Jonathan Tawn (Lancaster University) will give the inaugural Barnett Lecture at the Royal Statistical Society at 5pm on Thursday 5 November.

 

The title of the lecture will be ‘Extreme value methods for environmental risks’

 

Abstract:

“In many cases it is the extreme values of environmental processes that are of most interest, for example from the mitigation of the loss of life and damage through to insuring against these loses when they occur. Extreme value methods provide a framework for focusing inference on such rare events.

 

I will present a brief overview of the key extreme value philosophy and methods that covers the implications for both marginal and dependence structures. However, the focus of the talk will be on the use of these methods in a range of substantive applications. In particular, I will cover: UK coastal flooding; the UK largest shipping loss; temporal features of the 2003 European heatwave; spatial properties of the 2009 south-eastern Australia heatwave; and determining the distribution of insurance losses from fluvial events in north-west England.”

 

The lecture will be followed by a wine reception

 

All are welcome but please register by email to [log in to unmask]

 

 

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RSS 2016 Conference will take place in Manchester, 5-8 September.  More information at www.rss.org.uk/conference2016