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