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April 14, 2017. Dear Colleagues, Following the success of the 2015 meeting, we are delighted to announce that the second Mathematics of the Weather workshop will take place from 3-6 October 2017 at La Salle “Ancre des Mots”, Erquy, France. Mathematics of the Weather is a forum for the discussion of new numerical approaches for use in numerical forecasting, climate modelling and research into numerical modelling of the atmosphere. Abstract submissions for presentations and posters are now being accepted and the deadline for submissions is Friday 30 June 2017.

To submit your abstract or to find more information about the meeting visit www.ncas.ac.uk/MOW2017

Please download and share the poster for the workshop with colleagues http://bit.ly/mow17poster

Kind regards and best wishes on behalf of the organisers Jurgen Steppeler and Alan Gadian,

Steven

Steven Sharpe

Events & Administration Officer
National Centre for Atmospheric Science
School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT
Tel: 0113 343 6408
http://www.ncas.ac.uk

Dear Madame/Sir,

The European Space Agency is organising the “ADM-Aeolus CAL/VAL Rehearsal Workshop” at Météo France in Toulouse, France, from 28 to 30 March 2017. The workshop is co-organised by ESA and Météo France with support from CNES.

We would like to remind you to register at the Workshop web site http://www.aeolus-calval-2017.org/ in case you have not already done so. For security reasons please remember to bring your valid ID to Météo France. Registration Deadline 15 March.

During the workshop there will be an organised visit to the CNES stratospheric balloon facility (Wednesday 29 March from 16:00 - 18:30) and a workshop dinner (Wednesday 29 March from 20:00 onwards).

CNES balloon visit, 29 March (https://cnes.fr/en/web/CNES-en/3801-cnes-facilities.php ): In order to arrange the CNES visit, we need to know whether you will join. Please indicate during the registration process all necessary information. If you already have registered, please login into your account with your username and password and click on “Edit Your Participant Registration Details” . On Wednesday 28 March, you also need to bring your ID (EU citizens) or passport (non-EU citizens) in order to show it at the entrance of the CNES site.

Conference Dinner, 29 March (http://lesjardinsdelopera.fr/la-cantine-de-lopera-bistrot/): During the registration, we will sell tickets for the conference dinner on Wednesday 29 March at 20:00. The dinner will be held at La Cantine de l' Opéra, and the 3 course meal cost 35,- Euro. To arrange this, we would need to know whether you plan to join the dinner. In order to register for the dinner please proceed as per the indications of the CNES visit by Wednesday 15 March: When you register at the workshop Tuesday 28 March, please bring also 35,- Euro in cash for the dinner ticket.

March 13, 2017. Following the success of former CEM workshops since 2007, we are organizing the next CEM workshop on June 21-24, 2017, in Barcelona, Spain. We sincerely hope that you will be able to join a group of experts to discuss recent progress in areas related to computing, electromagnetics, computational science and engineering (CSE), multi-physics problems, high-performance computing (HPC), parallel computing, and many more.*

CFP: Click for the Call for Papers. Please post and distribute among your colleagues.

Please save the dates: June 21-24, 2017 (Please note that CEM’17 dates are immediately preceding the dates of PUMPS’17 that will be organized on June 26-30, 2017. PUMPS stands for the Programming and Tuning Massively Parallel Systems summer school that has been organized annually since 2010 in Barcelona. For more information, please see: http://bcw.ac.upc.edu/PUMPS2017/. Some CEM’17 attendees may see this as a “two birds with one stone” opportunity and they may benefit by participating in PUMPS’17, in addition to submitting a paper to CEM’17.)

Details of the workshop are announced at the following web link:

http://cem17.computing.technology

If you have any questions about the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact me (lgurel@gmail.com) or CEM'17 Secretariat (cemworkshop@gmail.com).

*Topics of Interest

Computing Applications Parallel computing High-performance computing Heterogeneous computing Fast solvers Integral equations Iterative solvers and preconditioning Frequency-domain methods

Time-domain methods Direct solvers Recursive solvers Optimization methods Differential equations FDTD methods FEM methods Hybrid methods Numerical linear algebra Petascale supercomputing Towards exascale computing Novel hardware platforms

Electromagnetics Multi-physics Large-scale CSE problems Scattering and RCS Antennas Microwaves Radars Metamaterials Optics Imaging Remote sensing Inverse problems Biomedical applications Wireless and propagation EMC/EMI Chips, packages, and interconnects Terahertz High-frequency problems Stealth technology

Important Dates

March 15, 2017:

Submission of one-page abstracts

April 1, 2017:

Notification of acceptance

May 1, 2017:

Early registration deadline

May 15, 2017:

Submission of two-page papers

Venue: The workshop will be held in the beautiful Mediterranean city of Barcelona. Information about Barcelona is available on the workshop website. Technical sessions will take place in the modern setting of Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC).

Social Program: Following the tradition of the earlier four CEM workshops, CEM'17 will include a very strong social program. Since touristic opportunities in and around Barcelona are endless, further hints for individual tours will also be posted on the workshop website.

March 10, 2017. Dear Colleagues: 3rd and final Notice:

Abstracts are due on Sunday, March 12 for the following joint session at IAPSO/IAMAS/IAGA Joint Assembly (August 27 - September 1, 2017, Cape Town, South Africa):

FRONTIER CHALLENGES IN DATA ASSIMILATION AND ENSEMBLE FORECASTING FOR THE ATMOSPHERE, OCEAN AND SOLID EARTH

Session Description: The fields of Earth system data assimilation and ensemble forecasting are confronted with both new and long standing challenges in probabilistic state estimation: (i) the identification and representation of systematic and stochastic aspects of model error; (ii) coupled systems; (iii) non-Gaussian uncertainty distributions; (iv) ensemble forecast verification and post processing; (v) the use of multi-model and/or multi-resolution ensembles; (vi) achieving balanced initial states that are free of artificial transient waves (or oscillations) ; (vii) the use of analogue observation system simulation experiments with both numerical models and/or laboratory systems to validate and improve real state estimation schemes, and (viii) strategies for dealing with non-linear observation operators in Ensemble Kalman filters. This symposium will bring together atmospheric, oceanic, and solid Earth data assimilation and ensemble forecasting experts to jointly address the aforementioned challenges and create an exchange of ideas likely to advance Earth system state estimation across its many facets. Papers are invited on all aspects of data assimilation and ensemble forecasting for the ocean, atmosphere and solid Earth. Presentations pertaining to coupled model forecasting and coupled model data assimilation are particularly encouraged.

Invited presentations cover advances and challenges listed above, and overviews of data assimilation in Earth science research and applications. Confirmed speakers are as follows:

Dr. C. Snyder (NCAR, USA) Dr. Neill Bowler (Met Office, UK) Dr. M. Martin (Met. Office, UK) Prof. M. Mu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Prof. N. Gillet (UJF, France) Dr. A. Donnellan (JPL, USA) Dr. C. Finlay (DTU, Denmark) Prof. C. Edwards (UCSC, USA)

We also welcome papers aimed at increasing understanding of the fundamental limits of predictability. Such papers could include: analyses of the relevant initial error dynamics and model error physics, ideas for estimating error growth that limits predictability, methods that attempt to quantify the predictability of specific phenomena in the solid Earth, ocean or atmosphere. Contributions from young researchers and early career scientists are in particular welcome. We look forward to meeting you in Cape Town.

Convenors: Craig Bishop (NRL, USA) Wansuo Duan (CAS, China) Alexandre Fournier (IPGP, France) Weijia Kuang (GSFC, USA) Daniel Lathrope (UMD, USA) Andrew Moore (UCSC, USA) Nick Yakovlev (INM, Russia)

Conference information: http://www.iapso-iamas-iaga2017.com/. The deadline for abstract submission will be Sunday 12th March

Apologies for any cross-posting.

Regards,

Weijia, Craig, Alex, Andrew, Dan, Wansuo and Nick.

We would like to draw your attention to the 7th International WMO Symposium on Data Assimilation which will take place from 11-15 September 2017 in Florianopolis, Brazil. More information about the symposium and location can be found on the symposium website:

http://www.cptec.inpe.br/das2017/

Abstract submission for oral and poster presentations will be open on 6 March 2017 through the symposium website. To submit an abstract, you will need to register with the website and the abstract fee is $20 (USD).

All aspects of data assimilation will be covered under various themes in the symposium, including:

  Global and regional atmospheric  DA
  Convective scale DA
  Atmospheric constituent DA
  Coupled DA
  Global and regional ocean DA
  Assimilation of observations to represent land surface evolution
  Assimilation of space-based remote sensing, 
  ground-based remote sensing and in situ observations
  Methodology
  Assimilation system performance diagnostics

More specific information about each theme can be found on the symposium website (http://www.cptec.inpe.br/das2017/#theme1).

