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| <big>'''SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences'''</big> | <big>'''SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences'''</big> | ||
| + | '''Magne Espedal''' | ||
| + | We are very sad to write that our friend and colleague Magne Espedal passed away recently. | ||
| - | '''Welcome to SIAG GS - Happy 2010''' | + | Helge Dahle, Mike Celia and Jan Nordbotten wrote this obituary: |
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| + | It was with great shock and sadness that we received the news that Professor Magne S. Espedal, University of Bergen, died Monday January 25, 2010, during a trip to Stuttgart. Magne was in Stuttgart writing a proposal for a new collaborative research and educational program together with German and Dutch colleagues. Although Magne had struggled with many health problems over the last 20 years, he appeared to be in very good shape and was as enthusiastic about academic pursuits as ever. Magne shared his last meal with professor Rainer Helmig, but never showed up for a meeting the next morning. He appears to have died peacefully while sleeping. | ||
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| + | Magne was born in a small village at the west coast of Norway in 1942. He came to the University of Bergen as a student in 1962, and obtained a permanent position in the Mathematics department in 1971. In 1990 Magne was promoted to full professor. | ||
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| + | Magne started his professional career working on problems related to plasma physics and nuclear fusion. However, Magne soon realized the challenges and demands for education and research created by the development of a national petroleum industry in Norway. His research focus therefore changed to mathematical modeling of flows and transport in porous media. Magne was crucial in establishing a research group and educational program in reservoir mechanics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Bergen. Later, he was one of the main forces behind the creation of the interdisciplinary Center for Integrated Petroleum Research (CIPR), which is a national center of excellence. | ||
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| + | Magne's scientific work covered a broad range of topics. Most of his work was conducted in close collaboration with students and colleagues in the US and Europe. He has written influential papers across many topics related to modeling flows in porous media, including operator splitting methods, domain decomposition methods, and upscaling. Lately, he had been working on modeling microbes used for enhanced oil recovery. | ||
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| + | Magne had many leading roles in Norwegian research, including the Norwegian Research Council. To many of us he was an informal leader of the Norwegian community in applied mathematics. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. | ||
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| + | Even with this truly illustrious career as a leader in the porous media research community, many of us will remember Magne even more as a great mentor and friend. He was the most popular advisor in the Bergen Mathematics Department, educating more than 100 graduate students. Equally significantly, he was generous with his time whenever colleagues came to him for insights and wisdom. Magne always believed in providing the best possible environment for education and research, especially for young scientists to whom he always provided opportunities to grow and become independent researchers. Many of us owe Magne a deep debt of gratitude, and we will miss him very much. | ||
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| + | '''Welcome to SIAG GS''' | ||
| The SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences provides an interactive environment wherein modelers concerned with problems of the geosciences can share their problems with algorithm developers, applied mathematicians, numerical analysts, and other scientists. | The SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences provides an interactive environment wherein modelers concerned with problems of the geosciences can share their problems with algorithm developers, applied mathematicians, numerical analysts, and other scientists. | ||
| - | Topics of interest include flow in porous media, multiphase flows, phase separation, wave propagation, combustion, channel flows, global and regional climate modeling, reactive flows, sedimentation and diagenesis, and rock fracturing. If you are a SIAM member interested in any of these application areas, please join us. SIAG GS is growing. We currently have over 320 members, up from 250 in 2005. | + | Topics of interest include flow in porous media, multiphase flows, phase separation, wave propagation, combustion, channel flows, global and regional climate modeling, reactive flows, sedimentation and diagenesis, and rock fracturing. If you are a SIAM member interested in any of these application areas, please join us. |
| - | The highlight of our activities is our biennial conference. The last conferences were held in Leipzig (June 2009) and Santa Fe (March 2007) and were both well attended conferences with many stimulating presentations and discussions. The 2011 conference will be held in spring 2011 in the LA/Anaheim area. | + | The highlight of our activities is our biennial conference. Our next conference is in Long Beach in the spring of 2011. |
| - | Two of the key events of the 2009 conference were the prize ceremonies for both Mary Wheeler, who is the recipient of our first Career Award, and Jan Nordbotten, the recipient of our first Young Scientist award. Congratulations to both! We are delighted to have such distinguished and talented researchers in our midst. You can read an article on the prize ceremony with a short biography of each awardee in SIAM News [http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=1629] | ||
| - | '''News - January 2010''' | + | '''News - February 2010''' |
| - | New jobs are listed under Job Listings | + | Check out the new job postings under the Job Listings menu item |
| + | Check out our SIAG GS prize winners in SIAM News [http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=1629] | ||
| - | See News menu item for non-SIAG meetings of interest | ||
| [[SIAM annual meeting 2010]] | [[SIAM annual meeting 2010]] | ||
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| The SIAM annual meeting 2010 is in Pittsburg, July 12-16. | The SIAM annual meeting 2010 is in Pittsburg, July 12-16. | ||
| It is held jointly with the SIAM conference on Life Sciences. | It is held jointly with the SIAM conference on Life Sciences. | ||
| - | We hope that Geosciences will be well represented and are looking | ||
| - | for volunteers to organize minisymposia. If you are a graduate student | ||
| - | and would like to organize a minisymposium you are of course very | ||
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| - | We have two or three minisymposia in the pipeline already, most | ||
| - | in the area of subsurface flow. | ||
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| - | The minisymposium submission is due by January 12, 2010 and | ||
| - | consists of a title, a short description, and a list of four confirmed speakers | ||
| - | along with titles of their presentations. The deadline for the speakers to | ||
| - | submit their abstracts is February 2, 2010. For more information, | ||
| - | including the minisymposium submission form, see http://www.siam.org/meetings/an10/. | ||
| [[SIAG GS prize committee: call for nominations]] | [[SIAG GS prize committee: call for nominations]] | ||
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| Are you interested in serving on the Prize committee, or would | Are you interested in serving on the Prize committee, or would | ||
| you like to nominate a colleague to serve on this committee? | you like to nominate a colleague to serve on this committee? | ||
| - | Please send an email with suggestions to margot.gerritsen@stanford.edu | + | Please send an email with suggestions to the chairwoman of the |
| + | prize committee Jean Roberts (jean.roberts@inria.fr) | ||
Revision as of 06:30, 23 February 2010
SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences
Magne Espedal
We are very sad to write that our friend and colleague Magne Espedal passed away recently.
