Mathematical Issues and Challenges in Data Assimilation for Geophysical Systems: Interdisciplinary Perspectives - IPAM

Mathematical Issues and Challenges in Data Assimilation for Geophysical Systems: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

February 22 - 25, 2005

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Morning Session

08:00-08:45
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:45-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-10:00
Joseph Tribbia (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Waves, Information and Local Predictability
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Chris Snyder (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
An ensemble filtering pot-pourri
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:30
Richard Kleeman (New York University)
Dynamical predictability and initialization: a statistical prediction perspective
14:30-15:00
Break
15:00-16:00
Arthur Krener (University of California at Davis)
Model Based Smoothing of Linear and Nonlinear Processes
16:00-17:00
Padhraic Smyth (University of California, Irvine)
Graphical Models for Sequential Data Modeling and Forecasting
17:00-18:30
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)
17:00-18:30
Poster Session

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:45
Greg Eyink (Johns Hopkins University)
Entropy-Based Ensemble Prediction Schemes
09:45-10:15
Break
10:15-11:00
Carolyn A. Reynolds (Naval Research Laboratory)
Adaptive Observing
11:00-11:45
Edriss Titi (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Is Galerkin Projection The Right Scheme?
11:45-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:15
Leonard A. Smith (London School of Economics)
Indistinguishable States and Data Assimilation
14:15-14:45
Break
14:45-16:00
Panel Discussion
16:00-16:45
Richard Sowers (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Diffusely-Perturbed Transport of Passive Scalars in Pseudoperiodic Flows

Thursday, February 24, 2005

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:45
Brian Hunt (University of Maryland)
Efficient assimilation of atmospheric data: a Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter
09:45-10:15
Break
10:15-11:00
Andrew Stuart (California Institute of Technology)
Conditional Path Sampling of SDEs and Data Assimilation
11:00-11:45
Pierre F.J. Lermusiaux (Harvard University)
Adaptive Sampling, Data assimilation and Adaptive Modeling
11:45-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:15
Igor Mezic (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))
Two topics in coupling probabilistic and dynamical systems approaches in analysis of complex system behavior
14:15-14:45
Break
14:45-15:45
James McWilliams (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
A View of Earth Observing Systems, Earth System Modeling, and Challenges for Data Assimilation
15:45-17:00
Panel Discussion
17:00-19:00
Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Friday, February 25, 2005

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:00
Istvan Szunyogh (University of Maryland)
Assessing a Local Ensemble Kalman Filter
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
William W. Symes (Rice University)
Cross-scale interaction in seismic inversion
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:30
Jim Hansen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Parameter estimation: To what extent can data assimilation techniques correctly uncover stochasticity?
14:30-15:00
Break
15:00-16:00
Oliver Talagrand (Ecole Normale Supérieure, France)
Some Aspects of Validation of Assimilation Algorithms
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