This proposal seeks support for The 8th International Conference on Scientific Computing and Applications (SCA 2012) to be held at University of Nevada Las Vegas during April 1-4, 2012. The conference is the eighth in a sequence of international meetings held every two years in different countries in North America and Asia. The proposed conference will bring together researchers working in various fields of scientific computing and its applications to solve scientific and industrially oriented problems, and to provide a forum for the participants to meet and exchange ideas between computational mathematics, engineering and industrial communities. The intellectual merit of the conference is embodied in its addressing many fundamentally challenging topics: Multiphase Flow in Porous Media; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; Climate Simulation; Modeling of Renewable Energy; Numerical Techniques for Wave Propagations; Numerical Methods for Stochastic PDEs.
The NSF funding will be used to cover the travel cost for about 30 conference participants, who will be predominantly students and junior researchers from U.S., but the organizers expect to also cover the travel and subsistence expenses of some senior participants. The conference organizers will make their great efforts in attracting young participants, especially participants from under-represented groups, and providing valuable opportunities for them to network with leaders of computational mathematics. The conference will provide a better understanding and applications in areas of importance to the nation such as national security, environment, nano science, and energy. Specific examples include developing robust and efficient scientific computing tools for oil reservoir simulation, fuel Cells, biofuels, design of invisibility cloak, ice-sheet models for the next generation climate simulation, etc.
(SCA) was successfully held in University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) during April 1 - 4, 2012. This series of conferences were held in the Pacific Rim region, including Hong Kong (twice), Alberta of Canada (twice), Shanghai in China, Busan in Korea, and Dalian in China. It is the first time this SCA conference was held in USA, and it was the largest of all SCA conferences. It attracted about 180 participants from Australia, Brasil, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and USA. More than 140 papers were presented on various subjects in modern scientific computing and its applications, such as finite element methods, multiscale methods, finite difference methods, spectral methods, collocation methods, adaptive methods, parallel computing, linear solvers, and applications to fluid flow, nano-optics, biofilms, finance, magnetohydrodynamics flow, electromagnetic waves, fluid-structure interaction problem, and stochastic PDEs. The NSF funding were used to cover the travel cost for about 30 conference participants, including junior researchers (especially participants from under-represented groups) and plenary speakers mainly from U.S. The conference provided a better understanding and applications in areas of importance to the nation such as national security, environment, nano science, and energy. Specific examples include developing robust and efficient scientific computing tools for oil reservoir simulation, fuel cells, biofuels, design of invisibility cloak, ice-sheet models for the next generation climate simulation, etc. A conference proceeding "Recent Advances in Scientific Computing and Applications" will be published by American Mathematical Society's Contemporary Mathematics (in 2013). This book contains 39 selected papers, which represent some currently active subjects. This book can serve as an excellent reference for graduate students and researchers who work in scientific computing and its applications in various areas of science and engineering.