Helge Dahle, Mike Celia and Jan Nordbotten wrote this obituary:
It was with great shock and sadness that we received the news that Professor Magne S. Espedal, University of Bergen, died Monday January 25, 2010, during a trip to Stuttgart. Magne was in Stuttgart writing a proposal for a new collaborative research and educational program together with German and Dutch colleagues. Although Magne had struggled with many health problems over the last 20 years, he appeared to be in very good shape and was as enthusiastic about academic pursuits as ever. Magne shared his last meal with professor Rainer Helmig, but never showed up for a meeting the next morning. He appears to have died peacefully while sleeping.
Magne was born in a small village at the west coast of Norway in 1942. He came to the University of Bergen as a student in 1962, and obtained a permanent position in the Mathematics department in 1971. In 1990 Magne was promoted to full professor.
Magne started his professional career working on problems related to plasma physics and nuclear fusion. However, Magne soon realized the challenges and demands for education and research created by the development of a national petroleum industry in Norway. His research focus therefore changed to mathematical modeling of flows and transport in porous media. Magne was crucial in establishing a research group and educational program in reservoir mechanics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Bergen. Later, he was one of the main forces behind the creation of the interdisciplinary Center for Integrated Petroleum Research (CIPR), which is a national center of excellence.
Magne's scientific work covered a broad range of topics. Most of his work was conducted in close collaboration with students and colleagues in the US and Europe. He has written influential papers across many topics related to modeling flows in porous media, including operator splitting methods, domain decomposition methods, and upscaling. Lately, he had been working on modeling microbes used for enhanced oil recovery.
Magne had many leading roles in Norwegian research, including the Norwegian Research Council. To many of us he was an informal leader of the Norwegian community in applied mathematics. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Even with this truly illustrious career as a leader in the porous media research community, many of us will remember Magne even more as a great mentor and friend. He was the most popular advisor in the Bergen Mathematics Department, educating more than 100 graduate students. Equally significantly, he was generous with his time whenever colleagues came to him for insights and wisdom. Magne always believed in providing the best possible environment for education and research, especially for young scientists to whom he always provided opportunities to grow and become independent researchers. Many of us owe Magne a deep debt of gratitude, and we will miss him very much.
Our thoughts go to Magne’s family.
Welcome to SIAG GS
The SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences provides an interactive environment wherein modelers concerned with problems of the geosciences can share their problems with algorithm developers, applied mathematicians, numerical analysts, and other scientists.
Topics of interest include flow in porous media, multiphase flows, phase separation, wave propagation, combustion, channel flows, global and regional climate modeling, reactive flows, sedimentation and diagenesis, and rock fracturing. If you are a SIAM member interested in any of these application areas, please join us.
The highlight of our activities is our biennial conference. Our next conference is in Long Beach in the spring of 2011.
News - February 2010
Check out the new job postings under the Job Listings menu item
Check out our SIAG GS prize winners in SIAM News [1]
The SIAM annual meeting 2010 is in Pittsburg, July 12-16. It is held jointly with the SIAM conference on Life Sciences.
SIAG GS prize committee: call for nominations
We will award a career prize and a young scientist prize at the Geosciences conferences in 2011. For an article on this year's prizes see http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=1629
Are you interested in serving on the Prize committee, or would you like to nominate a colleague to serve on this committee? Please send an email with suggestions to the chairwoman of the prize committee Jean Roberts (jean.roberts@inria.fr)
Student members and SIAM Student chapters
We'd like to increase the number of student members in the SIAG. If you advise graduate students that are not yet member of SIAG Geosciences, please let them know that they can join the activity group for free.
SIAM now has 68 (!) SIAM student chapter, see http://www.siam.org/students/chapters/current.php Many of the chapters organize seminars. If you are near one of these chapters, either through work or through travel, consider volunteering to give a seminar on your research in Geosciences. The chapters would be delighted to host you.
We can assist in coordinating such talks. Please send an email to margot.gerritsen@stanford.edu if you can volunteer. Graduate student members: please feel free to volunteer yourself too
Best wishes from your new 2009-2011 SIAG AG committee:
- Chair: Margot Gerritsen, margot.gerritsen@stanford.edu
- Vice-Chair: Jean Roberts, jean.roberts@inria.fr
- Program Director: Malgorzata Peszynska, mpesz@math.oregonstate.edu
- Secretary: Hector Klie, hector.klie@gmail.com
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