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