Schedule for: 20w5198 - Mathematical Modelling in Glaciology

Beginning on Sunday, January 12 and ending Friday January 17, 2020

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).

Sunday, January 12
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
Monday, January 13
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff
A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions.
(TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:30 Ian Hewitt: Introduction (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 09:50 Stephen Price: Overview of DOE projects (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:50 - 11:10 Mauro Perego: Ice Sheet Initialization (TCPL 201)
11:15 - 11:35 Mathieu Morlighem: From optimal control to automatic differentiation: challenges in data assimilation in ice sheet modeling (TCPL 201)
11:35 - 11:55 Hilmar Gudmundsson: Bayesian calibration of ice-sheet models (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 14:00 Guided Tour of The Banff Centre
Meet in the Corbett Hall Lounge for a guided tour of The Banff Centre campus.
(Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
14:00 - 14:20 Group Photo
Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo!
(TCPL Foyer)
14:10 - 14:30 Patrick Heimbach: Paleochronometry by control methods (TCPL 201)
14:40 - 15:00 Brent Minchew: Time-series data analysis (TCPL 201)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
16:00 - 16:30 Marianne Haseloff: Ice streams (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 16:50 Elisa Mantelli: Ice sheet flow with temperature-dependent sliding (TCPL 201)
17:10 - 17:30 Jenny Suckale: Data-model integration in forward models of ice stream dynamics (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, January 14
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:20 Alexander Robel: Bifurcations and noise in ice sheet dynamics (TCPL 201)
09:40 - 10:00 Tamsin Edwards: Quantifying uncertainties in the land ice contribution to sea level rise this century (TCPL 201)
10:10 - 10:30 Noemi Petra: Inferring the basal sliding coefficient for the Stokes ice sheet model under rheological uncertainty (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 11:20 Daniel Goldberg: Impacts of bathymetric uncertainty on ice-shelf melt (through adjoint modelling) (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 11:50 Douglas Brinkerhoff: Large Ensemble Modelling of Greenland's Contribution to Sea Level Rise (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 12:20 Denis Felikson: Inland diffusion of terminus-initiated thinning on the Greenland Ice Sheet (TCPL 201)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
14:00 - 14:30 Jeremy Bassis (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 14:50 Joe Todd: Modelling Calving: From Ice Cubes to Ice Sheets (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:20 David Pollard: Will structural failure occur during ice retreat into deep Antarctic basins? (TCPL 201)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
16:00 - 17:30 Discussion (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, January 15
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 Xylar Asay-Davis: A menagerie of approaches to ice sheet-ocean coupling, with emphasis on US Department of Energy models (TCPL 201)
09:40 - 10:00 Olga Sergienko: Grounding lines (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 11:20 Andrew Wells: Subglacial and meltwater plumes at marine terminating glaciers (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 11:50 Helene Seroussi: Ice-ocean interactions: coupling and parameterization (TCPL 201)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, January 16
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:20 Irina Tezaur: Trilinos/Kokkos-based strategy towards achieving a performance portable land-ice model (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 09:50 Josefin Ahlkrona: Finite element methods for ice sheet modeling (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:20 Thomas Zwinger: Code optimization and new programming paradigms with Elmer/Ice (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 12:30 Discussion (TCPL 201)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
14:00 - 14:20 Olivier Gagliardini: Friction at the base of glaciers: insights from modeling at various scales (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 14:50 Katarzyna Kowal: Accumulation of subglacial till in grounding zones (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:20 Jerome Neufeld: Poroelasticity, supraglacial lake drainage and ocean tides (TCPL 201)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
16:00 - 16:20 Colin Meyer: Subglacial frozen fringe (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, January 17
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:45 Focussed discussion: Sliding / hydrology (TCPL 202)
09:00 - 09:45 Focussed discussion: HPCs / GPUs / CPUs (TCPL 201)
09:45 - 10:30 Focussed discussion: Calving (TCPL 202)
09:45 - 10:30 Focussed discussion: Inversion / UQ (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 11:30 Closing remarks (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Checkout by Noon
5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (BIRS Coffee Lounge, TCPL and Reading Room) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 12 noon.
(Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)