[Faculty] Fwd: [CSRC-SDSU COLLOQUIUM]: Hierarchies in Simulation-Based Science and Engineering

[Jose Castillo]

*DATE:*  Friday, April 24th, 2015

*TITLE:*  Hierarchies in Simulation-Based Science and Engineering

*TIME:*  3:30 PM

*LOCATION:*  GMCS 214

*SPEAKER:*  Dr. David Levermore. Dept. of Mathematics at University of
Maryland

*ABSTRACT:*  Simulation has emerged as the third pillar of science and
engineering, complementing observation and theory. It plays a major role
when the system being studied is either too remote, too complicated, or too
large to allow a thorough observational interrogation. The accompanying
theoretical framework is usually multi-description, multi-physics, and
multi-scale. The models used are often data-driven. This all demands an
interdisciplinary hierarchical approach to models, algorithms, and data. We
show how this approach applies to model validation, algorithm verification,
model and algorithm building, calibration, and uncertainty quantification.
It gives importance to different mathematical questions than a classical
non-hierarchical approach. It demands a larger role for statistics. It
requires scientists and mathematicians to be good engineers in order to do
good science. Examples might be drawn from climate, weather, plasma,
astrophysics, engineering, biochemistry, fisheries, and other applications.

*HOST:*  Dr. Jose Castillo

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