<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"> <br><br><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-8755773909828637842WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.sdsualumni.org/controls/email_marketing/admin/email_marketing_email_viewer.aspx?sid=997&gid=6&eiid=7559&seiid=0&puid=%5bMUID%5d" title="View this email in your browser." target="_blank"><span style="color:#c41230">View this email in a web page</span></a><u></u><u></u></p><table class="m_-8755773909828637842MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <img border="0" width="1017" height="115" id="m_-8755773909828637842Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D3473F.02E9E0F0" alt="https://adminlb.imodules.com/s/997/images/editor/csrc-alumni/csrcbanner_jpg.jpg"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">DATE: </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Friday, November 3, 2017</span></strong></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">TITLE:  </span><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Improved Validation of Conceptual Climate Models Via</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Adaptive Data Analysis</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">TIME: </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">3:30PM</span></strong></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">LOCATION: <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">GMCS 314</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">SPEAKER:</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">  <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Charles D. Camp, Associate Professor</span></strong><b><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Department of Mathematics, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo</span></strong></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">  <u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">ABSTRACT:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Conceptual models are often used to model the Earth's climate since they are sufficiently simple as to allow an analysis of their fundamental structures; thereby investigating the core processes underlying the observed behavior. However, because of their high degree of simplification, they usually can only qualitatively match empirical records. Frequently, disparate models have comparable correlations with any given observation even when based on substantially different physics. Simple comparisons of model results to observations have proven insufficient to distinguish between such models. Furthermore, the models  can display large sensitivity to the choice of model parameters and forcing functions. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Using the Pleistocene glacial cycles as a test case, we will show how modern time series analysis techniques, such as Empirical Mode Decomposition, can be used to extract and compare subtler features of the observational records and of the model outputs, thereby improving model formulation, parameterization and validation. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Bio:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Dr. Charles D. Camp (Dave) is an associate professor of mathematics at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA, USA. He received a Ph.D. in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Caltech in 2004 and a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California - San Diego in 1989.  In between, he worked as an analyst and researcher for Areté Associates studying physical oceanographic systems. Dave is a founding member of the Mathematics and Climate Research Network (MCRN) - a virtual research center funded by NSF for the development of the mathematics of climate.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">HOST: <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Sam Shen</span></strong></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Dr. Jose E. Castillo<br>Director/Professor<br>Computational Science Research Center<br>5500 Campanile Drive<br>San Diego State University<br>San Diego, CA  92182-1245<br>(619) 59407205/3430, FAX <a href="tel:(619)%20594-2459" value="+16195942459" target="_blank">(619) 594-2459</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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