Agenda for E3SM June 2026 All-Hands Meeting

Agenda for E3SM June 2026 All-Hands Meeting

Agenda in pdf form:

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Bethesda Floor Plan: Plenary and Breakout Rooms

 

 

Time

Duration

Plenary

Presentations for Plenary

Breakout Room 1

Breakout Room 2

Breakout Room 3

Time

Duration

Plenary

Presentations for Plenary

Breakout Room 1

Breakout Room 2

Breakout Room 3

Tuesday 6/09/2026

9:00 -10:15

1h 15min

Introductory Remarks

 

 

 

 

9:00

5 min

Meeting Logistics: Angela Jefferson

 

 

 

 

9:05

5 min

Dr. Dorothy Koch, DOE Office of Science (SC) Associate Director for Biological and Environmental Research (BER) - Remarks ** REMOTE PRESENTATION**

(pre-recorded video)

 

 

 

9:10

10 min

Dr. Sally McFarlane, DOE Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Program Manager

 

 

 

9:20

20 min

Dr. Peter Caldwell, E3SM PI - State of E3SM

 

 

 

9:40

20 min

E3SM Awards

 

 

 

 

10:00

15 min

Group Photo

 

 

 

 

10:15 -10:45

30 min

BREAK

 

 

 

 

10:45 -11:45

1h

Plenary E3SM Groups #1. Chair: Mark Taylor

 

 

 

 

10:45

12 min

Coupled - Shixuan Zhang (E3SM v4 Prototype Assessment: Improvements, Challenges, and Path Forward)

 

 

 

10:57

12 min

WC - Salil Mahajan (Multi-modal Learning Approaches For Targeted Regional Seasonal Predictions)

 

 

 

11:09

12 min

S2D - Shaocheng Xie (E3SM S2D Pilot Study: Preliminary Results)

 

 

 

11:21

12 min

AI - Andrew Nolan (coupling emulators in E3SM runtime)

(pptx file for animation)

 

 

 

11:33

12 min

Land - Dali Wang (LandSim: AI-Assisted Spinup for High-Resolution E3SM Land Modeling)

 

 

 

11:45 -1:00

1h 15min

LUNCH

 

 

 

 

1:00 - 3:00

2h

Breakout #1 (B1)

 

 

 

 

1:00

2h

B1-P: Atmosphere

 

B1-R1: Human/Earth Systems

B1-R2: Infrastructure

B1-R3: Ocean

3:00 -3:30

30 min

BREAK

 

 

 

 

3:30 - 5:30

2h

Posters (in poster room)
Topics =

  • Water cycle

  • AI

  • Subseasonal to Decadal Prediction

  • Human impacts

  • Infrastructure/Model Development

  • Extreme events

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 6/10/2026

9:00 - 10:00

1h

Plenary E3SM Groups #2. Chair: Renata McCoy

 

 

 

 

9:00

12 min

“Polar S2S2D science in E3SM” - Carolyn Begeman

 

 

 

9:12

12 min

Atmosphere - Ben Hillman (Decadal 3km SCREAM simulation)

 

 

 

9:24

12 min

Human/Earth Systems - Tian Zhou - E3SM-GCAM Water Coupling and Feedbacks

 

 

 

9:36

12 min

Infrastructure - Shixuan Zhang et al. (S2D Hindcast Infrastructure in E3SM: From Initialization to Prediction and Diagnostics)

 

 

 

9:48

12 min

Ocean - Maciej Waruszewski – Update on Omega and its computational performance

 

 

 

10:00 -10:30

30 min

BREAK

 

 

 

 

10:30 - 11:30

1h

Predictability Ecosystem Talks. Chair: Shaocheng Xie

 

 

 

 

10:30

12 min

WACCEM - Ruby Leung

 

 

 

10:42

12 min

CATALYST - Jaga Richter

 

 

 

10:54

12 min

QBO SciDAC - Jim Benedict

 

 

 

11:06

12 min

CASCADE - Travis O’Brien ** REMOTE PRESENTATION**

 

 

 

11:18

12 min

Impact of process representation on predictability - Travis Aerenson

 

 

 

11:30 -12:45

1h 15min

LUNCH

 

 

 

 

12:45 - 1:45

1h

Human Systems Ecosystem Talks. Chair: Jennifer Holm

 

 

 

 

12:45

12 min

GCIMS - Marshall Wise

 

 

 

12:57

12 min

IM3 - Jennie Rice

 

 

 

1:09

12 min

Urban Land Modeling - TC Chakraborty

 

 

 

1:21

12 min

HyperFORMANCE - Ruby Leung

 

 

 

1:33

12 min

AICoM - Zeli Tan

 

 

 

1:45 -2:15

30 min

BREAK

 

 

 

 

2:15 - 4:15

2h

Breakout #2 (B2)

 

 

 

 

2:15

2h

B2-R1: S2D (Seasonal to Decadal) Prediction

Breakout in plenary room DOES have remote presentations

B2-P: Coupled

B2-R2: C++ification

B2-R3: Water Cycle XLE Hackathon - WC group members

4:15 -4:30

15 min

BREAK

 

 

 

 

4:30 - 5:15

45 min

E3SM Entertainment: Deep Dives

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 6/11/2026

9:00 - 10:00

1h

E3SM special talks. Chair: Bryce Harrop

 

 

 

 

9:00

12 min

Multi-Resolution Autotuning - Finn Rebassoo

 

 

 

9:12

12 min

IG’s simulation viewer capability: SimBoard - Jill Zhang (for Tom Vo)

 

 

 

9:24

12 min

SCREAM LES RRM - Peter Bogenschutz

 

 

 

9:36

12 min

Advancing Tropical Cyclone Science using E3SM - Karthik Balaguru

 

 

 

9:48

12 min

Wildfire modeling in E3SM - Qing Zhu

 

 

 

10:00 -10:30

30 min

BREAK

 

 

 

 

10:30 - 11:30

1h

Phase 4 Proposal. Chair: Peter Caldwell

 

 

 

 

10:30

15 min

Project structure - Renata McCoy

 

 

 

10:45

15 min

Science goals - Ruby Leung

 

 

 

11:00

15 min

Computational goals - Rob Jacob

 

 

 

11:15

15 min

Discussion

 

 

 

 

11:30 -12:45

1h 15min

LUNCH

 

 

 

 

12:45 - 2:45

2h

Breakout #3

 

 

 

 

12:45

2h

B3-P: AI

 

B3-R1: Polar

B3-R2: Land

B3-R3: Water Cycle XLE preliminary results and other cool science

2:45 -3:15

30 min

BREAK

 

 

 

 

3:15 - 4:15

2h

Physical Process Ecosystem Talks. Chair: Peter Thornton

 

 

 

 

3:15

12 min

Earth System Models on Quantum Computers - Johannes Muelmenstaedt ** REMOTE PRESENTATION **

 

 

 

3:27

12 min

ARM - Jennifer Comstock

 

 

 

3:39

12 min

NGEE Tropics/FATES - Jennifer Holm (for Charlie Koven)

 

 

 

3:51

12 min

NGEE Arctic - Colleen Iversen

 

 

 

4:03

12 min

Arctic SYNAPSE - Wilbert Weijer

 

 

 

4:15-4:30

15 min

Feedback from advisory council

 

 

 

 

4:30-5:00

45 min

Open discussion/concluding remarks

 

 

 

 

5:00

 

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

Breakout Agendas

 

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