Background

To respond to new directions and issues as they emerge during these core workshops, spontaneous one-day workshops are hosted.

Schedule

• March 17th, 2005, Thursday, "Indistinguishable States"
  • Location: NISS Room 203
  • Visitor: Jim Hansen (MIT)
  • Local Contact: Leonard A. Smith

• April 12th, 2005, Tuesday, "Lagrangian Data for Ocean Assimilation"
  • Location: NISS Room 104
  • Schedule

    10:30am-11:15am	Arthur Mariano (RSAMS), 'On the Optimization of Lagrangian Data for Analysis and Assimilation'
    11:15am-12:00pm	Open Discssuion
    12:00pm-12:30pm	Break (with Lunch, provided by SAMSI)
    12:30pm-1:15pm	Greg Lawson (MIT), 'Coherent Features and Ensemble-Based Data Assimilation' [presentation]
    1:15pm-2:00pm	Open Discussion
    2:00pm-2:30pm	Break (with refreshment, provided by SAMSI)
    2:30pm-3:15pm	Keith Thompson (Dalhousie), 'Assimilation of Lagrangian Data into Ocean Models Using Particle Filters' [presentation]
    3:15pm-4:00pm	Open Discussion

  • Local Contact: Chris Jones

• June 27th, 2005, Monday, "Bridging Statistical Approaches and Sequential Data Assimilation"
  • Schedule

    9:30am-10:00am	Coffee and Welcome
    10:00am-11:00am	Mark Berliner (Ohio State U.), 'Introduction to Statistical Data Assimilation' [presentation]
    11:00am-12:00pm	Mike Kouritzin (U. Alberta), 'Data Assimilation Through Particle Filters' [presentation]
    12:00pm-1:00pm	Lunch
    1:00pm-2:00pm	Noel Cressie (Ohio State U.), 'Data Assimilation Using Multi-Resolution Spatio-Temporal Models' [presentation]
    2:00pm-2:30pm	Break
    3:00pm-3:30pm	Jonathan Stroud (U. Penn), 'An Ensemble Kalman Filter for Real-Time Assimilation of Satellite Data'
    3:30pm-4:00pm	Open Discussion

  • Local Contact: Amarjit Budhiraja & Montserrat Fuentes

Last Update: September 15, 2005