August 22-August 27, 2010
MEETING ROOMS
All lectures
will be held in Max Bell 159 (Max Bell Building accessible by walkway
on 2nd
floor of Corbett Hall). LCD projector, overhead projectors and
blackboards are
available for presentations. Note that the meeting
space designated for BIRS is the lower
level of Max Bell, Rooms 155-159. Please respect that all other space
has been
contracted to other Banff Centre guests, including any Food and
Beverages in
those areas.
SCHEDULE
Monday: Introduction
8:45-9:00
Introduction
and
Welcome by BIRS Station Manager, Max Bell 159
9:00-10:00
Peter
Guttorp: Introduction to climate modeling
10:30-11:30 Eric Gilleland: Some extreme
value problems in climatology
14:00-15:00
Discussion groups.
15:30-17:00 More discussion
17:00-17:30 Group
reports:
Tuesday: Time series
extremes
9:00-10:00
Georg Lindgren: Systematic
effects
of seasonal phase mismatch in
extreme value analysis of environmental variables
10:30-11:30
Rick
Katz: Extreme
value
analysis
for climate time series
13:30-13:45
Group Photo
13:45-15:00 Discussion groups
15:30-16:30 More discussion
16:30-17:30
Group reports
Comparing regional climate models to data
Comparing
global climate models to data
20:00-
Posters and beer
Smith
Wehner
Wednesday: Spatial extremes
9:00-10:00
Zhenyung
Zhang: Examining extremal
dependence in continental USA climate data
10:30-11:30 Dan
Cooley: Models for
spatial extremes
Thursday: Forests and
observing networks
9:00-10:00
Charmaine
Dean: Looking for
climate change signals in the Canadian forest
fire ignition record
10:30-11:30
Paul Whitfield: Observing
networks: Precipitation and extreme precipitation
13:30-15:00
Discussion groups. Here is a rough
summary of the discussion so far.
15:30-16:30 More discussion
16:30-17:30
Group reports
20:00-
Posters and beer
Shoby
Friday: Summary
8:45
Luggage
pickup, steps of Corbett Hall
9:00-10:30
Summary
of workshop, development
of research topics
10:30-11:30
Coffee break and
continued discussion
12:00
Last
time for checkout