Programme Overview
Saturday
- evening: Arrival, Dinner, Welcome, Opening Lecture, Informal Reception with Poster Session 1
Sunday
- morning 9–12:30: Session mostly on Extreme events and climate change
- afternoon 14–17:30: Session mostly on Energy supply
- evening: Conference Dinner
Monday
- morning 9–12:30: Session mostly on Health issues
- afternoon 14–17:30: Session mostly on Cutting-edge modeling and data analysis methods
- evening: Informal Reception with Poster Session 2
Tuesday
- morning 9–14: Wrap-up Session, Lunch, Departure
Programme Details
Saturday December 6
| 17:00 | Arrival and Check-In |
| 18:00 | Buffet Supper |
| 19:00 | Opening Lecture by Valerie Louis (in collaboration with Rainer Sauerborn), Institute of Public Health, UniversitätsKlinikum Heidelberg: Interrelations between energy supply, climate and health using the example of cooking with biomass |
| 20:30 | Informal Reception with Poster Session 1 |
Sunday December 7
Extreme events and climate change
| 8:00 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Keynote by Leonard A. Smith, London School of Economics: Weather as a Changing Climate |
| 10:00 | two contributed talks: 1. Anna Deluca, MPI Physics of Complex Systems: Inference of statistical patterns in complex geosystems: Fitting power-law distributions 2. Valerie Livina, National Physical Laboratory, UK: Tipping point analysis of atmospheric oxygen concentration |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Petra Friederichs, University of Bonn: Meteorological Extremes in a Changing Climate |
| 11:30 | Revati Phalkey, University of Nottingham: Prepare or React? Aligning Health Systems to Climate Driven Extreme Weather Events |
| 12:00 | Valentin Aich, PIK: Major floods - After the game is before the game |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Energy supply
| 14:00 | Keynote by Ljupco Kocarev, Macedonian Academy for Sciences and Arts: Plug-in vehicles and power grids: Economic costs, emissions benefits, and stability concerns |
| 15:00 | two contributed talks: 1. Mehrnaz Anvari, Forwind / U Oldenburg: Synchronization in wind farm 2. Benjamin Schäfer, MPI Dynamics and Self-Organization: Decentral smart grid control |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 | Katrin Schmietendorf, University of Oldenburg: Synchronization in electrical power grids described by Kuramoto-like models Models |
| 16:30 | Michael Hiete, Kassel University: Impacts of power outages on the healthcare sector |
| 17:00 | Heidi Heinrichs, Forschungszentrum Jülich: Long-term impacts of electric mobility on the German energy system |
| 17:30 | free time |
| 19:00 | Dinner and social evening at the invidation of WE-Heraeus Stiftung |
Monday December 8
Health issues
| 8:00 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Keynote by James Creswick (World Health Organization) |
| 10:00 | two contributed talks: 1. Walter Dragoni, Perugia University: Considerations on climate change, hydrological cycle and groundwater 2. Yoshito Hirata, Inst. of Industr. Sc., U Tokyo: Time series prediction for electric power systems: Confidence and credibility |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Gordon McCord, UC San Diego: Malaria ecology and climate change |
| 11:30 | Chris Barker, UC Davis: Climate and West Nile virus risk in the United States |
| 12:00 | Solomon Hsiang, UC Berkeley: Recent advances in research on climate and violence |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Deadline for proposing ignite talks for the wrap-up session |
Cutting-edge modeling and data analysis methods
| 14:00 | Keynote by Anne-Ly Do, MPI Physics of Complex Systems: Network approaches to Complex Systems |
| 15:00 | two contributed talks: 1. Valerio Lucarini, U Hamburg: Towards a general theory of extremes for observables of chaotic dynamical systems 2. Maria Caterina Bramati, Sapienza University of Rome: Modeling conflict insurgence in coastal areas: Climate change and human interactions in a fragile environment |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break (with announcement of selected ignite talks for wrap-up session) |
| 16:00 | Aneta Koseska, MPI Molecular Physiology: Nano-scale organization of proteins within assembling focal adhesions |
| 16:30 | Holger Kantz, MPI Physics of Complex Systems: Statistical analysis of extreme weather events in a changing climate |
| 17:00 | Jonathan F. Donges, PIK / Stockholm Resilience Center: Climate extremes and civil conflicts - a troubled relationship |
| 17:30 | free time |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| 20:00 | Informal Reception with Poster Session 2 |
Tuesday December 9
Wrap-up Session
| 8:00 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Ignite talks on possible research projects (will be selected after deadline on Mon. afternoon 13:30 and announced Mon. 15:30) |
| 9:30 | Discussion in small groups |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Joshua S. Graff Zivin, UC San Diego: Key areas for future research on climate and health: a social sciences perspective |
| 11:30 | Henry D. I. Abarbanel, UC San Diego: Insights from the seminar from a climate scientist's viewpoint |
| 12:00 | Jürgen Kurths, PIK / HU Berlin: Using complex systems science to study the interrelationship of energy systems, health, and climate |
| 12:30 | Lunch and Departure |
Abstracts Booklet
The abstracts booklet can be downloaded here.