The deadline for submission of abstracts will be 14 April 2017. The international organising committee will assign abstracts to oral (including keynote speakers) or poster presentations accordingly to the program.

Please direct inquiries regarding abstract submission, location, and logistics to the local organizing committee (das2017@inpe.br).

On behalf of the Scientific Steering and Local Organizing Committees, we look forward to your participation in this important meeting.

Daryl Kleist and Carla Cardinali (Co-Chairs, Scientific Steering Committee)

Feb 26, 2017. Dear Colleagues, This is an update for the 9th International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering, held at the University of Waterloo, Canada. We are still accepting poster abstracts until March 31st, 2017, which is also the early bird registration deadline. Please visit icipe17.uwaterloo.ca for more information, registration, and abstract submission, and feel free to share this email with your colleagues.

We have an exciting program planned for you:

• Tuesday, May 23: Workshop on “Inverse Problems in the Bayesian Framework,” by Dr. Aku Seppänen, University of Eastern Finland. This is a great opportunity for you and your students to brush up on your Bayes…
• Wednesday, May 24: Keynote speaker: Prof. Margaret Cheney, Colorado State University, “The Radar Inverse Problem.”
• Wednesday, May 24: Poster session featuring local craft beer and artesian pizza. (Waterloo is the unofficial craft beer capital of Canada.)
• Thursday May 25: Conference banquet featuring noted author Malcolm Gladwell.
• Friday, May 26: Lunch banquet and reception in honor of Professor Graham Gladwell, FRSC, in recognition of Graham’s pioneering contributions to inverse analysis and his outstanding mentorship and training.

Please contact us if you have any questions. On behalf of the organizing committee, we’re looking forward to hosting you in Waterloo!

Sincerely,
Kyle J Daun, PhD, P. Eng.
Chair, 9th International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering
Icipe17.uwaterloo.ca

Feb 24, 2017. Distinguished Colleagues: We are pleased to announce that the 10th International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling (ISTP10) will be held at Colorado State University, from May 30 to June 2, 2017. We look forward to hosting this conference on our campus in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, in the scenic Colorado Front Range only one hour’s drive from Denver International Airport. Important information on ISTP10 is provided below.

Registration:

The ISTP10 website is now open! On the conference website, attendees will be able to register for ISTP10 and reserve on-campus housing at CSU. If interested in going to Rocky Mountain National Park, please send us an email @ istp10csu@colostate.edu with your name and subject line RMNP Tour. The registration fee for the conference is $495 for general registrants and $295 for students and retirees. This fee includes lunch every day during the conference and one ticket for the conference dinner.

Registration Website: https://conferencereg.colostate.edu/istp10
Conference Website: http://istp10.colostate.edu

Conference Dinner:

A conference dinner to be held on Thursday, June 1, 2017 will be included in the registration fee. Additional dinner tickets may be purchased separately for $35.

Accommodation:

We have set aside a block of rooms on the Colorado State University campus for those who would prefer that option. On the conference website, we will also provide links to a number of hotels near the Colorado State University campus. We have reserved a limited number of rooms in the Fort Collins Hilton, located across the street from the campus, at special conference rates.

Call For Papers: Due Friday, February 24, 2017

Keeping with the tradition of ISTP, the technical program committee solicits papers in the following topic areas, in particular in the context of atmospheric profiling.

1. Aerosols, clouds and precipitation
2. Algorithms for improved parameter retrievals
3. Atmospheric radiation
4. Boundary layer and mesoscale studies
5. Evaluation of models and data assimilation
6. Measurement networks, aircraft and satellite platforms
7. New instruments
8. Temperature, wind, waves, and turbulence
9. Validation, instrument synergies, and field experiments
10. Water vapor, ozone and trace gases

Important Dates for ISTP10:
Registration Opens: January 30, 2017
Abstract Deadline: February 24, 2017
Acceptance Notification: March 17, 2017
Early Registration Deadline: April 14, 2017
Author Registration Deadline: April 14, 2017
Proceedings Paper Deadline: April 21, 2017
Registration Deadline for Rocky Mountain National Park Tour: April 27, 2017
Registration Deadline for On-campus Housing: May 1, 2017
Cancelation Deadline: May 1, 2017
Online Registration Closes: May 25, 2017
Rocky Mountain National Park Tour: May 29, 2017
Conference Dates: May 30 - June 2, 2017

If you have any questions regarding the conference, please feel free to contact us. Thank you for your participation, and we look forward to seeing you at the end of May 2017 at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO, USA.

Feb 15, 2017. Dear Colleague, we are pleased to announce that the 4th International Conference on Neural Field Theory (ICNFT) will be held

July 3 to 5, 2017 at the University of Reading, UK

The event is following a highly successful series of conferences which took place in Reading in 2010, 2012, and 2014, see for instance http://www.inverseproblems.info/icnft2014

The ICNFT community includes researchers from medicine, psychology, physics, mathematics and engineering. The International Conferences on Neural Field Theory at the University of Reading contribute to the further development and shaping of this community by bringing together well-known and young researchers. Ideas from the different fields meet here in a truly interdisciplinary and inspiring environment.

The scientific program this year will focus on the interplay of models and data assimilation: Model Hierarchy & Numerics, Measurement Data & QC, Observation Operators, Analysis Technique and Uncertainty Estimation, Data Assimilation Cycle, Prediction, Verifikation

Invited Speakers include John Spencer (East Anglia U), Wilhelm Stannat (TU Berlin), Timothy Sauer (George Mason University), Rosalyn Moran (U Bristol), David Grayden (U Melbourne), Estela Bicho Erlhagen (U of Minho), Dietmar Heinke (U Birmingham); Tutorials will be given by Stephen Coombes, Ingo Bojak, Roland Potthast and Axel Hutt.

For further information and to register see

http://inverseproblems.info/icnft2017
http://www.inverseproblems.info/_media/icnft2017.pdf

Deadline for Abstracts: March 15
Deadline for Registration and Posters: April 15

Your Organizing Team

Roland Potthast, Axel Hutt, Stephen Coombes, Ingo Bojak, Peter beim Graben, Douglas Saddy and Ingeborg Lasser.

Tuesday 19 - Thursday 21 September 2017 Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS

An inverse problem denotes the task of computing an unknown physical quantity from indirect measurements. The corresponding forward problem maps the physical quantity to the measurements. In most realistic situations the solution of the inverse problem is challenging, complicated by incomplete and noisy measurements, as well as non-invertible forward operators which render the inverse problem ill-posed (that is lack of stability and/or uniqueness of solutions). Inverse problems appear in many practical applications in biology, medicine, weather forecasting, chemistry, engineering, physics, to name but a few, and their analysis and solution presents considerable challenges in mathematics and statistics. This conference will bring together mathematicians and statisticians, working on theoretical and numerical aspects of inverse problems, and engineers, physicists and other scientists, working on challenging inverse problem applications. We welcome industrial representatives, doctoral students, early career and established academics working in this field to attend.

Conference topics:

• Imaging
• Regularisation theory
• Statistical inverse problems
• Sampling
• Data assimilation
• Inverse problem applications

Call for Papers:

Papers will be accepted for the conference based on a 300 word abstract for oral or poster presentation. Abstracts should be submitted by 30 April via https://my.ima.org.uk/

Please note that if you are an IMA Member or you have previously registered for an IMA conference, then you are already on our database. Please “request a new password” using the email address previously used to log in and make a submission.

Confirmed Invited Speakers

• Dr Marta M. Betcke (University College London)
• Professor Dan Crisan (Imperial College London)
• Professor Jari Kaipio (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
• Professor Dirk Lorenz (TU Braunschweig, Germany)
• Professor Bill Symes (Rice University)
• Dr Tanja Tarvainen (University of Eastern Finland)

Organising Committee

• Carola‐Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge) ‐ Chair
• Cristiana Sebu (University of Malta) – Co-chair
• Paul Ledger (Swansea University)
• Bill Lionheart (University of Manchester)

Scientific Committee

• Simon Arridge (University College London)
• Martin Burger (University of Münster)
• Daniela Calvetti (Case Western Reserve University)
• Paul Childs
• Barbara Kaltenbacher (University of Klagenfurt)
• Roland Potthast (University of Reading)
• Samuli Siltanen (University of Helsinki)

Further information

For further information on this conference, please visit the conference webpage:

http://ima.org.uk/conferences/conferences_calendar/inverse-problems.html

Contact information

For general conference queries please contact Lizzi Lake, Conference Officer
E-mail: conferences@ima.org.uk              Tel: +44 (0) 1702 354 020
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 
16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 1EF, UK.

Dear friends and colleagues,
This is a reminder that the abstract deadline for the 12th EnKF workshop is March 1.

As we mentioned in a previous email, due to the requirement from the hotel, we need to confirm the number of reserved rooms by March 20. Therefore we will have to strictly stick to our abstract deadline in order to facilitate the organization. Abstracts later than March 1 may not be reviewed and considered.

