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	The next SIAM Geosciences Conference will be held from June 14 - 19, 2009, at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany.		The next SIAM Geosciences Conference will be held from June 14 - 19, 2009, at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany.

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The conference website is now up [1]

The next SIAM Geosciences Conference will be held from June 14 - 19, 2009, at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany.

About the conference

From points of view ranging from science to public policy, there is burgeoning interest in modeling of geoscientific problems. Some examples include petroleum exploration and recovery, underground waste disposal and cleanup of hazardous waste, earthquake prediction, weather prediction, and global climate change. Such modeling is fundamentally interdisciplinary; physical and mathematical modeling at appropriate scales, physical experiments, mathematical theory, probability and statistics, numerical approximations, and large-scale computational algorithms all have important roles to play.

This conference facilitates communication between scientists of varying backgrounds and work environments facing similar issues in different fields, and provides a forum in which advances in parts of the larger modeling picture can become known to those working in other parts. These kinds of interactions are needed for meaningful progress in understanding and predicting complex physical phenomena in the geosciences.

The current SIAM website link to the conference is [2]. This will be updated as soon as the official conference website is up and running.

Organizing committee

The organizing committee consists of

• Todd Arbogast, University of Texas at Austin (chair)
• Sabine Attinger, Helmholtz Center of Environmental Research, Germany
• Omar Ghattas, The University of Texas at Austin
• Francis Giraldo, Naval Postgraduate School
• William G. Gray, University of North Carolina
• Knut-Andreas Lie, SINTEF ICT, Norway
• Susan Minkoff, University of Maryland Baltimore County
• Gabriel Wittum, Universitat Heidelberg, Germany

Conference themes

Conference themes include, amongst others

• Atmospheric Modeling
• Ocean and Atmospheric Modeling
• Global Climate Change
• Ocean modeling
• Surface Water
• Watersheds
• Reactive contaminant transport
• Multiphase Flows
• Carbon Sequestration
• Geo-energy (Tides, Wind, Fuelcells, Biocells, etc.)
• Seismology
• Inverse Modeling
• Earth Biosphere Systems
• Nuclear Waste Disposal
• Uncertainty quantification
• Upscaling and Multiscale methods
• Pore-scale characterization

Confirmed plenary speakers

We are pleased to announce that the following plenary speakers have been confirmed:

• Martin Blunt, Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
• Chris Farmer, Schlumberger and University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• Rupert Klein, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Free University of Berlin, Germany
• Rosemary Knight, Geophysics and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, USA
• Peter Lemke, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, University of Bremen, Germany
• Barbara Romanowicz, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Joannes Westerink, Computational Hydraulics Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, USA

Important deadlines (preliminary)

Call for papers: August 14, 2008

Submission of minisymposium proposals: November 14, 2008

Submission of abstracts of contributed and minisymposia speakers: 14th December 2008

For more information, please contact Sindy Rosenkranz at sindy.rosenkranz@ufz.de