2018 Climate Informatics Workshop
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - Hackathon
9:15 Shuttle pickup at Courtyard Boulder
9:35 Shuttle pickup at Homewood Suites to NCAR
10:00 - 10:30 Arrival at NCAR Mesa Lab: registration, coffee and introduction
10:30 - 12:30 Session 1
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (provided) and discussion of initial results
1:30 - 3:00 Session 2
3:00 - 3:15 Coffee break
3:15 - 5:00 Session 3
5:00 - 6:00 Group presentations and closing
6:15 Shuttle departs NCAR for Homewood Suites and Courtyard Boulder
Thursday, September 20, 2018
7:30 Shuttle pickup at Courtyard Boulder
7:50 Shuttle pickup at Homewood Suites to NCAR
8:15 - 8:45 Registration and continental breakfast
8:45 - 9:00 Opening remarks
9:00 - 10:00 Invited talk: Qi (Rose) Yu: Deep Learning for Large-Scale Spatiotemporal Data
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Invited talk: Eric Maloney: Critical challenges in the simulation of tropical clouds and climate
11:30 - 1:00 Group photo, then lunch (cafeteria serves food from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.)
1:00 - 2:00 Invited talk: Gustau Camps-Valls: Unsupervised Deep Feature Learning with Sparse Codes and Gaussianization
2:00 - 3:00 Poster introductions (1 minute each)
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:00 Spotlight presentations (2 @ 15 min)
3:30 - 3:45 Sijie He: Land climate prediction using sea surface temperatures
3:45 - 4:00 Sookyung Kim: Deep-Hurricane-Tracker: Tracking Extreme Climate Events
4:00 - 5:00 Invited talk: Lucas Joppa: AI for Earth
5:00 Poster session and reception, Mesa Lab Cafeteria
7:00 Shuttle departs NCAR for Homewood Suites and Courtyard Boulder
Friday, September 21, 2018
7:30 Shuttle pickup at Courtyard Boulder
7:50 Shuttle pickup at Homewood Suites to NCAR
8:15 – 8:30 Continental breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 Invited talk: Julien Emile-Geay: Paleoclimate informatics: enabling knowledge discover about past climates
9:30 - 10:15 Spotlight presentations (3 @ 15 min)
9:30 - 9:45 Trevor Harris: Evaluating proxy influence in data assimilation based climate field reconstructions using data depth
9:45 - 10:00 Gabriela Aznar Siguan: Modelling socio-economic impacts of weather and climate with CLIMADA
10:00 - 10:15 Malcolm Itter: Methods to filter weather data using ecological memory functions
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:45 Invited talk: Christopher Wikle: Using parsimonious “deep” models for efficient implementation of multiscale spatio-temporal statistical models applied to long-lead forecasting
11:45 - 12:15 Industry panel
- Steve Sain, Jupiter Intel
- David Hall, NVIDIA
- Kalai Ramea, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
- Jason Hickey, Google
12:15 - 1:30 Lunch (cafeteria serves food from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. [not 1:30] on 9/21 due to the Up the Hill race)
1:30 - 2:00 Spotlight presentations (2 @ 15 min)
1:30 - 1:45 Xavier-Andoni Tibau: SupernoVAE: VAE based Kernel-PCA for analysis of spatio-temporal earth data
1:45 - 2:00 Savini Samarasinghe: Causal discovery in the presence of latent variables for climate science
2:00 - 3:00 Panel
3:00 Extra UCAR Shuttle departs Mesa Lab for King Soopers shopping center
3:00 - 3:30 Hackathon presentation
3:30 Extra UCAR Shuttle departs Mesa Lab for King Soopers shopping center
3:30 Closing remarks
3:45 Community-building via hiking around NCAR
There will be no afternoon transportation provided, please make your own arrangements.