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ELLIS Summer School: AI for Earth and Climate Sciences

Jena (Germany), September 1–5, 2025, 2025

The 2025 ELLIS Summer School on AI for Earth & Climate Sciences is the premier event for ELLIS PhD students, MSc students, and postdocs at the intersection of machine learning and geoscience to meet in person. During the week filled with keynotes, hands-on classes and project work the school will focus on cutting-edge research and discuss the latest advancements in the field. This interdisciplinary program will shape the future for the community of AI, Earth and Climate scientists by fostering collaboration among the next generation of interdisciplinary researchers.

HIGHLIGHTS

o High-profile Keynotes from top-level scientists
o Zero-to-Hero classes on key methodologies
o Poster sessions facilitating discussion
o Student research projects on high performance computing
o Fun social activities 😃

LOCATION AND PARTNER

The school takes place in Jena (Germany) and is organised by the Jena ELLIS Unit in collaboration with Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Michael Stifel Center Jena and Carl Zeiss Foundation.

APPLICATION

More information soon. The application portal will open in February 2025.

TIMELINE

February: Applications open
March, 31: Early application round closes
April, 30: Selected Applicants for the early round are notified
May, 1: Second round of application opens
July: Latest possibility for applications
September, 1-5: Summer School

PARTICIPATION FEE

400€ – first application round
450€ – second application round

included: attendance, lunch, coffee breaks, social events
not included: travel, accommodation

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

TBA

ZERO-TO-HERO INSTRUCTORS

TBA

STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

During the Summer School, students will have the exciting opportunity to collaborate on group projects, with a maximum group size of 5-6 people. The projects will intend to utilize high performance computing resources to train and evaluate latest machine learning approaches on challenging data sets from the Earth and Climate Sciences.

The idea behind the projects is highly challenging: students are tasked with proposing and implementing modifications to known algorithms and solutions on a provided dataset in collaboration with their challenge leader. The top three projects selected by a jury will be awarded with the best-project-award, accompanied by a formal certificate and recognition from the ELLIS summer school.

Projects will come from one of four areas:
A) Hybrid Modeling
B) Robustness (incl. uncertainty, cross-validation, probabilistic modeling)
C) Interpretability
D) Large-scale deep learning

ORGANIZATION

The ELLIS Summer School on AI for Earth and Climate Sciences is organized by the Jena ELLIS Unit.

STEERING COMMITTEE

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Stay tuned: More updates in February 2025