Conference Program

Monday 03/11 : Experimental wildfire studies

Morning

9h00 - 12h00
Reception of guests and presentation of the scientific objectives of the conference

• 8:30-9:00 Welcome and conference presentation Jean-Baptiste Filippi, CNRS, Université de Corse

• 9:00-10:00 Cyrielle Denjean, CNRM
  Smoke From European Wildfire Experiment (SILEX)

• 10:00-10:40 Alexander Filkov, The University of Melbourne
  Advancing Wildfire Preparedness: Experimental Insights into Dynamic Fire Behaviours

• 10:40-11:20 Misarah Abdelaziz, CSIRO
  CSIRO Bushfire Behaviour and Suppression team and firebrand studies

• 11:20-12:00 Ha-Ninh Nguyen, The University of Melbourne
  A new framework to characterize firebrand generation and their 3D reconstruction model

Afternoon

16h00 - 18h40

• 15:40-16:40 Plenary lecture Francesca di Giuseppe, ECMWF

• 16:40-17:20 Ronan Paugam, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  A summer with FCI-MTG

• 17:20-18:00 Adrien Guyot, Bureau of Meteorology / University of Queensland
  Weather radar to provide intelligence on hazards associated to wildfire plumes and clouds

• 18:00-18:40 François Pimont, INRAE
  Towards a new series of tools to model wildfire danger and hazard in France

Tuesday 04/11 : Multi-scale modelling of wildfires

Morning

9h00 - 12h00

• 8:30-9:30 Plenary lecture Adam Kochanski, San Jose State University
  AI applications in the modelling group at SJSU Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center

• 9:30-10:10 Tristan Roelofs, Wageningen University
  Wildfire-atmosphere interactions during the Santa Coloma de Queralt fire: the development of a fire-induced circulation

• 10:10-10:50 Alberto Alonso Pinar, Université de Corse
  Simulating firebrands with a coupled Fire-Atmosphere model

• 10:50-11:30 Mélanie Rochoux, Cerfacs
  Modelling wildland fire behaviour and associated uncertainties using data assimilation

• 11:30-12:00 Jean-Baptiste Filippi, CNRS
  Hands-on usage of ForeFire

Afternoon

16h00 - 18h30

• 16:00-17:00 Plenary lecture Mika Peace, Bureau of Meteorology

• 17:00-17:40 Fabian Brännström, University of Wuppertal
  Wildfire Modeling – Importance of Highly-resolved Vegetation Structures

• 17:40-18:20 Mirko D’Andrea, CIMA Foundation
  From Research to Operational Tool: PROPAGATOR as an Open-Source Celluar Automata Wildfire Simulator

• 18:20-18:40 Roberta Baggio, Université de Corse
  Simulating Wildfires: An Operational Tool Integrating Atmospheric Dynamics

Wednesday 05/11: Machine Learning Approaches for Wildfire and Other Natural Risks

Morning

9h00 - 12h00

• 8:30-9:30 (PLENARY) Jean-Christophe Calvet, CNRM
  Monitoring vegetation’s response to drought by assimilating in situ and satellite data
• 9:30-10:10 Yann Baehr, CNRM
  Using artificial intelligence to monitor live fuel moisture content across France, based on a high resolution land surface analysis
• 10:10-10:50 Jonathon Hirschi, University of Colorado Denver
  Transfer Learning with Recurrent Neural Networks of Fuel Moisture Content: Extending from 10h fuels to 1h and 100h
• 10:50-11:30 Dominik Laux, OroraTech GmbH
  FIRE-AID: AI-powered fire spread modeling and decision support
• 11:30-12:00 Jean-Baptiste Filippi, CNRS
  METFLIX: streaming HD weather simulations as continuous video flux

Afternoon

16h00 - 18h30

• 16:00-16:40 Romain Thoreau AgroParisTech
  Remote sensing and machine learning for fuel characterization in the context of wildfire simulation: Towards multisource and multimodal data analysis
• 16:40-17:20 Valentin Mercier, INP Toulouse
  Fast Flood Prediction Using Graph Neural Networks: Application to the Têt River Basin
• 17:20-18:00 Karlee Zammit, Natural Resources Canada
  Subseasonal Forecasting of Fire Weather Using Long Short-Term Memory Networks
• 18:00-18:40 Sibo Cheng, ENPC
  Towards stochastic differentiable wildfire prediction with physics- and neural-network-based models

Thursday 06/11: AI in Weather Forecasting

Morning

9h00 - 12h00

• 8:30-9:30 (PLENARY) Laure Raynaud, Météo-France
• 9:30-10:10 David Landry, INRIA Paris
  Probabilistic in-situ weather forecasting.
• 10:10-10:50 Julia Garcia-Cristobal, CNRM
  Statistical downscaling for urban meteorology at hectometric scale
• 10:50-11:30 Kilian Pujol, LAERO
  Improving prediction of heavy rainfall in Corsica with Neural-Networks

Afternoon

16h00 - 19h00

• 16:00-17:00 (PLENARY) Sylvain Cros, LMD Polytechnique
  Surface solar irradiance forecasting using deep learning on geostationary meteorological satellite images
• 17:00-17:40 Diego Grante - Université de Corse
  Challenges of Transfer Learning in Wind Speed Forecasting: Understanding Negative Transfer Effects
• 17:40-18:00 Roberta Baggio, Université de Corse
  Local wind speed forecasting at short time horizons based on Numerical Weather Prediction and observations from surrounding stations

Friday 07/11: Urban resilience and perspectives

Morning

9h00 - 12h00
Identification of study cases

• 9:00-11:00 Guests, everyone, Université de Corse
  Data sharing, datasets descriptions, tutorials
• 11:00-12:00 Jean-Baptiste Filippi, Université de Corse
  Final words, conclusion and perspectives

Afternoon

General-audience session, discussion with operational services

Conférence ouverte au public: Nouveaux outils de prévision

Speakers :

• Jean-Baptiste Filippi - Associate Professor, CNRS, Université de Corse
• Jean-François Muzy - Associate Professor, CNRS, Université de Corse