Events & News

Visitors

• Dr. Martin Vohralik from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), will be visiting CSM for four weeks beginning May 11, 2009.
• Dr. Ethan Kubatko from The Ohio State University, will be visiting CSM for two weeks beginning June 29, 2009.
• Dr. Andro Mikelic from Université Lyon 1, France, will be visiting CSM for three weeks beginning April 14, 2009.
• Dr. Sílvia Barbeiro from University of Coimbra, Portugal, is currently visiting CSM. Research interests within this collaboration include the numerical solution of partial differential systems applied to coupled geomechanics and reservoir flow models, giving special attention to stress-sensitive reservoir problems.

CSM Announcements

• April 2009 - New Research Center Announced: The Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security (CFSES) was announced in late April. Dr. Gary Pope will be the director of the new research center. Funding for the center comes as part of the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) Awards from the Department of Energy's Office of Science. CPGE, in partnership with UT's Jackson School of Geology, UT's Institute for Computational Engineering, and Sandia National Labs will receive approximately $15.5 million over a five-year period. The goal of the center is to explain the movement or transport of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in geological systems. Please see the official press release (PDF document) or the EFRC page for more info on this historic research opportunity.
• We are pleased to announce that Professor Mary F. Wheeler was selected as Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for her outstanding contributions to the fields served by SIAM. "The initial Fellows were selected from among those SIAM members for which certain previous recognition places them clearly among those intended to be recognized by this program. This included members of certain national academies and corporate and laboratory fellowship programs, recipients of certain SIAM or ICIAM prizes, recent editors-in-chief of SIAM journals, and former SIAM presidents."
• We are pleased to announce that Professor Mary F. Wheeler has been selected the winner of the 2009 SIAM Theodore von Kármán Prize, one of SIAM's most distinguished prizes, and the SIAM SIAG/GS Career Prize. In awarding the von Kármán Prize, the committee made the following quote: "The prize committee particularly cited your seminal research in numerical methods for partial differential equations, your leadership in the field of scientific computation and service to the scientific community, and your pioneering work in the application of computational methods to the engineering sciences, most notably in the geosciences. They noted your place at the forefront of efforts forging connections between mathematics and engineering, and between academia and industry, and your work over the last decade developing and applying state-of-the-art algorithms and computational science tools to problems of societal importance in energy and the environment." With regard to the Career Prize, the following was stated: "Together with your selection for the SIAM SIAG/GS Career Prize, this is truly an extraordinary recognition. The Career Prize recognizes your achievements in geosciences as judged by your closest peers, while the von Kármán Prize emphasizes the breadth of regard for your work across applied mathematics. Taken together it is hard to imagine a clearer statement of the regard in which you are held our community." The von Kármán Prize will be awarded at the SIAM annual meeting in Denver in July.
• We are pleased to announce that Professor Mary F. Wheeler, "Reservoir Characterization and Evaluation of Long Term CO2 Storage in Saline Aquifers" has been selected the winner W.A. “Tex” Moncrief, Jr. Simulation-Based Engineering and Sciences (SBES) Grand Challenge Faculty Awards for the 2009-2010 academic year.
• We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mary Wheeler, Dr. Todd Arbogast and Dr. Mojdeh Delshad have been awarded a KAUST Collaboration Research Grant (CRG) to investigate multiscale and multiphysics algorithms for the simulation of multiphase flow and transport coupled with geochemical reactions and geomechanical deformation in porous media.
• We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mary Wheeler, Dr. Todd Arbogast and Dr. Mojdeh Delshad have been awarded a Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate computational models for long term CO2 storage in saline aquifers.

CSM Industrial Affiliates Program

CSM Industrial Affiliates Meeting will be held on Oct. 14 – 15, 2009.

Feature Announcements

• Dr. Mika Juntunen has joined the CSM research team as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Juntunen received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Helsinki University of Technology (Finland) in 2009. He is interested in both analysis and implementation of the finite element method. His research focuses on the a posteriori error estimation, adaptive methods, and the treatment of the boundary or interface conditions.
• Dr. Sunil G. Thomas has joined the CSM research team as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Thomas completed his Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics from UT Austin in August 2009 under the supervision of Prof. Mary F. Wheeler. His research interests lie in the area of parallel domain decomposition methods for multiphase flow and coupled flow-transport problems in porous media. His recent work involves the analysis and implementation of the EVMFEM for non-matching multiblock grids applied to the coupled flow transport problem.
• CSM will begin a collaboration with the Centre for Mathematics at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in April 2009 to study reaction-diffusion in porous media.