July 18 - 23, 2022

Continuing a long series of Summer Schools on Environmental Dynamics that began in 1987, ISTITUTO VENETO DI SCIENZE LETTERE ED ARTI (IVSLA) is organizing the first of a cycle Schools specifically devoted to the study of Climate Science.  

 The School will take place in Venice at Palazzo Franchetti, in the period July 18-23, 2022. It will focus on "Climate Change in the Coastal Zone" and is aimed at doctoral students and postdocs in Climate Science or related fields.

The lectures, as in the tradition of the School, should consist of a total of 6 'hours' (of 45 minutes each, that means a customary framework of 3 class periods of about 90 minutes) within the week, according to a program that is drafted below. The lectures are intended to focus on open, important problems and cutting-edge research and to stimulate the interaction among the participants. Much emphasis is placed on e-learning ex ante and ex post, and thus we plan to post relevant papers to be downloaded by prospective students as preliminary reading, and to use the web at length for getting/posting the lectures' materials. 

We place great emphasis on the organization of group activities by the attendees, whose scope is the development, on the basis of the themes and ideas discussed during the lectures, of possibly original research projects and collaborations. The minimum requirement is for each group to present the results of their work (a formal presentation to the audience) at the closing meeting, where we also give each participant a certificate of participation.  In several cases of past schools, working groups have elaborated the early ideas developed in the collective discussions in the months following the school, and have submitted for publication their results. Papers comprising the Lecturer in peer-reviewed outlets have been a source of great pride to participants and School organizers in the past. We thus hope that each lecturer will participate by steering independent thinking and collective work together with a few components of her/his own research group. On-site, we may rely on broad access to the web and facilities for in silico experiments.  Typically, the collective work is stirred by an activator, identified among the more experienced attendees or from the Lecturer's group. 

It is deemed that a realistic policy consists of reprinting (with permission upon the responsibility of the authors through contacts with the proper publishers) material (possibly published) selected by the lecturers, that we plan to post in the web site of the School and reprint in some form via the distinguished editorial collection of IVSLA. We expect from this a collection of state-of-the-art papers on the School's topic. Any original manuscript, however, would be more than welcome.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Carlo Barbante, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti
Marco Marani, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti
Andrea Rinaldo, Presidente Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti
Thomas Stocker, University of Bern, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti

Secretariat
Laura Padoan
laura.padoan@istitutoveneto.it

LECTURERS
Carlo Barbante, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
Istituto di Scienze Polari CNR
Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti
Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Studies Princeton
Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti
Filippo Giorgi, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste
Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti
Corinna Guerra, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
UR-EST (GHDSO), Université Paris-Saclay
Marco Marani, Università degli Studi di Padova
Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti
Andrea Rinaldo, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Università degli Studi di Padova
Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti
Thomas Stocker, University of Bern
Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti

ENROLLMENT
The audience will consist of a restrict group (up to 30) of young researchers, graduate or postgraduate students, admitted upon application (following a proper call) through selection on the basis of merit.
The lectures will consist of a total of 6 'hours' (of 45 minutes each, that means a customary framework of 3 class periods of about 90 minutes) within the week and about the same number of hours will be spent in work groups.
Selection of applicants will be made by the organizing committee. Participants are expected to attend all courses and work groups.
The enrollment fee is 300 Euros and covers participation, coffee breaks, lunches, a social dinner and a field trip. All expenses relating to travel to and from Venice, dinners and lodging will be borne by participants. In this regard, the Istituto Veneto has reserved a block of basic rooms in a hostel nearby
(Domus Civica - www.domuscivica.com).The prospective participants should send a letter of application, a curriculum vitae and a list of publications to the secretariat of the Summer School on Environmental Dynamics: laura.padoan@istitutoveneto.it

Deadline for application is 30th April 2022.