For more information (including recent updates) of the workshop, please visit http://www.iris.no/enkf/enkf-homepage . If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for your attention, and we look forward to meeting you in the workshop.
Best regards,

Xiaodong Luo, on behalf of the organizing and scientific committees

Nov 27, 2016. Researchers are developing large structures inspired by 'cloaking' materials for sound and light, which can offer protection against seismic waves.

Earthquakes travel in waves, much as sound and light do. Scientists have previously designed materials with internal structures that interfere with the propagation of sound and light, and now researchers are working on making bigger versions of these structures, which could be used to control the propagation of earthquakes.

For the full article see Imperial College News.

The following positions (in German) are currently open:

Der Deutsche Wetterdienst (DWD) sucht für das Referat „Datenassimilation“ im Geschäftsbereich „Forschung und Entwicklung“ am Dienstort Offenbach am Main im Rahmen des Programms Innovation in der angewandten Forschung und Entwicklung (IAFE) zum 01.01.2017, befristet für die Dauer von 4 Jahren, zwei Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/innen

Referenzcode der Ausschreibung 20161259_0002 Aufgabengebiet

Aufbauend auf den bisherigen Erfahrungen in der Forschung und Entwicklung plant der DWD den Aufbau eines Integrierten Vorhersagesystems (IVS) mit dem Ziel die Produkte des Nowcasting und der NWV so zu ergänzen und weiter zu entwickeln, dass eine bruchfreie Darstellung von Atmosphärenzustand und Wetterphänomenen vom jeweils aktuellen Zeitpunkt bis zur Kurzfristvorhersage, also im Zeitraum 0 bis 12 Stunden, erfolgen kann. Bestandteil dieses Vorhersagesystems sind sowohl probabilistische Verfahren für die Erkennung und das Nowcasting von gefährlichen Wettererscheinungen, als auch Verfahren der ensemblebasierten numerischen Datenassimilation und Kürzestfristvorhersage. Dazu gehören die simultane Verwendung und Assimilation aller verfügbaren Beobachtungs- und Fernerkundungsdaten.

Die Aufgabengebiete umfassen im Wesentlichen folgende Tätigkeiten:

  Weiterentwicklung des NWV-Systems beruhend auf Ensemble-Datenassimilation (KENDA) 
  und Modell-System (COSMO bzw. ICON-LAM) mit hohen Cycling-Raten (unter einer 
  Stunde)
  Entwicklung und Einbinden geeigneter innovativer Beobachtungsoperatoren für Daten 
  mit hoher zeitlicher Frequenz
  Eigenverantwortliche Durchführung von Assimilationstests mit passenden zeitlich 
  hochaufgelösten Beobachtungen bzw. Messdaten
  Homogenisierung von Nowcasting und NWV sowie Interaktion von Modellphysik und 
  Ensemble-Datenassimilation
  Teilnahme an wissenschaftlichen Tagungen und Besprechungen, wissenschaftliche 
  und technische Dokumentation der Verfahren sowie Präsentation der Ergebnisse und 
  Veröffentlichungen in Fachzeitschriften
  

https://www.bund.de/IMPORTE/Stellenangebote/dwd/2016/09/1450360.html?nn=4642046&type=0&searchResult=true&templateQueryString=Datenassimilation

Dear Colleage, please note the upcoming

Workshop on Wind Profiles and Mesoscale Data Assimilation
Ljubljana, 19-20 September 2016. 

About fifty years ago the first sensitivity experiments on the importance of various observations for Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) showed that “Not all data are equal in their information-yielding capacity. Some are more equal than others. This tells us that if there is a choice as to what can be measured, then one variable may be preferable over another.” (Smagorinsky, 1969). Wind information, the “more equal” one, remains the main missing component of the global observing system. Observations of the vertical wind profiles by the ESA ADM-Aeolus mission have been demonstrated to have the potential of providing a significant improvement in NWP, primarily in the tropics where the lack of wind information is most critical for the global NWP. The same dynamical and data issues that apply to the tropics are shared by mesoscale NWP models.

The workshop aims to discuss some open issues in mesoscale data assimilation for NWP. In particular, the workshop is an opportunity to present latest advances and discuss new ideas related to the following topics:

  Application of ADM-Aeolus winds in mesoscale models  
  Wind observations and balanced initial conditions on mesoscale
  Gravity waves versus imbalance in data assimilation  

Presentations on the operational applications and research related to the assimilation of wind observations and the balance issues in mesoscale data assimilation are welcome.

Registration and contact: Matic Savli, matic.savli@fmf.uni-lj.si and Nedjeljka Zagar, nedjeljka.zagar@fmf.uni-lj.si

Workshop is sponsored by the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of mathematics and physics, project “Mesoscale wind profile and data assimilation for NWP” funded by the European Space Agency, Plan for European Cooperating States.

http://meteo.fmf.uni-lj.si/en/workshop

May 11, 2016. Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that the deadline for MMET*2016 paper submission has been extended to May 30, 2016. Please find more information on the Conference website http://mmet.org/2016/ or contact MMET*2016 Secretary at mmet2016@gmail.com for more details. Looking forward to welcoming you in Lviv this summer!

Kind regards, Dr. Ganna Veselovska

The 8th International Conference on Inverse Problems and Related Topics will take place at Ewha womans University in Seoul from June 27 (Monday) to July 1 (Friday), 2016. This series of conferences were previously held in Hong Kong (2002), Shanghai (2004), Hokkaido (2006), Daejeon (2009), Hong Kong (2010), Nanjing (2012), and Taipei (2014). This conference features speakers from both theoretical (mathematics) and applied (engineering) aspects of inverse problems. It aims to strengthen the interaction and, most importantly, to nurture collaborations between two groups of scientists. In addition, one of the focuses of the conference is to promote young scholars in inverse problems in the Asia-Pacific region.

Inverse problems arise in many areas of science including mathematics, engineering, medicine, physics, and geophysics. The varieties of their applications are enormous such as medical imaging, oil exploration, radar, sonar and seismology. In the last twenty years the active research carried out in the field of inverse problems has made it become a very promising interdisciplinary topic. http://math.ewha.ac.kr/icip2016/

May 8, 2016. Dear colleagues the registration has been opened for the summer school

Wave Phenomena: Analysis and Numerics.

The school takes place at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from September 12th to 15th with the lecture series

Herbert Koch (Bonn):
Generalized Korteweg-de Vries and Nonlinear Schrödinger: Estimates
and dynamics near solitons,

Alexander Ostermann (Innsbruck):
Splitting Methods: Analysis and Applications.

There will be problem sessions with projects that accompany the lectures.

The school is funded by DFG and organized by the Collaborative Research Center 1173 on wave phenomena. Participants of the school are invited to attend the opening event of CRC 1173 on September 16th with talks by

Kurt Busch (Berlin),
Sebastian Herr (Bielefeld),
Barbara Kaltenbacher (Klagenfurt),
Serge Nicaise (Valenciennes).

Registration is open until 15 JULY at the webpage http://www.waves.kit.edu/summer. Accomodation for a limited number of participants can be financed. Please inform younger researchers who may be interested in this school.

Local organizers Tobias Lamm, Jens Rottmann-Matthes, Roland Schnaubelt, Katharina Schratz
Contact: office@waves.kit.edu

May 5, 2016. Dear Colleague, please note the International workshop on coupled data assimilation, which is planned at the Centre International de Conférences - Météo-France - Toulouse - France for 18th - 21st October 2016.

This workshop is intended to facilitate the more rapid advance of development of coupled data assimilation methodologies to improve weather and climate predictions and reanalyses. The workshop will cover methods for coupling of data assimilation methodologies between the atmosphere, ocean, land-surface, sea-ice, aerosols, atmospheric chemistry, and more, including weak coupling (coupling of the forecasts providing the background forecasts) and strong coupling (coupling of the state estimation as well). The workshop will also consider which observations are particularly important to advance coupled assimilations. The workshop will include overview presentations by selected invited speakers, 15-minute oral presentations, posters, discussion of the key scientific and technical challenges, and breakout groups to list the key issues and to formulate recommendations for how collaboration facilitated by the WMO can advance the state of the science more rapidly.

This workshop is sponsored by Météo France and the World Meteorological Organization*.

* : specifically, the Data Assimilation and Observing Systems working group, the Polar Prediction Project, the Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction Group, Predictability, Dynamical Processes, and Ensemble Forecasting Group, and GODAE Ocean View, and CLIVAR-GSOP.

More information can be found at http://www.meteo.fr/cic/meetings/2016/CDAW2016/index.html

April 19, 2016. GFZ is happy to welcome you to the Second GNSS4SWEC Summer School.

