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Model and Data Hierarchies for Simulating and Understanding Climate
March 8 - June 11, 2010
Organizing Committee |
Activities |
Scientific Overview
Participation |
Application |
Contact Us
Organizing Committee
Amy Braverman
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Rupert Klein
(Freie Universität Berlin, Mathematics)
Andrew Majda
(New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
Olivier Pauluis
(New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
Bjorn Stevens
(Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie)
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Activities
There will be an active program of research activities,
seminars and workshops throughout the March 8 - June 11, 2010 period and core
participants will be in residence at IPAM continuously for these fourteen
weeks. The program will open with tutorials, and will be punctuated by four
major workshops and a culminating workshop at UCLA’s Lake Arrowhead
Conference Center. Several distinguished senior researchers will be in
residence for the entire period. Between the workshops there will be a
program of activities involving the long-term and short-term participants,
as well as visitors.
The following people are involved in the organization of the workshops, and we
expect most of them to spend a substantial amount of time in residence at IPAM:
Simona Bordoni (NCAR/CalTech), Amy Braverman (JPL), Dargan Frierson (U Washington),
Francis Giraldo (NPS, Monterey), Illia Horenko (FU Berlin), Christiana Jablonowski
(U Michigan), Markos Katsoulakis (U Mass), Alan Kerstein (DOE CDC), Rupert Klein (FU-Berlin),
Luis Kornblueh (MPI Hamburg), Andrew Majda (NYU), Jonathan Mitchell (IAS), Ole Peters
(Imperial College), Olivier Pauluis (NYU), Robert Pincus (NOAA CDC), Sebastian Reich (Potsdam),
Pier Siebesma (KNMI, Netherlands), Bjorn Stevens (MPI Hamburg).
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Scientific Overview
Simulation has greatly advanced climate science, but not sufficiently to the profit of theory and understanding. How can simulation better advance climate /science/ and what mathematical issues does this raise?
Our hypothesis is that the development of climate science (i.e., theory and understanding) will be best served by focusing computational and intellectual resources on model and data hierarchies. Where “model and data hierarchies” refer to successively more complex models, or data structures, and the relations among them. Classic examples are the equations that emerge at different order in an asymptotic expansion; or microscopic, mesoscopic, macroscopic representations of systems that emerge in statistical physics and material science. In the atmosphere/ocean system such approaches lead to familiar families of equation sets used to explore specific phenomena, and the statistical theories (parameterizations) used to close the systems which emerge at different orders; but such ideas are also relevant to the data used to test such systems.
By bringing together physicists, mathematicians, statisticians, engineers and climate-scientists, and focusing on several themes that reach across scales and scientific methodologies, our program will provide a framework for advancing our use of hierarchical methods in our attempt to understand the climate system. In addition to tutorials and a summary workshop; the program will tie together four week-long workshops addressing specific currents in the broader stream of ideas: Equation Hierarchies; Numerical Hierarchies; Simulation Hierarchies; and Data Hierarchies.
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Participation
This long-term program will involve a community of senior and junior researchers.
The intent is for participants to learn about new mathematical developments in the area
of simulating and understanding climate, to meet a diverse group of people, and have ample
opportunities to form new collaborations. In addition to these activities, there will be
opening tutorials, four workshops, and a culminating workshop at Lake Arrowhead.
Full and partial support for long-term participants is
available, and those interested are encouraged to fill out an online
application at the bottom of this page. Support for individual workshops
will also be available, and may be applied for through the online
application for each workshop. We are especially interested in applicants
who are interested in becoming core participants and participating in the
entire program (March 8 - June 11, 2010), but give consideration to applications
for shorter periods. Funding for participants is available at all academic
levels, though recent PhD's, graduate students, and researchers in the early
stages of their career are especially encouraged to apply.
Encouraging the careers of women and minority mathematicians and
scientists is an important component of IPAM's mission and we welcome their
applications.
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Application
An application form is available at:
https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/elements/choose.aspx?pc=cl2010
This application is for people requesting financial support to attend and participate for extended periods up to the entire length of the program (March 8 - June 11, 2010).
Applications for individual workshops are separate and will be posted on individual workshop home pages when available.
We urge you to apply as early as possible. Applications will be accepted through December 8, 2009 but we will start making decisions five months earlier.
Successful applicants will be notified as soon as funding decisions are made. Letters of reference may be sent to the address or email address below.
We have funding especially to support the attendance of recent PhD's, graduate
students, and researchers in the early stages of their career; however,
mathematicians and scientists at all levels who are interested in this area
are encouraged to apply for funding. Encouraging the careers of women and
minority mathematicians and scientists is an important component of IPAM's
mission and we welcome their applications.
Contact Us:
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
Attn: CL2010
460 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles CA 90095-7121
Phone: 310 825-4755
Fax: 310 825-4756
Email: 
Website:
http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/cl2010/
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