Tentative Program EnKF 2012

Monday 18/06/2012:
09:30-10:00:	Coffee & registration
10:00-10:15:	Welcome, Randi Valestrand (IRIS)
10:15-11:00:	Sigurd Aanonsen, (Statoil): “Use of ensemble Kalman filter and ensemble smoother in an operational environment. Application to a North Sea oil field”
11:00-11:30:	Martin Verlaan (TU Delft), J. Sumihaar (Deltares): “Ensemble-based observation sensitivity for forecasting of sea-level”
11:30-12:00:	Oliver Pajonk, (TU Braunschweig): “Comparison of square root updating schemes”
12:00-13:00:	Lunch
13:00-13:45:	Marc Bocquet (CEREA): “Combining inflation-free and iterative ensemble Kalman filters for strongly nonlinear systems"
13:45-14:15:	Kristian Fossum, (UNI CIPR): “Numerical assessment of Ensemble Kalman Filter and Randomized Maximum Likelihood”
14:15-14:45:	Stefano Raniolo, Laura Dovera (Eni), Yan Chen (IRIS): “History Matching of a Mature Reservoir Using the EnKF”
14:45-15:15:	Break
15:15-15:45:	Theophile Gentilhomme (CGGVeritas CRPG-CNRS): “Adaptive enRML using smooth multi-scale second-generation wavelet parameterization”
15:45-16:15:	Pallav Sarma (Chevron): “Preventing Ensemble Collapse and Preserving Geostatistical Variability Across the Ensemble with the Subspace EnKF”
16:15-17:15:	Poster session
18:30-	Dinner
Tuesday 19/06/2012:
08:30-09:15:	Dennis McLaughlin (MIT): “Reduced-order modeling for ensemble real-time control”
09:15-09:45:	Sturla Kvamsdal, Leif K. Sandal (NHH): “Fitting a marine foodweb model with the ensemble Kalman filter”
09:45-10:15:	Ehouarn Simon, Annette Samuelsen, Laurent Bertino, (NERSC), Dany Dumont (Universite du Quebec): “Estimation of positive sum-to-one constrained zooplankton grazing preferences with the DEnKF : a twin experiment”
10:15-10:45:	Break
10:45-11:15:	Bogdan Sebacher (TU Delft), Remus Hanea, Arnold Heemink (TNO): “Complex geology estimation using EnKF. A probabilistic approach”
11.15-12.00:	Henning Omre, (NTNU): “Uncertainty Quantification in the Ensemble Kalman Filter”
12:00-12:30:	Francois Counillon, Ingo Bethke, Mats Bentsen, Noel Keenlyside, Laurent Bertino, (NERSC): “Seasonal-decadal prediction with the EnKF and NorESM”
12:30-13:30:	Lunch
13:30-19:00:	Time off/Activities on your own; Hiking, boat trips, swimming, spa…...
19:00 -	Dinner
Wednesday 20/06/2012:
08:30-09:15:	Hans Wackernagel (Ecoles des Mines): “Change of support in geostatistics and data assimilation”
09:15-09:45:	Rolf J. Lorentzen, (IRIS): “Transient well flow modeling and modern estimation techniques for accurate production allocation”
09:45-10:15:	Alexandre Emerick, Albert Reynolds (University of Tulsa): “Ensemble Smoother with Multiple Data Assimilation”
10:15-10:45:	Break
10:45-11:15:	Anahita Abadpour, Pierre Bergey (Total): “Constraining map properties to production data using ensemble based assisted history matching: a real field case study”
11:15-11:45:	Francois Counillon (NERSC): “Combine estimation of state/bias estimation with the Ensemble Kalman filter”
11:45-12:15:	Behnam Jafapour (University of Southern California), Mohammadali Tarrahi,(Texas A&M University): “Assimilation of Discrete Micro-Seismic Events into Reservoir Models with Ensemble Kalman Filter”
12:15-13:15:	Lunch
13:15-13:45:	Dan Sava, Olwijn Leuwenburgh, Remus Hanea (TNO): “Model-Order Reduction Applied in Production Optimization”
13:45-14:15:	Remus Hanea (TNO), Marcin Glegola (TU Delft): “Bias estimation in closed-loop reservoir engineering”
14:15-14:45:	Break
14:45-15:15:	Fei Zheng and Jiang Zhu (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing): Coupled assimilation of both atmospheric and oceanic observations for ENSO prediction using an intermediate coupled model”
15:15-15:45:	Yan Chen (IRIS) and Dean Oliver (Uni CIPR): "Improved convergence in an iterative ensemble smoother"
15.45:	Concluding remarks
Posters:
1.	Olwijn Leuwenberg (TNO): “Ensemble Kalman Filter for the Matlab-based reservoir simulator MRST”
2.	Aurelius Zilco, Anca Hanea (TU Delft) , Remus Hanea (TU Delft/TNO): “Non Parametric Bayesian Networks (NPBNs) versus Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) in Reservoir Simulation with non-Gaussian Measurement Noise”
3.	Yan Chen (IRIS), Dean Oliver (Uni CIPR): “Assimilation of Lagrangian sensor measurements using the ensemble Kalman filter”
4.	Laurent Bertino, Pavel Sakov, François Counillon (NERSC): “Results from the TOPAZ4 reanalysis”
5.	Behnam Jafapour (University of Southern California): “Conditional Facies Simulation from Multiple Training Images with EnKF-Based Mixture Model Probability Conditioning Method”
6.	Alexandre A. Emerick and Albert C. Reynolds (University of Tulsa), “Investigation on the Sampling Performance of Ensemble-based Methods”
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