A five-day course offered during MIT Independent Activities Period that introduces adjoint models, their generation by means of automatic differentiation (AD), and application to climate science. Basic building blocks are (1) Foundations and basic algorithms (computer science) taught by experts from RWTH Aachen and Argonne National Lab; (2) Hands-on examples covering: the harmonic oscillator, Lorenz model, Stommel box model, advection-diffusion problem, shallow-water model; and (3) Applications in climate science by C. Wunsch, M. Follows, L. Zanna, C. Hill and P. Heimbach.

Meets daily - Monday January 26, Tues 27, Wed 28, Thr 29, Fri 30; from 10:00 am-12:00 pm (daily). See full schedule. Instructors: Patrick Heimbach and Chris Hill.