Lectures are open to all interested scienstist

Program is part of a hackathon taking place in the Institute of Computer Science in parallel. Hackathon sessions are for registered participants only.

Hackathon on Machine Learning for the Earth System

Meet our international and local speakers in 7 lectures, which are part of the Hackathon, but open to all interested scientists.

The academic level of the lectures varies as indicated. Please find exact room number in the program below.

Please find more information about the lecturers by clicking on their names.

Dates & times

Thurstday, August 28
09:00 - 10:30 am

11:00 - 12:30 pm

01:45 - 03:15 pm

03:45 - 5:30 pm

Friday, August 29
09:00 - 10:30 am

No registration necessary

List of lectures available

Thursday, August 28, 2025

9:00 - 10:30 h (two lectures in parallel)

Room 2.025: “Some history, misconceptions, and challenges in ML weather and Earth-system modeling” by Dale Durran (University of Washington Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, USA)

Room 1.047: “Working with Earth System Sciences Data” [Level 1] by Martin Schultz (Jülich Supercomputing Center)

11:00 – 12:30 h

Room 2.025: “Introduction to graph neural networks and AIFS (and the software which enables it)” [Level 2] by Mariana Clare & Harrison Cook (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts - ECMWF, Bonn and Reading, UK, respectively)

13:45 – 15:15 h (two lectures in parallel)

Room 2.025: “Evaluating Weather and Climate Models” [Level 1] by Lorenzo Zampieri & Zied Ben Bouallègue (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts - ECMWF, Bonn and Reading, UK, respectively)

Room 1.047: “How to Code an Attention Mechanism for a Weather AI model (including general Intro to Transformer)” [Level 3] by Nishant Kumar (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht)

15:45 – 17:30

Room 2.025: “Introduction to Finetuning and use of Pretrained models (include general Intro to Foundation Models) —> AIFS” [Level 2] by Mario Santa Cruz (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts - ECMWF, Reading, UK)

Friday, August 29, 2025

9:00 - 10:30 h

Room 2.025: “Current Topics in Weather and Climate Research” [Level 1] by Peter Düben (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts - ECMWF, Bonn)