From October 16 to 20, the city of Valencia will become the epicenter of two scientific events held at ADEIT University of Valencia Foundation, bringing together "world-renowned" experts in two "interconnected" fields such as climate change and artificial intelligence
The meetings, organized by the University of Valencia (UV), focus on the detection and attribution of extreme weather events, such as droughts, heat waves, floods, fires and hurricanes, as well as on the application of artificial intelligence in this context. In a world "marked by climate emergency", the relevance of understanding and sharing climate extremes is becoming more pressing.
In this context, the city of Valencia becomes the epicenter of global collaboration by bringing together experts in climate science and artificial intelligence to develop their innovative solutions. The first of these meetings is being held between October 16 and 18 as part of the European scientific project 'XAIDA: Extreme Events-Artificial Intelligence for Detection and Attribution. This project brings together some of the "most prominent" researchers in the field of climate science and artificial intelligence, with the "clear objective" of developing new artificial intelligence algorithms that enable the detection and accurate attribution of extreme weather events. The participation of Erika Coppola, Davide Faranda, Miguel Mahecha, Robert Vautard, Laura Suarez-Gutiérrez, Sebastian Sippel, Freddi Otto, Dim Coumou and Sonia Seneviratne stands out.
The University of Valencia is an active partner in this project, where the team led by Professor of Electronic Engineering Gustau Camps-Valls, which is part of the Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), and is located in the facilities of the University of Valencia Science Park (PCUV), has excelled in the development of early detection algorithms for droughts, floods and fires.
The second event, 'Extreme event detection, analysis and explanation, will be held on October 19 and 20 under the framework of the ELISE project, which funds the activities of the ELLIS network (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems). On this occasion, experts in artificial intelligence will explore the capacity of machine learning techniques to address the challenges of climate change. Around 40 AI scientists will participate, including members of flagship projects such as CLINT, ERC USMILE, DeepExtremes, XAIDA, Deepcube and Al4PEx.
The agenda includes targeted talks, open discussions, a hackathon and the writing of a white paper on the role of lA in the detection of climate extremes. These meetings will also provide a platform to present the latest technologies and methodological advances in the detection of climate extremes, the assessment of impacts and risks, and the causal understanding of these events. Both meetings are held at the Fundació Universitat-Empresa de la Universitat de València (ADEIT) and are coordinated by Gustau Camps-Valls, who co-directs together with Markus Reichstein the research program entitled 'Machine learning for Earth and climate sciences'.