"Projections with current climate models—for example, of how features such as rainfall extremes will change—still have large uncertainties, and the uncertainties are poorly quantified," says Professor Tapio Schneider, principal investigator of the Climate Modeling Alliance (CliMA). "For cities planning their stormwater management infrastructure to withstand the next 100 years' worth of floods, this is a serious issue; concrete answers about the likely range of climate outcomes are key for planning." The new climate model will be built by a consortium of researchers led by Caltech, in partnership with MIT; the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS); and JPL, which Caltech manages for NASA. It will use data-assimilation and machine-learning tools to improve itself in real time, harnessing both Earth observations and the nested high-resolution simulations. "The success of computational weather forecasting demonstrates the power of using data to improve the accuracy of computer models; we aim to bring the same successes to climate prediction," says Professor Andrew Stuart. [Caltech story]
Calendar
- January 27, 2021 9:00 AM Control Meets Learning Seminar Speaker: Yisong Yue Online Event
- January 27, 2021 12:00 PM CMX Lunch Seminar Speaker: David Ginsbourger Online Event
- January 27, 2021 4:00 PM Materials Science Research Lecture Speaker: Salva Salmani-Rezaie Online Event
- January 27, 2021 4:00 PM Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series Speaker: Salva Salmani-Rezaie Speaker: Thodoris Lykouris Online Event
- January 28, 2021 11:00 AM Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Speaker: Nicholas Roy Online Event
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Past Events

TechFest
A day-long event focused on providing startups and companies with a chance for meaningful interactions with undergraduate and graduate students, providing students with an opportunity to find out more about the breadth of applications for computing and mathematical sciences across industries.

Carver Mead New Adventures Fund
The afternoon featured technical talks from Carver Mead New Adventures Fund recipients, alumni, and Carver Mead himself! Since 2014, this Fund has championed exceptional projects in their earliest stage of development – too early to attract industry or government support. This characteristic embodies Carver’s approaches and practices, with a continued goal to expand Carver’s daring approach to research and innovation throughout the Caltech campus. We highlighted some of the adventurous research that has been explored by grants made possible by this initiative with you.

IST Meeting of the Minds
A day-long research conference featuring talks, laboratory open houses, and poster presentations by distinguished faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and researchers from JPL showcasing the latest and most exciting work that is underway in CMS.

Alumni College: Caltech Computes
A day-long event that will explore the ways in which computational thinking is disrupting science and engineering, and creating entirely new disciplines with "CS+X".

Ten Years of DNA Origami
A symposium to honor Paul Rothemund’s contribution to the field.

Hacktech
Caltech's premier interdisciplinary hackathon.

One Entangled Evening
A night of science and entertainment celebrating Feynman’s quantum legacy.

CDS 20th Anniversary
Control and Dynamical Systems celebrates its 20th anniversary.

SoCalNEGT
Southern California Symposium on Network Economics and Game Theory.

CS 25th Anniversary
Computer Science celebrated 25 years of innovative, ground-breaking research.