Third Latin American SCAT Workshop
hosted by Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e aplicada, IMPA
Rio de Janeiro, 24-28 March 2008.
The dotted circle shows the idyllic
location of IMPA in Rio de Janeiro.
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This event is locally organized by the SCAT partners at IMPA, with the support of the SCAT coordinating office in Bristol.
IMPA is a world-renowned research institute and graduate school, within the Brazilian Ministry for Science and Technology. It was the first research unit to be established by the Brazilian National Research Council, in 1951. The academic prestige and influence of the institute became more visible with the advent of the Brazilian Mathematical Colloquiums, the first one of which was held in 1957. These meetings have since taken place every two years, and have grown from initially about 50 participants, to over 1200 participants nowadays.
Graduate programs started at IMPA in 1962, by an agreement with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, which officially awarded the degrees. The institute began to enlarge its faculty in 1968 by recalling Brazilian mathematicians working at distinguished institutions abroad. In 1970, it established regular Master's and Doctoral programs, concurrent with the extended growth in its research and researcher-training activities.
Classic view of Rio de Janeiro,
seen from Corcovado.
The worldwide distinction that IMPA has achieved originates from the quality of its scientific work and from the role it has played in the training of new researchers: about 170 doctorate and 400 master's degrees awarded up to the present day.
IMPA is now housed in buildings located at the Jardim Botanico, which were inaugurated in 1981. The number of areas of research has grown tremendously: starting in the 1970s, the existing activities in Partial Differential Equations, Differential Topology and Dynamical Systems, were extended to Probability and Statistics, Operations Research and Mathematical Economics. Later on, the fields of Fluid Dynamics and Computer Graphics would become consolidated into the program as well.
Thematic Focus
Wave phenomena are fascinating to
observe and fundamental in many
problems of science and engineering
The thematic focus of this workshop is: "Computational and Mathematical Challenges in Wells, Waves & Weather".
The objective of this workshop is to bring together members of the SCAT project in Europe and Latin America with scientists in Brazil, to discuss the latest development in computer simulations of the weather, of wave phenomena, and problems related to the extraction from deep wells. These topics are of prime importance to the sustainable development of Brazil, and also showcase the strengths of scientific research in the country.
As in all SCAT events, the focus is on scientific research, and international collaboration. In this opportunity, examples of specific topics of interest include:
- fluid flow in porous media
- weather prediction using numerical models
- atmospheric wave phenomena
- meteorology, oceanography, hydrology
- multi-scale simulation of fluids
- rotating flows
- computational methods for nonlinear wave problems
- high-order numerical methods
- wave phenomena in biology
Programme
The programme will consist on research presentations by attending SCAT members, as well as by invited Brazilian scientists and graduate students.
As has become a tradition in SCAT meetings, we take one afternoon off for a social event. This will be announced soon.
Conference Programme (PDF)
Daily programme of activities, courses and scientific presentations.
Location
This workshop will take place in the grounds of IMPA, located at the Jardim Botanico in Rio de Janeiro. Arrangements have been made for bookings in several hotels near the beach of Ipanema, and transport will be provided daily, thanks to additional funding by IMPA.
Bookings are being managed by CMO Eventos. Please see their website for more information, or address your queries directly to Mr Orlando Pavan, email orlandopavan@cmoeventos.com.br and phone/fax 55 21 2210 1732.
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Dept. of Mathematics
University of Bristol
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