Events

EU-IndiaGrid2 Conference on Role of e-infrastructure

for Climate Change research

16 - 20 May 2011, ICTP, Trieste, Italy

ICTP Agenda webpage - Speaker profiles- Post event report

Climate change is a worldwide concern and climate change studies are among the priorities in World-wide  research programs. The increasing ability to understand complex, system-oriented phenomena such as climate change is strictly correlated  with  the need for increasing data and computing resources.The e-Infrastructures represent an innovative and unique approach to address this problem. They demonstrated to be an efficient way to share and access resources of different types which can effectively enhance the potential of scientific research and productivity.

This international conference will address the role of e-infrastructures toward a better understanding of climate change from the global to the regional scales. The main goal of this event is to expose the participating scientists  and stakeholders to modern e-infrastructures (which includes an HPC and Grid environments) so that the potential provided by this infrastructure for climate change research can be assessed. It will provide the opportunity to enhance knowledge previously acquired and to acquire the core innovations emerging in this framework, for example the development of an European and worldiwide  e-infrastructure for climate change applications driven by European Union  projects such as Prace, EGI, EU-IndiaGRID2, EUMEDGRID-Support and others.

Video Interviews:

• -Prof. Filippo Giorgi, ICTP Italy - Conference Overview
  
• -Dr. Maria Russo, Cambridge University - On Climate change research and e-Infrastructures
  
• -Prof. S.Dash, IIT Delhi, India - Grid Infrastructures for climate change and  Monsoon simulations
• -Prof. S. Dash, IIT Delhi, India - On the EU-IndiaGrid project benefits and EU-India collaborative research
  
• -Steven Blundell, CEA France - On Material Science Research and e-Infrastructures
• -Steve Blundell, CEA France - On EU-IndiaGrid project and the collaboration with India
  

Final programme and downloadable PRESENTATIONS

Tuesday, 17 May

9:00-9:30 Conference Opening

• F. Quevedo, ICTP Director
• A. Vacchi, INFN Executive Board
• F. Giorgi, Head Earth System Physics, ICTP
• A. Masoni EU-IndiaGrid2 project manager
• F.Ruggieri CHAIN & EUMEDGRID-Support project manager

9:30-11:00 e-infrastructures for Climate Change Research: The European Context

• e-infrastructures for Climate Change Research -The European Context
  K. Glinos, Head of Unit Head of Unit GÉANT and e-Infrastructures’, European Commission, DG Information and Society

• e-Infrastructures for Climate Change in Europe
  Climate Change Applications within EGI - Steven Newhouse, EGI.eu, EGI-InSPIRE Project Director
  PRACE Research Infrastructure - Sergio Bernardi, CINECA, PRACE

11:30-13:00 e-infrastructures for Climate Change Research: The Asian Perspective

• e-Infrastructures for Climate change in Asia-Pacific
  S. Lin, Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan

• e-Infrastructure for Climate Change In China
  D. Qian, Beihang University and Principal Investigator of China National Grid (CNGrid)

• e-Infrastructures for Climate Change in USA
  Earth System Grid Center for Enabling Technologies - Dean N. Williams and V. Balaji, Federation and Integrations of Data from Multiple Sources
  
  

14:30-15:30 e-infrastructures for Climate Change Research: The Rest of the World

• The Role of e-Infrastructures for Climate Change in Latin America
  D. Carvalho, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica, Brasil

• e-Infrastructures in Sub Saharan Africa
  Tiwonge Msulira Banda, UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking

• e-Infrastructures for climate in India
  S.K. Dash, ITT-Delhi

16:00-18:00 Data for Climate Modeling

• Common Metadata for Climate Modeling Digital Repositories, The Metafor Project
  B.Lawrence, Director of Environmental Data Curation at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council

• Climate Challenges at Exascale
  G. Aloisio, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy & Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC),Italy

• Climate Analytics for climate archive
  The ExArch Project
  V. Balaji Cooperative Institute for Climate Change, Princeton University
  
  

Discussion Session

Wednesday, 18 May

9:00-11:00 Global Policies in Climate Research: the role of e-Infrastructures

• Opening: F. Quevedo, ICTP Director
• The importance of global, comprehensive, and shared climate data for research and the IPCC work
  J.P. van Ypersele, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and Vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

• A Nelson Mandela Approach to Climate change
  G.H. Philander Princeton University, USA, Director of African Centre for Climate and Earth System Science

11:30-13.00 Global Policies in Climate Research: the role of e-Infrastructures

• The role o feInfrastructures for Climate Research applications in India
  G- Beig, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India)

• IS-ENES InfraStructure for the European Network for the Earth System Modelling
  S. Joussaume Director of the National Institute of Sciences of the Universe (INSU /CNRS), IS.ENES Project coordinator

14:30-16:00 "External contributions" - Part 1

• ICTP project HPC infrastructure for climate research
  C. Onime, ICTP- ICT Section

• The Africa Adaptation Program for Africa
  I. Rector / J. Intsiful, Africa Adaptation Program, United Nation Development Program, Dakar Senegal (20’)

• E-infrastructures for the operational forecast of the biogeochemical state of Mediterranean sea: experiences from DORI and Myocean projects
  Stefano Salon, OGS, Trieste

• Chemistry in the Unified Model: Climate-Chemistry Studies with UKCA
  Maria Russo, University of Cambridge

16:30-17:30 "External contributions" - Part 2

• e-Infrastructures in the Mediterranean Area
  Salem Al-Algtash, ASREN Arab States Research & Education Network

• TWAS Euro-Africa Cooperation_on ICT research
  Peter McGrath, TWAS

• Why do we need large computing resources for Climate Change Research? Conclusions and wrap-up
  F. Giorgi, Head ICTP Earth Systems Physics section

ICTP Trieste

The ICTP Campus
Venue: Main Lecture Hall - Leonardo Bldg. -Lobby
Laboratory Sessions: AGH InfoLab - Adriatico Lower Level 1

For more than 45 years, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) has been a driving force behind global efforts to advance scientific expertise in the developing world.Founded in 1964 by the late Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam, ICTP seeks to accomplish its mandate by providing scientists from developing countries with the continuing education and skills that they need to enjoy long and productive careers. ICTP has been a major force in stemming the scientific brain drain from the developing world.ICTP alumni serve as professors at major universities, chairpersons of academic departments, directors of research centres and ministers of science and technology in nations throughout the developing world. Many of them have been recognized in their own countries and internationally for their contributions to science and science policy. The impact of ICTP extends well beyond the Centre's facilities to virtually every corner of the Earth.