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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The 6th International
Workshop on Climate Informatics</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>When</b>: September
22-23, 2016 (Climate Informatics Hackathon will be on September 21, 2016)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Where</b>: NCAR Mesa
lab in Boulder, Colorado</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Website</b>: <a href="https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/events/workshops/climate-informatics/2016/home">https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/events/workshops/climate-informatics/2016/home</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Twitter</b>:
@Climformatics</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Short paper deadline</b>:
Friday, July 15, 2016, Short papers due</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Keynote Speakers:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Including:</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sudipto Banerjee, University of California Los Angeles, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yulia Gel, University of Texas at Dallas, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pradeep Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jason Smerdon, Columbia University, USA</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Workshop Overview</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Climate informatics broadly refers to any research combining
climate science with approaches from statistics, machine learning and data
mining. The Climate Informatics workshop series, now in its sixth year, seeks
to bring together researchers from all of these areas. We aim to stimulate the
discussion of new ideas, foster new collaborations, grow the climate
informatics community, and thus accelerate discovery across disciplinary
boundaries. The format of the workshop seeks to overcome cross disciplinary
language barriers and to emphasize communication between participants by
featuring tutorials, invited talks, panel discussions, posters and breakout
sessions. The programs of previous workshops from 2011 to 2015 can be found
here (<a href="https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/events/workshops/climate-informatics/2016/climate-informatics-archive">https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/events/workshops/climate-informatics/2016/climate-informatics-archive</a>).
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<p class="MsoNormal">We invite all researchers interested in learning about
critical issues and opportunities in the field of climate informatics to join
us, whether established in the field or just starting out.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Since earth system sciences can be brought to bear on the
study of climate, the scope of the workshop also includes data science
approaches to problems at the nexus of climate and the earth system sciences.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Workshop Short Papers</b>:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We encourage submissions on topics anywhere at the interface
of climate science and machine learning, statistics, data mining, or related
fields. Reviews, position papers, and works in progress, are also encouraged.
Topics include but are NOT limited to:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Machine learning, statistics, or data mining, applied to
climate science</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Management and processing of large climate datasets</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Long and short term climate prediction</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ensemble characterization of climate model projections</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paleoclimate reconstruction</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Uncertainty quantification</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Spatiotemporal methods applied to climate data</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Time series methods applied to climate data</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Methods for modeling, detecting and predicting climate
extremes</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Climate change attribution</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dependence and causality among climate variables</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Detection and characterization of climate teleconnections</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Data assimilation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Climate model parameterizations</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hybrid methods</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Other data science approaches at the nexus of climate and
earth system sciences</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Short Paper
Submission:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Short Paper submission deadline is Friday, July 15, 2016.
Papers may be up to 3 pages long excluding references and up to 1 page of
references (double column format) and submission will be through EasyChair.
Latex and Word templates, as well as detailed submission instructions is
available on the web page, <a href="https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/events/workshops/climate-informatics/2016/paper-submission-guidelines">https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/events/workshops/climate-informatics/2016/paper-submission-guidelines</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Important Dates:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Friday, July 15, 2016: Short papers due</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday, August 10, 2016: Authors notification</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday, August 10, 2016: Travel fellowship notification</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Saturday, September 10, 2016: Final revisions to papers due;
Registration deadline</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday, September 21, 2016: Climate Informatics Hackathon
at NCAR, in Boulder, CO</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday-Friday, September 22-23, 2016: Workshop takes place
at NCAR, in Boulder, CO</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Travel Fellowships:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are excited to announce that travel fellowships for early
career scientists will again be available, thanks to NSF support. Details will
be available on the website, <a href="https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/events/workshops/climate-informatics/2016/home">https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/events/workshops/climate-informatics/2016/home</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Hackathon:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We will have a data science “hackathon” in the afternoon of
September 21, 2016, to solve a challenging problem in climate informatics.
Details will be available on the website, <a href="https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/events/workshops/climate-informatics/2016/home">https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/events/workshops/climate-informatics/2016/home</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Organizing Committee:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Workshop Co-Chairs:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Arindam Banerjee, University of Minnesota</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jennifer Dy, Northeastern University</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Program Committee Co-Chairs:</b> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Slava Lyubchich, University of Maryland Center for
Environmental Science (UMCES)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Andrew Rhines, Harvard University</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Publicity and Publications Chair:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wei Ding, University of Massachusetts Boston</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Steering Committee:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Colorado State University</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Claire Monteleoni, George Washington University<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Local Administrative Support:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kathy Peczkowicz, NCAR</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cecilia Banner, NCAR</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">CONTACT:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For more information, to get involved, or to sign up to
receive announcements, please contact us here:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:climate.informatics.workshop@gmail.com">climate.informatics.workshop@gmail.com</a>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Follow Climate Informatics on twitter for more updates and
Hackathon information: <a href="https://twitter.com/Climformatics">https://twitter.com/Climformatics</a></p>
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