UNDERPIN#2
Understanding rare events and their climatic impacts

🌍 Overview:
After the success of the first edition in 2022, the 2025 UNDERPIN#2 workshop aims again to unite experts from statistical physics, statistics, dynamical systems, and climate sciences to investigate persistent, high-impact climate extremes such as heatwaves, cold spells, and slow-moving cyclones, with a particular focus on the Mediterranean region. This second edition welcomes colleagues working on moving the impacts of extreme events in a changing climate, which has direct consequences for the Mediterranean. This workshop is ovrganized within the International School of Nonequilibrium Phenomena Directed by Prof. Bernardo Spagnolo, at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture

📅 Date:

• 30-31 July, 2025 (Favignana, Trapani, miniworkshop reserved to organizers only)

• 01-05 August, 2025 (Erice, Trapani)

🏛️ Venue:
The workshop will be held at the Crypt of the Church of San Domenico, Piazza S. Domenico, 1, 91016 Erice.

🎤 Keynote Speakers:

• Tommaso Alberti, INGV, Roma, Italy: Mediterranean Extreme Events and Tipping Elements in a Changing Climate on Multiple Spatiotemporal Scales

• Suzana Camargo, Columbia University, New York City, USA: Perspective on Present and Future Tropical Cyclone Activity and Risk

• Erika Coppola, ICTP, Trieste, Italy: Impact of Cities on the Diurnal Precipitation and Temperature Cycle in a Changing Climate

• Vera Melinda Galfi, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Statistical Mechanics of Weather and Climate Extreme Events

• Gianmarco Mengaldo, NUS, Singapore: Nonlinear Dynamics and Explainable AI for Climate

• Rupert Stuart-Smith, Oxford University, UK: Climate science in court: How scientific evidence can clarify states’ and companies’ legal responsibilities for climate change

👥 Organizers:

• Davide Faranda, CNRS, LSCE, LMD, IPSL, Ecole Normale Superieure, CEA Saclay, Université Paris Saclay, France

• Stella Bourdin, University of Oxford, UK

• Greta Cazzaniga, CNRS, LSCE, LMD, IPSL, Ecole Normale Superieure, CEA Saclay, Université Paris Saclay, France

• Mireia Ginesta, University of Oxford, UK

• Robin Noyelle, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

• Bernardo Spagnolo, Università di Palermo, Italia