hello all,
the Environmental Statistics Section has organized the following meeting;
should be interesting to at least those of you interested in volcanos & earthquakes ;-)
Uncertainty and Risk in Natural Hazards
at the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
28 June 2012 11am - 5pm
Speakers:
Prof Steve Sparks FRS, Uni Bristol, "Risk and uncertainty assessment of volcanic hazards"
Prof Willy Aspinall, Uni Bristol, "Quantifying natural hazards and risk assessment uncertainties with expert elicitation: current praxis"
Dr Bruce Malamud, King College London, "Wildfires and their Statistical Distributions: Implications for Risk, Ecology and Government Reporting"
Dr Tamsin Edwards, Uni Bristol, "Uncertainty and risk assessment for weather extremes"
Drs Tiziana Rossetto and Ioanna Ioannou, University College London, "Modelling uncertainty in seismic vulnerability assessment of buildings- Case study: empirical fragility assessment of buildings"
Dr Enrica Bellone, Risk Management Solutions, "An Introduction to Catastrophe Loss Models"
This is an excellent opportunity to learn about the state of the art from some of the world's leading experts!
Registration is required, please see here for further details:
http://www.rss.org.uk/site/cms/contentEventViewEvent.asp?chapter=9&e=1347
with the best wishes,
Oliver Ratmann
on behalf of the Young Statisticians Section of the Royal Statistical Society
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