A Royal Statistical Society meeting on
NON-LINEAR, NON-GAUSSIAN ASPECTS OF DATA ASSIMILATION
organised by the Environmental Statistics Section in association with
the Data Assimilation Interest Group of the Royal Meteorological Society
All welcome!
Date:
2-5:30pm Thursday 10th April 2008 (refreshments available)
Venue:
Royal Statistical Society
12 Errol Street
London, EC1Y 8LX
Speakers:
LENNY SMITH (LSE/Oxford)
Non-statistical (nonlinear, nongaussian) real-world aspects of Data
Assimilation
DAN CORNFORD (Aston)
Approximations in non-Gaussian DA variational Bayesian approaches and
variational MCMC
ANDREW STUART (Warwick)
Mathematical foundations of data assimilation
ANDREW LORENC (Met Office)
Issues in DA for Numerical Weather Prediction - can we use Kalman Filter
plus nonlinearities?
ERIK ANDERSSEN (European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts)
Non-Gaussian observation errors and accounting for them in variational
analysis
Notes:
Attendance is free but please register at
http://www.rss.org.uk/main.asp?page=1321&event=539
Directions:
<http://www.rss.org.uk/pdf/RSSMap.pdf>
Further details:
Please visit <http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/envstat/> or contact the
meeting organiser: Peter Challenor <[log in to unmask]>.
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NCAS Research Fellow Computing and Mathematics
University of Exeter
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