ICES Biennial Workshop VI

 

 Wednesday, 28 September 2022

Evening

21:00-22:00

Presentation - Biosphere Restoration Plan - Bru Pearce, Chairman of Envisionation (UK) 

                                                                                                          

 

 

 

Thursday, 29 September 2022

 

08:00-08:30

                                                                           Arrival, registration, refreshments

08:30-09:00

Introduction to ICES Foundation: Energy - Climate - Computing
Bob Bishop, Marie-Christine Sawley, Michel Speiser

09:00-09:45

Energy Panel 1 - Fundamentals: energy/entropy/exergy - sustainability indicators

 

Moderator

Prof. Daniel Favrat -  Prof. Emeritus EPFL; EPFL Energy Center director technologies;
Esso Canada; CERAC (Centre Européen de Recherche Atlas Copco)

 

Panelist

Prof. Peter Head - Chair Trustees, The Ecological Sequestration Trust;
Visiting Prof U Bristol; UNDRR GAR Advisory Board; ICES Expert

09:45-10:30

Energy Panel 2 - New sources of energy: from using long-lived waste to hydrogen

 

Moderator

Dr. Marie-Christine Sawley - Advisor HPC/Exascale ICES;
Director Exascale Lab Intel; CERN-CMS, CSCS

 

Panelists

Dr. Jean-Claude De Mestral - Board Member, Transmutex;
President, International Thorium Committee

Dr. Elli Varkaraki – Global Expert Hydrogen, Yara International;
Group Head Hydrogen & Wind Energy, PLANAIR SA; SOLIDpower SA; Belenos

10:30-11:00

                                                                                          Networking break

11:00-11:45

Energy Panel 3 - Energy management of buildings, design efficiency, durability & recyclability

 

Moderator

Prof. Jean-Louis Scartezzini - Director of Solar Energy & Building Physics Lab, EPFL

 

Panelists

Prof. Martin Patel - Chair of Energy Efficiency, UniGE

Dr. Stavros Tolis - ICES Researcher for Geotech

11:45-12:45

Energy Panel 4 - Energy Transition Plans: challenges and opportunities

 

Moderator

Dr. Ghassem Asrar - ICES Expert
SVP USRA; Director JGCI; Director WCRP; Deputy Administrator, Dept. Agriculture; Chief Scientist NASA

 

Panelists

Prof. Daniel Favrat - Prof. Emeritus EPFL; EPFL Energy Center director technologies;
Esso Canada; CERAC (Centre Européen de Recherche Atlas Copco)

Dr. Marie-Christine Sawley - Advisor HPC/Exascale ICES;
Director Exascale Lab Intel; CERN-CMS, CSCS

Prof. Jean-Louis Scartezzini - Director of Solar Energy & Building Physics Lab, EPFL

12:45-13:00

Introduction to the confluence of energy, information & computing

 

 

Mike Horner - ICES Advisor Integrated Models;
member of ANPA Alternative Natural Philosophy Association

13:00-14:00

                                                                                                     Lunch


 

Friday, 30 September 2022

 

 

08:00-08:30

                                                                           Arrival, registration, refreshments

08:30-09:00

Introduction of daily program - Bob Bishop, Marie-Christine Sawley, Michel Speiser

09:00-09:45

Panel session 1 - Holistic regeneration & transformation of environments, cities & regions

 

Moderator

Prof. Peter Head Chair Trustees, The Ecological Sequestration Trust

Visiting Prof U Bristol; UNDRR GAR Advisory Board; ICES Expert

 

Panelist

Dr. Barbara Ryan - Exec. Director WGIC (World Geospatial Industry Council)
Sec. Director GEO; Director, WMO Space Program; USGS; ICES Expert

Arthur Wood - Founder, Equity4Humanity and Total Impact Advisors; Chair, World Sanitation Finance

09:45-10:30

Panel session 2 - Extreme weather & climate – prediction, attribution, preparation, action

 

Moderator

Dr. Ghassem Asrar - ICES Expert
SVP USRA; Director JGCRI; Director WCRP; Deputy Administrator, Dept. Agriculture; Chief Scientist NASA

 

Panelists

Prof. Jagadish Shukla - ICES Expert; Dept. AOES, George Mason University; Managing Director of COLA