GNSS4SWEC Summer School 2016
August 29 - September 2, 2016
Venue: Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

GNSS4SWEC stands for Advanced Global Navigation Satellite Systems tropospheric products for monitoring severe weather events and climate. This is a COST project, which started in May 2013 with the main objective to connect the community of scientists in Europe, who concentrate their research on the synergy of Meteorology, Geodesy, GNSS and related to those fields topics. The research area of this project project is spatial and temporal variability of water vapour in the atmosphere and its impact on severe atmospheric events, the climate system in general, as well as on the accuracy of the GNSS positioning products.

The goal of this Summer School is to give knowledge and tools to the PhD students in this sphere of Earth studies to make advanced research of the atmosphere. The school is going to be a continuation of the topics, which were discussed during the First GNSS4SWEC Summer School in 2014.

All PhD students and Early Post-Docs from the GNSS4SWEC community wanting to participate are requested to present a poster of their research during the summer school. This means, your abstract submission is your summer school application!

The abstracts for the posters are to be submitted to gfzcost(at)gmail.com.

Please follow the deadlines below:

18th of April, Monday - Poster abstract submission deadline

28th of April, Thursday - deadline for booking in Mercure Hotel in Potsdam

3rd of July, Sunday - deadline for booking in Dorint Hotel in Potsdam

The selection of participants will be made by the core team of the GNSS4SWEC project. Applicants will be informed about the decision by April 22, 2016.

All the newest information will be presented on this web page! Stay tuned for the incoming program of the school.

The School is exclusively organised for PhD students and early Post-Docs from the member institutions of the GNSS4SWEC project. Abstracts from students outside the project community will be considered only in case of not enough participants from the community.

April 18, 2016. Dear Colleagues / Chers collègues, You may now register for the Eighth Singular Days until May 15. The form in English can be found at: https://www.azur-colloque.fr/DR06/AzurInscription/?&iColId=3&NaiveForm_id=AzChoixColloque&btnAzurI=Inscription&lang=en Information on accommodations will be put online soon.

Vous pouvez à présent, et jusqu'au 15 mai, vous inscrire aux Huitièmes Journées singulières. Le formulaire en français se trouve à : https://www.azur-colloque.fr/DR06/AzurInscription/?&iColId=3&NaiveForm_id=AzChoixColloque&btnAzurI=Inscription&lang=fr Les informations sur le logement seront mises en ligne sous peu.

Cordialement / Best regards

Simon Labrunie & Victor Nistor
au nom du comité d'organisation /
on behalf of the Organising Committee

Monday, April 11, 2016, 4pm EDT*: Juan Durazo (Arizona State University). Data assimilation for extreme ionospheric events: observing system experiments of the September 26, 2011 geomagnetic storm

Abstract: As increasingly sophisticated ground- and space-based technological systems that depend on the near-Earth space environment are being built, vulnerabilities to variations in the ionosphere are also increasing. These vulnerabilities are especially prominent during extreme space-weather events, where satellite communication systems or terrestrial power grid are at risk of being disrupted. Data assimilation has become an essential tool for the specification of ionospheric space-weather, in particular the evolution of its electron density distribution. In this study, we use the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter (LETKF) data assimilation scheme and the Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Electrodynamics Global Circulation Model (TIEGCM) to track and forecast the global electron density distribution during a recent geomagnetic storm in September 26, 2011. Synthetic observations are generated and are assimilated into the ensemble forecast at every hour, using observations available within 30 minutes of analysis time. As a system that is strongly driven by external influences, the quality ionospheric forecasts depends on the estimation of these drivers, which include solar conditions, geomagnetic activity, and the state of the charge-neutral thermosphere, which is intimately coupled with the ionosphere. Thus the data assimilation system employed is extended to estimate these drivers in addition to the electron density state. Results show that the LETKF can adequately handle the inverse problem of using the available observations to estimate the ionospheric drivers that generated them, in addition to estimating the global distribution of electron density during this extreme space-weather event.

* This talk begins at 20:00 GMT = 10:00 HAST = 13:00 PDT = 13:00 MST = 14:00 MDT = 15:00 CDT = 16:00 EDT= 21:00 BST = 22:00 CEST, and Tuesday, the 12th, at 1:30 IST = 5:00 JST = 5:30 ACST = 6:00 AEST = 8:00 NZST

The following colloquium will be a joint presentation by Mary Silber (University of Chicago) and Karna Gowda (Northwestern University) on Monday, April 18, 2016, 10am EDT.

April 7, 2016. Please note the upcoming training course on

Uncertainty quantification: theory and application to algorithms, CFD and geosciences
3-4 May 2016

This training course is given by three specialists of uncertainty quantification: Dr Pietro Marco Congedo - researcher at INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, Dr Vivien Mallet - researcher at INRIA Paris Rocquencourt, and Dr Pierre Sagaut - professor at Aix-Ma. The first half of the course focuses on theoretical aspects: uncertainties definition, Monte Carlo methods, projection methods, approximation methods and calibration data methods. The second half of the course is dedicated to application of uncertainty quantification to the fields of algorithm, CFD and geosciences.

Detailed program at Webpage

Scientific contact: Dr Pietro Marco Congedo, INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest - Dr Vivien Mallet, INRIA Paris Rocquencourt - Pr Pierre Sagaut, laboratoire M2P2, AMU

See http://www.cerfacs.fr/training

March 17, 2016. The 13th International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus
May 15−18, 2017

The 13th International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation (WAVES 2017) will be held at the University of Minnesota. This biannual conference series is one of the main venues for dissemination of the latest advances in theoretical and computational modeling of wave phenomena, catering to the emerging problems in science and technology.

Conference Themes: Forward and Inverse Scattering, Fast Computational Techniques, Numerical Analysis, Domain Decomposition, Analytical & Asymptotic Methods, Nonlinear Wave Phenomena, Water Waves, Guided Waves and Random Media, Medical and Seismic Imaging, Homogenization of Wave Problems, Modeling Aspects in Photonics and Phononics, Mathematical Problems in Optics.

We look forward to welcoming you to our Twin Cities campus in the heart of Minneapolis.

For more information see http://cceevents.umn.edu/waves-2017

March 10, 2016. Summer School Numerical Methods for Wave Propagation

August 22-26, 2016 Universität Zürich Institut für Mathematik Zürich, Switzerland

Organisers: S.A. Sauter (Uni Zürich) R. Hiptmair (ETH) and Ch. Schwab (ETH) Themes:

• Numerical approximation of high frequency waves
• Space-time Petrov-Galerkin Methods
• Trefftz-type Methods for Computational Wave Propagation
• Riemann Problem for Waves in Heterogeneous Media
• Passive Imaging with Ambient Noise

Plenary Lecturers:

• Leszek Demkowicz
• Josselin Garnier
• Ralf Hiptmair
• Olof Runborg
• Stefan Sauter
• Christian Wieners

Registration and further information:

www.math.uzh.ch/zss16

On behalf of the organisers Stefan Sauter

Universität Zürich
Franziska Robmann
Institut für Mathematik
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zürich

+41 44 635 58 31 Telefon
+41 44 635 57 05 Telefax

More information at www.math.uzh.ch or email franziska.robmann@math.uzh.ch

March 10, 2016. Statistics in Weather and Climate Joint meeting of the Royal Statistical Society General Applications Section, Environmental Statistics Section and Reading Local Group Monday 21st March 0930-1745 University of Reading, Palmer Building, Room 105 http://www.reading.ac.uk/maths-and-stats/news/Statistics-Weather-Climate.aspx

Invited speakers: Dr Claudia Neves, University of Reading Dr Andrew Parnell, University College Dublin Prof. Jonty Rougier, University of Bristol Dr David Walshaw, University of Newcastle

Schedule: 0930-1015 Jonty Rougier (Bristol)
1015-1045 coffee
1045-1115 Kate Fradley (Reading)
1115-1145 Rebecca Killick (Lancaster)
1145-1215 Emma Suckling (Reading)
1215-1315 lunch
1315-1400 Andrew Parnell (UCD)
1400-1445 David Walshaw (Newcastle)
1445-1515 Paul Sharkey (Lancaster)
1515-1545 coffee
1545-1615 Ross Towe (JBA Trust)
1615-1645 Sandra Chapman (Warwick)
1645-1745 Claudia Neves (Reading)

Description: The meeting will focus on the use of probability and statistics for applications in weather and climate including, but not limited to, climate predication, paleoclimate and extreme events. We aim to bringing together specialists with varying backgrounds and view points: the background may be meteorology, physical modelling, geostatistics or of probabilistic/statistical nature. This event will form part of the Mathematics for Planet Earth Centre for Doctoral Training Jamboree 2016.

Registration: Places are very limited. Please register as soon as possible by emailing Richard Everitt (r.g.everitt@reading.ac.uk). There is no registration fee.

