Overview talks


Practical issues in the statistics of environmental extremes I (univariate problems)
Practical issues in the statistics of environmental extremes II (multivariate and spatial problems)

Jonathan Tawn (Lancaster University) 
Anthony Davison (EPFL)

followed by

 

Panel discussion: The practice of extreme value statistics - new and old

 

Invited sessions

 

Extremes and machine learning  - organizer Anne Sabourin (LTCI, Télécom ParisTech)

Dan Cooley (Colorado State University)
Laurent Gardes (IRMA, Université de Strasbourg)
Vincent Feuillard (Airbus Group Innovations)

Risk analysis in insurance - organizer Liang Peng (Georgia State University)

Claudia Kluppelberg (Technische Universität München)
Jan Beirlant (KU Leuven)
Fan Yang (University of Waterloo)

Spatial extremes - organizer Clement Dombry (Université de Franche-Comté)

Ana Ferreira (Universidade de Lisboa)
Marco Oesting (Universität Siegen)
Raphaël de Fondeville (EPFL)

Detection and attribution of climate change  - organizer Dan Cooley (Colorado State University)

Anna Kiriliouk (Université de Namur)
Richard Smith (University of North Carolina)
Alexis Hannart (Ouranos)

Sub-asymptotic spatial extremes - organizer Thomas Opitz (INRA Avignon )

Raphaël Huser (KAUST)
Gwladys Toulemonde (Montpellier University)
Jenny Wadsworth (Lancaster University)

Mixtures of dependence types  - organizer Jennifer Wadsworth (Lancaster University)

Anne Sabourin (Telecom Paris-Tech)
Emma Simpson (Lancaster University)
Chen Zhou (Erasmus University Rotterdam, De Nederlandsche Bank)

Extremes of branching walks and free fields - organizer Parthanil Roy (ISI Bangalore)

Ayan Bhattacharya (CWI Amsterdam)
Alessandra Cipriani (TU Delft)
Parthanil Roy (ISI Bangalore)

Topological and geometric extremes - organizer Takashi Owada (Purdue University)

Nicolas Chenavier (Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale)
Matthias Schulte  (Universität Bern)
Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell University)

Extremes on graphs - organizer Claudia Klueppelberg (Technische Universität München)

Steffen Lauritzen (University of Copenhagen)
Sebastian Engelke (Université de Genève)
Ercan Sönmez (Universität Düsseldorf)

Extremes and climate physics - organizer Anne-Laure Fougeres (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)

Jonathan Koh (EPFL)
Petra Friederichs (Universität Bonn)
Davide Faranda (LSCE)

Predicting extremes - organizer Johan Segers (Université catholique de Louvain)

Philippe Naveau (LSCE)
Sebastian Lerch (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
Hajo Holzmann (Universität Marburg)

Model assessment  in spatial extremes - organizer Sebastian Engelke (Université de Genève)

Thomas Opitz (INRA Avignon)
Jevgenijs Ivanovs (Aarhus University)
Stanisal Volgushev (University of Toronto)

Heavy-tails and networks - organizer Richard Davis (Columbia University)

Cosma Shalizi (Carnegie Mellon University)
Tiandong Wang (Cornell University)
Bert Zwart (CWI)

Financial extremes - organizer Chen Zhou (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Natalia Nolde (University of British Columbia)
Michael Stutzer (University of Colorado Boulder)
Stefan Straetmans (Maastricht University)

Time series extremes  - organizer Rafal Kulik (University of Ottawa)

Holger Drees (Universität Hamburg)
Axel Buecher (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Hrvoje Planinić (University of Zagreb)

Advances in statistics of multivariate extremes  - organizer John Einmahl (Tilburg University)

Abdelaati Daouia (Toulouse School of Economics)
Yi He (Monash University)
Armelle Guillou (IRMA, Université de Strasbourg)

 

Special topic invited sessions


Infinitely divisible models and their extremes - organizer Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell University)

Jan Rosinski (University of Tennessee)
Olivier Durieu (Institut Denis Poisson)
Zaoli Chen (Cornell University)

Regular variation: generalisations and recent advances - organizers Ilya Molchanov (Universität Bern) and Bojan Basrak (University of Zagreb)

Anja Janssen (University of Stockholm)
Clément Dombry (Université de Franche-Comté)
Johan Segers (Université catholique de Louvain)

Regular variation: history, ideas and people - organizer Bojan Basrak (University of Zagreb)

René Schilling (Technische Universität Dresden)
Nicholas Bingham (Imperial College London)
Miodrag Mateljević (University of Belgrade)
Laurens de Haan (Erasmus University Rotterdam and University of Lisbon)

Simulation of rare events and extremes - organizer Bert Zwart (CWI Amsterdam)

Pierre Nyquist  (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Jeffrey Collamore (University of Copenhagen)
Kirstin Strokorb (Cardiff University)

Hydrology and extremes - organisers Philippe Naveau (LCSE) and Holger Rootzen (Chalmers University of Technology)

Daniel B. Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Jonathan Jalbert (Polytechnique Montréal)
Thordis Thorarinsdottir (Norwegian Computing Center)