2017 Emulators Workshop

The Past Earth Network is hosting a workshop on emulators at the University of Leeds from 19 - 21 June 2017. The workshop will take place in the Mathematics department and will cover topics from Gaussian processes and sensitivity analysis to discrepancy validation.

Schedule

Time	Mon 19 Jun 2017	Tue 20 Jun 2017	Wed 21 Jun 2017
09:00		Peter Challenor	Ian Vernon
09:30		Peter Challenor	Ian Vernon
10:00	Introduction for PhD students - Jochen Voss	Tea Break	Tea Break
10:30		Alexis Boukouvalas	Ben Swallow
11:00		Alexis Boukouvalas	Louise Sime
11:30		Richard Wilkinson	Tamsin Edwards
12:00	Lunch	Richard Wilkinson	Tamsin Edwards
12:30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
13:00	Lab Introduction - Lindsay Lee	Lunch	Lunch
13:30	Lab Introduction - Lindsay Lee	Lab Session - 2	Lab Session - 3
14:00	Philip Holden
14:30	Discussion Q & A
15:00	Tea Break	Tea Break	Tea Break
15:30	Lab session - 1	John Paul Gosling	Closing Discussion
16:00		John Paul Gosling
16:30		Discussion Q&A
17:00		Discussion Q&A

Invited Speakers

Talks at the workshop were given by:

Alexis Boukouvalas (Aston University) - Experimental design for screening, emulation and calibration of computer models. Download Slides
Peter Challenor (University of Exeter) - Inverse Modelling without the tears. Download Slides
John Paul Gosling (University of Leeds) - Modelling discontinuities in simulator output using Voronoi tessellations. Download Slides
Tamsin Edwards (Open University) - Reconciling projections of the Antarctic contribution to sea level rise.
Phillip Holden (Open University) - Emulation applications in Earth System Modelling.
Lindsay Lee (University of Leeds) - An Introduction to Emulation An Introduction to Emulation. Download Slides
Louise Sime (British Antarctic Survey) - Using Emulation and ice cores to advance our understanding of the Last Interglacial ice sheets and sea level change.
Ben Swallow (University of Bristol)
Ian Vernon (Durham University) Multilevel Emulation and History Matching of EAGLE: an expensive hydrodynamical Galaxy formation simulation.
Jochen Voss (University of Leeds) - Introduction.
Richard Wilkinson (University of Sheffield) - 50 ways with GPs. Download Slides

Lab Sessions

For up-to-date instructions regarding the lab sessions please visit https://rich-d-wilkinson.github.io/EmulatorWorkshop.html.

Lab Session 1 Download

Location

The workshop took place in the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds on the 19th and 20th. On the 21st the event took place in the Clothworker's Union on campus.