The First International Workshop on Climate Informatics

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.


Speakers:

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

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

  3. Bullet  David Musicant, Computer Science, Carleton College

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

  5. Bullet  Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Columbia University


Organizers:

  1. Bullet  Claire Monteleoni (Co-Chair), George Washington University, and Columbia University

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

  3. Bullet  Francis Alexander, Los Alamos National Laboratory 

  4. Bullet  Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil, NEC Laboratories America

  5. Bullet  Karsten Steinhaeuser, University of Minnesota

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


Presenting Partners:

  1. Bullet  Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University

  2. Bullet  LDEO/GISS Climate Center

  3. Bullet  Information Science and Technology Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  4. Bullet  The New York Academy of Sciences


Sponsors:

  1. Bullet  LDEO/GISS Climate Center

  2. Bullet  Information Science and Technology Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  3. Bullet  Department of Statistics, Columbia University

  4. Bullet  The New York Academy of Sciences


Important Dates:  Submission deadline for poster abstracts: July 8th, 2011


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


Official website:  with further details, and FREE registration: http://www.nyas.org/climateinformatics

Workshop wiki: with additional materials:  https://sites.google.com/site/1stclimateinformatics/