<div dir="ltr"><div>Call for Contributions<br><b>Workshop on Programming for the Planet (PROPL) </b>co-located with POPL 2024.<br>Saturday January 20th 2024, London, UK</div><div><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https*3A*2F*2Fpopl24.sigplan.org*2Fhome*2Fpropl-2024&data=05*7C01*7Cdao29*40universityofcambridgecloud.onmicrosoft.com*7Cd3a29a80461b4b4ffb0708dbd551dd93*7C49a50445bdfa4b79ade3547b4f3986e9*7C1*7C0*7C638338319827007364*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C3000*7C*7C*7C&sdata=4hmzw6A5I6eZKVnmIFlrLAx6AElUKA4MQrE*2BAfIfWoA*3D&reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJQ!!IBzWLUs!Slrsb4YJe9mAT4NMsXeVBkGsbEdpLXbY8FQAfw9-y4hYxQqeSQHKzTGEo_6LFGWJVYFs8m-xDFqssg6hoqMxevI0rC41fALCvKA$">https://popl24.sigplan.org/home/propl-2024</a><br><br>There
are simultaneous crises across the planet due to rising CO2 emissions,
rapid biodiversity loss, and desertification. Assessing progress on
these complex and interlocking issues requires a global view on the
effectiveness of our adaptations and mitigations. To succeed in the
coming decades, we need a wealth of new data about our natural
environment that we rapidly process into accurate indicators, with
sufficient trust in the resulting insights to make decisions that affect
the lives of billions of people worldwide.<br><br>However, programming
the computer systems required to effectively ingest, clean, collate,
process, explore, archive, and derive policy decisions from the
planetary data we are collecting is difficult and leads to artefacts
presently not usable by non-CS-experts, not reliable enough for
scientific and political decision making, and not widely and openly
available to all interested parties. Concurrently, domains where
computational techniques are already central (e.g., climate modelling)
are facing diminishing returns from current hardware trends and software
techniques.<br><br>PROPL explores how to close the gap between
state-of-the-art programming methods being developed in academia and the
use of programming in climate analysis, modelling, forecasting, policy,
and diplomacy. The aim is to build bridges to the current practices
used in the scientific community.<br><br>The first edition of this workshop will comprise:<br>* invited talks from practitioners in the environmental/climate sciences<br>* contributed talks (selected by the programme committee based on short abstracts)<br>* "working workshop brainstorming" format.<br><br>We would welcome contributions in the following forms:<div><br>* <b>Talk proposal:</b> Please
submit an abstract of a talk aligned with the topics of the workshop.
This could include reporting on existing work, a demo, open problems,
work in progress, or new ideas and speculation.<br><br>* <b>Proposed discussion: </b>If
you would like to propose a discussion/brainstorming session on a
particular topic, e.g., in a hour slot, then please submit a description
of the session, at least three questions to consider, and at least two
possible participants who could lead the discussion.<br><br>* <b>Discussant:</b> Please
outline an area of expertise aligned with the workshop in which you
would be willing to act as a discussant, i.e., provide detailed
commentary on talks given within this topic.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Significant dates:</div><div><br></div><div>- Call for proposals: due in Nov 24th 2023</div><div>- Notification of talks: Dec 4th 2023</div><div>- Workshop date: 20th January 2024 (co-located with POPL in London)</div></div>