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G-ADOPT Workshop 2024

The 2024 G-ADOPT workshop will be held at the ANU's Kioloa Coastal Campus on the New South Wales coast. Mark your diaries for Sunday 10/11/24 (4 pm) - Tuesday 12/11/24 (4 pm).

The workshop will provide background to the platform and training for potential users, thus facilitating community growth. We welcome national and international participants. The workshop will provide an opportunity for the G-ADOPT team to showcase recent progress on the forward and adjoint components of this finite element modelling platform. Key areas of focus will include:

  1. Mantle and lithosphere dynamics;
  2. Glacial isostatic adjustment and visco-elasticity;
  3. Multi-material simulations;
  4. Adjoint-based optimisation problems.

Thanks to generous support from our partners at AuScope, this workshop will be free for all students and early-career academics, provided registration is complete before the early-bird registration deadline of 30/06/2024. Student and early-career registrations after this date require a contribution of $50. Registration for other participants will be $200 prior to the early-bird registration deadline, and $250 thereafter.

Schedule

Sunday November 10th

  • 16.00
    Arrival and safety briefing
  • 17.00–19.00
    Dinner and ice-breaker

Monday November 11th

  • 8.00–9.00
    Breakfast
  • 9.15–10.00
    Presentation: Welcome and overview of G-ADOPT platform and the team, including developments across 2023/2024
    Rhodri Davies
  • 10.00–10.30
    Tea/coffee
  • 10.30–11.30
    Presentation: Forward and adjoint modelling, via the Finite Element Method — theory, challenges and automation
    Sia Ghelichkhan
  • 11.30–12.00
    Presentation: The G-ADOPT project environment, including Github and CI; Colab; building Firedrake with G-ADOPT; accessing and running G-ADOPT on the NCI
    Angus Gibson, Dale Roberts
  • 12.00–14.00
    Lunch/beach
  • 14.00–15.45
    Tutorials 1: Forward modelling tutorials, including free-surfaces and multi-material approaches → the G-ADOPT library
    Rhodri Davies, Thomas Duvernay
  • 15.45–16.15
    Tea/coffee
  • 16.15–18.00
    Tutorials 2: PDE constrained optimisation and adjoints
    Sia Ghelichkhan, Rhodri Davies
  • 18.00–19.00
    Downtime
  • 19.00–21.00
    Dinner, drinks and quiz
    The infamous Mark Hoggard & Shihao Jiang

Tuesday November 12th

  • 8.00–9.00
    Breakfast
  • 9.00–9.45
    Presentation: Glacial Isostatic Adjustment — theory, approach and timeline
    Will Scott, Mark Hoggard
  • 9.45–10.45
    User showcase
    • 9.45–10.00 — Japjeet Singh: towards coupling GIA and ice-sheet models
    • 10.00–10.10 — Tom New: coupled models of G-ADOPT and GPlates
    • 10.10–10.20 — Haining Chang: G-ADOPT dynamic Earth models
    • 10.20–10.30 — Prahlada Mittal: synthetic inversions for mantle viscosity
    • 10.30–10.40 — Sia Ghelichkhan, Liam Morrow: digital-twins of Earth’s groundwater systems
  • 10.40–11.15
    Tea/coffee
  • 11.15–12.45
    Tutorials 3: Towards Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in G-ADOPT
    Will Scott
  • 12.45–13.30
    Lunch
  • 13.30–15.00
    Tutorials 4
    1. Global mantle convection models (coupled to GPlates), including post-processing tools;
      Sia Ghelichkhan, Angus Gibson
    2. GIA extensions and adjoints
      Will Scott, Mark Hoggard
  • 15.00–15.30
    Tea/coffee
  • 15.30–16.30
    Interactive discussion sessions
    1. What functionality would the community like prioritised for future developments?
    2. Identifying, discussing and outlining applicability of other research areas;
    3. Wrap up!
  • 16.30–17.00
    Departure