  The authors of this report met on 28-30 March 2018 at the New Jersey
Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, for a 3-day workshop that brought
together a group of data providers, expert modelers, and computer and data
scientists, in the solar discipline. Their objective was to identify challenges
in the path towards building an effective framework to achieve transformative
advances in the understanding and forecasting of the Sun-Earth system from the
upper convection zone of the Sun to the Earth's magnetosphere. The workshop
aimed to develop a research roadmap that targets the scientific challenge of
coupling observations and modeling with emerging data-science research to
extract knowledge from the large volumes of data (observed and simulated) while
stimulating computer science with new research applications. The desire among
the attendees was to promote future trans-disciplinary collaborations and
identify areas of convergence across disciplines. The workshop combined a set
of plenary sessions featuring invited introductory talks and workshop progress
reports, interleaved with a set of breakout sessions focused on specific topics
of interest. Each breakout group generated short documents, listing the
challenges identified during their discussions in addition to possible ways of
attacking them collectively. These documents were combined into this
report-wherein a list of prioritized activities have been collated, shared and
endorsed.
