The program details are mostly finalised with the overall structure being built around George Kuczera’s main interests as below.

There will be no written proceedings for the Symposium, though we are planning that a summary paper of each of the sessions will be turned into a paper for the Australian Journal of Water Research.

Ticketing

Ticket ClassEarly BirdStandardLate
ARR Half Day WorkshopFREE$25$50
Symposium + Dinner (NO ARR)$320$370$420
Symposium + Dinner + ARR$320$395$470
Dinner Only$120$140$160
Day 1 Only ARR + Symposium (No Dinner)$145$195$245
Day 1 All: ARR + Symposium + Dinner$240$310$380
Day 2 Only (No Dinner)$145$195$245

Early Bird Pricing closes at 5pm 24th May 2019 (Sydney, Australia Time)

Standard Pricing closes at 5pm 11th June 2019 (Sydney, Australia Time)

Day 1

  • 0900 – 12:30: ARR Work Shop
    • 0900 – 10:45 Workshop part 1: Practicalities and learnings from 2 years of ARR: Mark Babister, Rory Nathan, Bill Weeks
    • 1045 – 1100: Morning Tea
    • 1100 – 1200: Workshop part 2: Practicalities and learnings from 2 years of ARR: Mark Babister, Rory Nathan, Bill Weeks
    • 1200 – 1215: Urban Catchment: Ashish Sharma
    • 1215 – 1230: Title TBC: Andrew Frost
  • 1230 – 1330: Lunch at Noah’s
  • 1330 – 1400: Official Symposium Open, Student Prizes
  • 1400 – 1700: Session 1: Australian Rainfall and Runoff: The next steps
    • 1400 – 1420: The Future: Extremes – Rory Nathan
    • 1420 – 1440: National testing model and big data – Mark Babister
    • 1440 – 1500: Some reflections on the current updates to ARR, and a plan for the future – James Ball
  • 1500 – 1515: Afternoon Tea
    • 1515 – 1530: Urban Catchments – Peter Coombes
    • 1530 – 1545: ARR design inputs: what will the future look like – Michael Leonard
    • 1545 – 1610: Reflections on FLIKE, windows interfaces and other Kuczeraisms – Former students of George
    • 1610 – 1640: Panel Session: Q and A – Mark Babister, Rory Nathan, Bill Weeks, Michael Leonard
  • 1640 – 1700: The Kuczera Reply: Part 1

Please see the list of invited speakers and topics for more information.

Symposium Dinner

After the conclusion of Day One’s technical programme there will be a gala dinner of celebration.

6pm until late

Theme: Academic Cardigan. Channel your inner professor.  Get out your best cardi or head to the nearest op shop. Think Robin WIlliams in Good Will hunting.

Day 2

Focus on water resources infrastructure planning, including optimisation, WATHNET, model parameter estimation, etc

  • 0830 – 1025 Session 1: Water Resources Headworks Planning
    • 8:30 – 8:40: Welcome and house-keeping – Mark Babister
    • 8:40 – 8:55: Early Contributions to headworks and Catchment Modelling in Melbourne – Bruce Rhodes
    • 8:55 – 9:10: Urban water planning methods: step change or trend – Mahes Maheswaran
    • 9:10 – 9:25: Wathnet: development and applications – Lijie Cui
    • 9:25 – 9:40: Integrating drought risk and drought planning – Natalie Lockart and Brendan Berghout
    • 9:40 – 9:55: Next generation stochastic data for water resource planning – Anthony Kiem
    • 9:55 – 10:25: Where to from here? – Panel
  • 1045 – 1230 Session 2: Water Planning Innovation and Optimisation
    • 10:45 – 11:00: Exploiting Pacific Decadal Variability Information in Urban Water Supply Planning and Operation – Lanying Zhang
    • 11:00 – 11:10: A mentor for success – Hodasadat (Hoda) Maki and Rebecca Carlier
    • 11:10 – 11:25: Applying an MCMC approach to pipe condition assessment – Martin Lambert
    • 11:25 – 11:40: Perth IWSS optimised scheduling – Andrew Graddon and Chenchap Xu
    • 11:40 – 11:55: Bottom up systems analysis highlights the illusion of averages and economic opportunities for development of government policy for water resources – Peter Coombes
    • 11:55 – 12:05: History and Key Challenges in Understanding and Representing the Demand Side in the Urban Water Resource Equation – Russell Beatty
    • 12:05 – 12:30: Q & A
  • 12:30 – 13:30: Lunch at Noah’s
  • 1330 – 1530 Session 3: Parameter Estimation and Model Development
    • 13:30 – 13:35: Message from Brian Williams
    • 13:35 – 13:50: The quest for more powerful validation of conceptual catchment models – Paul Raper
    • 13:50 – 14:05: Where does hydrologic predictive uncertainty come from? (how a 2-year postdoc with George raises enough questions to fill an entire research career). – Ben Renard
    • 14:05 – 14:10: Climbing the Optimisation Mountain – Youwei Qin (message)
    • 14:10 – 14:25: How do we get reliable and precise probabilistic  hydrological predictions? Back to the Future – Mark Thyer
    • 14:25 – 14:40: Optimisation and Environmental Modelling – Jose Rodriguez
    • 14:40 – 14:55: SA Water Smart Networks/IoT/Machine Learning – Mark Stephens
    • 14:55 – 15:25: Where to from here? – Panel
    • 15:25 – 15:30: Closing
  • 15:30 – 16:00: Afternoon Tea