Mathematics Research Communities (MRC) Program on 
             Scientific Computing & Advanced Computation
                  Snowbird, Utah,  June 21-27, 2008

       Organizers: John Bell (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), 
                   Randall LeVeque (University of Washington), 
                   Juan Meza (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

The  American Mathematical Society (AMS) invites mathematicians just
beginning their research careers to become part of Mathematics Research
Communities (MRC), a new program to develop and sustain long-lasting cohorts
for collaborative research projects in many areas of mathematics. Qualified
women and underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to
participate. The MRC program is open to individuals who are affiliated with
U.S. institutions only, and will take place pending final approval of
funding from the National Science Foundation. 

The workshop will have 20 participants, to be chosen in the next few weeks.  
For application information see  http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/mrc.html
All that's required is a brief form and advisor's letter.

The program is geared toward mathematicians at the "peridoctoral" stage,
meaning those who are close to finishing the doctorate or have recently
finished.  The program will bring together peridoctoral mathematicians
with a passion for research and provide them with structured activities
aimed at building social and collaborative networks through which they
can inspire and sustain each other in their work. For more information,
please see the webpage above or the article in the February issue of the 
AMS Notices,    http://www.ams.org/notices/200802/tx080200247p.pdf

This 5-day workshop will consist of roughly one talk a day by an
organizer on a topic of general interest in scientific computing.
The bulk of the time will be devoted to participants working together to
learn about a variety of topics in computational science, gaining hands-on
experience, and preparing and presenting talks based on this material.  
Participants will be expected to bring a laptop computer, and will learn to
use a Subversion repository to manage software, papers, and slides related
to the workshop.

Topics to be considered include:

Anatomy of Computational Science projects: modeling, implementation,
    testing, and interpretation of results in interdisciplinary environments,
Large scale optimization, robust optimization, sensitivity analysis,
High performance computing languages,
Parallel computing and algorithms, from multi-core laptops to petascale,
Software development and maintenance, regression tests, versioning,
Verification and Validation,
Uncertainty Quantification,
Techniques for facilitating reproducible research,
Multiscale modeling, analysis, and computation,
Large data sets,
Large scale graphics and visualization,
Python scripting.

In addition, there will be sessions on professional development, 
including grant proposal writing and preparing and presenting talks.

Participants will also collaborate on organizing a symposium on
scientific computing at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January, 2009.

Please bring this opportunity to the attention of talented young
mathematicians and scientists with an interest in scientific computing.

 - John, Randy, and Juan