

• Phil Cummins (Australian National University)
• Alice-Agnes Gabriel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
• Dave Lee (Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia)

Earth Systems Science

• Matthias Cuntz (INRAE, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment)
• Clint Dawson (University of Texas at Austin)
• Andy Hogg (Australian National University)

Important Dates: 

Contributed Abstract Deadline: 1^st October 2021

Conference: 2-3 December 2021