schedule

Regular Schedule for Spring 2005 Semester

Monday
- NCSU Lecture series by Leonard A. Smith: 10:30am-11:30am, 208 Pattersoon Hall, NCSU main campus
Tuesday (primary activity day)
- Working Group Activity I. NISS Room 203
  - 10:30pm-12:00pm, Lagrangian Data
  - 12:00pm-1:30pm, Ocean DA
  - 1:30pm-3:00pm, Model Error, Inadequacy, and Empirical Verification
  - 3:00pm-4:30pm, Low-Dimensional Behavior
  - 3:00pm-4:30pm, Observing System Design
- Data Assimilation Course at SAMSI by Kayo Ide: 4:30pm-7pm, NISS Room 104
Wednesday
- Working Group Activity II. NISS Room 203
  - 3:30pm-5:00pm, Estimation and Prediction
Friday (secondary activity day)
- Organizational Meeting for the Working Groups. 10:45am-11:00am, NISS Room 104
- NEDD.11:00am-2pm, NISS Room 104

Event Calendar

Week of January 17th, 2005

January, 18th, Tuesday
- DA Course by Kayo Ide (UCLA). 4:30pm-7pm, NISS Room 104

Week of January 24th, 2005

January 23rd, Sunday to 26th Wednesday
- SAMSI DA " Tutorial and Kick-off Workshop"
January 28th, Friday
- NEDD by Leonard A. Smith (LSE). 11am-2pm, NISS Room 104, "Data Assimilation: What is the Point?"

Week of January 31st, 2005

February 1st, Tuesday
- NEDD by Juan Restrepo (U. Arizona). NISS Room 203, "Keep the Tension Between Your Data and Model at Bay: Prescribe Them Path Integral Methods"
- Working Group Activity (Organizational Meeting). 3-4pm, NISS Room 203
- DA Course by Kayo Ide (UCLA). 4:30-7pm, NISS Room104
February 4th, Friday
- No Activities

Week of February 7th, 2005

February 8th, Tuesday
- Working Group Activity I. 10:30am-4:30pm, NISS Room 203
- DA Course by Kayo Ide (UCLA). 4:30-7pm, NISS Room104
February 9th, Wednesday
- Working Group Activity II. 3:30pm-5:00pm, NISS Room 203
February 11th, Friday
- NEDD by Ian Mckeague (Columbia U.). 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 104, "Statistical Inversion of Oceanographic Tracer Data"

Week of February 14th, 2005

February 14th, Monday
- NCSU Lecture series by Leonard A. Smith (LSE), 10:30am-11:30am, 208 Pattersoon Hall, NCSU main campus, "Chaos and Forecasting: Fact and Friction"
February 15th, Tuesday
- Working Group Activity I. 10:30am-4:30pm, NISS Room 203
- DA Course by Kayo Ide (UCLA). 4:30-7pm, NISS Room 104
February 16th, Wednesday
- Working Group Activity II. 3:30pm-5:00pm, NISS Room 203
February 18th, Friday
- Organizational Meeting for the Working Groups. 10:45am-11:00am, NISS Room 203
- NEDD by 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"

Week of February 21st, 2005

February 22nd, Tuesday to 26th, Friday
- IPAM Workshop "Mathematical Issues and Challenges in Data Assimilation for Geophysical Systems: Interdisciplinary Perspectives"
February 23rd, Wednesday
- Working Group Activity II. 3:30pm-5:00pm, NISS Room 203

Week of February 28th, 2005

February 28th, Monday
- NCSU Lecture series by Leonard A. Smith (LSE).10:30am-11:30am, 208 Pattersoon Hall, NCSU main campus, "Model Error in Operational Weather Forecasting"
March 1st, Tuesday
- Working Group Activity I. 10:30am-4:30pm, NISS Room 203
- DA Course by Kayo Ide (UCLA). 4:30-7pm, NISS Room 104
March 2nd, Wednesday
- Working Group Activity II. 3:30pm-5:00pm, NISS Room 203
March 4th, Friday
- No NEDD

Week of March 7th, 2005

March 8th, Tuesday
- Working Group Activity I. 10:30am-4:30pm, NISS Room 203 [Brown bag lunch]
- DA Course by Kayo Ide (UCLA). 4:30-7pm, NISS Room 104
March 9th, Wednesday
- Working Group Activity II. 3:30pm-5:00pm, NISS Room 203
March 10th , Thursday
- Thursday Lecture at NCSU by Leonard A. Smith (LSE)
March 11th, Friday
- Organizational Meeting for the Working Groups. 10:45am-11:00am, NISS Room 104
- NEDD by Lou Howard, 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 104, "Rotating Flows" [Working Lunch]

