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Applied Mathematics and Computation Seminars

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The AMC seminar is devoted to general topics in applied mathematics and computation. We welcome an interdisciplinary audience and speakers: faculty, researchers, and graduate students from mathematics, geosciences, computer science, engineering, atmospheric sciences, and other disciplines, to attend and present research talks in their fields as well as reaching across multiple fields. Both technical, tutorial, and expository presentations are welcome.

Attendees are encouraged to join the mailing list by sending an email to the organizer (M. Peszynska).

Students attending regularly are encouraged to sign up for (an appropriate section of) seminar credit under MTH 607. Non-OSU participants from outside academe are also encouraged to write an email to the organizers and provide their names and affiliation.

See below for upcoming seminars or access the seminar archive.


Organizers

Malgorzata Peszynska and Ralph E. Showalter.

Timing

Meetings are Fridays at noon.


Improving the accuracy of coupled physics packages in Earth system models

STAG 112

Speaker: Sean Santos

ABSTRACT: Earth system models solve exceedingly complicated multiphysics problems by breaking down the Earth system hierarchically into smaller sub-models (e.g. atmosphere, ocean, land, and sea ice), which are composed of smaller components themselves. This decomposition of an Earth system model (which may require millions of lines of code in its software implementation) into many small modules is a vital part of model development. However, naïve coupling of modular physics packages using first-order methods can significantly reduce model accuracy, or even produce numerical instability. This talk covers two examples from the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). First, we will see that “sequential” (Lie-Trotter) splitting is a major source of error for E3SM’s cloud and precipitation physics. We will discuss our evaluation of several proposed alternatives, including Strang splitting and multirate methods. Second, we will see that E3SM is prone to spurious “oscillations” in winds… Read more.


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STAG 112

Speaker: Tyler Fara and Jeremy Lily

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STAG 112

Speaker: TBA

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TBA

STAG 112

Speaker: Ricardo Reyes Grimaldo

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TBA

STAG 112

Speaker: Solomon Yim

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STAG 112

Speaker: TBA

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TBA

STAG 112

Speaker: Eleanor Jenkins

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