Welcome to the inaugural CIRCS IAB Meeting! We will convene in the Sky Room (16th floor) of the Holmes Student Center. This is in the same building as the campus hotel. If you are staying at the campus hotel (or commuting in from somewhere else), the easiest place to park is in the visitor lot off of Carroll Ave. You will need to pay for parking ($7/day) for both Thursday and Friday. There is no need to pay for parking on Wednesday unless you plan to arrive before 4:00 PM CST. Payment can accomplished via the online portal.
Meeting attire is business casual.
For CIRCS members staying in DeKalb Wednesday evening, the downtown area offers several dining options such as El Jimador Mexican Grill, Thai Pavilion, The Grove, and the newly-opened Florentino’s Charhouse (among many others). On Thursday, our videography team will be on site developing a promotional video for CIRCS. The team will be doing short interviews with interested IAB members to feature impact of the Center’s collaborative research.
Important Links
Welcome from Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17)
IAB Meeting Day 1 Agenda (Thursday November 13th, 2025; HSC Sky Room)
| Time | Topic | Presenter / Facilitator |
| 8:30 AM CST | Registration + Networking (Light Breakfast Provided) | |
| 9:00 AM CST | Welcome and Opening Remarks | Chair Mark Frank (NIU) & Dean Bob Brinkmann (NIU) |
| 9:15 AM CST | Meeting Goals + CIRCS Overview | Victor Gensini (NIU) & Daniel Wright (UW) |
| 10:00 AM CST | IUCRC Structure + NSF / NOAA Sponsorship | Barbara Ransom (NSF) & Todd Abraham (Venturewell) |
| 10:45 AM CST | Airtable 101 | |
| 11:00 AM CST | BREAK | |
| 11:15 AM CST | Evolution of High-Loss SCS Events in the U.S. | C. Roufa (NIU) |
| 11:30 AM CST | Encroachment of the Severe Weather Season on Late Winter | A. L. Lang (UW) |
| 11:45 AM CST | Season-ahead Prediction of Severe Convective Storms and Losses in the Upper Midwest | P. Block (UW) |
| Noon CST | Lunch + Networking (Provided) | |
| 1:00 PM CST | Retrospective Spaceborne-Based Hail Probability Database | A. Rowe (UW) |
| 1:15 PM CST | From Outlook to Outcome: Stochastic Modeling of Severe Weather Impacts | V. Gensini (NIU) |
| 1:30 PM CST | A Dynamics-Informed Open-Source Stochastic Event Set for Hail Hazard | D. Wright (UW) |
| 1:45 PM CST | High-Resolution Hail Size Return-Period Atlas | L. Bundy (NIU) |
| 2:00 PM CST | BREAK | |
| 2:30 PM CST | Simulating Historical and Potential Future Hail Impacts on Exposure Surfaces | W. Ashley (NIU) & Stephen Strader (VU) |
| 2:45 PM CST | Weather Regimes: Past, Present, and Future Insights for Industries Sensitive to Severe Weather | A. Haberlie (NIU) |
| 3:00 PM CST | A Framework for Observationally Calibrated Stochastic Wind Event Sets | M. Katzfuss (UW) |
| 3:15 PM CST | BREAK | |
| 3:30 PM CST | Echoes of the Past: High-Resolution Modeling of Historic Severe Storm Outbreaks to Project Future Extremes | K. Pittman (NIU) & W. Ashley (NIU) |
| 3:45 PM CST | SCScast: Weekly Severe Storm Insights | V. Gensini (NIU) |
| 4:00 PM CST | A Convective Storm Climatology for the North-Central U.S. | P. Stoy (UW) |
| 4:30 PM CST | BREAK + Finalize Airtable Feedback | Todd Abraham |
| 5:00 PM CST | Day 1 Concluding Remarks + Day 2 Overview | Victor Gensini (NIU) & Daniel Wright (UW) |
| 5:30—8:00 PM CST | CIRCS Poster Session and Reception* at Fatty’s Bar and Grill | *Sponsored by the Northern Illinois University Foundation |
IAB Meeting Day 2 Agenda (Friday November 14th, 2025; HSC Sky Room)
| Time | Topic | Presenter / Facilitator |
| 7:30 AM CST | Networking (Light Breakfast Provided) | |
| 8:00 AM CST | CIRCS Leadership + PI Responses to Feedback | All PIs |
| 9:30 AM CST | BREAK | |
| 9:45 AM CST | IAB Closed Session (Elect IAB Chair + Vice-Chair; Bylaws; Project Rankings) | Todd Abraham + IAB |
| 11:30 AM CST | Funding Announcements | Todd Abraham + Luke Sebby (NIU) |
| Noon CST | IAB Meeting Concludes (Lunch on Your Own) |