Working Group 11
From IMAG_Wiki
Working Group 11: Math and Computation of Strongly-Coupled Multiscale Systems
Working Group Lead:
- George Karniadakis, Brown University
- Peter J. Ortoleva, Indiana University
- Michela Taufer, University of Delaware
Working Group 11 Participants
- George Karniadakis, Brown University
- Hunt, C. Anthony, University of California San Francisco
- Peter J. Ortoleva, Indiana University
- Michela Taufer, University of Delaware
Please contact working group leads directly if interested in participating.
Goals and Objectives:
This WG aims to unify these three main research components (1) methods, (2) supercomputing, (3) bionanosystems. The WG works under a common research umbrella targeting “Math and Computation of Fully Coupled Multiscale Systems. As part of its activities, the unified WG wants hold 3 teleseminars/year within the IMAG framework.
Members in the WG are all committed practitioners in multiscale theory/computation and greatly appreciate the efforts made by the IMAG Consortium in advocating multiscale research. We believe that true advances in this field will be in deductive, fully coupled approaches – i.e., not simply gluing together physical models at various scales with heuristic boundary conditions connecting the scales and related message-passing computational approaches, as well as phenomenological models that require recalibration with each new application. One must wonder about these efforts purporting to integrate 5 or more scales, most or all of which are connected by heuristic arguments and not deductive approaches. Advocating the need for deductive approaches based on more rigorous mathematics and implied computation, we believe, is the future of multiscale research.
