Generative modelling competition on sea surface temperature

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Dear all, 

sorry for the multiple posting. Please share the announcement of this AI challenge with your master and PhD students. The registration deadline is November 15th.

Here is the platform where they can sign up. See the flyer in attachment.

Best wishes, 

Emmanuel Gobet 

* Professor, Ecole polytechnique, Head of Applied Mathematics Department  

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Ecole polytechnique with BNP Paribas and Mercator Ocean are happy to announce to you the second edition of the Genhack challenge: Hackathon for Generative Modelling. 

 This is a challenge for students.

The task. This is an unsupervised learning problem: Given real data from ocean surface temperatures at selected latitude and longitude pairs over several decades that will act as a train dataset, the task is to develop a generative model that simulates synthetic ocean surface temperatures. 

🗓 When? The competition will begin the 17th of November and will end the 17th of December.

🤖 How?

• Kick-off presentation on the 17th of November with the different stakeholders from Mercator Ocean and Ecole Polytechnique.
• Teams of 3-5 students (ideally from different universities and different countries).
• Mentoring from academic experts and senior Data Scientists from BNP Paribas and Mercator Ocean.

🏆 Why to compete?

• Monetary prize of 6000€, shared amongst the winning teams
• Coaching and upskilling with academic experts in Generative Modelling
  
• Meet-up with BNP Paribas teams during an exclusive event
• Get the chance to meet and collaborate in an international framework
  

💎 The Sponsors?

• École Polytechnique, with the chaire ‘Stress Test: RISK Management and Financial Steering’ led by Professor Emmanuel Gobet.
• BNP Paribas, with  Antoine Bezat, Head of Stress Testing Methodologies and Models
• Mercator Ocean, with Karina von Schuckmann, Oceanographer specialised in ocean climate monitoring and lead author of the IPCC working group 1 (The Physical Science basis) 6th assessment report.

Enrollment deadline is  the November 15th, 2022 at midnight Paris time (GMT+2).