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