Intro

My main goal is to gather (hopefully every month) the EVT information I run into (conferences, books, projects, jobs). Philippe Naveau

vendredi 22 mai 2015

COMING EVENTS (see also my last posts) 
- Alternatiba
 -  Wednesday 3rd June 14:15-17:00: an afternoon on applied statistics and geosciences (LSCE Bat 701, Salle 17C, CEA Saclay, Orme des Merisiers, France)

  • 14:15-15:00 Spatio-temporal precipitation generator with a censored latent Gaussian field byAnastasia Baxevani <baxevani.anastasia@ucy.ac.cy> 
  • 15:00-15:45 Attribution of extreme weather events using non-stationary extreme value analysis by THAO Soulivanh <soulivanh.thao@meteo.fr>
  • 16:15-17:00 Processes with dependent time change. Application to ocean waves by Pierre Ailliot <pierre.ailliot@univ-brest.fr>

- Mathematical Foundations of Heavy Tailed Analysis, Copenhagen, 23-27 June 2015


- A session on Extremes at the workshop  Recent developments in statistics for complex dependent dataat Loccum close to Hanover, 27-30 August

- International Conference on Advances in Extreme Value Analysis and Application to Natural Hazards (EVAN2015). EVAN2015 will be held in 2015 from 16th to 18th September at Universidad de Cantabria , in Santander, Spain.


- The Camille Jordan Institute is organizing in 2016, in collaboration with the MultiRisk LEFE program and the labex Milyon, a Summer School on Extreme value modeling and water resources, to be held in Lyon (France) from Monday June 13th to Friday June 24th 2016.
 
COMING BOOK   "Extremes and Recurrence in Dynamical Systems" by V. Lucarini, D. Faranda, A.C. M. Freitas, J. M. Freitas, M. Holland, T. Kuna, M. Nicol, M. Todd, S. Vaienti

JOBS   at Freie Universität Berlin
Institute of Meteorology (for more info contact Henning Rust)
  • Regional climate modeller (Postdoc, 30 months)
  • Stochastic modeller (Postdoc, 30 months)
  • Extreme value statistics (PhD, 36 months)

mardi 3 juin 2014

A new blog on extremes (thanks Andrea)

Coming events:
The 9th international conference on Extreme Value Analysis will take place at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor during the week of June 15-June 19, 2015.
 

JOBS:
- LSCE/IPSL (near Paris, in France) is opening three 2-year positions (starting in September 2014) on studying climate extreme events and their relation to climate change. These positions cover research on event attribution and interpretation, as well as data analysis and processing methods, and visualizations / representations of extreme events in the context of climate change. contact robert.vautard@lsce.ipsl.fr





mardi 29 avril 2014

Coming wokshops

- For those interested in statistics and climate, a workshop of weather generators in Avignon (France), Sep 15-17, 2014
- Symposium "Extremes 2014" Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover/Germany, October 6/7, 2014
- the slides of the Workshop RARE & EXTREME supported by ANR PERTURBATIONS from monday 24 march to friday 28 march 2014 are now available



Jobs


- 3-year PhD fellowship on "Return period modeling of extreme surface rainfall in a mediterranean mountainous region (Cévennes-Vivarais) "  in statistics at the Laboratory for the study of Transfers in Hydrology and Environment (LTHE), University of Grenoble, France. Contact Juliette BLANCHET juliette.blanchet at ujf-grenoble.fr

-  a Post-doc Position inProbability and/or Statistics applied to Actuarial Science and Climate Science at the Institute of Financial Science and Insurance (Lyon), contact Esterina Masiello  esterina.masiello at univ-lyon1.fr

mardi 18 mars 2014

Coming events

  •  "Extreme Value Theory and Laws of Rare Events", CIRM Luminy/Marseille from 14th-18th July 2014
  • Workshop on Environmental Modeling (extremes included) .  September 8–12, 2014, in Garching (near Munich). contact Michael Ghil <ghil@lmd.ens.fr>.

Job announcements

Two year research engineer at LSCE (France) on "Attribution et Interprétation des événements extrêmes", contact Robert Vautard <robert.vautard@lsce.ipsl.fr>

18-month postdoctoral position at Météo France (Toulouse, France), on the "Attribution of extreme weather events". contact Aurélien Ribes <aurelien.ribes@meteo.fr>

18-month postdoctoral position at LTHE et IRSTEA, EDF : modélisation des pluies extrêmes. contact Juliette Blanchet <juliette.blanchet@ujf-grenoble.fr>

vendredi 3 janvier 2014