EXTREME EVENTS: NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

3-12 September 2007. Comorova - Romania.

details and application: http://www.lmd.ens.fr/E2C2/sumschoolE2C2.html

   deadline 15 july 2007
** financial support available **
 

The school will address the following topics:
A. Brief theoretical overview of dynamical and complex systems, and of stochastic processes.
B. Spectral analysis methods emphasizing periodicities and trends.
C. Spectral analysis methods emphasizing scale invariance in the frequency domain.
D. Brief overview of extreme value theory
E. Methods for doing extreme value theory.
F. Examples of extreme events and their modeling in the physical, natural and social sciences.

Lecturers will include:
Marcel Ausloos [University of Liège, Belgium]
Fabio D'Andrea [LMD Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France]
Petra Friederichs [University of Bonn, Germany]
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou [University of Minnesota, USA] (to be confirmed)
Michael Ghil [Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France]
Stéphane Hallegatte |CIRED and Météo-France, France]
Dmitri Kondrashov [UCLA, USA]
Vladimir Kossobokov [Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow] (to be confirmed)
Juergen Kurths [University of Potsdam, Germany]
Bruce Malamud [King's College London, UK]
Olivier Mestre [Météo-France, Toulouse, France] (to be confirmed)
Philippe Naveau [CEA, Saclay, France]
Mircea Radulian [National Institute for Earth Physics, Bucharest, Romania] (to be confirmed)
Sorin Solomon [Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel]
Alexandre Soloviev [Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow] (to be  confirmed)
Dumitru Stanica [Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest, Romania] (to be confirmed)
Donald Turcotte [niversity of California, Davis, USA] (to be confirmed)
Gérard Weisbuch [LPS Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France]

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