Expert Groups

A number of informal groupings of experts were convened for in-depth discussion and vigorous brainstorming of any problems which came up during the course of the conference.

Coordinators for the working groups were:

• Archean Geology, Mineralization and Modelling
  
  Roberto Weinberg, University of Western Australia (rweinber@geol.uwa.edu.au)
  Peter Sorjonen-Ward, CSIRO Exploration & Mining (peter.sorjonen-ward@ned.dem.csiro.au)
  
  The Archean geology expert group also convened an afternoon discussion session at the meeting.
  

• High Performance Computing / Geoscience Applications
  
  Bill Appelbe, CEO Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (bill@cs.rmit.edu.au)

• Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences
  
  Fabio Boschetti, CSIRO Exploration & Mining ( Fabio.Boschetti@ned.dem.csiro.au )
  
  The AI expert group organized a preconference workshop on advanced methodology for potential field interpretation
  

• Material Instabilities, non-linearities and advanced rheology
  
  Hans Mühlhaus, CSIRO Exploration & Mining ( hans@ned.dem.csiro.au )

• Remote sensing, gravity, geodesy
  
  Frank Horowitz, CSIRO Exploration & Mining ( frank@ned.dem.csiro.au )

  The remote sensing expert group also convened a session on gravity, geoid and geodesy at the meeting.
  
  
• Advanced numerical methods
  
  Louis Moresi, CSIRO Exploration & Mining (lmoresi@ned.dem.csiro.au)
  
  The advanced numerical methods group ran an overview session on matching methods to modeling problems & anticipating future directions during the meeting.