G-ADOPT Presentations and Tutorials — March–May 2025

Sydney, Earthbyte group — 28 March 2025 Rhodri Davies and Sia Ghelichkhan visited the Earthbyte group at the University of Sydney. They presented recent developments targetting global geodynamical models and their interaction with plate-reconstruction frameworks, via GPlates and its PyGPlates Python interface. A particular focus of this workshop was model output, with an emphasis on the tools available to post-process and interrogate global 3-D spherical models.

Munich, LMU — 06 May 2025 Sia Ghelichkhan visited the Computational Geodynamics group at LMU Munich and provided an overview of recent progress on the G-ADOPT platform. The visit included discussions on potential collaborations across multiple fronts, including adjoint methods and links to mineral physics models, with an emphasis on expanding the platform's applicability to broader geodynamic research.

Paris, IPGP — 09 May 2025 Thomas Duvernay visited IPGP and gave an overview of Firedrake and G-ADOPT to institute members. The presentation included an introduction with hands-on examples of Firedrake-based simulations alongside a discussion and overview of recent G-ADOPT developments. The objective was to provide an as-complete-as-possible first look of Firedrake and G-ADOPT to potential new users.

Zurich, ETH — 10 May 2025 Sia Ghelichkhan visited the Seismology and Wave Physics group at ETH Zurich to present the initial results from the GeoDynamic Preliminary Reference Earth Model (G-PREM), developed using the REVEAL workflow. The visit provided an opportunity to gather feedback and discuss future integration of seismic and geodynamic data in joint modelling efforts.