CI 2011 - First International Workshop on Climate Informatics

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Category CI 2011

Deadline: July 08, 2011 | Date: August 26, 2011-August 29, 2011

Venue/Country: New York, U.S.A

Updated: 2011-06-13 22:21:18 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Friday, August 26th, 2011

The New York Academy of Sciences

New York, NY

Overview:

The threat of climate change is one of the greatest challenges

currently facing society. Given the profound impact machine learning

has made on the natural sciences to which it has been applied, such as

the field of bioinformatics, we are forging and encouraging

collaborations between machine learning (as well as data mining and

statistics) and climate science, in order to accelerate progress in

answering pressing questions in climate science. The goal of this

workshop is to incubate this new field, Climate Informatics. Recent

progress on Climate Informatics reveals that collaborations with

climate scientists also open interesting new problems for machine

learning. There are a myriad of collaborations possible at the

intersection of these two fields. We hope that every workshop

attendee leaves with a new collaboration in Climate Informatics. The

format of the workshop will emphasize communication among the various

fields, with a strong emphasis on brainstorming and break-out

sessions, as well as a panel discussion. We will also generate a

white paper on Climate Informatics, as a result of the workshop.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

Arindam Banerjee, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Timothy DelSole, George Mason University, and Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies

David Musicant, Computer Science, Carleton College

Douglas Nychka, Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Preliminary web-site: http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~cmontel/ciWorkshop.html

Details:

- Submission deadline for poster abstracts: July 8th, 2011.

- Competitive travel fellowships may also be offered.

- Additional information is forthcoming, please check the website or contact us.

Contact: For more information, to get involved, or to sign up to receive announcements, please contact us here: climate.informatics.2011gmail.com.

Organizers:

Claire Monteleoni (Co-Chair), Columbia University

Gavin Schmidt (Co-Chair), NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Columbia University

Francis Alexander, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil, NEC Laboratories America

Karsten Steinhaeuser, University of Notre Dame, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Michael Tippett, The International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University

Presenting Partners:

Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University

LDEO/GISS Climate Center

Information Science and Technology Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory

The New York Academy of Sciences

Sponsors:

LDEO/GISS Climate Center

Information Science and Technology Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Department of Statistics, Columbia University

The New York Academy of Sciences