Colloquium Year: Spring 2024

TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Matthew Weingarten, Earth and Environmental Sciences, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014 (SGMA) is designed to achieve long-term viability of California’s critically overdrafted groundwater basins. Local-scale groundwater sustainability plans began being published in 2020 and 2021, allowing unprecedented insight into how overdrafted […]

TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Miguel Dumett, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In this talk we introduce mimetic differences as a special kind of not fully mimetic approach for solving numerically partial differential equations. In addition, some of the most important properties of these techniques are exhibited: discrete analogs […]

DATE: Friday, January 26, 2024TIME: 3:30 PMLOCATION: Virtual Zoom SeminarSPEAKER: Kathryn Maupin, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories ABSTRACT: Despite continuing advances in statistical inversion and modeling, model inadequacy due to model form error remains a concern in all areas of mathematical modeling.Much like physical models, calibrating a discrepancy model requires careful consideration […]