VOLCANO: Goldschmidt Workshop Announcement

[Sean Peters <speter24@xxxxxxx>]

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From: Mark Ghiorso <ghiorso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Goldschmidt Workshop Announcement

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Goldschmidt Conference pre-Meeting Workshop

For those of you planning to attend the Goldschmidt Conference in Boston this August, I want to bring to your attention a geochemical modeling workshop that may be of interest.  The workshop will focus on building tools based on thermodynamic and fluid dynamical models using Jupyter notebooks and Python. Please see the description below and visit the Goldschmidt Conference site (https://goldschmidt.info/2018/) for more details.

Hope to see you at the workshop.  -Mark Ghiorso

Computational thermodynamics and fluid dynamics with the ENKI software portal: An introduction aimed at early career researchers

Saturday 11th August 09:00 - Sunday 12th August 17:00 
Contacts: Mark S. Ghiorso, Marc W. Spiegelman, Columbia University, Aaron S. Wolf, University of Michigan

This workshop will provide a hands-on survey of software and modeling tools available at the ENKI-portal. ENKI is an on-going project funded by the National Science Foundation that provides software tools and a computational ecosystem for geochemical simulations that are based on thermodynamics and fluid dynamics. ENKI is aimed at students and researchers interested in using, creating, and maintaining models and in developing interconnected scientific modeling frameworks. We will introduce the capabilities of ENKI and demonstrate how thermodynamic calculations like phase diagrams, pseudosections, geothermobarometers, and mass transfer calculations (MELTS, EQ6, DEW) can be rapidly and easily computed. We will also show how thermochemical databases can be utilized to support fluid dynamical simulations. ENKI currently supports a number of thermodynamic databases and solution model collections, including those of Berman, Holland and Powell, Stixrude and Lithgow-Bertelloni, MELTS, DEW and SUPCRT. Participants will learn how these databases can be extended or recalibrated in light of new data or insights using the model calibration infrastructure provided by ENKI. Attendees will need a laptop for this workshop for real-time access to the ENKI server portal.

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