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Past Seminars

Easter 2023

Date	Title of presentation	Speaker name	Affiliation
April 28	Competitive Online Peak-Demand Minimization using Energy Storage	Minghua Chen	City U, Hong Kong
May 12	Remote sensing enables monitoring life above and under water	Devis Tuia	EPFL
May 19	CS and Supply Chain Policies	Rachael Garrett	University of Cambridge
May 26	Assessing the Impact of Drought on Tropical Forests using GEDI	4C MRes team	University of Cambridge
June 2	Generative model in remote sensing: the role and applications of radiative transfer models in the optical spectral domain for environmental studies	Clement Atzberger	BOKU University and Mantle Labs
June 9	The Case for Planetary Computing	Anil Madhavapeddy	University of Cambridge
June 16	Designing PV-EV integrated Residential Microgrids in the post-COVID World	Anaïs Berkes	ETH Zurich
June 30	Data-driven Building Energy Systems: Applications, Platforms, and Benchmarking	Dan Wang	The Hong Kong Polytechnic Universit
July 7	Dynamic Distribution Network Reconfiguration with Generation and Load Uncertainty	Vincent Wong	University of British Columbia
July 14	Narrowing Precipitation Uncertainty over High Mountain Asia with Probabilistic Machine Learning	Kenza Tazi	University of Cambridge
July 21	Parallel Universes, Parallel Processing: Using expired weather forecasts to supply up to 10 000 years of weather data (on an HPC cluster)	Petr Dolezal	University of Cambridge
July 28	Identifying direct deforestation drivers in sub-Saharan Africa using deep learning and high-resolution satellite imagery	Amandine Debus	University of Cambridge

Lent 2023

Date	Title of presentation	Speaker name	Affiliation
January 20	Quantifying changes in Above Ground Biomass in degraded and restored forests: Challenges & opportunities	Charlotte Wheeler	Cambridge
January 27	Machine Learning in Climate Action	David Rolnick	McGill
February 3	The value of high resolution remote sensing to understand forests	Emily Lines	Cambridge
February 10	Ecovisor: A Virtual Energy System for Carbon-Efficient Applications	David Irwin	U. Mass Amherst
February 17	Research Avenues for Net-Zero Carbon Cloud Datacenters	Fiodar Kazhamiaka	Microsoft
February 24	CityLearn: An OpenAI Gym Framework for Grid-Interactive Buildings	Zoltan Nagy	U. Texas Austin
March 3	TBA	Madeline Lisaius	Cambridge
March 10	New framework for carbon offsets in global drylands	Adam Pellegrini	Cambridge

Michaelmas 2022

Date	Title of presentation	Speaker name	Affiliation
October 7	Bringing Trust to Carbon Credits Through Computer Science (this complements the one given by Tom Swinfield earlier this week)	S. Keshav	Cambridge
October 14	Towards a single controller that can make many buildings a little greener	Arduin Findeis	Cambridge
October 21	Fusing GEDI and LandSat data to estimate tropical forest recovery rates across the Amazon	Amelia Holcomb	Cambridge
October 28	Optimization-in-the-loop AI for energy and climate	Priya Donti	Climate Change AI, MIT
November 4	Assessing indirect business risk from climate change	Daoping Wang	Cambridge
November 11	Investigating forest dynamics and functioning in response to disturbances through individual-based modeling	E-Ping Rau	Cambridge
November 18	Upcoming BIOMASS Earth Explorer 7 mission: concept and validation challenges	Jerome Chave	CNRS, Toulouse
November 25	Measuring emissions by satellite to support the Paris Agreement	Stephen Briggs	U Cambridge and U Reading
December 2	A framework for measuring biodiversity impacts of land use change	Alison Eyres	Zoology, Cambridge
December 9	Challenges in Designing Control Strategies for Buildings	Omid Ardakanian	University of Alberta