Directions: The meeting is on the first floor of the Palmer Building, which is building number 26 on the map at http://goo.gl/AtV6rU. The university is easily accessed by bus from the railway station (see http://goo.gl/Ybe9AB for further details). Parking is limited on campus - please contact Richard Everitt (r.g.everitt@reading.ac.uk) if you require a parking permit.

March 10, 2016. Greetings. Neuro Informatics 2016 is delighted to welcome you to Valencia, Spain for the Imaging Brain Dynamics by Bridging Neural Mechanisms and Informatics on September 26-27, 2016 Valencia, Spain.

Neuro Informatics 2016 will focus on “Imaging Brain Dynamics by Bridging Neural Mechanisms and Informatics ”.

We invite you to visit the event website at http://neuroinformatics.conferenceseries.com/ for detailed information on Neuro Informatics 2016.

Neuro Informatics 2016 is an extraordinary event designed to focus on the latest and exciting innovations in every area of Neuro Informatics research, and it will offer a unique opportunity for investigators from all over the world to meet, network, and perceive new scientific interactions. The conference invites participants from all leading universities, clinical research institutions and diagnostic companies to share their research experiences on all aspects of this rapidly expanding field and thereby, providing a showcase of the latest techniques.

Neuro Informatics 2016 Emphasizes on:

• Neuro informatics.
• Human Brain and Neural Network.
• Neurophysiology.
• Large scale Neural Stimulation.
• Neural coding.
• Structural Bioinformatics.
• Neurodegenerative Disease and Bioinformatics.
• Brain Mapping.
• Clinical Research Informatics
• Neurobiology of Disease.
• Neuromorphic Computing
• NGS and Neuroscience.
• Big Data Analysis.

We hope to see you at Valencia, Spain.

Mark Jorden
Neuro Informatics 2016
2360 Corporate Circle, Suite 400,
Henderson, NV 89074-7722, USA
P 702 508 5200 Ext 8034
Email: neuroinformatics@neuroconferences.com

March 8, 2016. Dear Colleagues, Dear Students, Dear Friends! We will organize our next little workshop (9th) Analysis and Advanced Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations (not only) for Junior Scientists 2016 (AANMPDE(JS)-9-13)
July 4-8, 2016, in Strobl (St. Wolfgang) am Wolfgangsee, Austria.

Our invited key note speakers will be:

1. Martin Costabel
2. Monique Dauge
3. Kees Oosterlee
4. Wolfgang Wendland

As usual, our intention is to provide a nice little workshop with a friendly atmosphere and lots of interesting scientific talks and discussions. Participation and talks of 'juniors' such as phd students are very welcome! Black/white-board talks as well as presentations using projector are possible.

You are cordially invited! Please forward this mail to colleagues and students. As the deadline for registration is end of March, please let us know if you want to participate by the end of this month by answering to this e-mail.

Best regards from Essen and hope to see you in Strobl

Johannes (Kraus) and Dirk (Pauly)

Fakultät für Mathematik
Universität Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen
Germany

Webpage: https://www.uni-due.de/maxwell/strobl16
Email: maxwell@uni-due.de

The European Space Agency (ESA) is inviting young researchers to join leading experts in Earth Observation, Modelling and Data Assimilation for keynote lectures, hands-on computing practical and poster sessions on the occasion of the 8th ESA EO Summer School.

Applications can be made on-line at:
https://earth.esa.int/web/eo-summer-school/home
Contact: eotraining@esa.int

Dear Colleague, our book on Inverse Modeling: An introduction to the theory and methods of inverse problems and data assimilation (IOP Expanding Physics) by Gen Nakamura (Author), Roland Potthast (Author) is now available on Amazon at Inverse Modeling Amazon.

Cover Text by the Publisher:

“This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the techniques, tools and methods for inverse problems and data assimilation. Inverse problems are widespread today in science and technology, and this book is written at the interface between mathematics and applications, designed for students, researchers and developers in mathematics, physics, engineering, acoustics, electromagnetics, meteorology, biology, environmental and other applied sciences.

Basic analytic questions and tools are introduced, as well as a wide variety of concepts, methods and approaches to formulate and solve inverse problems, among others classical regularization and iterative methods, but also more recent approaches like sampling and probe methods, field reconstruction techniques in acoustics and electromagnetics and source reconstruction. In the framework of data assimilation, stochastic and deterministic methods are becoming more and more intertwined both variational and ensemble data assimilation methods are introduced, as well as stochastic and deterministic viewpoints and analysis. Applications range from neural kernel reconstruction to inverse acoustic and electromagnetic scattering and thermography, from magnetic tomography for fuel cells or in a medical environment to weather forecasting and earth science. OCTAVE /MATLAB codes are included, which serve as a first step towards simulations and more sophisticated inversion or data assimilation algorithms.”

Best regards,
Gen Nakamura and Roland Potthast

Feb 22, 2016. Dear All: As you are making your hotel and travel reservations, please keep in mind that the first day of the EnKF workshop will be overlapped with the second day of a 2-day symposium on “Advanced Assimilation and Uncertainty Quantification in BigData Research for Weather, Climate and Earth System Monitoring and Prediction”. The draft agenda to the 2-day symposium can be found at: http://adapt.psu.edu/2016EnKFWorkshop/SYMPOSIUM/

As you will see from the draft symposium agenda, most of the topics covered will be highly relevant to the EnKF data assimilation workshop though the Big Data symposium is more inclusive in scope and methodology. All of you are welcome to attend either part of or the entire symposium with no registration fees though you will be covering your own lodging and food as in the EnKF workshop. We have asked the resort to have the special rate begin Saturday May 21 and end at Saturday May 28. Here is the link to make hotel reservations: https://bookings.ihotelier.com/Toftrees-Golf-Resort/bookings.jsp?hotelID=97834&groupID=1589135

We accept all abstracts submitted so far so if you need acceptance letter to process your travel or visa applications, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Dandan Tao, our meeting assistant. However, we cannot guarantee everybody for oral presentations given limited time slots available. The organizing committee will work hard to deliver a draft agenda to you all in the next week or so. Thank you for your patience.

We look forward to seeing all of you in State College (home of Penn State), and to interactions with each of you.

With best regards, Fuqing Zhang

Director, Penn State Center for
Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques (ADAPT)
Professor, Department of Meteorology and Department of Statistics

Pennsylvania State University, 627A Walker, University Park, PA 16801
www.met.psu.edu/people/fzhang http://adapt.psu.edu 814-865-0470
Publication page: http://adapt.psu.edu/ZHANG/zhangpublication.html

Feb 9, 2016. 　The purpose of this symposium is to share the current achievements of the projects that started in 2013 and 2014, and to introduce the new projects awarded in this fiscal year in the JST CREST program on “Advanced Application Technologies to Boost Big Data Utilization for Multiple-Field Scientific Discovery and Social Problem Solving (Big Data Application)”. It also aims to promote the exchange of scientific and technological ideas between local and international scientists in order to promote further international collaborations. In the morning of the first day, we have two keynote speakers. In the afternoon of the first day and on the second day, we have the sessions of Big Data Application projects. Each session has a progress report by the PI, and an invited talk by a distinguished international researcher of the corresponding research area. Some of the sessions have panel discussions among the CREST team members and the invited speakers. For the details of the whole program and each session, please refer to the WEB site below. http://www.jst.go.jp/kisoken/crest/en/research_area/ongoing/areah25-5.html

Workshop Webpage is at http://www.jst.go.jp/kisoken/crest/bigdata-ap/program.html

There is a session on big data assimilation on Saturday, March 5.

Feb 6, 2016. Dear Colleague, please note the Workshop on Basic Data Assimilation Concepts which takes place on 11 September 2016, Trieste, Italy, organized by the European Meteorological Society. http://www.ems2016.eu/workshops/basic_data_assimilation_concepts.html

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Roland Potthast, DWD (Research and Development, Head Division Data Assimilation), Dr. Martin Weissmann, LMU Hans–Ertel–Centre for Weather Research, Head of Data Assimilation Branch

Concept

The workshop will provide an introduction to data assimilation concepts, methods and techniques for forecasters and meteorologists.

To calculate weather forecasts on short or longer temporal scales, measurement data need to be fused into a coherent estimate of the current state of the atmosphere. These techniques are also of growing importance for nowcasting, and they are an important ingredient for climate monitoring and to calibrate climate projections. When measurements are integrated into model states, we usually speak of data assimilation.

The workshop provides a basic introduction to the ideas, set-up, properties, techniques and results which are behind data assimilation and data fusion. Its goal is to enable forecasters and users to understand the role of measurements, the capabilities and limitations of assimilation, and to gain insight into the whole NWP system which consists of a data assimilation cycle and forecast runs. A particular focus will be placed on the determination of uncertainty and risk within the analysis and forecast, which is a key goal of modern ensemble data assimilation systems.

