8:15—8:30 AM: Start of Day 2, announcements for Day 2, in the Blucher Institute (fruit, pastries and coffee provided)

 

8:30 —10:00 AM: A. Pasini, Neural Network Modeling in Climate Change Studies

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10:00—10:30 AM: Coffee Break

 

10:30—12:00 PM: J. Williams, Fuzzy Logic Click for the .pdf file

Tornado probability forecasts example

 

12:00—1:15 PM: Lunch at the Harte Research Institute

 

1:15—3:00 PM: V. Lakshmanan, Machine Learning Techniques on Spatial Grids

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3:00—3:15 AM: Coffee Break

 

3:15— 4:15 PM: Discussion between panel and audience of promising areas of research for AI applications to environmental sciences including development of techniques and applications

 

4:15—5:15 PM: Computer Exercises (see left side link to Exercises)

 

5:15 PM: End of the formal part of the workshop

 

Conference room will be open until 6:00 PM with computers available for demonstrations/exercises

 

Saturday, January 13, 2007

8:00—8:30 AM: Registration in the Blucher Institute Foyer

 

8:30—8:45 AM: Welcome from Dr. Frank Pezold, Dean of the College of Science and Technology, Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi, Gary Jeffress, Director of the Conrad Blucher Institute and Sue Haupt, Chair for the AMS AI Committee

 

8:45—9:00 AM: S.E. Haupt, Introduction of workshop speakers and thoughts on the application of AI to Environmental Science.  Click for the .pdf file

 

9:00—10:00 AM: V. Lakshmanan, Introduction to AI techniques and the application of AI techniques to Environmental Science in the context of a data mining example

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10:00—10:30 AM: Coffee Break

 

10:30—12:15 AM: S. E. Haupt, Applications of Genetic Algorithms in the Environmental Sciences Click for the .pdf file  part 1   Click for the .pdf file part 2

 

12:15—12:30 PM: Morning discussion

 

12:30—2:15 PM: Drive in vans/vehicles to La Playa TexMex restaurant (7118 SPID) for lunch (provided as part of workshop)

 

2:15—4:00 PM: S. Lakshmivarahan, Clustering Algorithms and their Applications

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4:00—4:15 PM: Coffee Break

 

4:15—5:30 PM: Computer Exercises (see left side link to Exercises)

 

6:30PM ~ 9:00 PM Friday night social, Landry’s Boat, Corpus Christi Marina, Peoples St. T-Head.

Friday, January 12, 2007