Leonard Smith gave a talk entitled ‘Parameters, Probabilities and Progress’ at the 2014 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, MA, USA. Abstract.
Roman Frigg gave a lecture entitled ‘Evidence-based policy in the face of uncertainty’ at the Understanding Risk Forum 2014 on the theme ‘Producing Actionable Information’, University College London.
Leonard Smith gave a talk entitled ‘The Decay of Information: in theory and in practice’ at the Scientific and Statistical Computing Seminar, University of Chicago. Abstract.
Henry Wynn was on the Committee of the Illinois Institute of Technology Conference on Algebraic Statistics 2014, Chicago.
Erica Thompson gave a talk on ‘Visualising uncertainty in the DECC 2050 Global Calculator’ at the NERC PURE Associates Showcase event, Royal Academy of Engineering.
Erica Thompson’s poster ‘The Hawkmoth Effect‘ was selected for inclusion in the LSE Research Festival 2014 Exhibition.
Nick Watkins and David Stainforth gave presentations at the EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna. Nick Watkins’ presentations were entitled ‘On the surprising robustness of the surplus run length and size ratio formulae, and their application to bursts in natural time series’ Abstract; ‘Bayesian analysis of heavy-tailed and long-range dependent Processes’ Abstract. David Stainforth gave three presentations: ‘Putting the weather back into climate’ Abstract; ‘How big should a climate model ensemble be? Lessons from a low dimensional system’ Abstract; ‘User-relevant, threshold-specific observations of climate change’ Abstract.
Ralph Rayner led the organisation of ‘Small Sea Changes Big Coastal Impacts‘, a workshop on coastal hazards, The Explorers Club, New York.
Nick Watkins gave a presentation entitled ‘On the surprising robustness of the surplus run length ratio formula, and its application to extreme bursts in time series from natural complex systems’, and a poster entitled ‘Bayesian analysis of non-Gaussian long-range dependent processes’ at the German Physical Society Spring Meeting, Dresden. Abstract. Poster abstract.
Leonard Smith gave a talk entitled ‘Pseudo-orbit data assimilation and the roles of uncertainty in multi-model forecasting’ at the SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, 31 March-3 April 2014, Savannah, Georgia, USA. Abstract.
