6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 From: Sylvain Charbonnier <sylvain@xxxxxxx> *Online graduate course offering about â??Modeling Volcanic Processes using the VICTOR platformâ?? in Spring 2024* Hello Volcanophiles, Please consider joining us remotely to participate in a new online graduate class about â??Modeling Volcanic Processes using the VICTOR platformâ?? that will be taught by the VICTOR development team in Spring 2024. Here is the course overview below and a link to the VICTOR website here: VICTOR (columbia.edu) <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://victor.ldeo.columbia.edu/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!bFteqWCsn4uRmSEnt27aGA2DueL01evTVZFduMl91e1To07d-cjpuWZ3C4Khi-8y_6ZIJrpQKA8TF9g$> *COURSE OVERVIEW* Our goal is to provide an introduction to the VICTOR platform for using and developing computational tools in volcano science. This graduate class is built on new teaching concepts based on active engagement in problem-based scenarios, interdisciplinary focus and community goals met through collective efforts, and learning as communicating and doing. The course first introduces basic and fundamental concepts of computational modeling of volcanic processes (in a geophysical, geochemical and natural hazard perspective) through a combination of interactive lectures and hands-on sessions involving the use of tools developed by the volcano community and computational resources available on the VICTOR cyberinfrastructure. It then focuses on the development of individual research projects through the introduction of a problem and its context from a physical, mathematical, and computational point of view, an outline of how to solve the problem quantitatively, and development of a plan for implementing the solution. Basic questions to be answered by the students before starting their research projects are: 1) What is/are the physical process(es) describe? 2) What are the different modeling approaches proposed? 3) What are the most important physical/mathematical/computational concepts used to model this/these process(es)? 4) What are the most important equations used by the different models? 5) What are the limitations/advantages of each modeling approach? Even if mainly driven by the diversity of volcanic processes, this course explores concepts not just of volcanology, geophysics, geochemistry and natural hazards, but of numerical modeling, statistics, quantitative approaches and data visualization. The second part of the course is entirely devoted to individual modeling research projects. By choosing a model to work with, integrating data and theories into this model and gathering/comparing model outputs versus data observation, the main goal for the student is to estimate the appropriateness of the model for the particular volcanic process investigated. *If you are interested in participating, please send an email to sylvain@xxxxxxx <sylvain@xxxxxxx> and we will send you more information about the registration process. Hope you will be able to join us!* Best, The VICTOR development team. 6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 ------------------------------
