Program and Schedule

Monday, April 4th

Time	Speaker	Title
8:00am	-	Badge pick-up (no onsite registration available)
9:00am	Gary Strand	Big Data from CESM - Past, Present and the near Future
9:30am	Seth McGinnis	What Climate Science Knows About Big Data
10:00am	-	COFFEE BREAK - 30 minutes
10:30am	Giuseppe Iannitto	On the potential of Big Data capabilities for the validation of a Weather Forecasting System
11:00am	Scott Collis	Using open source tools to reduce large data sets in a distributed environment
11:30am	Neal McBurnett	Apache Spark for scientific data at scale
noon	-	BUFFET LUNCH
1:30pm	Monte Lunacek	Transmission Distribution Systems Hub
2:00pm	Zaihua Ji	Building a Distributed Oceanography Match-up Service (DOMS) to pair field observation and satellite data
2:30pm	Sameer Shende	TAU Performance System - 5 minutes
2:35pm	-	COFFEE BREAK - 25 minutes
3:00pm	Galen Maclaurin	Extending the geographic extent of existing land cover data using active machine learning and covariate shift corrective sampling
3:30pm	Erik Johnson	Whales On A Plane: Deploying Software To NSF / NCAR Research Aircraft w/ Docker
4:00pm	Nick Guy	ARTView: A Community Weather Radar Data GUI
4:30pm	-	ADJOURN

Tuesday, April 5th

Time	Speaker	Title
8:00am	-	Badge pick-up (no onsite registration available)
8:30am	Jay Alameda	Brown Dog: An Elastic Data Cyberinfrastrure for Autocuration and Digital Preservation
9:00am	Julia Collins	Function Follows Form: A Practical Guide to Research Data Curation
9:30am	Janine Aquino	One approach to ensuring that data analysis projects and research reports are reproducible
10:00am	-	COFFEE BREAK - 30 minutes
10:30am	Grace Peng	Data Thinking before Data Crunching
11:00am	John Fonner	Jupyter Ascending: a practical hand guide to galactic scale, reproducible data science
11:30am	Dave Hart	Expanding users’ analysis capabilities with the CMIP Analysis Platform at NCAR
noon	-	BUFFET LUNCH
1:30pm	Joe Stubbs	Polyglot, Event Driven Computational Science Using the Actor Model
2:00pm	Philippe Naveau	Data analysis techniques for Detection and Attribution in climate studies
2:30pm	-	COFFEE BREAK - 30 minutes
3:00pm	Raffaele Montuoro	An innovative framework for real-time visualization and computational steering of high-resolution regional climate simulations
3:30pm	Dorit Hammerling	Ensemble Consistency Testing: a new form of quality assurance
4:00pm	Robert McLay	XALT: Understanding HPC Usage via Job Level Data Collection
4:30pm	-	ADJOURN

Wednesday, April 6th
(no formal coffee break, but coffee served as in the previous days

Time	Option 1				Option 2
-	Teacher(s)	Title			Teacher(s)	Title
8:00am	Badge pick-up (no onsite registration available)
8:30am-noon	Grace Peng & Mary Haley	Better than Free: Data Explorations with public data and software tools Part 1			Guido Cervone, Carolynne Hultquist & Elena Sava	Using R for Spatial Analytics Part 1
noon	BUFFET LUNCH
1:30pm-4:30pm	Grace Peng & Mary Haley	Better than Free: Data Explorations with public data and software tools Part 2			Guido Cervone, Carolynne Hultquist & Elena Sava	Using R for Spatial Analytics Part 2

Thursday, April 7th
(no formal coffee break, but coffee served as in the previous days

Time	Option 1				Option 2
-	Teacher(s)	Title			Teacher(s)	Title
8:00am	Badge pick-up (no onsite registration available)
8:30am-noon	Seth McGinnis	The NARCCAP Regional Climate Model Dataset			Jeffrey Carver	Software Testing
noon	BUFFET LUNCH
1:30pm-4:30pm	OpenSpace

Friday, April 8th
(no formal coffee break, but coffee served as in the previous days

Time	Option 1				Option 2
-	Teacher(s)	Title			Teacher(s)	Title
8:00am	Badge pick-up (no onsite registration available)
8:30am-noon	John Linford	Optimizing Data Visualization and Analysis in Python with the TAU Performance System			Ryan May Sean Arms & Kevin Goebbert	Visualizing meteorological data with Python: Use cases with Siphon and MetPy
noon	BUFFET LUNCH
1:30pm-4:30pm					Michael Brandt, Paul Madden & Matt Savoie	Data Science and Visualization using Python, Jupyter and pandas