Global Modeling and Assimilation Office
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Last Updated: March 14 2011
The next adjoint workshop will be held 10-14 October 2011 at the
Hotel
Riva Del Sole In Cefalu, Italy, on the north coast of Sicily. The
cost per person will be approximately 750 euros for single occupancy
(550 if sharing a room), for the full Sunday dinner through Friday
lunch, including all meals and conference registration. So far, more
than 80 researchers intend to come.
As at previous workshops, we will have a mixture of short talks and
(invited) long talks, as well as posters and one, somewhat lighter,
evening presentation. Although the title of this workshop purposefully
includes the words "adjoint" and "dynamic meteorology" we do welcome:
(1) presentations that do not concern adjoints but concern the same
applications to which adjoint are applied, such as sensitivity
analysis, ensemble forecasting, or data assimilation; and (2)
presentations regarding adjoint applications in other fields, such as
particularly oceanography. The title for this series was originally
chosen in order to keep the number of participants manageable and to
encourage applications of adjoints in addition to data assimilation.
but a cross-fertilization of ideas has always been desired.
As for previous Adjoint Workshops, please do not plan a presentation
that primarily advertises your projects. Instead, focus on a few, new
things that you have learned through your work that you believe would
be of interest to us also. Plan on explaining these with
sufficient detail so that the audience can properly understand your
claims and how your work supports them. Your goal should be to teach
us all something new about adjoint related problems.
If you want to present a short talk or poster, you must send an
abstract to Ron Errico at ronald.m.errico@nasa.gov before 10 April
2011. Include a title and abstract with names of the presenter and
co-authors and affiliations. The abstract should be in ASCII text
format (.txt file or simply an ASCII email text) and not be more than
about 300 words. These abstracts will be carefully read by some
members of the organizing committee to ensure that the presentations
are appropriate for this workshop and to determine in which sessions
they belong. You can assume the readers know what the basics are,
such as what adjoints, singular vector, 4DVAR, Kalman Filter,
etc. are. Indicate whether you prefer a poster or oral presentation,
although the final decision will be that of the organizers. We will
allow ample and appropriate prime time for poster presentation.
Although many of you have worked on several projects since the
previous workshop, please restrict yourself to presenting only one
abstract yourself. You can be a co-author on other presentations but
do not submit these unless their own presenters truly plan to
attend. You will have opportunities to discuss additional work
privately with others, but by being so considerate, others will have
an opportunity to publicly present their works too. Accepted
abstracts will eventually be posted on the workshop website and
printed along with the program, so please closely follow the format
example provided below. You will be notified if your abstract has been
accepted as a poster or oral presentation by 30 April
2011. Instructions for reserving hotel rooms will be provided at that
same time. Further instructions about presentations will be provided
a month prior to the workshop.
As at the previous workshop, the day (Sunday) prior to the workshop's
start, introductory tutorials will be presented on the topics of
general adjoint development and applications and atmospheric data
assimilation. These will be intended for newcomers who would benefit
from an introduction of general fundamentals before listening to the
more concise and detailed reports to be presented during subsequent
days.
For those of you who have requested partial travel support from
workshop funds, notifications will e-mailed by 20 March.
We look forward to seeing many of you again and some new faces too!
For the workshop organizers,
Ron Errico
ronald.m.errico@nasa.gov phone:(US) 301-614-6402
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