Machine Learning in Geospace

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VGEM 2021

Workshop Overview

What

We are back for a second year organizing the Machine Learning in Geospace session at the VGEM 2021 Workshop. This year, we have two sessions. One will be filled with invited and submitted talks and the other will focus on organizing a Kaggle Competition within the community to address a large, inter-disciplinary science problem using machine learning and data science techniques.

Registration

Register for the Workshop by filling out this form. There is no fee for students. Others can pay the $25 registration fee here.

When

The workshop begins on July 25 and ends on July 30.

Table 1: Workhop schedule. For more details see the Workshop webpage and our agenda.

Event	Date	Day	Time (Eastern)
Student Day	July 25	Sunday	1:00 - 5:00 PM
VGEM Workshop	July 26 - 30	Monday - Friday	11:00 AM - 4:30 PM + Posters
ML Session I	July 28	Wednesday	3:00 - 4:00 PM
ML Session II	July 30	Friday	1:00 - 2:30 PM

Who

Table 2: Session organizers.

Name		Email
Matthew Argall		matthew.argall@unh.edu
Jacob Bortnik		jbortnik@gmail.com
Josh Rigler		erigler@usgs.gov
Jason Shuster		jason.r.shuster@nasa.gov
Doğa Ozturk		dsozturk@alaska.edu
Wendy Carande		Wendy.Carande@lasp.colorado.edu

Agenda

Session I: Submitted Talks

Table 3: Speakers and presentation titles.

Duration	Name	Title
10 min	Matthew Argall	Session overview, decadal planning
10 min	Breakout Rooms	Ice Breaker
10 min	Ayris Narock	Ethical AI
TBD	Matthew Blandin	Prediction of Geomagnetic Field Disturbances across Alaska using Machine Learned LSTM Neural Networks
TBD	Sheng Huang	Recurrent neural network implementation of modelling global plasmaspheric density

Session II: Kaggle Competition

Table 3: Speakers and presentation titles.

Duration	Name	Title
5 min	Matthew Argall	Session overview
15 min	Addison Howard	How to Design a Successful Kaggle Competition
5 min	Manoj Nair	NOAA's DataDriven MagNet Chellenge
5 min	Barbara Thompson	AI-Ready Datasets
5 min	Raphael Attie	Data classification tools
5 min	Wendy Carande	Getting Started with ML: Common Problems
TBD	Panelists	Breakout Rooms
TBD	Panelists	Summary & Discussion

VGEM 2020

Workshop Overview

Student Day	Monday, July 20th, 2020 is Student Day
GEM Workshop	Tuesday - Thursday, July 21st - 23rd

Participants will need to register for free here, which is accessible through the general meeting website. Our session agenda is posted below.

Machine Learning Session

When

Thursday, July 23, 3:00 - 4:30pm Eastern

Session Conveners

Name		Email
Matthew Argall		matthew.argall@unh.edu
Jacob Bortnik		jbortnik@gmail.com
Josh Rigler		erigler@usgs.gov
Jason Shuster		jason.r.shuster@nasa.gov

Preface

We have worked with the GEM Student Representatives to incorporate a machine learning tutorial into their Student Day. Abby Azari will give a "getting started with machine learning" tutorial.

Session Overview and Theme

Beyond the mechanics of getting started, to fully take advantage of the power of machine learning, one needs to know what is possible. This is our session's theme -- to provide an overview of what is possible. This theme encompasses five focus areas:

1. Recent developments in machine learning that enable innovative scientific research
2. Aspects of machine learning or data science that are under-utilized in the field
3. Systems/chains of machine learning models and/or the integration of machine learning into numerical simulations
4. Possibilities and opportunities that exist outside of a purely academic career path enabled by machine learning
5. Bridging the SHINE, GEM, and CEDAR communities to facilitate multi-discipline collaborations

The hope is that recent developments in ML will inspire new avenues of research and career opportunities.

Presentations and Panel Discussion

Speakers and panelists are encouraged to address any of the focus areas 1-4 and to include elements that enable focus area 5.

ML Exploratory Committee

This session is chaired by members of a SHINE/GEM/CEDAR Machine Learning Exploratory Committee. The committee is composed of members of the SHINE, GEM, and CEDAR communities. Its goal is to pursue topics in Heliophysics Machine Learning that can best be addressed through a cross-disciplinary initiative. Anyone interested can contact us for more information.

Agenda

Session

Table 1: Schedule for the Machine Learning session at VGEM. The audience can direct additional questions to the speakers during the panel discussion.

Duration	Topic	Speaker
5 min	Opening remarks	Matthew Argall
15 min	Introduction to ML: "What is Possible?"	Jacob Bortnik (See Table 3)
7 min 3 min	Application(s): ML in GEM with relevance to SHINE/CEDAR	Enrico Camporeale
7 min 3 min	Application of Machine Learning to GNSS-Related Remote Sensing Tasks	Leo Liu
7 min 3 min	Predicting Solar Eruptions: What has ML done for us?	Sophie Murray
40 min	Open Panel Discussion	See Table 2

Panel Discussion

Table 2: After a brief self-introduction, panelists to field questions in an open discussion format.

Field	Panelist	Early Career	Theme
SHINE	Wendy Carande	Y	Pairing science problems with ML tools
SHINE	Barbara Thompson		NASA, Policy
GEM	Simon Wing		Information Theory
GEM	Xiangning Chu	Y	Global Reconstruction
CEDAR	Bharat Kunduri	Y	Insight Industry to academia
CEDAR	TBD	-	-
Planetary	Abby Azari	Y	Student tutorial Physics Informed ML Interpretable ML
Industry	Nick Bunch	Y	Academia to industry

Distributed Tutorial

Table 3: SHINE/GEM/CEDAR ML Exploratory Committee topics highlighting a subset of what is possible with machine learning. Each speaker provides an overview of the topic in ~1 minute and ~1 slide.

Speaker	Topic
Ryan McGranaghan	Community-wide inventory of assets and resources
Marcus Hughes	Exploration, visualization and handling of large observational and modeling data volumes
Hazel Bain	Understanding the potential enhancement of space weather prediction capabilities for operations and research
Barbara Thompson	Creation of AI-ready data sets and quality standards
Jacob Bortnik	Different approaches to implementing “Physics-informed learning” and “gray box models”
Josh Rigler	Compression, acceleration and emulation of models and data processing
Matthew Argall	Providing paths to publication, validation, and open-code practices