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| - | '''Magne Espedal''' | ||
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| - | 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: | ||
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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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| - | Our thoughts go to Magne’s family. | ||
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| Check out the new job postings under the Job Listings menu item | 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] | ||
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| - | [[SIAM annual meeting 2010]] | ||
| - | The SIAM annual meeting 2010 is in Pittsburg, July 12-16. | + | [[Geosciences Conference 2011]] |
| - | It is held jointly with the SIAM conference on Life Sciences. | + | |
| - | [[SIAG GS prize committee: call for nominations]] | + | Our Geosciences Conference will be held March 21-24 in Long Beach, CA. |
| + | The conference website can be found at | ||
| + | http://www.siam.org/meetings/gs11/ | ||
| - | We will award a career prize and a young scientist prize | + | We look forward to receiving your contributed minisymposia and/or |
| - | at the Geosciences conferences in 2011. For an article on this year's | + | presentations and welcoming you to Los Angeles. |
| - | 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]] | [[Student members and SIAM Student chapters]] | ||
Revision as of 01:04, 10 August 2010
SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences
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 - August 2010
Check out the new job postings under the Job Listings menu item
Our Geosciences Conference will be held March 21-24 in Long Beach, CA. The conference website can be found at http://www.siam.org/meetings/gs11/
We look forward to receiving your contributed minisymposia and/or presentations and welcoming you to Los Angeles.
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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