This agenda reflects changes made to the program during the course of the summit. All times are central daylight time.
Sunday, September 29 (Reception)
6:00 pm Registration and Reception at the Chancellor’s Ballroom, I Hotel and Conference Center. Refreshments provided with cash bar.
Welcome by Dr. Timothy L. Killeen, President, University of Illinois System.
Overview of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) by Dr. William D. Gropp, Director.
Monday, September 30 (Day 1)
Principal Goals for the Day: Help everyone become familiar with the purpose and rationale for the summit, overview drivers and thoughts obtained to date on core topics, and prepare issues/questions for discussion on Day-2.
7:30 – 8:30 am Arrive at the I Hotel and Conference Center and check-in at the summit registration table outside the Chancellor’s Ballroom. Continental breakfast provided.
8:30 – 9:00 am Welcome by Dr. Robert J. Jones, Chancellor, and Dr. Susan Martinis, Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
9:00 – 9:15 am Introductions, goals of the summit, and logistics. (Kelvin Droegemeier, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).
9:15 – 9:45 am Engaging the Global Community in a Transformative Approach to Earth System Science Research, Education and Climate Projection. (Kelvin Droegemeier).
9:45 – 10:15 am Break with refreshments provided; networking; sharing of initial thoughts electronically.
10:15 am – noon Panel Session: Progress in Fine-Scale Earth System Modeling Around the World and AI-Based Systems for Weather and Climate. Co-Chaired by Ruby Leung, DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Bjorn Stevens, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology; and Maria Molina, University of Maryland.
km-Scale Model Survey Results (Andreas Prein, ETH Zurich).
Europe: Destin-E/IFS/ICON (Nils Wedi, European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts) and EVE (Bjorn Stevens, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology).
Asia: NICAM (Masaki Satoh, Tokyo University).
United States: SCREAM/SHIELD/MPAS (Andreas Prein, ETH Zurich) and NeuralGCM (Stephan Hoyer, Google).
AI/ML: NVIDIA AI for Weather and Climate (Karthik Kashinath, NVIDIA) and GraphCast (Matthew Willson, Google).
Noon – 2:00 pm Working Lunch (provided) and Practitioner/Stakeholder Panel Session: Needs as Drivers of Fine-Scale Climate Information. Chaired by Francina Dominguez, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Jeff Gall, RenaissanceRe Risk Sciences
Edith Makra, Metropolitan Mayors Caucus.
John England, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Jean Brokish, American Farmland Trust.
2:00 – 2:15 pm Silent brainstorming and electronic submission of thoughts for discussion.
2:15 – 3:15 pm Discussion of thoughts, questions, and ideas submitted electronically. Co-Chaired by Dan Reed, University of Utah and Maria Molina, University of Maryland.
3:15 – 3:30 pm Break with refreshments provided.
3:30 – 5:00 pm Recap of pre-summit intensives and discussion of possible breakout topics. Co-Chaired by Barb Helland, US Department of Energy (Retired) and John Towns, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Submit additional thoughts electronically about questions needing to be addressed in breakouts.
Practitioners and Stakeholders, Francina Dominguez.
Earth System Models, Andreas Prein.
Computational Systems, John Shalf.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Maria Molina.
5:00 – 5:20 pm Why are models uncertain and how can uncertainty best be quantified? Tim Palmer, University of Oxford.
5:30 pm Adjourn – Dinner on your own and think about breakout topics.
Planning Committee meets for dinner at 6:00 pm.
Tuesday, October 1 (Day 2)
Principal Goals for the Day: Help everyone become familiar with the purpose and rationale for the summit, overview drivers and thoughts obtained to date on core topics, and prepare issues/questions for discussion on Day-2.
7:30 – 8:30 am Arrive at I Hotel and Conference Center. Continental breakfast provided.
8:30 – 9:00 am Recap of Day-1 and plans for Day-2, including breakouts and use of Challenge Sets (Kelvin Droegemeier).
9:00 – 10:30 am Plenary discussion of pre-summit intensive materials and presentations from Day-1, with participants making suggestions electronically regarding key questions/issues needing to be addressed in the breakout sessions. End with 15 minutes of silent brainstorming. (Planning Committee, Nucleus Team).
10:30 – 11:00 am Break with refreshments provided and networking.
11:00 am – 12:30p Breakout Sessions #1:
Group 1: A New Approach for the International Community
Group 2: Crosscutting Topics
Group 3: Earth System Model and AI/ML
Group 4: Computational Systems
Group 5: Practitioners, End Users and Stakeholders
12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch provided and report-out from Breakout Sessions #1.
2:00 – 2:30 pm Break with refreshments provided
2:30 – 4:00 pm Breakout Sessions #2:
Group 1: Use Cases
Group 2: R&D Agenda
Group 3: Data and tools
4:00 – 5:30 pm Report-out from Breakout Sessions #2.
5:30 pm Adjourn – Dinner on your own.
Planning Committee meets for dinner at 6:00 pm.
Wednesday, October 2 (Day 3)
Principal Goals for the Day: Summarize key points of agreement and remaining questions; (1) develop a consensus regarding a computational environment and modeling framework that address stakeholder needs; (2) identify key research questions that need to be addressed to achieve reliable model results; and (3) frame an administrative structure, facilities concept, and funding model for executing a global initiative that leverages community resources to achieve a whole that is astonishingly greater than the sum of its parts.
7:30 – 8:30 am Arrive at I Hotel and Conference Center. Continental breakfast provided.
8:30 – 10:00 am Plenary discussion of key issues (Planning Committee)
10:00 am – 10:45 am Break and refreshments provided
10:45 am – noon Continue discussion; identify next steps.
Noon Summit adjourns and box lunch provided.
1:00 – 2:30 pm Planning Committee meets to discuss summit, next steps, and report to NSF.