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Data-driven and Physically-based Models for
Characterization of Processes in Hydrology, Hydraulics,
Oceanography and Climate Change
(6 - 28 Jan 2008)
Jointly organized with Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences, UBC
Organizing Committee · Visitors and Participants · Overview · Activities · Venue · Funding for Young Scientists
Venue: IMS Auditorium
7 - 11 Jan 2008 · 14 - 18 Jan 2008 · 21 - 25 Jan 2008
08:30am - 09:00am |
Registration |
09:00am - 09:05am |
Opening remarks |
09:05am - 10:30am |
Reconciling physical & statistical approaches to modelling (PDF) Jim Zidek, University of British Columbia, Canada |
10:30am - 11:00am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Tsunami Modelling in Indian Ocean and South China Sea |
12:30pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
02:00pm - 03:30pm |
Internal solitary waves in the atmosphere and ocean (PDF) Roger Grimshaw, Loughborough University, UK |
03:30pm - 04:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
04:00pm - 05:15pm |
Discussion on topics of the day |
Tuesday,
8 Jan 2008 |
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08:45am - 09:00am |
Registration |
09:00am - 10:30am |
Statistics for ordinary and stochastic differential equation models Part I: Modeling issues and offline estimation (PDF) Hans-Rudolf Künsch, ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
10:30am - 11:00am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Multiscale techniques for porous media flows (PDF) Yalchin Efendiev, Texas A&M University, USA |
12:30pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
02:00pm - 03:30pm |
The numerical simulation of hydrostatic free surface flows Guus Stelling, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands |
03:30pm - 04:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
04:00pm - 05:15pm |
Discussion on topics of the day |
Wednesday,
9 Jan 2008 |
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08:45am - 09:00am |
Registration |
09:00am - 10:30am |
Modeling of heterogeneous datasets (PPT) Yosihiko Ogata, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan |
10:30am - 11:00am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Xin-Zhong Liang, Illinois State Water Survey Illinois State Department of Natural Resources and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
12:30pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
02:00pm - 03:30pm |
Web based Online Tsunami warning for Thailand Andaman coastline Seree Supratid, Rangsit University, Thailand |
03:30pm - 04:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
04:00pm - 05:15pm |
Discussion on topics of the day |
Thursday,
10 Jan 2008 |
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08:45am - 09:00am |
Registration |
09:00am - 10:30am |
The numerical simulation of hydrostatic free surface flows Guus Stelling, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands |
10:30am - 11:00am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Uncertainty quantification using coarse-scale models (PDF) Yalchin Efendiev, Texas A&M University, USA |
12:30pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
02:00pm - 03:30pm |
Data driven techniques |
03:30pm - 04:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
04:00pm - 05:15pm |
Discussion on topics of the day |
Friday,
11 Jan 2008 |
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08:45am - 09:00am |
Registration |
09:00am - 10:30am |
Standard point-process models for prediction and diagnosis of earthquake activity Yosihiko Ogata, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan |
10:30am - 11:00am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Solitons interactions of two traids of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation Chee Tiong Ong, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia |
12:30pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
02:00pm - 03:30pm |
Korteweg-de Vries equation: applications (PDF) Roger Grimshaw, Loughborough University, UK |
03:30pm - 04:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
04:00pm - 05:15pm |
Discussion on topics of the day |
7 - 11 Jan 2008 · 14 - 18 Jan 2008 · 21 - 25 Jan 2008
08:45am - 09:00am |
Registration |
09:00am - 10:30am |
Modeling annual precipation outputs from a deterministic model: the problem of extremes (PDF) |
10:30am - 11:00am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Models for environmental extremes I (PPT) Abdel El-Shaarawi, The National Water Research Institute, Canada |
12:30pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
02:00pm - 03:30pm |
Integrated water resources management |
03:30pm - 04:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
04:00pm - 05:15pm |
Discussion on topics of the day |
Tuesday,
15 Jan 2008 |
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08:45am - 09:00am |
Registration |
09:00am - 10:30am |
Statistics for ordinary and stochastic differential equation models Part II: Filtering and sequential estimation (PDF) Hans-Rudolf Künsch, ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
10:30am - 11:00am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Physically-based models for the generation, propagation and impact of water waves - part 1 (PDF) Frédéric Dias, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France |
12:30pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
02:00pm - 03:30pm |
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03:30pm - 04:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
04:00pm - 05:15pm |
Discussion on topics of the day |
Wednesday,
16 Jan 2008 |
