G-ADOPT Workshop 2025
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The 2025 G-ADOPT workshop will be held at the ANU's Research School of Earth Sciences in Canberra. Mark your diaries for Tuesday 18/11/25 (9.30 am – 5.30 pm), with a workshop dinner that evening. We welcome all participants, including existing and prospective users, developers, and collaborators.
The workshop will provide an opportunity for the G-ADOPT team to showcase recent development and advances in both the forward and adjoint components of this finite-element modelling platform. Areas of focus will include the following topics, with the level of detail and time dedicated to each tailored to the background and interests of registered participants.
- Mantle and lithosphere dynamics;
- Glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) and visco-elasticity;
- Groundwater modelling;
- New functionality: (i) mesh adaptivity; (ii) multi-material simulations;
Thanks to generous support from our partners at AuScope, this workshop will be free for all students, provided registration is completed before the early-bird registration deadline of 31/07/2025. Student registrations after this date require a contribution of A$30. Registration for other participants will be A$30 prior to the early-bird registration deadline and A$60 thereafter.
🕘 Schedule (Tentative)
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 09:30 – 10:15 | Welcome & Overview: Introduction and overview of G-ADOPT |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Scientific Showcase: Mantle and lithosphere dynamics |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Scientific Showcase: Glacial isostatic adjustment |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Scientific Showcase: Groundwater simulation |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Tutorial 1 (Base Case): Parallel sessions — mantle/lithosphere dynamics or GIA |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Break |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Tutorial 2 (Adjoint Case): Parallel sessions — mantle/lithosphere dynamics or GIA |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Break |
| 15:45 – 16:30 | Tutorial 3: Mesh adaptivity |
| 16:30 – 17:15 | Tutorial 4: Multi-material simulations |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Wrap-Up Discussion |
| 18:30 → | Workshop Dinner 🍽️ |
🧩 Notes
- The morning session will feature short talks, demonstrations, and open discussion.
- In the afternoon, we’ll switch to hands-on tutorials — running in parallel for mantle/lithosphere dynamics and GIA — before wrapping up with sessions on new functionality.
- Bring a laptop if you’d like to follow along with the practicals.
- Tutorials will be run on Google Colab, so please make sure you have a Google account set up beforehand.
- To visualise results, please install ParaView ahead of time.