extreme environmental events

Statistics of Extremes

Raphaël Huser, Associate Professor, Statistics

Sep 26, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

extreme environmental events probabilities risks univariate extremes Spatial extremes

Extreme environmental events such as droughts, floods and heat-waves take place in space and time, and it is necessary to take this into account when evaluating their risks and estimating their probabilities. During this seminar, I will review some classical and more recent work on this topic, focusing on the modeling of univariate and spatial extremes. The ideas will be illustrated by applications to peak river flow data from the UK, and heavy rainfall close to Jeddah.

High-dimensional inference for max-stable processes

Dr. Boris Beranger, Lecturer in Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Feb 16, 11:00 - 12:00

KAUST

extreme environmental events Max-stable processes

Droughts, high temperatures and strong winds are key causes of the recent bushfires that have touched a major part of the Australian territory. Such extreme events seem to appear with increasing frequency, creating an urgent need to better understand the behavior of extreme environmental phenomena.