Background

The goal of the SAMSI Distinguished Lecture Series is to bring an eminent scientist to SAMSI who presents a lecture suitable for a broad audience in the statistical and/or mathematical sciences and related disciplines. Each SAMSI program hosts a Distinsguished Lecture. The DA program's Disitinguished Lecture was delivered by Professor Eugenia Kalnay at the Opening Workshop in January 2005, on data assimilation and ensemble forecatsing. A number of other mathematical and statistical scientists, along with the participants of the workshop, attended at her lecture.

 

DA Program Distinguished Lecture: January 25, 2005, Tuesday

Dr. Eugenia Kalnay Distinguished University Professor Department of Meteorology University of Maryland, College Park "Data Assimilation and Ensemble Forecasting: Two Problems with the Same Solution?"

Professor Eugenia Kalnay has receieved numerous international awards and been the holder of many prestegious postions, including Member of the National Academy of Engineering (1996); foreign member of the Academia Europaea (2000); Distinguished University Professor, U. Maryland (2001); Corresponding Member of the Argentine National Academy of Physical Sciences(2003); Fellow of AGU (2005); Former Robert E. Lowry Chair, School of Meteorology, U. of Oklahoma; Former Director of the Environmental Modeling Center at NCEP. Her recentwork on the impact of land use on climate change (Kalnay and Cai, Nature,2003), was chosen by Discovery Magazine as one of the top 100 science news ofthe year. Her reanalysis paper (Kalnay at al, BAM, 1996) is the most cited paper in all thegeosciences in the last decade. She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in Meteorology at MIT.

To learn more about her, please visit her www page at UMD.

Last Update: September 15, 2005