Programme

09:30 Welcome
09:30 – 10:15 Data assimilation – The big picture, developing data assimilation from data streams to forecast visualization
10:15 – 11:00 The ideas behind data assimilation
Simple examples to explain how it all works. 11:00 – 11:15 Tea/coffee break
11:15 – 12:15 Global satellite data assimilation: infrared and microwave radiances polar orbiting satellites, hyperspectral sounders, data features and IR/MW assimilation
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch break
13:15 – 14:00 Convective scale ensemble data assimilation and ensemble prediction presentation of the Kilometre–Scale Ensemble Data Assimilation System KENDA
14:00 – 14:45 Radar data in data assimilation – from composites to 3D–volume–reflectivity assimilation via latent heat nudging, radar–forward–operator, 3D–volume assimilation
14:45 – 15:00 Tea/coffee
15:00 – 15:45 Impact estimation: data–to–analysis and data–to–forecast In what way does a measurement influence the forecast? How do you find out? What does it tell you?
15:45 – 16:30 Questions and answers discussion session – perspectives and applications
16:30 Closing

Target group: Anyone interested in the basic concepts of data assimilation.
Max number of participants: 25
Registration: Registration will open in May, the registration deadline will be 09 July 2016. Details on registration fees will become available shortly.
Participation is by pre-registration only. The workshop may be cancelled in case of low registration numbers.

For more information see http://www.ems2016.eu/workshops/basic_data_assimilation_concepts.html

Feb 6, 2016. On behalf of the organizing Committee, I would like to communicate the workshop

“Optimization and Inverse Problems in Electromagnetism 2016”

that will be held at Rome (Italy) in September 2016. More information are available at homepage http://oipe2016.uniroma3.it/

Best regards Antonino Laudani

Feb 6, 2016. The next inverse problems workshop will be held at the University of Nottingham on 29 February 2016, see the webpage: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/cbs31/LMS_Inverse_Day_Nottingham/Home.html

There is no registration fee but if you wish to participate please send an email of interest to Dr Marco Iglesias at: Marco.Iglesias@nottingham.ac.uk Also, if you wish to present a poster please let Marco know.

Regards, Marco, Yves, Carola, Manuch and Daniel

Feb 5, 2016. Dear All, We are currently advertising 5 PostDoc positions for our new EPSRC Centre for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Multimodal Clinical Imaging, see http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/9299/ Deadline for applications is the 3rd of March 2016.

More information on the Centre can be found here http://tinyurl.com/Cam-CMiH Please advertise among suitable candidates.

Thanks a lot and best wishes,
Carola Schönlieb

Jan 27, 2016. It is our pleasure to inform you of the 9th International Symposium on Inverse Problems in Engineering (ICIPE 2017), to be held May 24-27, 2017 at the University of Waterloo. The conference will honour Professor Graham Gladwell, FRSC, for his pioneering contributions to inverse analysis of structures and vibrations, and lifetime dedication to teaching and mentorship at the University of Waterloo.

The conference website is icipe17.uwaterloo.ca, and I have attached a conference flier. The preliminary publication timeline is:

• Abstract submission: October 15th, 2016
• Abstract acceptance notification: November 1st, 2016
• Paper submission deadline: January 1st, 2017
• Paper acceptance notification: February 15th, 2017
• Final paper submission deadline: March 1st, 2017

We would be grateful if you could disseminate the call-for-papers to your colleagues in inverse analysis. We are very excited about hosting you in Waterloo!

Best regards,

Kyle and Sriram

Kyle J. Daun, PhD, P. Eng.
Conference Chair
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
University of Waterloo

Sriram Narasimhan, PhD, Peng
Conference Co-chair
Canada Research Chair in Smart Infrastructure and Associate Professor,
Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Waterloo

Jan 25, 2016. Dear colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to the coming meeting in Japan – JpGU (Japan Geoscience Union), to be held at Makuhari in Chiba on May 22–26, 2016. Webpage: http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2016/index.htm

In this meeting we are welcome to the following session on high-resolution or high-definition topographic and geophysical data:

H-TT08
GEOSCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS OF HIGH-DEFINITION TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS
session details: http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2016/session_list/detail/H-TT08.html
planned on morning May 22, 2016 as a joint session with AGU and EGU

Session description: High-definition, or high-resolution measurements of earth surface topography and geophysical properties have often been performed for better understandings of its processes and dynamics. Here in this session, we accept discussions on high-definition topographic and geophysical data, including its theory, acquisition, archiving, processing, modeling and analysis. The approaches may include applications of, but not limited to, laser scanning, SfM-MVS photogrammetry, GNSS positioning, SAR interferometry, multi-beam sonar, geomagnetics and electromagnetics sensors based on terrestrial (fixed or mobile) and aerial (UAV or manned airborne) platforms.

Conveners: Yuichi S. Hayakawa, Hiroshi P. Sato, Shoichiro Uchiyama, Shigekazu Kusumoto, Thad A. Wasklewicz, Daniele Giordan, Hiroyuki Obanawa

Abstract submission is now open until February 18, 2016 (12:00 JST = 03:00 GMT = previous day 19:00 PST), whereas the advance submission deadline with discount rates is February 3, 2016 (24:00 JST = 15:00 GMT = 07:00 PST).

http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2016/submission_t.html

In addition, the session is planning to lead to an open special issue in the journal Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (PEPS) by Springer. This issue is on general theme in high-definition topographic and geophysical data for geosciences, and participation will be open to anyone regardless of the JpGU session. More details will be provided soon later.

Please forward this invitation to your colleagues who may be interested in this session. Also feel free to ask us if you have any questions: topography@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp http://topography.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/resources/160522_jpgu16_htt08/index.html

Jan 20, 2016. Abstract submission and registration is now open for the 2016 Inverse Problems Symposium which will be held at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington Virginia from 5-7 June 2016. Extended abstracts are invited for submission via the conference web page at http://inverseproblems2016.org/

Submitted papers are presented at the conference and are not copyrighted, so they may be published in a journal following the conference. All areas of inverse problems in science and engineering are invited, including Heat Transfer, Applied Mechanics, Controls, Biology, Nondestructive Evaluation, Nanoengineering, Geology, Food Science and Bioengineering.

The registration fee for the conference is only $200 and includes several meals, as well as a banquet at the Natural Bridge Hotel and admission to the Natural Bridge Park. Lexington Virginia is located in the Shenandoah Valley, which is a very scenic area and home to the Blue Ridge Parkway and Shenandoah National Park. Washington DC is less than a three-hour drive.

For questions regarding this conference, please contact the conference chairman (Robert McMasters – mcmastersrl@vmi.edu) or the co-chairman (Kirk Dolan – dolank@msu.edu).

Jan 18, 2016. The announcement and call for applications for the EOS-COST School on Data Assimilation and Data Analysis Methods (EOS-COST DAAM) is now published on CMCC's website at the following link http://www.cmcc.it/it/modelli-e-scenari/call-for-application-for-the-eos-cost-school-on-data-assimilation-and-data-analysis-methods-2

The EU COST Action “Evaluation of Ocean Syntheses” (EOS) is organizing a training school on data assimilation and data analysis techniques from 4 to 15 April 2016 in Lecce (Italy).

In the fields of oceanography, meteorology and climatology, the data analysis and data assimilation techniques combine in an optimal way different data sets, possibly using dynamical constraints defined by numerical models. These techniques are central to operational atmospheric and oceanographic systems and climatological data analysis. The EOS-COST DAAM School will provide training on fundamental methodology, standard techniques and several state of the art applications. Theoretical lectures will be followed by practical exercises. The school will cover Bayesian, variational and ensemble techniques, and will present applications with operational systems and climatological data analysis.

Jan 15, 2016. The Mathematics and Climate Research Network (MCRN) uses web-based tools to engage mathematicians in climate research. MCRN members collaborate remotely in Research Focus Groups to study the cryosphere, conceptual model validation, data assimilation, the electric grid, food systems, nonsmooth systems, paleoclimate, resilience, tipping points, and more.

You can find a variety of mathematics-and-climate-related resources on this site, as well as events and job listings. https://mcrn.hubzero.org/

Jan 13, 2016. Second call for International Symposium on Data Assimilation in 2016 at Reading, UK. View this email in your browser 5th International Symposium on Data Assimilation (ISDA) 2016

First of all we wish you a very happy and productive 2016! January is already in a full swing leaving only 6 months till the 5th International Symposium on Data Assimilation (ISDA) 2016 which will take place between 18-22 July at the University of Reading, United Kingdom, home to the Data Assimilation Research Centre. Further, abstract deadline is only few a weeks away on 5th February 2016!

The ISDA 2016, follows the success of the ISDA 2015 held at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS), Kobe, Japan and previous symposium held in Germany (LMU (2014) , DWD (2012-2013)). The symposium will bring together about 150 researchers and consist of invited talks from leading scientists, short oral presentations with extended discussion, and extended poster sessions. Abstracts are invited on topics including:

  the mathematics of DA
  characterization of errors
  advances in methodology and operational systems
  satellite DA
  assessing the impact of observations
  DA for coupled systems
  convective scale DA
  DA for systematic model improvement

The deadline for abstract submission is the 5th February 2016. Instructions for abstract submission and further information can be found on the symposium website: www.isda2016.net.

