Dear Colleagues,
I would like to bring to your attention the UQ workshop that will be held this September in Italy. Below is the workshop description copied from the workshop website available at https://frontuq18.org/.
The second edition of the outreach workshop “Frontiers of Uncertainty
Quantification” (FrontUQ) organized by the GAMM Activity Group on
Uncertainty Quantification will be held on 5-7 September 2018 in Pavia,
Italy, and will be focused on Uncertainty Quantification in Subsurface
Environments (see this website for first edition of the workshop, which was held in Munich, Germany, September 6-8, 2017).
Subsurface environments host natural resources which are critical to the
needs of our society and to its development. The diversity of problems
encountered in subsurface modeling naturally calls
for multi-disciplinary research efforts, with contributions from a wide
range of fields including, e.g., mathematics, hydrology, geology,
physics and biogeochemistry. Complex mathematical models and numerical
techniques are then often required to tackle the simulation of coupled
processes which are ubiquitous in relevant applications. In this
context, our knowledge of the structure and properties of
subsurface porous media is of critical importance to parameterize
these models, but yet is incomplete, the first and simple reason being
that the subsurface itself is not easily accessible to our direct
observation. Estimation of input parameters is then plagued by
uncertainty and so are consequently target output variables. Designing
effective numerical methods dealing with uncertainties becomes crucial
in every phase of the workflow, from the solution of inverse problems
for the identification of the flow and transport properties to the
forward propagation of the uncertainties, the sensitivity analysis and
the design of management policies. This workshop gathers researchers
with different backgrounds active in the area, presenting both advances
in dedicated uncertainty quantification techniques and
real-world test cases.
Ming
