Conferences
17–19 May 2018, IHCantabria, Santander, Spain
Second Workshop on Information Theory and the Earth Sciences
The goals of this workshop are to promote the innovative use of Information Theoretic concepts in the service of discovery, modelling and decision-making in the Earth and Environmental Sciences and, through high level presentations and open discussion, to inspire evolutionary advances in the theories of modelling, learning, inference, and diagnostic evaluation.
The workshop focus is on scientific sharing, discussion and debate and fun. The purpose is to foster collaboration among a growing community of Earth scientists who use or are interested in this broad and diverse mathematical theory. Topics presented in may include, but are not limited to the following:
•How to properly include in models the things we already know (e.g., all physical laws, and not just conservation of mass and energy, etc.).
The workshop focus is on scientific sharing, discussion and debate and fun. The purpose is to foster collaboration among a growing community of Earth scientists who use or are interested in this broad and diverse mathematical theory. Topics presented in may include, but are not limited to the following:
•How to properly include in models the things we already know (e.g., all physical laws, and not just conservation of mass and energy, etc.).
- How to evaluate the usefulness and robustness of data and models for a given task in a generalized way (i.e., how to establish their task-relevant information content)
- How to evaluate the appropriateness of models given the data and the purpose (i.e., how to establish their generality, parsimony, flexibility, etc.)?
- How to evaluate the interplay of data-, model structure- and predictive “uncertainty” (i.e., the flow of information from data through models to decision-makers)?
- How to learn from the encounter of models and data (i.e., how to detect, diagnose and correct model structural errors)?
