See you at SUDS 2024!

Friday, August 23rd

8:00-8:30 Badging and Coffee

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8:30-9:30 Keynote: Dr. Elizabeth Davison

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Elizabeth Davison Dr. Liz Davison is the Associate Principal Director of the Integrated Data and Applications Subdivision at the Aerospace Corporation and a Professor of Practice in the Fowler School of Engineering at Chapman University. The Integrated Data and Applications Subdivision includes departments dedicated to Data Science, Data Engineering/Architecture, Visualization, and more. Dr. Davison’s research centers around the application and development of mathematical methods from an engineering and physics perspective to examine complex dynamical systems.

9:30-10:30 Townhall: The Future of SUDS

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10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

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10:45-12:00 Friday Poster Session

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ID    Tags Description
4-A2 Data Science for Paleohydrology on Orbital Timescales
Alexander James (University of Southern California)*
10-A5 Neural Surrogate HMC: Accelerated Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with a Neural Network Surrogate Likelihood
Linnea M Wolniewicz (University of Hawaii at Manoa)*; Peter Sadowski (University of Hawaii Manoa); Claudio Corti (University of Hawaii Manoa)
15-A4 Towards Operational Computed Cloud Tomography by Harnessing Physical and Data Science
Linda Forster (JPL/CALTECH)*; Nicholas LaHaye (JPL/CALTECH); Marcin Kurowski (JPL/CALTECH); Steffen Mauceri (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Anthony B Davis (JPL/CALTECH)
17-A6 Are You Catching Cosmic Rays or Just Checking Your Messages?
Carlyn Lee (JPL/Caltech)*; Harvey Newman (PMA Caltech)
36-B3 FIRE-D: NASA-Centric Remote Sensing of Wildfire
Yuzhou Chen (Temple University)*; Nicholas LaHaye (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Jae W Choi (UT Dallas); Zhiwei Zhen (University of Texas at Dallas); Philip Davis (University of Utah); Hugo K Lee (NASA JPL Caltech); Manish Parashar (University of Utah); Yulia R. Gel (The University of Texas at Dallas)
44-D2 Ocean AI: Foundation Models for Ocean Phenomena from SAR and SST/SSH
Brian D Wilson (JPL / NASA)*; Jinbo Wang (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Edwin Goh (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Alice Yepremyan (JPL); Kai Pak (JPL); Ben Holt (JPL); Diego Martinez (JPL)
57-A3 Are We Bridging the Gap? Interactions Between Data Science and Physical Science at JPL in 2022
Michael Garay (NASA)*; Virisha Timmaraju (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
73-D1 Accelerating Data Ingestion with Machine Learning at the NASA Exoplanet Archive
Nicholas Susemiehl (NASA Exoplanet Archive)*
76-C3 Advancing Wildfire Prediction Through Simplicial Graph Neural Networks for Partial Differential Equations
Jae W Choi (UT Dallas)*; Yuzhou Chen (Temple University); Hugo K Lee (NASA JPL Caltech); Hyun C Kim (NOAA/ARL); Yulia R. Gel (The University of Texas at Dallas)
77-C2 Efficient and innovative analysis of NASA’s high-resolution observations and modeling datasets
Hugo K Lee (NASA JPL Caltech)*; Valerio Pascucci (University of Utah); Manish Parashar (University of Utah)
79-B2 Data-driven cloud-to-ground lightning probability model for the Alaskan boreal and tundra ecosystems using machine learning and the Weather Research & Forecasting model
Jordan A Caraballo-Vega (NASA GSFC)*; Tatiana Loboda (UMD); Mark Carroll (NASA GSFC); Dong Chen (UMD); Allison Bredder (UMD); Michael Martinez-Vega (UPRH)
80-C5 Automating Plasma Region Identification of Planetary Magnetospheres Using Machine Learning
Wenli Mo (JHU/APL)*
81-D3 Improved Segmentation of Palm Oil Farms and Deforestation Prevention using Self-Supervised Deep Learning
Naiara Pinto (JPL); Nicholas J LaHaye (JPL)*
83-C1 Quantum Leap: Evaluating the Feasibility of Quantum Machine Learning with NASA Earth Observational Data
Thilanka Munasinghe (University At Albany)*; Phung Lai (SUNY-Albany); James Hendler (RPI); Jennifer Wei (NASA)

12:00-1:30 Lunch


1:30-3:30 Oral 5

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ID    Time Tags Description
42-C4 1:30-1:45 Enhancing Scientific Understanding through Explainable AI: GWSkyNet and GWSkyNet-Multi Models on LIGO-Virgo Data
Ashish Mahabal (California Institute Of Technology)*; Nayyer Raza (McGill University); Man Leong Chan (University of British Columbia); Daryl Haggard (McGill University); Jess McIver (University of British Columbia)
82-D4 1:45-2:00 Enhancing Cosmological Simulations with Efficient and Interpretable Machine Learning in the Wavelet Basis
Cooper H Jacobus (UC Berkeley)*; Jia Liu (Kavli IPMU); Leander Thiele (Princeton University); Zarija Lukić (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab))
35-D5 2:00-2:15 Disentangling Latent Spaces in Generative Models for Scientific Datasets
Arkaprabha Ganguli (Argonne National Laboratory)*; Nesar Ramachandra (Argonne National Laboratory); Julie Bessac (National Renewable Energy Laboratory); Emil Constantinescu (Argonne National Laboratory)
9-B5 2:15-2:30 Probabilistic Predictions of Geomagnetic Field Perturbations and Using Explainability Methods to Uncover Drivers of the Localization Effect
Michael K Coughlan (University of New Hampshire)*
72-B6 2:30-2:45 Anomaly detection in Hisaki EUV spectroscope images caused by energetic proton from the Earth’s radiation belt
Ryoichi Koga (Nagoya City University)*; Satoshi Oyama (Nagoya City University); Masahito Nosé (Nagoya City University); Kazuo Yoshioka (The University of Tokyo)
69-B4 2:45-3:00 Conquering Wildfires: Automated Fire Spread Modeling with a Multidisciplinary Approach
Johanna E Strebl (OroraTech)*; Dominik Laux (OroraTech); Zhanna Lopuliak (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München); Srija Mukhopadhyay (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München); Danica Rovó (OroraTech); Matthias Schubert (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München); Julia Gottfriedsen (OroraTech); Martin Langer (OroraTech); Julia Gottfriedsen (OroraTech GmbH)
55 3:00-3:30 Mathematical Sciences Institutes: Enabling Collaboration Across Disciplines for Climate Science
Jonathan Hobbs (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)*; Matthias Katzfuss (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Jenny Brynjarsdottir (Case Western Reserve University); Anirban Mondal (Case Western Reserve University); Veronica Berrocal (University of California, Irvine)

3:30-4:00 Coffee Break

Chen Breezeway


4:00-5:00 Closing Keynote

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