Invited Speakers ! NEW !

  Prof Andrew Stuart, University of Warwick, UK
  Dr Gerald Desroziers, Meteo France, France
  Dr Jean-François Caron, Environment Canada, Canada
  Dr Loik Berre, Meteo France, France
  Dr Ron Errico / Nikki Prive, GMAO,NASA

Important dates

  Abstract deadline: 5th February 2016
  Open registration: February 2016
  Speakers confirmed and program made available: April 2016
  Close early registration: 13th May 2016
  Conference itself: 18th - 22nd July 2016

Scientific committee:

  Peter Jan van Leeuwen (Reading)
  Roland Potthast (DWD)
  Mark Buehner (Environment Canada)
  Tijana Janjic-Pfander(DWD/LMU)
  Andrew Lorenc (UK Met Office)
  Takemasa Miyoshi (RIKEN)
  Sebastian Reich (Potsdam)
  Martin Weissmann (LMU)

Local Organizing Committee:

  Alison Fowler
  Bertrand Bonan
  Phil Browne
  Sarah Dance
  Amos Lawless
  Nancy Nichols
  Polly Smith
  Peter Jan van Leeuwen
  Sanita Vetra-Carvalho

For more information please email us organisers@isda2016.net

http://isda2016.net/

Jan 13, 2016. Dear Colleague, please note the Congress “Mathematics in Imaging” which is taking place

  25 - 28 July 2016
  Kongresshaus Stadthalle Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany 

Mathematical Imaging covers mathematical and computational methods for modeling the physics of imaging methods and for providing stable and resolved solutions to the inverse problem of image reconstruction. It captures leading edge fundamental developments in imaging science and has applications in photonics, biomedical imaging, astronomy, and remote sensing. Imaging methods are constrained by the experimental data which are corrupted by measurement and medium noises and depend nonlinearly on the imaged object material and geometric parameters. Many of the fundamental problems in image reconstruction methods are shared across different disciplines, including optics, acoustics, seismic imaging, and synthetic aperture radar. These include optimal representations, resolution and stability estimates, optimal design approaches, and model reduction techniques.

Mathematical Imaging provides a platform for a cross fertilization between mathematical, computational, physical, and engineering disciplines related to imaging and inverse problems. Because of the breadth involved, papers highlighting either the interdisciplinary flavor of imaging methodologies or the fundamental mathematical and computational issues in imaging are particularly encouraged. Topic Categories

  Inverse scattering, regularization, constraints,  inversion in the multiple scattering regime
  Shape optimization
  Blind deconvolution
  Coherent imaging systems (holographic imaging, synthetic aperture radar ...)
  Phaseless imaging (X-ray imaging ...)
  3D imaging (tomographies, microscopy ...)
  Imaging through turbulent, random or highly scattering media
  Biomedical imaging and hybrid imaging
  Biomimetic imaging
  Superresolution
  Inverse problems related to design of metamaterials, metasurfaces, and cloaking

For more Information see http://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/optics_and_photonics_congresses/imaging_and_applied_optics/mathematics_in_imaging/

Jan 5, 2016. EOS training school on Data Assimilation and Data Analysis Methods is taking place from 4 to 15 April 2016 in Lecce (Italy)

See http://www.cmcc.it/applications/eos-cost-school-on-data-assimilation-and-data-analysis-methods-eos-cost-daam

Jan 4, 2016. Sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group on Mathematics of Planet Earth. This meeting will be held jointly with the SIAM Conference on Applied Mathematics Education (ED16). A single registration will cover both ED16 and MPE16.

Location: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Philadelphia Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Dates: September 30-October 2, 2016

Conference Co-Chairs:

Hans Engler, Georgetown University, USA
Hans Kaper, Georgetown University, USA
Antonios Zagaris, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands
Mary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College, USA 

Organizing Committee:

J. Marty Anderies, Arizona State University, USA
Peter Ashwin, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Luc Doyen, CNRS - Université de Bordeaux,  France
Gregory M. Forest, University of North Carolina, USA
Darryl D. Holm, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, USA
Simon A. Levin, Princeton University, USA
Catherine A. Roberts, College of the Holy Cross, USA
Fred Roberts, Rutgers University, USA
Christiane Rousseau, Université de Montréal, Canada
David B. Shmoys, Cornell University, USA
Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University, USA

The Call for Presentations for this conference is available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/mpe16/

Twitter hashtag: #MPE16

Deadlines

SUBMISSION DEADLINES
March 2, 2016: Minisymposium Proposal Submissions
March 30, 2016: Contributed Lecture, Poster and Minisymposium Presentation Abstracts

TRAVEL FUND APPLICATION DEADLINE
March 18, 2016: SIAM Student Travel Award and Post-doc/Early Career Travel Award Applications

Please visit http://www.siam.org/meetings/mpe16/submissions.php for detailed submission information.

For additional information, contact the SIAM Conference Department (meetings@siam.org).

Jan 4, 2016. Abstract submissions will accepted for the Inverse Problems Symposium for 2016 http://inverseproblems2016.org starting on 15 January 2016.

The conference will be held in Lexington Virginia at the Virginia Military Institute 5-7 June 2016. Topics included in the conference are listed below:

A. Mathematical and Statistical Aspects of Inverse Problems
     1. Theory and Methods of Inverse Problems
     2. Stability and Error Analysis
B. Design of Experiments
     1. Optimal Design of Experiments
     2. Analysis of Actual Experimental Data
C. Applications
     1. Heat Transfer, Applied Mechanics, Controls, Other Engineering Disciplines
     2. Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, and Medicine
     3. Nondestructive Evaluation
     4. Nanoengineering
     5. Tomography and Inverse Scattering
     6. Geology and Environmental Phenomena
     7. Economics
     8. Food and Bioprocessing
     9. Bioengineering
     10. Packaging
 

Jan 2, 2016. Please find below a reminder for session NP5.1, “Inverse Problems and Data Assimilation'', General Assembly of EGU, Vienna, 17-22 Apr 2016. Deadline for submission of abstracts : 13 Jan 2016, 13:00 CET. Best wishes, and hoping to see you in Vienna. The conveners, Session NP5.1

Announcement:

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the session 'Inverse Problems and Data Assimilation' (session NP5.1, Programme Group 'Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences') to be held during the upcoming General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (Vienna, Austria, 17-22 April 2016).

This session will be devoted to all aspects of Inverse Problems and Data Assimilation in Geophysics. A detailed description is given below. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 13 January 2016, 13:00 CET. An Abstract Processing Charge (APC) of €40.00 gross must be paid for each abstract submission.

General information on the General Assembly, in particular instructions for submitting abstracts and requests for financial support, is available at the address http://www.egu2016.eu/

Identification of the session : Programme Group 'Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences', Session NP5.1, Solicited lecturers for the session: Thomas Bodin (ENS Lyon, France) and Marc Bocquet (CEREA, Marne-la-Vallée, France)

Please forward this announcement to colleagues you think may be interested.

With regards,

Olivier Talagrand
Alberto Carrassi
Alexandre Fournier
Amos Lawless
Oscar Alves
Matthew Martin
Mu Mu

Conveners

Description of the session

Inverse Problems are encountered in many fields of Geosciences, for the purpose of either prediction or inference. One class of inverse problems, in the context of predictability, is assimilation of observations in dynamical models of the system under study.

This session will be devoted to the presentation and discussion of methods for inverse problems and data assimilation, in ocean and atmosphere dynamics, solid earth geophysics, atmospheric chemistry, hydrology and, more generally, in all fields of geophysics.

Data assimilation in coupled models (for example ocean/atmosphere models) is an emerging area of development for forecasting and reanalysis at operational centres. We particularly encourage contributions related to research aimed at understanding and developing such coupled data assimilation systems.

We also encourage reports on advanced methods, and related mathematical developments, suitable for situations in which local linear and Gaussian hypotheses are not valid and/or in the presence of model error. Contributions dealing with algorithmic aspects and numerical implementation of the solution of inverse problems are welcome, as well as contributions dealing with quantification of uncertainty in inverse and data assimilation problems.

