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 16^th to 18^th 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)

COMING SCHOOLS 

 - Dixième  école d’été de Peyresq en traitement du signal et des images (TdSI) 21-27 juin, 2015. 

- Summer school on copulas for hydrology and environmental sciences, Pau, France, July 6-10, 2015

 - Fall school on climate extremes in Cargèse, in November 2015 (from 9 to 13th)

COMING CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

- Want to learn about dynamical system: The sixth international recurrence plot symposium will be in Grenoble, France, in June 2015.

- The program of the EVA  at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor  June 15-June 19, 2015

JOBS

PhD on extreme rainfall « Modélisation de la période de retour des pluies extrêmes surfaciques en Cévennes-Vivarais »

October 2014

A lot of traveling these last few months, so no time to blog this summer

JOBS 

 a PhD Graduate Research Assistantship on "Statistical Properties of
Extremes in Dynamical Systems" at the Universities Bonn and Mannheim,

Contact: pfried@uni-bonn.de

COMING EVENTS

Workshop on Extreme Value Theory, with an emphasis on spatial and temporal aspects

Besançon, November 3-5, 2005

The 8th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE 2014), University of Pisa, Italy, 6-8 December 2014 

 

GRF-Sim workshop: Simulation of Gaussian and related Random Fields (Bern, November 24-26 2014)

Summer school on copulas for hydrology and environmental sciences, Pau, France, July 20-24, 2015

2015 Swiss Climate Summer School: Extreme events and climate

23 August – 28 August 2015

PAST EVENTS 

Talks from the  Workshop on Stochastic Weather Generators

 Spatial Copula Workshop 22nd and 23rd September 2014 , Münster, Germany

DAMES 2014: Data analysis and modeling in Earth sciences

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.
 

 High-dimensional and Multivariate Extremes, Research workshop: 02-04 July 2014, Bristol, UK

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

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

Coming events

• Workshop on extremes and rare events (Monday 24 march to Friday 28 march 2014, Brittany, France)

• Summer school on the Modelling and Predection of Weather Extremes                                                   10-13 June 2014, Annweiler (Germany), Kurhaus Trifels

•  WCRP-ICTP Summer School on Extremes.  21 July - 01 August 2014 at the ICTP in Trieste, Italy.

•  "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>.

• Workshop on Stochastic Weather Generators (extremes included), Avignon, France, September 17-19, 2014

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>

Happy New Year 2014.
The last two months have been very busy. So, no posting in Nov and Dec.

Climate data:

• Looking for precipitation data in France?

• Another great site to find climate data

A few coming events in 2014:

• 24-28 march, 2014, workshop on rare events and extremes, Aber Wrac'h, Brittany

• Un Groupe de travail théorie des valeurs extrêmes, UMPC, Paris

• No extremes but certainly interesting Analyse de sensibilité, propagation d'incertitudes et exploration numérique de modèles en sciences de l'environnement Les Houches, France, 4 - 9 Mai, 2014 

•  WCRP-ICTP Summer School on Extremes.  21 July - 01 August 2014 at the ICTP in Trieste, Italy.

• GeoEnv, Paris, 9-11 July, 2014

•  "Extreme Value Theory and Laws of Rare Events", CIRM Luminy/Marseille from 14th-18th July 2014

Special issues:

• A special issue on copulas of the Journal of the French Statistical Society 

• Another issue from the same journal on extremes

Past events:

• 15-19 Dec, 2013, Workshop PEPER Extreme Value Theory and Risk Assessment in climate sciences

• 17-18 oct, 2013  les journées de statistique de Rennes (gestion des extrêmes, données censurées ou tronquées)

Sep 2013

After a long and busy summer (EVA in Shanghai and IMSCE in Korea and other conferences),  this Fall and Winter appear to be also very active in terms of extremes:

Extreme Flood Events (in french): de l’étude de l’aléa à la gestion du risque pour les ouvrages hydrauliques, Lyon, 13-14 novembre  2013



A call for a special issue on extremes for the SII Statistics and its Interface journal

The journal Weather and Climate Extremes has its first issue

A special issue on copulas with a few articles on extremes in the journal of the SFDS society

The 2nd VALUE training school "statistical and dynamical downscaling of extreme events", will be held from 21 October to 1 November 2013 in Trieste, Italy

CRAG – IRGC Symposium, 20-22 Nov 2013, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

May 2013

•  International Short Conference on Advances in Extreme Value Analysis
  and Application to Natural Hazards (EVAN2013), 18.09.2013 – 20.09.2013, Siegen, Germany 
  
  
  The IMPACTS WORLD 2013 conference is interested by extremes and uncertainties, Postdam, May 27-30

JOBS

• PhD thesis with  Benjamin Renard and  Michel Lang (Irstea Lyon),   "Analyse bayésienne des courbes de tarage non-stationnaires et des incertitudes associées".

• 12-month postdoctoral job on "conditional simulation algorithms for max-stable spatial processes for downscaling global climate models (GCM)" within the McSim project , contact: Liliane Bel

April 2013

PhD Course and Workshop on Extremes in Space and Time, Copenhagen, May 27-31, 2013

PhD fellowship in extreme value statistics applied to cryospheric sciences: Spatio-temporal patterns of extreme snowfall and snow depth in the French Alps using max-stable processes, nicolas.eckert@irstea.fr, Grenoble, France

Reminder: EVT2013 - Extremes in Vimeiro - Workshop in honour of Ivette Gomes from 8 (Sunday) until 11 (Wednesday) September 2013.

The slide of the Symposium on Recent Advances in Extreme Value Theory honoring Ross Leadbetter
18 - 20 March 2013, Lisbon are here

March 2013

A new journal

Weather and Climate Extremes (an open access journal). In order to promote relevant statistical uncertainty analysis of extremes, I encourage statisticians to submit their work to   this applied journal.

Miscellaneous

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Mathematics of Planet Earth, 2013  (+ des brèves en francais)

Coming meetings (if you want to add more, drop me an email)

• Symposium on Recent Advances in Extreme Value Theory honoring  Ross Leadbetter18 - 20 March 2013, Lisbon  
• Non-Gaussian Multivariate Statistical Models and their Applications (13w5146)
  
  
  Arriving Sunday, May 19 and departing Friday May 24, 2013 ,Banff, Canada
   
• The International Meeting Statistical Climatology (IMSC), 24-28 June 2013, Jeju Korea, has a session Weather and climate extremes – statistical modeling and event attribution 
• The 8th conference on extreme value analysis, probabilistic and statistical models and their applications, will take place at Fudan University, Shanghai, China from July 8 to 12, 2013. 
• High-impact weather, climate extremes, and extremely rare events, Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly 2013, Air, Ice & Process Interactions,An IUGG (IAMAS & IACS) Event,July 8-12, 2013 
• 15th Annual Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, 2-6 Sep 2013, Madrid, has a session on Spatiotemporal analysis: structural complexity and extreme behaviour)

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