Annual Report 2008.pdf - SAMSI

IV. SAMSI/NCAR Workshop III Application of Statistics to Numerical Models: New
Methods and Case Studies
Schedule
Monday, May 21
7:45 University of Colorado (CU) bus pick-up from Golden Buff to NCAR
8:00 - 8:30 Registration and Coffee
8:30 - 8:45 Opening Remarks
Doug Nychka, NCAR Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences
8:45 - 10:15 Project Reports I
The NCAR Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Electrodynamics General Circulation
Model: Problems in Developing a Realistic Model
Astrid Maute, NCAR/HAO
Calibration and emulation of the NCAR TIE-GCM
Serge Guillas, SAMSI/Georgia Institute of Technology
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Invited I
Successful calibration: A practitioners guide
Jason Loeppky, University of British Columbia
Bayesian functional data analysis for computer model validation
Fei Liu, Duke University
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 Project Reports II
Improving terrestrial magnetosphere models with optimized ionospheric boundary
conditions
Josh Rigler, NCAR/HAO
A statistical algorithm for calibrating the LFM model
Steve Sain, NCAR/IMAGe
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 5:00 Group Discussion
Moderator: Jonty Rougier, SAMSI/University of Durham
5:15 CU Bus to Millennium Harvest House
5:30 - 7:00 Mixer at the Millennium Harvest House
Tuesday, May 22
7:45 CU bus pick-up from Golden Buff to NCAR
8:00 - 8:30 Coffee
8:30-10:00 Project Reports III