Prof. Tim Palmer - CBE FRS; Royal Society Research Professor, University of Oxford; ECMWF; UK Met

10:30-11:00

                                                                                          Networking break

11:00-11:45

Panel session 3 - AI for Science & Earth-related Systems

 

Moderator

Dr. Michel Speiser - ICES Chief Data Scientist; IBM Research

 

Panelists

Prof. Fernando Perez-Cruz - ETH Zurich; Chief Data Scientist, Swiss Data Science Center

Dr. Michele Volpi - Swiss Data Science Center; ETH Zurich

Dr. Roberto Castello - Swiss Data Science Center; EPFL

11:45-12:30

Panel session 4 - Graph analytics, graph computing, Graph500, Link Data Benchmarks

 

Moderator

Assoc. Prof. Ana Lucia Varbanescu - U Amsterdam; PostDoc TU Delft & Vrije U

 

Panelists

Prof. Angela Bonifati - Lyon 1 Uni, Head LIRIS db lab; Adj. Prof. U Waterloo, Canada; President EDBT

Prof. Adriana Iamnitchi - Chair of Computational Social Sciences , Institute of Data Science, Maastricht U

Prof. Torsten Hoefler - Prof. ETHZ; Member MPI Forum; Prof. U Illinois; Post-Doc Researcher Indiana U

12:30-13:15

                                                                                                     Lunch

13:15-14:00

Panel session 5 - HPC, Digital twins, evolution of climate models & new meteo codes

 

Moderator

Dr. Jean-Claude André -  Former Director CERFACS (European Center for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computing); 1st Director of CNRM,Toulouse (Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques)

 

Panelists

Dr. Sylvie Joussaume - Chair of ENES; CNRS Professor Institut Pierre Simon Laplace; ESFRI; IPCC ; GIEC

Dr. Roland Potthast - Head of NWP at DWD (Deutscher Wetterdienst); Professor, University of Reading

Dr. Peter Bauer – Deputy Director of Research, ECMWF (video presentation)

14:00-14:45

Panel session 6 - Measuring performance in geoscience apps

Custom benchmark vs Top500 (Linpack), HPCG, Green500, HPC Challenge, SPEChpc

 

Moderator

Dr. Michael Rast – ISSI; ESA; GEO; ESTEC; ICES Expert

 

Panelists

Dr. Thomas Ludwig - Director DKRZ; Prof. Informatics, Uni of Hamburg; ICES Expert

Dr. Claudia Frauen - DKRZ Geoscience; Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research; CNRM, Toulouse

14:45-15:30

Panel session 7 - New HPC strategies & architectures

EuroHPC, CPU/GPU, Lucata, AI supercomp, Cerebras, Graphcore, ARM, Risc V, SiPearl (Rhea)

 

Moderator

Dr. Marie-Christine Sawley - Advisor HPC/Exascale ICES; Director Exascale Lab Intel; CERN-CMS, CSCS

 

Panelists

Matthias Fouquet-Lapar - MTS Performance Engineering, Cerebras; former Huawei, Cray, HPE, SGI

15:30-16:00

                                                                                          Networking break

16:00-16:45

Panel session 8 - Quantum computers for weather and climate prediction

 

Moderator

Dr. Bob Bishop – President & Founder, ICES Foundation
Chair & CEO SGI; VP Int’l Apollo Computer; DEC Europe, US, JP, AUS

 

Panelists

Prof. Tim Palmer - CBE FRS, Royal Society Research Professor, University of Oxford; ECMWF; UK Met

Dr. Sofia Vallecorsa - AI/Quantum Research @ CERN Open Lab; SNSF Fellow IceCube/ATLAS; Technicon

16:45-17:30

Panel session 9 - Navigating ICES Foundation safely in the midst of rapid geopolitical change

 

Moderator

Dr. William Westermeyer - ICES Advisor for Policy; formerly OTA, GCOS/WMO

 

Panelists

Hon Dr. Michael Armitage MD - Adviser, Qatar Minister Public Health; AHIA; SA Minister Health/InfoEconomy

Dr. David Lawson JD - Officer of ICES Foundation; Bonnard Lawson Geneva; Exxon; US Navy

17:30-18:00

Finale/Wrap - Bob Bishop, Marie-Christine Sawley, Michel Speiser, All

18:00-19:00

                                                                                            Farewell drinks