The MFC Wednesday will bring together all three cohorts for a seminar on precipitation modelling, followed by cohort-specific workshops, practical sessions and student talks at the University of Reading.
Morning session – all cohorts
11:00 – 12:00 Seminar: Stop Using Root-Mean-Square Error as a Precipitation Target!
Speaker: Dr. Kieran Hunt, University of Reading
Location: Palmer 103 (Palmer is building 26 on the Whiteknights Campus map, available here: https://static.reading.ac.uk/content/PDFs/files/Maps/Whiteknights-campus-map-and-keys.pdf)
Please aim to arrive at the Palmer building by 10:45 for a prompt start at 11:00. Tea & coffee will not be provided on arrival but there is a café on the ground floor of Palmer if you want to buy a drink at your own expense.
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch (pizza & sandwiches; tea, coffee etc available)
Location: Maths 100 with seating available in Maths 112 (Maths Common Room) and Maths 113
Afternoon session
Cohorts 1 & 2
| Time | Session details | Location |
| 13:00 – 16:00 (with a break, timing TBC, tea & coffee in Maths 100) | Interactive practical session on storylines and uncertainty in climate attribution (Professor Ted Shepherd, UoR, and Andrea Suárez Segarra) | Maths 113 |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Student talks (order TBC)
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Maths 113 |
Please see speaker biographies & abstracts in the attached pdf (MFC Weds 11.11.26 bios and abstracts)
See also attached paper (Shepherd PRSA) which covers some of the material Ted will be going through in his session. You may find this useful to read if you have time.
You can also read about Ted’s research interests here: https://research.reading.ac.uk/meteorology/people/ted-shepherd/
Cohort 3
| Time | Session details | Location |
| 13:00 – 15:30 (with a break, timing TBC, tea & coffee in Maths 100) | Good practices in software engineering & AI (Dr. Etienne Roesch, UoR) | JJT 204 (CDT classroom) |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Numerical methods session (Dr. Hilary Weller, UoR) | JJT 204 |
You can read about Etienne’s research interests here: https://www.reading.ac.uk/pcls/staff/etienne-roesch and https://etienneroes.ch/