09:30 to 10:00 | Registration, Tea and Coffee | |||
10:00 to 10:10 | Welcome and Introduction | Maha Kaouri (Isaac Newton Institute) | ||
10:10 to 10:25 | Outline and Summary of INI Research Programme |
Antonio Moro (Northumbria University) Gennady El (Northumbria University) |
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Session 1: Weather & Climate Forecasting and Oceanography (Chair: Gennady El (Northumbria University)) | 10:25 to 10:55 | On a Method to Predict Extreme Events | Peter Janssen (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)) |
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10:55 to 11:25 | Broad community development of the Unified Forecast System, using the WAVEWATCH III™ wind model as an example | Henrik Tolman (National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration) |
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11:25 to 11:45 | Tea and Coffee Break | |||
11:45 to 12:15 | Global High Resolution Modelling of Ocean and Climate | Joel Hirschi (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) |
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Session 2: Random Networks and Machine Learning (Chair: Antonio Moro (Northumbria University)) | 12:15 to 12:45 | Two Important Roles for AI in Weather/Climate Prediction | Tim Palmer (University of Oxford) |
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12:45 to 13:45 | Lunch | |||
13:45 to 14:15 | Machine Learning and Weather Forecasting, a Marriage of Pragmatism? | Matthew Chantry (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)) |
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14:15 to 14:45 | A Crossroad between Statistical Mechanics, PDE-Theory, Neural Networks and Machine Learning | Adriano Barra (Università del Salento) |
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14:45 to 15:15 | A statistical-mechanic approach to machine learning towards XAI | Elena Agliari (University of Rome La Sapienza), (Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza) |
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15:15 to 15:35 | Tea and Coffee Break | |||
15:35 to 16:05 | Unconventional Computing by Cnoidal Waves Collision | Giulia Marcucci (Apoha Ltd) |
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16:05 to 16:30 | Discussion and Questions | Pavel Lushnikov (University of New Mexico) | ||
16:30 to 17:30 | Networking Reception | |||
17:30 | Finish | |||
19:00 | Dinner at King’s College (for speakers and academic organisers) |