







Scope: The future of humankind depends largely on building a more sustainable world. This workshop focuses on the relevant application areas such as climate change, ocean modeling, space exploration and energy systems, as well as on underlying CS technologies such as computing platforms for large scale modeling and simulation and systems for archiving, processing, curating, analysing, and disseminating vast amounts of data.
The workshop features invited speakers renowned for their research on computational sustainability, simulation and modelling of complex geophysical systems, the ocean and its role in the global climate system, sea unmanned vehicles, Earth and planetary computational science, big data analytics, and infrastructures for scientific applications.
The discussions at this workshop will help to set future research directions for the new International Research Center to be established in the Azores (AIR Center) by the Portuguese government, focusing particularly on the North and South Atlantic.
Sustainability ::: Space Exploration ::: Ocean Sensing ::: Climate Change ::: Energy Systems ::: Big Data ::: High Performance Computing
| Hour | |
|---|---|
| 8:15 - 9:15 | Registration |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | Opening |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Data challenges in multi-vehicle coordination for ocean observation
João Borges de Sousa University of Porto |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Ocean state and parameter estimation in support of an Atlantic Ocean Observing System
Patrick Heimbach University of Texas at Austin |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Computational Sustainability
Carla Gomes Cornell University |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | A very high-resolution integrated Mediterranean and Black Sea ocean circulation model.
Gianmaria Sannino ENEA, Italy |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | GeoLIBS: Advanced spectroscopy for real-time identification, classification and quantification of complex minerals.
Pedro Jorge INESC TEC |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Big Data in Climate: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning
Vipin Kumar University of Minnesota |
| Hour | |
|---|---|
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Modeling the Atlantic ocean at internal wave admitting resolutions.
Chris Hill MIT |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Stochastic Approximations of Climate Modes: How can Statistics Save Computational and Storage Resources
Stefano Castruccio Notre Dame University |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Learning from data through the lens of models: Scalable algorithms for Bayesian inverse problems
Omar Ghattas University of Texas at Austin |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Climate change and biogeographic patterns along the European coast: a multi-scale and multidisciplinary approach
Fernando P. Lima CIBIO |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | AIR Center Session.
Manuel Heitor, Minister MCTES |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Panel session on the AIR Center initiative.
Moderator: José Manuel Mendonça, INESC TEC |
| Hour | |
|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:45 | An accelerator to aggregate key-value pairs for graph analytics using NAND flash storage.
Arvind MIT |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | CESGA, Advance Computing in Galicia for a wide R&D&I community
Ignacio López Deputy Technical Director at CESGA |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Toward Exascale: Key Challenges and Requirements.
Bill R. Magro Intel@Urbana-Champaign |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | On Small Satellites for Oceanography
Orfeu Bertolami University of Porto |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | IP Sentinel - A National Source of Satellite Data
Bruno Vilaça dos Anjos IPMA |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Localization and Mapping in dynamic underwater environments
Eduardo Silva ISEP / INESC TEC |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Internal Solitary Waves in the Ocean: a synergistic study with satellite ocean sensing, in situ measurements and advanced numerical
José da Silva University of Porto |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | The role of Computational Mechanics in the development of a new generation of advanced materials and structures for space applications.
Pedro Camanho University of Porto |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Earth Observation data systems in support of the Sustainable Development Goals
Nuno Catarino Deimos Engenharia |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Design of ultra-thin composite structures by Bayesian machine learning and genetic optimization
Miguel Bessa TU Delft |
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