10:45-11:30: Eugenia Kalnay (invited) (University of Maryland): "Recent Advances in Data Assimilation with Ensemble Kalman Filter"

11:30-12:00: Jon Sætrom (Statoil ASA): “Localisation of state variables with global support

using sparse regression techniques.”

12:00-12:30: Marc Bocquet (ENPC and CEREA) and Pavel Sakov (BOM): “The iterative ensemble Kalman smoother”

12:30-13:30: Lunch

13:30-14:15: Remus Hanea (invited); “To be or not to be Smoother”

14:15-14:45: Christian Lantuejoul (MinesParisTech): “Stochastic facies models for reservoir data assimilation”

14:45-15:15: Alina Astrakova (CIPR) and Dean Oliver (CIPR): “Updating realistic 3D geological models using the truncated plurigaussian model with an iterative ensemble smoother”

15:15-15:45: Break

15:45-16:30: Pavel Sakov (invited) (BOM): "Ensemble redrawing in strongly nonlinear systems"

16:30-17:00: Patrick Raanes (NERSC/Oxford) and Laurent Bertino (NERSC): “(Another) Data Assimilation Test Environment (DATE)”

17:00-17:30: Andreas. S. Stordal (IRIS) and Slawomir P. Sklarz (TU Delft): "Gaussian mutation for optimization and efficient importance sampling"

18:30 Dinner

Tuesday 28/05/2013:

08:30-09:15: Henrik Madsen (invited) (DHI Group): "Towards a probabilistic hydrological forecasting and data assimilation system"

09:15-09:45: Ibrahim Hoteit (KAUST) and Dinh-Tuan Pham (CNRS): “Mitigating Observational Error Undersampling in the Stochastic EnKF”

09:45-10:15: Morten Borup (DTU Environment and Krüger A/S), M. Grum (Krüger A/S), P.S. Mikkelsen (DTU Environment): “Ensemble based updating of distributed, physically based, urban drainage models“

10:15-10:45: Break

10:45-11:15: Anahita Abadpour (Total), P. Bergey (Total) and R. Piasecki (Total): “History match with ensemble based methods: Use of Distance to boundary parameterization to address facies uncertainty and 4D seismic observation”

11.15-12.00: Dean Oliver (Uni CIPR): “Conditional Simulation Using Optimization: Relationship to Optimal Transport”

12:00-12:30: Yanhui Zhang (Uni CIPR), Dean S. Oliver (Uni CIPR), Yan Chen (IRIS) and Hans J. Skaug (UoB): “Data Assimilation Using the Iterative Ensemble Smoother

for 2-D Categorical Models”

12:30-13:30: Lunch

13:30-18:00: Sea eagle safari

Departure to Nordsjøfartsmuseet by bus

The trip starts with a 15-20 minute walk across heaths and rocky terrain before boarding the boat

19:00 Dinner

Wednesday 29/05/2013:

08:30-09:15: Geir Evensen (invited) (Statoil): “Fast Model Update: A workflow for big-loop model updating"

09:15-09:45: Laura Dovera (Eni) and Stefano Raniolo ( Eni): “Polymer Flooding Optimization Using Ensemble Optimization”

09:45-10:15: Bogdan Sebacher (TU Delft), Remus Hanea (Statoil) and Arnold Heemink (TNO): “Adaptive plurigaussian truncation scheme for geological uncertainty quantification using the EnKF“

10:15-10:45: Break

10:45-11:15: Kristian Fossum (Uni CIPR) and Trond Mannseth (Uni CIPR): “Aspects of sequential and simultaneous assimilation”

11:15-11:45: Xiaodong Luo (IRIS): “Ensemble Kalman filtering with residual nudging: some

recent results”

11:45-12:15: Martha Lien (Uni CIPR) and Trond Mannseth (Uni CIPR): “Application of a reduced, composite parameter representation in combination with the ensemble

Kalman Filter for facies identification.”

12:15-13:15: Lunch

13:15-13:45: Hector Klie (CoPh), Brian Ludolph (CoPh), Randi Valestrand (IRIS) and Geir Naevdal (IRIS): “Estimating Parameters on Highly Faulted Systems via AGM and PSO: A Comparison Study”

13:45-14:15: Theophile Gentilhomme (University of Lorraine/Hampson-Russell – CGG), Dean Oliver (Uni CIPR), Trond Mannseth (Uni CIPR), Rémi Moyen (Hampson-Russell – CGG), Guillaume Caumon (University of Lorraine) and Philippe Doyen (Hampson-Russell – CGG): “Adaptive multi-scale ensemble-based history matching of highly detailed prior models using wavelets“

14:15-14:45: Break

14:45-15:15: Ahmed H. Elsheikh (ICES - The University of Texas, Austin), Ibrahim Hoteit (KAUST), Mary F. Wheeler (ICES - The University of Texas, Austin): “Nested Sampling Particle Filter for Nonlinear Data Assimilation”

15:15-15:45: Oliver Pajonk (TU Braunschweig): “Stochastic methods in the context of hydrocarbon reservoir history matching”

15.45: Concluding remarks

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