The concept of "tyranny of scales" in natural/engineered porous media refers to the disparity of temporal and spatial scales at which mass, momentum, and energy transport is best understood and at which predictions are needed for practical applications. Modeling approaches that incorporate process understanding at different temporal and spatial scales are often necessary to improve our predictive capabilities of natural and engineered porous media. The course focuses on the fundamental understanding of multiscale systems and corresponding modeling tools to analyze them.

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Guest Lecture: Ilenia Battiato is an academic professor with professional background in engineering and computational sciences. She earned a Ph.D. in Engineering Science with a specialization in Computational Science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) between 2008 and 2010, following an M.Sc. in Engineering Physics at the same university from 2006 to 2008. Prior to that, she completed a 5-year Laurea (equivalent to an M.Sc., Summa cum Laude) in Environmental Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy (2000-2005). In terms of research experience, she has worked at prestigious institutions. She was a Research Fellow at SAMSI (Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute) in Spring 2012, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) in Göttingen, Germany, from Fall 2010 to Winter 2012. Additionally, she completed PhD internships at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in the summers of 2008 and 2009. Throughout her career, she has received several awards and recognitions, including the Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 2008 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco and a Fellowship from the RUI Foundation in 2000 while at Politecnico di Milano. In her academic career, she has held significant positions at well-known universities. Since September 2023, she has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to this, she served as an Assistant Professor at Stanford University from October 2016 to August 2023. Before her time at Stanford, she was an Adjunct Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of San Diego State University (Winter 2016 to Spring 2019) and an Assistant Professor at both San Diego State University (Fall 2014 - Summer 2016) and Clemson University (Spring 2012 - Summer 2014). In addition to her academic and research achievements, she is actively involved in several professional organizations, including the American Physical Society (APS), the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and Interpore.

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