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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 am – 5 pm). 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 on the forward and adjoint components of this finite-element modelling platform. Key areas of focus will include:

  1. Mantle and lithosphere dynamics;
  2. Multi-material simulations;
  3. Adjoint-based optimisation problems.

Depending on the background and interests of registered participants, glacial isostatic adjustment, visco-elasticity, and groundwater modelling could be included.

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

Tuesday 18 November 2025

  • 9.00–10.00 Presentation Welcome and overview of G-ADOPT platform and the team, including developments from the last 18 months Names
  • 10.00–10.30 Morning break (tea, coffee, fruits, nibbles)
  • 10.30–12.00 Tutorial Learn or review Firedrake and G-ADOPT basics; Implement your own forward modelling simulation using the G-ADOPT library Names
  • 12.00–12.30 Presentation 1 The G-ADOPT project environment: a wealth of tools to facilitate interacting with the library Angus Gibson and Dale Roberts
  • 12.30–14.00 Lunch break (Vanilla Bean)
  • 14.00–14:30 Presentation 2 New paradigm of geodynamical inverse modelling using G-ADOPT and the adjoint method Sia Ghelichkhan
  • 14.30–15:00 TBC Title Names
  • 15.00–15.30 Afternoon break (tea, coffee, fruits, nibbles)
  • 15.30–17.00 TBC Title Names
  • 17.00–17:30 TBC Title Names
  • 17.30–18.00 Interactive discussion Feedback from workshop attendees, for example:
    1. What functionality would the community like prioritised for future developments?;
    2. Identifying, discussing, and outlining applicability of other research areas;
    3. Comments on workshop format.
  • 18.00–Late Dinner (Bentspoke Brewing Co.)