Registration & Breakfast

Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
Introduction to the NSF Expeditions in Computing Project
Understanding Climate Change: A Data Driven Approach (pdf)

Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Challenges of a sustained climate observing system (pdf)

Ben Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The Search for a Human Fingerprint in the Changing Thermal Structure of the Atmosphere (pdf)

Stefan Liess, University of Minnesota
Detecting and Describing Teleconnections (pdf)

Break

Amy Braverman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Likelihood-based Climate Model Evaluation (pdf)

Snigdhansu Chatterjee, University of Minnesota
Quantiles and data-depth: the next generation (pdf)

Richard L. Smith, University of North Carolina and SAMSI
Influence of Climate Change on Extreme Weather Events (pdf)

Lunch Break

Barbara Ransom, National Science Foundation
EarthCube (pdf)

Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory
FACE-IT: A Framework for the Management and Analysis of Environmental Data

Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University
High Performance Computing and Data Analytics

Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota
Discovering Persistent Change Windows in Spatiotemporal Datasets (pdf)

Break

Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Regional climate informatics: A statistical perspective (pdf)

Arindam Banerjee, University of Minnesota
Probabilistic Graphical Models for Climate Data Analysis (pdf)

Fred Semazzi, North Carolina State University
Outreach Opportunities for Expedition's Data Driven Discoveries (pdf)

Discussions

Poster Session & Dinner, Cohen Commons

Registration & Breakfast

Greg Holland, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Assessing uncertainty in regional scale climate variability and change (pdf)

James Faghmous, University of Minnesota
Sea surface temperature (SST) spatial patterns and their impact on Atlantic tropical cyclone activity

Abdollah Homaifar, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical University
Tropical Cyclone Tracking and Intensity Estimation, Image Search and Climate Trend Quantification (pdf)

Auroop Ganguly & Evan Kodra, Northeastern University
Physics-guided statistical approach to uncertainty quantification from climate model ensembles: Expedition funded doctoral research at the SDS Lab in Northeastern University (pdf)

Break

Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California- Irvine
Understanding Climate Change From Data - Perspectives from Hydroclimate Modeling and Data Assimilation (pdf)

Jagdish Shukla, George Mason University
Fidelity and Predictability of Models for Weather and Climate Prediction (pdf)

Stefan Liess, University of Minnesota
Statistical Analysis for Prediction of Monsoon Variability (pdf)

Lunch Break

Panel Discussion: Big Data for Climate Science

Leonard P. Hirsch, Smithsonian Institution
Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Nikunj C. Oza , NASA Ames Research Center (pdf)
Ben Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jagdish Shukla, George Mason University
Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research(pdf)

Moderator: Auroop Ganguly, Northeastern University

Closing Workshop Discussions

Dinner, Orrington Hotel