The 4th annual "Workshop on Community Finite Element Models for Fault Systems and Tectonic Studies" will take place from Monday, July 11, through Thursday, July 14, at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). This workshop will serve as a venue to discuss progress in numerical modeling of lithospheric deformation, benchmarking existing codes, and defining the challenges that need to be met for future software development. Particular attention will be placed on issues associated with meshing of complex domains, computational frameworks, solution methods well adapted to MPI environments, and to the definition of rigorous benchmarks. Daily activities will be partitioned between formal presentations/discussions and informal time for hands-on tinkering with algorithms. Partial financial support for workshop-related expenses is being provided by SCEC, LANL, and NASA.

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Travel arrangements can be made through Sally Henyey at SCEC (shenyey@usc.edu).

For further information, please contact Mark Simons (simons@caltech.edu), Brad Hager (brad@chandler.mit.edu), or Carl Gable (gable@lanl.gov).

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This workshop is sponsored and supported by the following:

Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

National Science Foundation (NSF)	Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG)