Conference on "Role of e-infrastructures for Climate Change Research"

Conference on "Role of e-infrastructures for Climate Change Research"

This International Conference is the perfect opportunity for policy makers, climate change scientists and e-Infrastructure experts to take a lead in ensuring that large e-Infrastructures are fully exploited for the purposes of climate change research. With a host of high-level speakers the event will review the state of the art and exploring the opportunities and benefits that e-Infrastructures can offer the climate change research community.

ICTP 16 - 20 May, 2011 Conference Webpage: http://users.ictp.it/~smr2238/ co-sponsors

Preliminary Conference Program

Monday, 16 May

Welcome Session: 18:00-20:00

Tuesday, 17 May

Morning Session

9:13 9:00-11:00 Frontiers in Climate Modeling

• Opening: F. Quevedo, ICTP Director
• G.H. Philander Princeton University, USA, Director of African Centre for Climate and Earth System Science
• E. Eltahir MIT, U.S.A.

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 e-infrastructures for Climate Change Research

• Keynote Introduction K. Glinos, Head of Unit Head of Unit GÉANT and e-Infrastructures’, European Commission, DG Information and Society
• e-Infrastructures for Climate Change in Europe Climate Change Applications within the European Grid Initiative (EGI) S. Newhouse, EGI Project Director Climate Change Applications within the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), PRACE Representative

Lunch Break: 13:14.30

Afternoon Session: 14:30-18:30

14:30-16:00 e-infrastructures for Climate Change Research

• e-Infrastructures for Climate Change in Asia-Pacific S. Lin, Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan
• e-Infrastructures for Climate Change in China D. Quian, Beihang University and Principal Investigator of China National Grid (CNGrid)
• e-Infrastructures for Climate Change in India N. Sinha, Office of Principal Scientific Adviser to Indian Government, India

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 e-infrastructures for Climate Change Research

• e-Infrastructures for Climate Change in Latin America D. Carvalho , Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica, Brasil
• e-Infrastructures for Climate Change in the Mediterranean Area speaker t.b.c.
• e-Infrastructures for Climate Change in USA Dean Williams, Principal Investigator Earth System Grid Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
  Dean Williams, Principal Investigator Earth System Grid Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - t.b.c.

Evening Session: 18:00-19:00

Poster Session

Wednesday, 18 May

Morning Session

9:11 9:00-11:00 Global Policies in Climate Research: the role of e-Infrastructures

• J.P.Van Ypersele vice-chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India and member of the Government Cabinet
• D. Adams, Director General Department of Science and Technology, Government of South Africa, t.b.c.
• Representative from Italian Ministry of Education and Research, t.b.c.

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

Afternoon Session: 14:30-18:30

14:30-16:30 Data for Climate Modelling

• IS-ENES, InfraStructure for the European Network for the Earth System Modelling S.Joussaume Director of the National Institute of Sciences of the Universe (INSU /CNRS), IS.ENES Project coordinator
• Common Metadata for Climate Modelling Digital Repositories, the Metafor Project B.Lawrence, Director of Environmental Data Curation at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council
• Climate Challenges at Exascale G. Aloisio, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy & Euro
• Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC), Italy
• Climate analytics on distributed data archives V.Balji Cooperative Institute for Climate Change, Princeton University

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:30 Use of climate information in support of adaptation/mitigation policies

• B. Wang International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), Honolulu, USA
• I. Rector, Africa Adaptation Program, United Nation Development Program, Dakar Senegal (t.b.c)
• Contributions from participants

18:30-19:15 Conference Conclusions

F. Giorgi, Head Earth System Physics, ICTP

Thursday, 19 May & Friday, 20 May: RegCM4 tutorial