Olivier Talagrand
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique
École Normale Supérieure
24 rue Lhomond
75231 Paris cedex 05
France

Dec 31, 2015. A new book on Inverse Problems and Data Assimilation just appeared: Inverse Modeling - An introduction to the theory and methods of inverse problems and data assimilation

Authors: Gen Nakamura and Roland Potthast
Published December 2015

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the techniques, tools and methods for inverse problems and data assimilation, and is written at the interface between mathematics and applications for students, researchers and developers in mathematics, physics, engineering, acoustics, electromagnetics, meteorology, biology, environmental and other applied sciences. Basic analytic questions and tools are introduced, as well as a wide variety of concepts, methods and approaches to formulate and solve inverse problems. OCTAVE /MATLAB codes are included, which serve as a first step towards simulations and more sophisticated inversion or data assimilation algorithms.

http://iopscience.iop.org/books, Contents at http://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-1218-9

Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. Functional analytic tools
3. Approaches to regularization
4. A stochastic view of inverse problems
5. Dynamical systems inversion and data assimilation
6. Programming of numerical algorithms and useful tools
7. Neural field inversion and kernel reconstruction
8. Simulation of waves and fields
9. Nonlinear operators
10. Analysis: uniqueness, stability and convergence questions
11. Source reconstruction and magnetic tomography
12. Field reconstruction techniques
13. Sampling methods
14. Probe methods
15. Analytic continuation tests
16. Dynamical sampling and probe methods
17. Targeted observations and meta-inverse problems

Aug 13, 2015. Dear colleague, We are pleased to inform you that the 18th International Symposium for Advancement of boundary-layer Remote Sensing (ISARS2016) will be held near Varna, Bulgaria 6-9 June 2016. Please, find attached the First announcement and visit http://isars2016.org/

Further information about the Symposium and collocated events will be send out with the second announcement.

Best regards

Ekaterina Batchvarova

Current Chair of the ISARS Steering Committee ISARS2016, 6-9 June 2016, Varna, Bulgaria

Dear colleague. Please note the workshop on Stochastic Modelling in GFD, data assimilation, and non-equilibrium phenomena to take place 2-6 November 2015 at Imperial College London.

Organisers: Jochen Broecker (University of Reading), Dan Crisan (Imperial College London).

Scientific Committee:
Colin Cotter (Imperial)
Darryl Holm (Imperial)
Tobias Kuna (Reading)
Peter Jan van Leeuwen (Reading)
Valerio Lucarini (Reading)
Roland Potthast (Reading and Deutscher Wetterdienst)
Sebastian Reich (Reading and Potsdam)

Scope:

The workshop on “Stochastic Modelling in GFD, data assimilation, and non-equilibrium phenomena” to take place at Imperial College London in the period 2-6 November 2015. The workshop proposes to gather the combination of expertise needed to address compound and interdisciplinary questions raised by climate science, in the context of stochastic modelling in geophysical fluid dynamics, data assimilation and non-equilibrium phenomena. The scope of the meeting is illustrated by the following spectrum of topics to be covered by speakers who are recognised as world–leading in their field:

• Analysis of nonlinear PDEs in geophysical fluid dynamics including their stochastic counterparts.
• Bayesian learning, inference methods and data assimilation for high-dimensional models
• Numerical analysis and scientific computing for multi-scale, high and variable resolution weather and climate models on exascale computer architectures
• Statistical mechanics of geophysical flows, instabilities, and extreme events

Confirmed Speakers:
Alberto Carassi (NSERC Norway)
Colin Cotter (Imperial)
Mike Cullen (Met Office Exeter)
Eric Vanden-Eijnden (Courant USA)
Ana Fernandez (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
Chris Ferro (Exeter)
Mike Fisher (ECMWF)
Darryl Holm (Imperial)
Christopher Jones (UNC Chapel Hill USA)
Tobias Kuna (Reading)
Peter Jan van Leeuwen (Reading)
Andrew Lorenc (Met Office Exeter)
Valerio Lucarini (Reading)
David Marshall (Oxford)
Tim Palmer (Oxford)
Roland Potthast (Reading and Deutscher Wetterdienst)
Hendrik Reich (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
Sebastian Reich (Reading and Potsdam)
Andreas Rhodin (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
Piotr Smolarkievicz (ECMWF)
Andrew Stuart (Warwick)
Johannes Zimmer (Bath)

MORE INFORMATION WILL FOLLOW SOON! http://mpecdt.org/workshop-stochastic-modelling-in-gfd-data-assimilation-and-non-equilibrium-phenomena/

All of the presentations that I have been sent should be available now on the workshop website: http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/events/adjoint_workshop-10/presentations.html If I do not have a copy of your presentation, the link leads to an abstract instead. If there are any errors, or if you would like your presentation to be included, please contact Nikki.

Also, there is a collection of photos sent in by several people here: http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/events/adjoint_workshop-10/photos.html

Aug 1, 2015. Dear Colleague. Please note the 5th Annual International Conference on Computatoinal Mathematics, Computational Geometry and Statistics ato be held at Singapore, 18-19 Jan 2016.

The goal of the conference is to bring together active researchers from the various disciplines to showcase their state-of-the-art research results and hopefully to forge new cross-disciplinary interactions among the participants. The conference provides a unique opportunity for in-depth technical discussions and exchange of ideas in mathematical and computational sciences, as well as explores the potential of their applications in natural and social sciences, engineering and technology and industry and finance.

The objectives of this conference are:

• to provide a forum for researchers, educators, students, contributors, users of mathematical knowledge and industries to exchange ideas and communicate and discuss research findings and new advancement in mathematics and statistics;

• to explore possible avenues to foster academic and student exchange, as well as scientific activities;

• to promote and encourage exchange of ideas on recent discoveries in the field of mathematics, statistics and mathematical education.

Highlights

Keynote Addresses

Prof. Michael K. Ng
"Non-negative Tensors: Applications and Algorithms"
Professor
Department of Mathematics
Hong Kong Baptist University 	

Prof. C. Raju
Professor of Quantitative Methods and Operations Management
Chairman, Post Graduate Programme
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, India

• The Conference Proceedings Print ISSN: 2251-1911, E-Periodical ISSN: 2251-192X will be indexed by Ulrichsweb, EBSCO, CrossRef, ProQuest, Zentralblatt MATH and will be submitted to Scopus, ScienceDirect and Cabell's Directories amongst others, where applicable.

• Journal: All authors who present their papers at the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their research paper for the GSTF Journal of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research (JMSOR) (Print ISSN: 2251-3388, E-periodical: 2251-3396). All submitted papers will go through blind review process for acceptance. All accepted papers (after the review process) will be included in the JMSOR on a complimentary basis (free-of-charge). GSTF JMSOR is hosted and published on Springer’s Open Access publishing platform - Global Science Journals (GSJ). In addition, it will be indexed by EBSCO, CrossRef, ProQuest, Ulrichsweb, Cabell's Directories and will be submitted to Scopus, Google Scholar, IndexCopernicus, amongst others.

• Book: Selected authors will be invited to contribute book chapters in “Advances in Operational Research and Statistics” to be published by GSTF.

• Best Paper Awards and Best Student Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference (in order to qualify for the award, the paper must be presented at the conference).

• CMCGS 2016 will also constitute a Special Panel Session.

• Panel Proposals are invited for submission. A minimum of three papers centering on a specific topic will be accepted for submission under Panel Category.

- See more at: http://www.mathsstat.org/index.html#sthash.E2wu5ST8.dpuf

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to the Fifth International Symposium on Data Assimilation (ISDA) 2016

to take place on July 18-22 at the University of Reading, United Kingdom, home to the Data Assimilation Research Centre.

The ISDA 2016 continues a series of well received symposia: the German Symposium on Data Assimilation 2011, the ISDA 2012 at the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) in Offenbach, Germany, the ISDA 2014 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, German, and the ISDA 2015 at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS), Kobe, Japan.

The symposium will gather about 150 researchers and consist of invited talks from leading scientists spanning the field of data assimilation, extended poster sessions and short oral presentations with extended discussion.

This is a first announcement and more information is and will be available at http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~darc/conferences/5thISDA/

Best wishes,
Dr Alison Fowler
Prof. Peter Jan van Leeuwen
Prof. Roland Potthast

16.6.2015. New Book: Probabilistic Forecasting and Bayesian Data Assimilation

AUTHORS: Sebastian Reich, Universität Potsdam, Germany and University of ReadingColin Cotter, Imperial College London

In this book the authors describe the principles and methods behind probabilistic forecasting and Bayesian data assimilation. Instead of focusing on particular application areas, the authors adopt a general dynamical systems approach, with a profusion of low-dimensional, discrete-time numerical examples designed to build intuition about the subject. Part I explains the mathematical framework of ensemble-based probabilistic forecasting and uncertainty quantification. Part II is devoted to Bayesian filtering algorithms, from classical data assimilation algorithms such as the Kalman filter, variational techniques, and sequential Monte Carlo methods, through to more recent developments such as the ensemble Kalman filter and ensemble transform filters. The McKean approach to sequential filtering in combination with coupling of measures serves as a unifying mathematical framework throughout Part II. Assuming only some basic familiarity with probability, this book is an ideal introduction for graduate students in applied mathematics, computer science, engineering, geoscience and other emerging application areas.

Book Webpage at Cambridge University Press

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