[Workshop] Transformers for Environmental Science
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg and the Jülich Supercomputing Center jointly organised a workshop on Transformers for Environmental Science on September 22 and 23, 2022.
The workshop was co-sponsored by the ERC grant IntelliAQ and brought together about 40 participants in Magdeburg and up to 20 additional online participants with the aim of discussing the potential of transformer neural networks for environmental applications. The program included lectures on recent advances on transformers and transfer learning as well as on prototype developments focusing largely on atmospheric research and remote sensing.
Keynote presentations were given by Peter Düben (ECMWF), Pedram Hassanzadeh (Rice University, Houston), Duncan Watson-Parris (Oxford University), Lucas Beyer (Google Brain) and Jonathan Godwin (formerly Google Deepmind). A poster session and panel discussion provided opportunities for an exchange of ideas.