G-ADOPT Workshop 2025
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 (9.15 am – 5.45 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.
🕘 Schedule
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 09:15 – 09:45 | Welcome & Overview: Introduction and overview of G-ADOPT, including recent developments - Rhodri Davies |
| 09:45 – 10:15 | Scientific Showcase: Mantle and Lithosphere Dynamics: Forward and Adjoint Simulations - Rhodri Davies |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Scientific Showcase: Glacial Isostatic Adjustment - Will Scott, Mark Hoggard |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Scientific Showcase: Groundwater Simulation - Sia Ghelichkhan |
| 11:30 – 12:45 | Tutorial 1 (Base Case): Incorporating a brief overview of Finite Element Methods - Sia Ghelichkhan, Rhodri Davies |
| 12:45 – 13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 – 15:00 | Tutorial 2 (Adjoint Case): With a primer on adjoint theory - Sia Ghelichkhan |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Break |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Tutorial 3: Multi-material simulations - Thomas Duvernay |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Tutorial 4: Participants work through any published tutorial, with support from developers |
| 17:30 – 17:45 | Wrap-Up Discussion |
| 18:30 – Late | Workshop Dinner (Verity Lane) |
🧩 Notes
- The morning session will feature short talks, demonstrations, and our first tutorial. In the afternoon, we focus solely on tutorials.
- Bring a laptop if you’d like to follow along with the tutorials.
- 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.