Mini-Symposium: Entropy Methods in Environment Data Modelling

Monday 3 December 2007

 

Program

Each talk will include 5 to 10 minutes of question and discussion time, at the speaker's discretion.

8:45 - 9:15	Registration
9:15 - 10:10	Keynote: Richard Kleeman (New York) Information theory and statistical predictability in dynamical systems
10:10 - 10:40	Ian Enting (Melbourne) Assessing information content in environmental modelling
10:40 - 11:00	Morning Tea
11:00 - 11:30	Jorgen Frederiksen (CSIRO) Maximum entropy states and renormalized closures for Rossby wave turbulence over topography
11:30 - 12:00	Terry O'Kane (CSIRO) Statistical dynamical subgrid-scale parameterizations for geophysical flows
12:00 - 12:30	Gab Abramowitz (UNSW/CSIRO) Utilisation of information in land surface modelling
12:30 - 1:45	Lunch
1:45 - 2:40	Keynote: Roderick Dewar (Bordeaux) Entropy, molecular evolution and biodiversity
2:40 - 3:10	Ian Marshall (Lancaster) Rare events, bursty processes and their consequences for measurement in natural environments
3:10	Afternoon tea

Keynote speakers

RICHARD KLEEMAN received his PhD in Mathematical Physics from Adelaide University. He worked for 12 years at CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology Research Center in Melbourne on topics connected with climate and prediction. Since 1999 he has worked at the Courant Institute in New York on various theoretical topics relevant mainly to atmospheric science. He has a strong interest in general topics in information theory.

RODERICK DEWAR began his research career in theoretical condensed matter physics, at the Universities of Edinburgh (1984-86) and Oxford (1986-87). He then switched to modelling plant and ecosystem function at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Edinburgh (1989-94), the University of New South Wales (1994-97) and the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Bordeaux (1997-present). In a return to his physics roots, he is currently working on the theoretical basis of the MEP principle and its applications across physics and biology. Dr Dewar is a Distinguished COSNet Visitor during 2-9 December 2007.  

Organising committee

Prof. Philip Broadbridge, AMSI
Prof. Tony Guttmann, MASCOS

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