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Applied Mathematics seminar.

Event Type: 
Seminar
Speaker: 
Dr. Mauro Perego, Sandia National Laboratories
Event Date: 
Monday, November 27, 2023 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
SMLC 356 and Zoom.
Audience: 
Faculty/StaffStudents

Event Description: 

Dear Colleagues,

 
Applied Mathematics Seminar on Monday, November 20th, at 4:00pm will be given by Dr.Mauro Perego, who is currently a computational scientists at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM.
 
Title: Ice-sheet modeling beyond forward simulations: combining machine learning with more traditional computational approaches.
 
Abstract:

Modeling the dynamics of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets is critical for computing projections of sea-level rise. In this talk, I will provide a brief overview of ice-sheet modeling. I will then focus on approaches to accelerate the quantification of the uncertainty in projections of ice-sheets mass loss, which is a proxy for sea-level rise. Specifically,  I will describe a multi-fidelity strategy for uncertainty quantification. Given a hierarchy of computational models with different fidelities and costs, the multi-fidelity strategy allows to optimally sample the models of different fidelities to minimize the cost  of the analysis for a target accuracy. Our lower fidelity models are obtained by solving the high-fidelity model on coarser meshes or by simplifying the physics described by the models. An alternative approach is to build a surrogate (e.g., neural network based) of the high-fidelity model. In this context, we developed a hybrid ice-sheet model where momentum equations, the most expensive part of an ice-sheet model, are approximated with Deep Operator Networks. In order to demonstrate these approaches, I will show results targeting the evolution of the Humboldt Glacier in Greenland.

 
About the Speaker: Dr. Mauro Perego is a computational scientist at the Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratories. Mauro achieved his Ph.D. in mathematical engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy. His work spans several aspects of scientific computing, including the discretization and solution of nonlinear partial differential equations, numerical optimization, uncertainty quantification and scientific machine learning. His current research is in large part applied to ice sheet modeling, with the ultimate goal of providing reliable projections of sea-level rise.

 
 
Seminar will be face-to-face at SMLC 356 and through Zoom:
PassCode: 971684
 
With my best regards,
Alexander Korotkevich.

Event Contact

Contact Name: Alexander Korotkevich

Contact Email: alexkor@math.unm.edu