Exploring the Deep Earth: Supercomputing and Digital Twins

The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) conducts advanced studies exploring big questions of the 21stcentury and beyond. Its research gains insights into Celtic society and its legacy; progresses our understanding of our island, our planet and the universe; and deciphers the underpinning mathematical principles of nature.The Institute leads Ireland’s participation in a number of international and global initiatives that focus on big unanswered questions for mankind.When it was founded in 1940, DIAS was the world’s second-only institute for advanced studies – and the first such institute in Europe. For 80 years, it has pushed the boundaries of discovery and, today, it is a globally-embedded institution that attracts high-calibre researchers from all over the world in its core disciplines of Celtic Studies, Theoretical Physics, Astrophysics and Geophysics. DIAS Dunsink Observatory is a designated European site of historical significance for physics.

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Join DIAS Geophysics in the Old Lecture Theatre in the MoLI Museum on St. Stephen's Green to hear Professor Heiner Igel present his lecture

MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland

Understanding the history of our planet neccessitates a look into Earth's deep interior. The Earth's mantle is in permanent motion and drives the continental plates leading to earthquakes, and volcanic activities world wide. Seismology can provide a 3D image or snapshot of the current state of the dynamic Earth's interior allowing us to understand the underlying physical phenomena. Like in medical tomography this "imaging" process is computationally very time consuming. Simulating seismic wavefields in the Earth requires access to the largest supercomputers and appropriate programming models. Today natural sciences aim at developing (multi-physics) digital twins that mimic the behaviour of nature's complex system. We will show the impact of supercomputing on the understanding of our planet's interior, the forecasting of ground motions for earthquake scenarios, and also how the seismic wavefield can be used to monitor climate change.

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