Week of March 14th, 2005

March 14th, Monday
- NCSU Lecture series by Leonard A. Smith (LSE). 10:30am-11:30am, 208 Pattersoon Hall, NCSU main campus, "On the Roles of Model Error, Shadows and Linearizations in Operational Weather forecasting"
March 15th, Tuesday
- Working Group Activity I. 3:00pm-4:00pm, NISS Room 203 (Short Meeting for the Low-Dimensional Behavior/Observing System Design Groups Only)
- DA Course in Spring Break (No Class)
March 16th, Wednesday
- Working Group Activity II. 3:30pm-5:00pm, NISS Room 203
March 17th, Thrusday
- Mini Workshop on "Indistinguishable States", 1:00pm-?, NISS Room 203
March 18th, Friday
- Organizational Meeting for the Working Groups. 10:45am-11:00am, NISS Room 203.
- NEDD by Istvan Szunyogh (University of Maryland), 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 203, "On the Inherently Local Nature of Atmospheric Dynamics: Implications for Data Assimilation"

Week of March 21st, 2005

March 22nd, Tuesday
- Working Group Activity I. 10:30am-4:30pm, NISS Room 203
- DA Course by Kayo Ide (UCLA). 4:30-7pm, NISS Room 104
March 23rd, Wednesday
- Working Group Activity II. 3:30pm-5:00pm, NISS Room 203
March 24th, Thursday
- NCSU Lecture series by Leonard A. Smith (LSE). 4:00pm-5:00pm, 208 Pattersoon Hall, NCSU main campus, "Dynamics of Uncertainty" (Unsuaul Day and Time)
March 25th, Friday
- Organizational Meeting for the Working Groups. 10:45am-11:00am, NISS Room 203
- NEDD by Carolyn Reynolds (Naval Research Laboratory-Monterey), 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 203, "Model Errors and Nonlinearities in Numerical Weather Prediction"

Week of March 28th, 2005

March 28th, Monday
- NCSU Lecture series by Leonard A. Smith (LSE).10:30am-11:30am, 208 Pattersoon Hall, NCSU main campus, "Adaptive Observations: Context, Design and Evaluation"
March 29th, Tuesday
- Working Group Activity I. 10:30am-4:30pm, NISS Room 203
- DA Course by Kayo Ide (UCLA). 4:30-7pm, NISS Room 104
March 30th, Wednesday
- Working Group Activity II. 3:30pm-5:00pm, NISS Room 203
March 31st, Thursday
- Thursday Lecture at NCSU by Leonard A. Smith (LSE).4:00pm-5:00pm, 208 Pattersoon Hall, NCSU main campus, "Open Questions In Ensemble Weather Forecasting"
April 1st, Friday
- Organizational Meeting for the Working Groups. 10:45am-11:00am, NISS Room 203
- NEDD by Henk Dijkstra (Colorado State Univ.), 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 203, "Continuation Methods andTheir Applications in Physical Oceanography"
April 2nd, Saturday
- Separation - Gulf Stream

Week of April 4th, 2005

April 4th, Monday
- NCSU Lecture series by Leonard A. Smith (LSE). 10:30am-11:30am, 208 Pattersoon Hall, NCSU main campus, "Measures of Forecast Utility: BBs, MSTs and full PDFs"
April 5th, Tuesday
- Working Group Activity I. 10:30am-4:30pm, NISS Room 203
- DA Course by Kayo Ide (UCLA). 4:30-7pm, NISS Room 104
April 6th, Wednesday
- Working Group Activity II. 3:30pm-5:00pm, NISS Room 203
April 8th, Friday
- NEDD by All, 11:30am-2:30pm, NISS Room 104, "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

Week of April 11th, 2005

April 11st, Monday
- NCSU Lecture series by Leonard A. Smith (LSE). 10:30am-11:30am, 208 Pattersoon Hall, NCSU main campus, "Ensemble Seasonal Forecasts: DEMETER, Her Offspring and Applications"
April 12th, Tuesday
- Mini Workshop on "Lagrangian Ocean Data Assimilation", 10:30am-4:00pm, NISS Room 104
  - 10:30am-12:00pm (with open discussion): Arthur Mariano (RSAMS), 'On the Optimization of Lagrangian Data for Analysis and Assimilation'
  - 12:30pm-2:00pm (with open discussion): Greg Lawson (MIT), 'Coherent Features and Ensemble-Based Data Assimilation'
  - 2:30pm-4:00pm (with open discussion): Keith Thompson (Dalhousie), 'Assimilation of Lagrangian Data into Ocean Models Using Particle Filters'
- DA Course by Kayo Ide (UCLA). 4:30-7pm, NISS Room 104
April 13th, Wednesday
- Working Group Activity II. 3:30pm-5:00pm, NISS Room 203
April 14th, Thursday
- Thursday Lecture at NCSU by Leonard A. Smith (LSE), "On how you can aid climate modelling at home tonight (and perhaps improve the experimental design?)"
April 15th, Friday
- Tax Day - No NEDD

