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International Symposium on Frontiers of Mathematical Geosciences Was Held in Beijing
If you were planning a hiking for your friend without a detailed map to give you a hand, what would you do to calculate how long the hiking was going to be and how much efforts it would take in terms of cumulative elevation gain? Jef Cares with Stanford University answered the above questions in his speech on multi-point geostatistics at the International Symposium on Frontiers of Mathematical Geosciences held in Beijing on 9-10 October.
Supported by China Geological Survey and International Mathematical Geosciences Association, co-hosted by Development and Research Centre of China Geology Survey, the Key lab of Geological Information Technology of the Ministry of Land and Resources, and the State Key Lab of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, the workshop aimed at updating the audience of the latest frontier issues of mathematical geosciences, and advancing geological survey. The attendance included well-known experts and scholars home and abroad, such as Stanford University, University of Girona, Canada Geological Survey, Polytechnic University of Catalun, and Tsinghua University. A total of 180 representatives attended the meeting.
13 presentations were given on the meeting to present ideas on hot issues in mathematical geology. Except for the presentation mentioned above, others included Spatial Analysis of Composition Data, The opportunities and Challenges Geological Information Technology Face, etc. The first and second winner of Karen Penn Medal in Asia, Academician Zhao Pengda and Cheng Qiuming delivered speeches on Roles of Big Data and Mathmatics in Geoscience and The application of Singularity and Geo-information Technology in Prediction of Resources respectively.
Mathematical geology and geoinformation technology are very important branches of geological sciences. Based on the idea of big data, it will provide an unprecedented opportunity to speed up the prospecting breakthrough, strengthen the abilities of geological work to serve the construction of new urbanization and major projects, modern agriculture development, with more efforts to be taken to beef up the integration of modern mathematical geological theory, methodologies and new generation of information technology, such as cloud calculation, mobile communication.
For recent years, China Geological Survey has been doing marvelous job in mathematical geology. It has made great progress in speedy acquisition, efficient transmission, intelligent processing and evaluation, fast and convenient service of geodata, based on the implementation of Digital Land Project, the first phase of Golden Land Project and Special Project of Geological Survey and mineral Resources Evaluation. Extensive international exchange and cooperation has also conducted in talents fostering, technology innovation and scientific management.
Hopefully the workshop will play a positive role in promoting the development and application of global quantitative geosciences and geoinformation study.