The future of humankind depends largely on building a more sustainable world.

This workshop focuses on the relevant application areas such as climate change, ocean modeling, space exploration and energy systems, as well as on underlying CS technologies such as computing platforms for large scale modeling and simulation and systems for archiving, processing, curating, analysing, and disseminating vast amounts of data.

The workshop features invited speakers renowned for their research on computational sustainability, simulation and modelling of complex geophysical systems, the ocean and its role in the global climate system, sea unmanned vehicles, Earth and planetary computational science, big data analytics, and infrastructures for scientific applications.

The discussions at this workshop will help to set future research directions for the new International Research Center to be established in the Azores (AIR Center) by the Portuguese government, focusing particularly on the North and South Atlantic.

AIR Center Session

Manuel Heitor | Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education

Keynote Speakers

Arvind | MIT

Carla Gomes | Cornell University

Chris Hill | MIT

Omar Ghattas | University of Texas at Austin

Patrick Heimbach | University of Texas at Austin

Stefano Castruccio | Notre Dame University

Vipin Kumar | University of Minnesota

William R. Magro | Intel@Urbana-Champaign

Invited talks

A number of invited talks will provide insights and contributions in the application areas of the workshop.

Organizing Commitee and Advisory Board

Fernando Silva | University of Porto

Keshav Pingalli | University of Texas Austin

Alberto Proença | University of Minho

Partners / Sponsors

UT Austin Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Ciência

MAPi Doctoral Program in Computer Science

Registration

Registrations are open until the 11th of December. They include attendance of all sessions, coffee breaks and lunches.

Registration fees:

Students 50€

Others 100€