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08:45am - 09:00am |
Registration |
09:00am - 10:30am |
David Higdon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA |
10:30am - 11:00am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Physically-based models for the generation, propagation and impact of water waves - part 2 (PDF) |
12:30pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
02:00pm - 03:30pm |
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03:30pm - 04:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
04:00pm - 05:15pm |
Discussion Topic 1: Development of a fully integrated data driven and physical-based models for water resources management |
Thursday,
17 Jan 2008 |
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08:45am - 09:00am |
Registration |
09:00am - 10:30am |
Models for environmental extremes II Abdel El-Shaarawi, The National Water Research Institute, Canada |
10:30am - 11:00am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
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12:30pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
02:00pm - 03:30pm |
Trend analysis: considerations for water quality management (PPT) |
03:30pm - 04:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
04:00pm - 05:15pm |
Discussion Topic 1: Development of a fully integrated data driven and physical-based models for water resources management |
Friday,
18 Jan 2008 |
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08:45am - 09:00am |
Registration |
09:00am - 10:30am |
Determining homogeneous regions: considerations for water quality management (PPT) Sylvia Esterby, University of British Columbia, Canada |
10:30am - 11:00am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Numerical study of wave and submerged breakwater interaction (PPT) Dang Hieu Phung, Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment, Vietnam |
12:30pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
02:00pm - 03:30pm |
Discussion Topic 1: Development of a fully integrated data driven and physical-based models for water resources management |
03:30pm - 04:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
04:00pm - 05:15pm |
Discussion Topic 1: Development of a fully integrated data driven and physical-based models for water resources management |
7 - 11 Jan 2008 . 14 - 18 Jan 2008 . 21 - 25 Jan 2008
08:45am - 09:00am |
Registration |
09:00am - 10:00am |
Downscaling methods for climate-related impact assessment studies (PPT) |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Applying data assimilation methods in Delft-FEWS to improve real time forecasting |
11:00am - 11:30am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:30am - 12:30pm |
Dynamical and statistical downscaling of New Zealand climate and linking to impact assessment studies (PPT) Brett Mullan, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand |
12:30pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
02:00pm - 03:30pm |
Analyzing input and structural uncertainty of a hydrological model with Stochastic, time-dependent parameters (PPT) Peter Reichert, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Switzerland |
03:30pm - 04:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
04:00pm - 05:15pm |
Earthquake and tsunami scenarios in the South China Sea (PPT) Vu Thanh Ca, Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment, Vietnam |
Tuesday,
22 Jan 2008 |
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08:45am - 09:00am |
Registration |
09:00am - 10:30am |
A spatial-temporal downscaling approach to construction of intensity duration frequency relations in consideration of GCM-based climate change scenarios (PPT) Van-Thanh-Van Nguyen, McGill University, Canada |
10:30am - 11:00am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Physical-based emulation of dynamic models - concept and application in hydrology (PPT) Peter Reichert,
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and |
12:30pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
02:00pm - 03:30pm |
Measuring uncertainty in spatial data via Bayesian melding (PDF) Matthew Falk, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
03:30pm - 04:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
04:00pm - 05:15pm |
Discussion on topics of the day |
Wednesday,
23 Jan 2008 |
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08:45am - 09:00am |
Registration |
09:00am - 10:30am |
Mixtures of experts approaches in rainfall runoff modelling (PDF) David Nott, National University of Singapore |
10:30am - 11:00am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Routes of transition to turbulence Hua-Shu Dou, National University of Singapore |
12:30pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
02:00pm - 03:30pm |
An event driven model framework for water distribution systems based on transient flow analysis (PPT) |
Thursday,
24 Jan 2008 |
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08:45am - 09:00am |
Registration |
09:00am - 10:30am |
Biases and uncertainties in regional climate predictions
(PDF) |
10:30am - 11:00am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:00am - 11:45am |
Introduction to tropical marine science institute |
11:45am - 12:30pm |
Introduction to Singapore-Delft water alliance |
12:30pm - 02:00pm |
Discussion Topic 3: Nonlinear wave dynamics and Tsunami modeling |
02:00pm - 03:30pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
Friday,
25 Jan 2008 |
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01:30pm - 05:30pm |
Visit to Changi WRP and NEWater Visitor Centre (NVC) |
7 - 11 Jan 2008 · 14 - 18 Jan 2008 · 21 - 25 Jan 2008
