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Monday, May 25, 2026.
Data-Driven Seminar: Laure Zanna
Building AI Climate Models for Scientific Discovery
Scientists use computer simulations to understand how different parts of the Earth’s system interact, or to explore how they respond to external forcing. These simulations have been carried out using numerical models (global climate models, or GCMs). Recently, modern machine-learning-based emulators have been used to reproduce the same dynamics using data. I will present the first-generation AI digital twin of the climate system, using data from state-of-the-art GCMs. These AI emulators can simulate the climate system 100x faster than typical GCMs on a single GPU. We will discuss how we build, evaluate, and leverage these emulators to make discoveries about the climate system.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). Online Meeting Link: https://cassyni.com/events/HN6PVQFbndp4XqABR79pgm. Campus room: G106. Accessibility Contact: llederer@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 28, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Data-Driven Seminar: Colm-cille Caulfield
Stratified Turbulence: Climate’s mysterious mixer
Statically stable density stratification is ubiquitous in geophysical flows, with the atmosphere, lakes and oceans all typically having an average density distribution that decreases upwards in a gravitational field. Due to the associated stabilising effect of the buoyancy force, it would seem intuitive that such statically stable density distributions should suppress vertical motions, relative to horizontal motions. Such inevitable anisotropy complicates even further developing an understanding of turbulence in density-stratified fluids. Stratified turbulence is not `just’ an interesting research challenge in classical physics, but also is a key component of the global climate system, as stratified turbulence has a leading order effect on the transport of heat and other scalars such as carbon dioxide, pollutants etc in the world’s oceans and atmosphere. Indeed, how stratified turbulence can actually be `born’ and then `survive’ for a significant period,…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). Online Meeting Link: https://cassyni.com/events/WwvWGCYXrj38bZZbyUkZyf. Campus room: G106. Accessibility Contact: llederer@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, June 4, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
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Friday, June 19, 2026.
AI-DEEDS 2026
Machine learning is transforming engineering and physical sciences, enabling data-driven solutions across disciplines in estimation, forecasting, sensing, and control tasks. This workshop brings together domain experts, practitioners, and ML/AI developers to further innovation at the intersection of physics-informed AI and dynamic physical systems in the service of energy efficiency.
Hosted by the AI Institute in Dynamic Systems, AI-DEEDS aims to establish a community-driven framework for evaluating algorithms that address the complexities of dynamic systems in engineering and science.
Building off the success of AI-DEEDS 2025, this year we will host 2 challenges on the CTF platform, where individuals and teams can submit and benchmark their algorithms.
This workshop is part of a larger conference, ACM e-Energy 2026, in Banff, Canada: https://energy.acm.org/conferences/eenergy/2026/index.php.
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Monday, June 22, 2026.
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Friday, July 3, 2026.