Training course: Machine learning for weather prediction

Monday, 27 October
08:30 → 09:00
Registration opens

ECMWF

 		30m
09:00 → 09:30
Welcome and course general information
Speaker: William Becker (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

 		30m
09:30 → 10:30
Overview/Motivation
Speaker: Matthew Chantry (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

 		1h
10:30 → 11:00
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
11:00 → 12:00
Machine Learning Foundations
Speaker: Sara Hahner (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

 		1h
12:00 → 13:00
Decision Trees and Random Forests
Speaker: William Becker (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

 		1h
13:00 → 14:00
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h
14:00 → 15:00
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Speaker: Mario Santa Cruz Lopez (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

 		1h
15:00 → 15:15
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
15m
15:15 → 16:30
Hands-on: ML Basics with Neural Networks
Speakers: Julian Kuehnert (ECMWF), Matthias Karlbauer (ECMWF), William Becker (ECMWF)

Classroom

 		1h 15m
16:30 → 18:00
Ice-breaker cocktail
Conference/G-WR - Weather room

Conference/G-WR - Weather room

ECMWF

60
1h 30m
Tuesday, 28 October
09:00 → 10:15
ML Evaluation and Data Leakage
Speaker: Julian Kuehnert (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

 		1h 15m
10:15 → 11:00
Coffee break & Group photo

ECMWF

Reading
45m
11:00 → 12:00
Data Handling and Infrastructure
Speaker: Ewan Pinnington

Lecture Theatre

 		1h
12:00 → 13:00
Convolutional Neural Networks
Speaker: Vera Gahlen (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

 		1h
13:00 → 14:00
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h
14:00 → 15:00
Transformers
Speaker: Matthias Karlbauer (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

 		1h
15:00 → 15:15
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
15m
15:15 → 17:00
Hands on: Debugging ML Models
Speakers: Mario Santa Cruz Lopez (ECMWF), Matthias Karlbauer (ECMWF), Mihai Alexe (ECMWF)

Classroom

 		1h 45m
Wednesday, 29 October
09:00 → 10:15
Deep Generative Models
Speaker: Sophie Xhonneux (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

 		1h 15m
10:15 → 10:45
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
10:45 → 12:00
Self-supervised Learning
Speaker: Christian Lessig (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

 		1h 15m
12:00 → 13:00
Graph Neural Networks
Speakers: Mario Santa Cruz Lopez (ECMWF), Mihai Alexe (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

 		1h
13:00 → 14:00
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h
14:00 → 15:00
Data-Driven Weather Forecasts
Speaker: Gabriel Ionut Moldovan (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

 		1h
15:00 → 15:15
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
15m
15:15 → 17:00
Hands-on: Graph Neural Networks
Speakers: Mario Santa Cruz Lopez (ECMWF), Matthias Karlbauer (ECMWF), Mihai Alexe (ECMWF)

Classroom

 		1h 45m
Thursday, 30 October
09:00 → 10:15
Anemoi 1: Datasets and Inference

Lecture Theatre

 		1h 15m
10:15 → 10:45
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
10:45 → 12:00
Hands on: Run the AIFS
Speakers: Harrison Cook (ECMWF), Sara Hahner (ECMWF)

Classroom

 		1h 15m
12:00 → 13:00
Hands on: Explainable AI with AIFS
Speakers: Mario Santa Cruz Lopez (ECMWF), Sara Hahner (ECMWF), Sebastian Hickman (ECMWF)

Classroom

 		1h
13:00 → 14:00
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h
14:00 → 15:00
Anemoi 2: Graphs and Models

Lecture Theatre

 		1h
15:00 → 15:15
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
15m
15:15 → 16:00
Anemoi 3: Training

Lecture Theatre

 		45m
16:00 → 17:00
Hands-on: Anemoi
Speakers: Gabriel Ionut Moldovan (ECMWF), Julian Kuehnert (ECMWF), Mario Santa Cruz Lopez (ECMWF)

Classroom

 		1h
Friday, 31 October
09:00 → 10:15
Hands on: Anemoi
Speakers: Jakob Schlör (ECMWF), Julian Kuehnert (ECMWF)

Classroom

 		1h 15m
10:15 → 10:45
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
10:45 → 12:00
Hands on: Anemoi Profiling

Classroom

 		1h 15m
12:00 → 13:00
Course wrap-up, final discussion and Q&A session

Lecture Theatre

 		1h

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