Week of April 18th, 2005

April 18th, Monday
- NCSU Lecture series by Leonard A. Smith (LSE). 10:30am-11:30am, 208 Pattersoon Hall, NCSU main campus, "Designing climateprediction.net: A Vicious Circle of Priors in Simulation Modeling"
April 19th, Tuesday
- Working Group Activity I. 11am-3:00pm, NISS Room 203
- Triangle Applied Math Symposium, 3:00pm-5:30pm, NISS Room 104
  - 3:00pm-4:00pm Michael Mackay (McGill University), "Bistability and Oscillation in Gene Regulation Networks"
  - 4:30pm-5:30pm Leonid A. Smith (Oxford U. and London School of Economics), "On the Marginal Value of our Laws of Nature"
- DA Course: Chris Jones (UNC-CH). 5:45-6:45pm, NISS Room 104, "Assimilating Lagrangian data and Lagrangian model evaluations"
April 20th, Wednesday
- Working Group Activity II. 3:30pm-5:00pm, NISS Room 203
April 21sr, Thursday
- Lecture for Richard Smith's Statistics Class at UNC-CH by Leonard A. Smith (LSE)
April 22nd, Friday
- Organizational Meeting for the Working Groups. 10:45am-11:00am, NISS Room 203
- NEDD by Simon Mason (Columbia U.), 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 203, "Measuring Reliability Using Conditional Exceedance Probabilities"

Week of April 25th, 2005

April 26th, Tuesday
- Working Group Activity I (except Lagrangian Data). 12:00pm-4:30pm, NISS Room 203
- DA Course by Kayo Ide (UCLA). 4:30-7pm, NISS Room 104 (Last Lecture Day of the Spring Semester)
April 27th, Wednesday
- Working Group Activity II. 3:30pm-5:00pm, NISS Room 203
April 29th, Friday
- Organizational Meeting for the Working Groups. 10:45am-11:00am, NISS Room 203
- NEDD by 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"

Week of May 2nd, 2005

May 2nd, Monday
- Working Group Activity: Lagrangian Data.10:30am-12:00pm, Duke University
May 3rd, Tuesday
- Informal Talk by Sangil Kim (U. Arizona), 10:30am-12:00pm, NISS Room 203, "Nuts and Bolts for Maximum Entropy Method"
- Working Group Activity I (except Lagrangian Data). 12:00pm-4:30pm, NISS Room 203
- DA Course by S tudents. 4:30pm-7:00pm, NISS Room 104 (Project Day)
May 6th, Friday
- Organizational Meeting for the Working Groups. 10:45am-11:00am, NISS Room 104
- NEDD by Sharan Majumdar (U. Miami), 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 104, "Challenges in Adaptive Sampling"
- DA course's project report due for by e-mail.

Week of May 9th, 2005

May 10th, Tuesday
- Working Group Activity I (except Lagrangian Data). 12:00pm-4:30pm, NISS Room 203
May 11th, Wednesday
- Working Group Activity : Lagrangian Data.10:30am-12:00pm, NISS Room 203
May 13th, Friday
- Organizational Meeting for the Working Groups. 10:45am-11:00am, NISS Room 203
- Timothy DelSole (George Mason U.), 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 203, "Optimal Persistence Patterns"

Week of May 16th, 2005

May 17th, Tuesday
- Working Group Activity I. 12:00am-4:30pm, NISS Room 203
May 20th, Friday
- No NEDD (Pre-SIAM Dynamical Systems Conference)

Week of May 23th, 2005

May 24th, Tuesday
- No Activity (SIAM Dynamical Systems Conference)
May 27th, Friday
- Organizational Meeting for the Working Groups. 10:45am-11:00am, NISS Room 104
- NEDD by Kevin Judd (U. Western Australia), 11:00am-2:00pm, NISS Room 104, "The Shadow of Truth"

Week of May 30th, 2005

May 31th, Tuesday
- Working Group Activity I. 10:30am-4:30pm, NISS Room 203
June 3rd, Friday
- Organizational Meeting for the Working Groups. 10:45am-11:00am, NISS Room 104
- No NEDD (Informal Working Group Activity)

Week of June 6th, 2005

June 7th, Tuesday
- Working Group Activity I. 10:30am-4:30pm, NISS Room 203
June 10th, Friday
- Organizational Meeting for the Working Groups. 10:45am-11:00am, NISS Room 104
- No NEDD (Pre-LAPCOD & Pre-NCAR Summerschool)

Week of June 13th, 2005

June 13th-17th, Monday-Friday
- NCAR Summerschool "Fusing Geophysical Models with Data"
June 17th, Friday
- Last Day to Register the Mini-Workshop on "Bridging Statistical Approaches and Sequential Data Assimilation"

Week of June 20th, 2005

June 21st, Tuesday
- Working Group Activity I. 10:30am-4:30pm, NISS Room 203
June 24th, Friday
- Informal Working Group Activity

Week of June 27th, 2005

June 27th, Monday
- Mini Workshop on "Bridging Statistical Approaches and Sequential Data Assimilation", NISS Room 104

Month of October, 2005

October 5th, Wednesday
- Closing Workshop "Towards A Mathematical Advancement of Data Assimilation", NISS Room 104

Last Update: October 11, 2005