Math & CS Climate Day Fall 2024
A day of workshops about climate change, mathematics, statistics and computer science
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On November 19th 2024 in EEEL 445 our 4th Math & CS Climate Day event took place at the University of Calgary.
We had a day full of presentations, workshops and discussions about how we as mathematicians, statisticians and computer scientists can solve climate-change related problems, such as climate modeling, enabling the expansion of renewable energies and strategies for the transition to zero-emission technologies.
In the evening we had a math & CS industry mixer where attendants will have the chance to chat with industry-employees about job opportunities in an informal dinner and a job panel. The next Climate Day event is planned for Spring 2026, please sign up here if you want to be an organizer.
Speakers were
Speakers were
Bruce Fleming (CEO at Montana renewables)
Ferdinand Hingerl (CTO at Ambyint)
Brad Samis (Senior Program Manager at BC Hydro)
Greg Baden (president of IEPS Canada)
Doug Leece (technical manager at Enbridge)
Shima Bashti Monfared (PhD student with research on direct air capture)
Dr. Esha Saha (postdoctoral researcher with research on methane emissions)
Dr. Simon Michael Papalexiou (professor with research on weather modeling)
Dr. Jithamala Caldera (postdoctoral researcher with research on catastrophe serverity)
The schedule was
The schedule was
9:30- 9:40 Start and land acknowledgement
9:40- 10:20 Dr. Jithamala Caldera: Innovative Universal Severity Classification System for Natural Disasters
10:20-11:00 Ferdinand Hingerl: AI-powered Industrial Process Automation: A Solution to Balancing Economic Growth, Environmental Stewardship, and Worker Safety in the Energy Sector
11:00-11:10 Break
11:10-11:50 Brad Samis: BC Hydro Decarbonization through Low Carbon Electrification
12:00- 13:00 Lunchtime
13:00-13:25 Shima Bashti Monfared: Assessing the Sustainability of Direct Air Capture (DAC) of CO2 through Underground Energy Recovery for Achieving Net-Zero Emissions
13:25-13:40 Break
13:40-14:20 Dr. Esha Saha: Can We Identify Active Tailings and Predict Methane Emissions from Incomplete Data?
14:20- 14:30 Break
14:30-15:10 Dr. Simon Michael Papalexiou: Capturing Nature’s Extremes: A Stochastic Approach to Modeling Hydroclimatic Events
15:10- 15:50 Greg Baden: Hydrogen Project in Alberta
15:50 - 16:00 Break
16:00-16:40 Bruce Fleming: Energy Transition, Climate Change, Complex Models? Not Without Statistics.
16:40-17:20: Doug Leece: Cyber Security, Employment & Climate Concerns — Past, Present and Possible Future
17:30- open end: Industry mixer at the LDL
A detailed scheduled with abstracts is available here.
We are very grateful to receive support from the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) and Quality Money from the Graduate Student Association (GSA).
For further questions, feel free to contact us at gums [at] ucalgary [dot] ca.
This event is organized by GUMS², the Graduate University of Calgary Mathematics and Statistics society in collaboration with CSGS, the Computer Science Graduate Society of the University , see our websites here: https://gums.quarto.pub/gums/ https://csgs.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/
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