The International Workshop on the Frontiers of Computational Geodynamics (IWFCG) & International Professionals for the Advancement of Chinese Earth Sciences Annual Meeting (IPACES) 2014, hosted by the LCG-CAS, was held on June 30-July 2, 2014, at the International Conference Center, UCAS.
The three-day workshop, chaired by Prof. Yaolin Shi, Director of the LCG-CAS Academic Committee and CAS Member, co-chaired by Prof. Yang Hong, Chair of the IPACES, was attended by over 275 attendees, including 50 foreign scholars from overseas research institutes, presented the latest development in a broad range of earth science.
After a warm welcome speech delivered by Prof. Yaolin Shi, Prof. Mian Liu, Director of the LCG-CAS, made a general introduction on the workshop and Prof. Yang Hong gave an opening speech. Then 7 keynote speakers gave their talks respectively. They were Prof. Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Sectary-General of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Prof. Jian Lin from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, CAS Member Yongfei Zheng from the University of Science and Technology of China, Prof. Paul J. Tackley from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Prof. Kosuke Heki from Hokkaido University, Japan, Prof. Keke Zhang from the University of Exeter, USA, and Prof. Yaolin Shi. Prof. Wenke Sun and Prof. Yongshun Chen chaired the keynote session in turn.Compared with the IWFCG 2013, the workshop of this year has met a dramatically growth in scale and influence. There were 71 talks, including 42 talks given by oversea scholars from U.S.A., Great Britain, Germany, France, Australia, Italy and Japan. Concerning on hot topics in the earth science, like the origin of the moon, geothermobarometry, the gravity observation by Grace, D’’ zone, parallel calculation, the method of numerical calculation, remote sense, isotope, the growing of Tibetan Plateau and so on, these presentations have one common focus – study the origin and development of the earth and its sub-system by means of quantitative method.
With the development of computing science, especially the rapid growth of parallel computing, scientists could conduct some researches in a way that they never imagine before. And this is the opportunity for the LCG-CAS. We believe with the supports of the CAS and other relevant departments, we, the members of the LCG-CAS, could devote ourselves to the development of the LCG-CAS.
The three-day workshop left a deep impression on these attendees. They offered sufficient affirmation to the conditions of scientific research in UCAS, the conference facilities of the International Conference Center, and the environment of Yanqihu campus.
The IWFCG 2014 was supported by the CAS and the National Natural Science Foundation of China and was sponsored by Sugon Co. and Inspur Co..
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