International Workshop on Modern Statistics for Climate Research
From SFI
Modern Statistics for Climate Research: An international workshop, February 1-2, 2010
Scope: The aim of the workshop is to put together a group of central statisticians worldwide, developing advanced statistical methodology for climate research and adaptation. We are entering a new phase of climate research, rich of data but still with considerable uncertainty in key parameters, leading to important new opportunities for statistical science. We believe that statistics will and must contribute much more strongly to the understanding of climatic events and trends, their uncertainty and causal mechanisms, together with opportunities for adaptation and mitigation. Statistics wishes to be ready in this new scenario, building on available expertise, in stochastic modelling, especially in space an time, data integration, complex dependence, statistical causality, uncertainty evaluation and computer emulation. This workshop will be an important occasion to understand state-of-the-art science and future trends of a new discipline which might have the name statistical climatology, and will hopefully help to recruit young talents to this area of science of growing importance.
This workshop is organised and founded by Statistics for Innovation, (sfi)², Centre for Biostatistical Modelling in the Medical Sciences, BMMS, and Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi.
Location: The workshop will take place at Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, Drammensveien 78, Oslo.
Registration: Participation is by registration only, follow the link below. There is a limited number of places (80) available.
Contributed talks: We have allocated some time for a few contributed talks of 15 minutes each. If you wish to present your work, please email the organising committee, Peter Guttorp, as soon as possible. Send us a pdf file with title, authors with affiliation, abstract, and link to a paper if available. We will inform you about the possibility to give a contributed lecture by January 16th, 2010.
