Midterm meeting at Solstrand Hotel (8th-9th November 2023)
On the 8th and 9th of November, VISTA CSD invited collaborators, industry partners and the scientific advisory board for its midterm meeting.
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On November 8th and 9th, 2023, the VISTA CSD center had a midterm meeting at Solstrand Hotel in Os, Norway. International collaborators, industry partners, and the scientific advisory board (consisting of Paola Antonietti, Insa Neuweiler, and Stefan Buske) participated in the meeting.
On the first day, seven presentations were given on the two main research pillars of the CSD Vista center: groundbreaking modeling concepts for deformation in porous rocks and fundamentals of induced subsurface deformation. The keynote speaker, Ruben Juanes from MIT, gave an exciting talk on mitigating the risk of induced seismicity related to the underground storage of carbon dioxide. He discussed various models and how they could be utilized to forecast seismic risk when applied to real injection sites.
The MaPSI project's progress was discussed in detail on the second day of the meeting. Presentations were given on various research topics, including unified flash calculations and solving the contact mechanics problem by regularization. Additionally, affiliated research projects like SiGIS, GradFlow, FracFlow, and NIOT presented their current work, covering a wide range of topics from image analysis to the optimal transport problem. The final presentation of the day was given by Gunnar Gunnarson from Orkuveita Reykjavikur, who talked about the current and upcoming geothermal extraction wells in Iceland. The meeting ended with closing remarks from the director of CSD, Inga Berre.