Leonard Smith gave a keynote speech entitled ‘Predictability and Understanding of Our Climate Risk: Approximations, Bugs and Insight’ at the 8th IEEE International Conference on eScience, Chicago. Abstract. Talk slides.
Leonard Smith gave an invited talk on ‘Probabilistic prediction without probabilities’ at the Royal Society Theo Murphy International Scientific Meeting on ‘Handling uncertainty in weather and climate prediction, with application to health, agronomy, hydrology, energy and economics‘. Abstract.
Swenja Surminski gave an invited presentation on ‘Climate risks, loss & damage, and insurance: what are the legal needs?‘ on legal and regulatory issues stemming from the loss and damage framework under the UNFCCC at A4ID ‘Lawyers Eradicating Poverty’ Climate Change Knowledge Group on What’s the Damage? Loss, and Microinsurance, London.
Leonard Smith gave a talk on ‘Preface to rational resource allocation in operational forecasting’ at the Ensemble Design Workshop, 10-12 September, NCAR, Colorado. Talk slides.
Leonard Smith gave a talk entitled ‘Distinguishing uncertainty, diversity and insight’ at the NCAR workshop ‘Uncertainty in Climate Change Research: an integrated approach’, 6-17 August 2012
David Stainforth gave a series of lectures at the LSE Executive Summer School on ‘Climate Change: Economics and Governance‘.
Leonard Smith was a featured speaker at the 32nd Annual International Symposium on Forecasting, ISF 2012, 24-27 June 2012, Boston. His talk was entitled ‘Predictability and Insight: Contrasting the achievable aims of forecasting in weather like cases and climate like cases’.
Roman Frigg gave a keynote talk on ‘Clouds over Climate Modelling’ at the Bristol Graduate Conference on Philosophy and Climate Change, University of Bristol.
Leonard Smith gave a talk entitled ‘Minimising Model “Misuse”: communicating both imprecision and inadequacy in uncertainty management’ at the ‘Implications for Insurance of Model Dependency and Misuse’ event at Lloyd’s Old Library, London. The event was organised by the Financial Services Knowledge Transfer Network (FS KTN) and the Lighthill Risk Network. Abstract.
Reason Machete, Visiting Fellow to CATS, gave a talk entitled ‘Inflation forecasting: approaching the calibration mirage’, Bank of England, London. Abstract.
