Workshop Program

8:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks: Auroop Ganguly, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Session I - Short Papers
(Chair: Karsten Steinhaeuser, University of Notre Dame / Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
8:05 S4207: Change Detection in Climate Data over the Iberian Peninsula. R. Sebastião, P. Rodrigues, J. Gama.
8:10 S4208: Understanding Climate Change Patterns with Multivariate Geovisualization. H. Jin, D. Guo.
8:15 S4209: A Distributed Computing Infrastructure for the Evaluation of Climate Models using NASA Observational Data. C. Mattmann, D. Chrichton, A. Braverman, D. Williams, M. Gunson, D. Woollard, S. Kelly, M. Cayanan.
8:20 Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change on Extreme Disturbance Events. C. Slesnick, N. Markuzon.
8:25 S4203: Data Mining Geophysical Content from Satellites and Global Climate Models. D. Erickson.
  Session II - Full Papers
(Chair: Michael Steinbach, University of Minnesota)
8:30 S4202: The Flexible Climate Data Analysis Tools (CDAT) for Multi-Model Climate Simulation Data. D. Williams, C. Doutriaux, D. Robert, R. McCoy.
8:45 S4201: Ensemble-Vis: A Framework for the Statistical Visualization of Ensemble Data. K. Potter, A. Wilson, P.-T. Bremer, D. Williams, V. Pascucci, C.R. Johnson.
9:00 S4206: Motivating Complex Dependence Structures in Data Mining: A Case Study with Anomaly Detection in Climate. S.-C. Kao, A. Ganguly, K. Steinhaeuser.
9:15 S4205: Uncertainty Quantification in the Presence of Limited Climate Model Data with Discontinuities. K. Sargsyan, C. Safta, B. Debusschere, H. Najm.
9:30 Short Break
  Session III - Inivited Talks
(Chairs: Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame; Auroop Ganguly, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
9:35 Invited Talk: Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
10:05 Coffee Break (and Poster Setup)
10:30 Invited Talk: Ashok Srivastava, NASA Ames Research Center
11:00 Invited Talk: Sean Shadomy, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Session IV - Poster Session & Panel Discussion
(Chair: Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame)
11:30 Poster Session & Mix-and-Mingle
12:00 Panel Discussion
Charles Doutriaux, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
David Erickson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Hillol Kargupta, University of Maryland - Baltimore County
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
Ashok Srivastava, NASA Ames Research Center
(Moderated by Nitesh Chawla, UND and Auroop Ganguly, ORNL)
12:30 Closing Remarks: Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame
2:00 Participants in this workshop are encouraged to attend the afternoon session of the Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining, which features several presentations relevant to the climate domain.