Sixth IMA Conference on Modelling Permeable Rocks
With Special Focus on CO2 Storage
Integrating Geology and Mathematics for Groundwater, Environment and Petroleum Applications
First Call for Papers
This conference provides an excellent opportunity for people from different disciplines (geology, statistics, mathematics and engineering) to share ideas on modelling permeable and fractured rocks. The emphasis will be on new developments in the mathematical modelling of geological patterns for the purposes of improving prediction of flow and hydro-mechanical behaviour rather than on purely descriptive work. For the 6th Conference in the series, we shall have a special focus on modelling requirements for the geological storage of CO2. However, we shall also include applications for the oil industry, hydrogeology and nuclear waste disposal.
We invite you to submit a one page abstract for the conference on the topics listed below. The format for these abstracts is available on the IMA website:
http://www.ima.org.uk/mathematics/proceedings
Abstracts should be submitted online at http://online.ima.org.uk or emailed to the conference officer:
amy.marsh@ima.org.uk
Closing date for Abstracts: 30th October 2009
Notification of Acceptance: December 2009
Topics to include
- Faults and fractures, influence of geomechanics
- Process modelling/pattern formation
- Quantitative techniques for data collection
- Geostatistical techniques
- Uncertainty in modelling heterogeneity
- Integration and upscaling of data into flow models.
Scientific enquiries should be made to:
Dr Gillian Pickup,
Institute of Petroleum Engineering,
Heriot-Watt University,
Riccarton Campus,
Edinburgh,
EH14 4AS,
Scotland, UK
(email:
gillian.pickup@pet.hw.ac.uk
)
General enquiries concerning conference arrangements should be sent to:
Amy Marsh (email:
amy.marsh@ima.org.uk
)
The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House,
16 Nelson Street,
Southend-on-Sea,
Essex,
England SS1 1EF.
Tel: +44 (0)1702 354020