Background

To support the efforts by the working groups, we invite scientists from a variety of disciplines. Each speaker delivers a seminar (usually on Friday at 11am), followed by a lunch and en extended discussion. The idea is to bring people from whom the core group can learn some specific idea or technique. The name "NEDD" (Nail'Em Down Day) of the seminar is intended to suggest that we will question the speaker until we collectively understand the work they are presenting. In most cases, we ask the speakers to address a specific topic and/or give a certain emphasis in their presentation.

Schedule

• January 28th, Friday
  • Lenny Smith (LSE). 11am-2pm, NISS Room 104, "Data Assimilation: What is the Point?"
    [ presentation ]

• February 11th, Friday
  • Ian Mckeague (Columbia U.). 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 104, "Statistical Inversion of Oceanographic Tracer Data"
    [ abstract | presentation ]

• February 18th, Friday
  • Juan Restrepo (U. Arizona). 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 203, "Estimators for Nonlinear Non-Gaussian Models and Data. Part II: Eyink's Mean Field Approach"

• March 11th, Friday
  • Lou Howard, 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 104, "Rotating Flows"

• March 18th, Friday
  • Istvan Szunyogh (University of Maryland), 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 203, "On the Inherently Local Nature of Atmospheric Dynamics: Implications for Data Assimilation"
    [ abstract | presentation ]

• March 24th, Friday
  • Carolyn Reynolds (NRL Monterey), 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 203, "Model Errors and Nonlinearities in Numerical Weather Prediction"
    [ abstract | presentation ]

• April 1st, Friday
  • Henk Dijkstra (Colorado State Univ.), 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 203, "Continuation Methods and Their Applications in Physical Oceanography"
    [ abstract | presentation | Separation - Gulf Stream ]

• April 8th, Friday
  • NEDD by All, 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 203, "NEDD Special: Mid-Program Progress Report"
    • 11:30am-12:00pm, Langarngain Data
    • 12:00pm-12:30pm, Estimation and Prediction
    • 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lunch Break
    • 1:00pm-1:30pm, Ocean Data Assimilation
    • 1:30pm-2:00pm, Model Error, Inadequacy & Empirical Verification
    • 2:00pm-2:30pm, Low-Dimensional Behavior / Observing System Design

• April 15th, Friday
  • Tax Day - No NEDD

• April 22nd, Friday
  • Simon Mason (Columbia U.), 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 203, "Measuring Reliability Using Conditional Exceedance Probabilities"
    [ abstract ]

• April 29th, Friday
  • Igor Mezic (UCSB), 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 203, "Two topics in coupling probabilistic and dynamical systems approaches in the analysis of complex system behavior"
    [ abstract | presentation ]

• May 3rd, Tuesday
  • Sangil Kim (U. Arizona), 10:30am-12:00pm, NISS Room 203, "Nuts and Bolts for Maximum Entropy Filters"
    [ presentation ]

• May 6th, Friday
  • Sharan Majumdar (U. Miami), 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 104, "Challenges in Adaptive Sampling"
    [ abstract | presentation ]

• May 13th, Friday
  • Timothy DelSole (George Mason U.), 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 203, "Optimal Persistence Patterns"
    [ abstract ]

• May 20th, Friday
  • No NEDD (Pre-SIAM Dynamical Systems Conference)

• May 27th, Fridahy
  • Kevin Judd (U. Western Australia), 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 104, "The Shadow of Truth"
    [ abstract | presentation (concept) | presentation (nogaps) ]

Last Update: September 15, 2005