Dec 2012

• Symposium "Extreme Events: Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction", Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover/Germany, February 13 - 15, 2013
• High-impact weather, climate extremes, and extremely rare events Davos, July8-12, 2013
• Many talks on extremes at the past ERCIM 2012 conference
• For those who like the work of Pierre Simon Laplace and historical sciences, back to the root

November 2012

• Symposium on Recent Advances in Extreme Value Theory honoring Ross Leadbetter, 18 - 20 March 2013, Lisbon

• The slides of the "mathematically oriented" Workshop on spatial extreme value theory and properties of max-stable random fields University of Poitiers, November  9, 2012 have been posted
• Workshop EVT2013 - in honour of Ivette Gomes (Sep 8-11, 2013, Vimeiro, Portugal)
• the SHF is organizing a conference on Extreme flood events (Lyon, nov or dec 2013)
• The EGU in Vienna (Austria, 07 – 12 April 2013) has on a session on Extreme Events and Impacts
• No about extremes, but this may be of interest to French speaking statisticians :
• 1. Analyse de sensibilité, propagation d'incertitudes et exploration numérique de modèles en sciences de l'environnement Les Houches, France, 7 - 12 Avril, 2013 
  2. 45e Journées de Statistique du 27 au 31 mai 2013, Toulouse
  JOBS  
  
  
  • a postdoctoral scholar in dynamics and statistics of extreme events in temperature both historically and in future climate simulations. UC Davis, USA (contact Richard Grotjahn)
  • University of Exeter's campuses in Devon and Cornwall (the deadline of 10 Dec) Cornwall campus 1. Professor(s) of Statistics 2. Professor(s)/Associate Professor(s) of Applied or Engineering   Mathematics 3. Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Mathematical Sciences 4. Lecturer (Education & Scholarship) in Mathematical Sciences Exeter campus 5. Professor of High Performance Scientific Computing 6. Professor(s)/Associate Professor(s) of Mathematics - Stochastic   Analysis 7. Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Statistics

  
   

   

   

October 20th

• PhD position in Glasgow  network design for space weather monitoring  
•  PhD position in Zurich “Multivariate Modeling of Large Non-stationary Spatial and Spatio-temporal Climate Fields
  
• "Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and the Theory of Extreme Events in Earth Science", January 8th-11th 2013 at University of Reading, UK, see at the Isaac Newton Institute (Cambridge)

• 12th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (IMSC),International Convention Center, Jeju, Korea,June 24-28, 2013.

  Two interesting datasets   

  1.  Global Precipitation AnalysisMesoscale Atmospheric Processes Laboratory NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  

  2. HadEX - global climate extremes indices

  
  DADA Exploring the Use of Data Assimilation Methods for the Detection and Attribution of Climate Change, October 15-18, 2012

   

   

October 2012

Workshop on spatial extreme value theory and properties of max-stable random fields Universityof Poitiers, November  9, 2012.

Historical data about extremes and other climate events  (in french)

The Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences, C(PS)² coming activities

A 10-month postdoc in statistical climatology about "Statistical downscaling of future climate scenarios for hydrological impacts in the Mediterranean region", contact mathieu.vrac@lsce.ipsl.fr

July 2012

- A postdoc on multivariate extreme value analysis is available in Lyon (France).

- The french meteo service has a nice website concerning precipitation extremes (but it is in French).

- A workshop in Banff (Canada) on Non-Gaussian Multivariate Statistical Models and their Applications, Sunday, May 19 -Friday May 24, 2013

June 2012

• This past workshop in Roscoff has some interesting slides concerning extremes and weather genrators
• A workshop on Mathematical Risks (Entretion Jacques Cartier 2012) Lyon 19-20 Nov 2012.
• Activities acknowledging the 2013 International Year of Statistics  
• Sessions on extremes at the 5th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on COMPUTING & STATISTICS (ERCIM 2012), 1-3 December 2012, Conference Centre, Oviedo, Spain
   

May

•  workshop AST&Risk (10-11 june, 2012, Lyon, France)
• Extreme Value Analysis (EVA 2013, Shanghai, China from July 8 to 12, 2013)

The IPCC and other news

-The IPCC report about climate extremes(two important documents)

- Keynote speakers talking about Extreme Value Theory will be at the following conferences

• Workshop on Stochastic Weather Generators, May 29th-June 1st, 2012, Roscoff, Brittany, France (Rick Katz, Peter Challenor)
•  SFDS, Bruxelles, 15-21 May, 2012 (Holger Drees)
• geoENV2012, Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, Valencia (Spain) on September 19-21, 2012 (Anthony Davison)

- An interesting book about Stochastic Volatility Models by G. Andersen, R. Davis, JP Kreiß and T. Mikosch

- I have started to use the R-studio and I like it!

March 2012

• The journal Extremes presents an interview of Laurens de Haan One of the main founders of the field of Extreme Value Theory. 

• Long-Range Dependence, Self-Similarity and Heavy Tails: International Conference in Honor of Professor Murad S. Taqqu April 19-21, 2012, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 
• Dan Cooley will give a lecture on extremes during the series of Ten Lectures on Statistical Climatology August 6-10, 2012, Seattle, Washington

• International Summer School on Advanced Stochastic Methods to Model Risk
  September 9-22, 2012, Ulm, Germany
  
  
  Old news:
  

  Extreme Value Analysis, Probabilistic and Statistical Models and their Applications June 27th-July 1st, 2011, Lyon, France

  Environmental Risk and Extreme Events Workshop, Ascona, July 10-15 2011

  Statistical Assessment of Extreme Weather Phenomena under Climate Change June 6-24, 2011, Boulder, Colorado, USA

  RISK & EXTREME VALUES In Insurance and Finance, Lisbon, 2011, June, 6 - 7

  Special issue of the journal Extremes on Statistics of Extremes in Weather and Climate

  WCRP 24-28 Oct 2011 Denver, USA C39: Understanding and Characterizing Past, Present and Future Climate Extremes Through Observations and Model Simulations