| Date | Time | Venue | Topic / title | Discussion lead | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC |
| Date | Topic / title | Discussion lead |
| Thu 15 Dec 2011 | Bayesian nonparametric modelling of extremes | Xin Zhao (U. of Canterbury, NZ) |
| Thu 1 Dec 2011 | Threshold uncertainty under non-stationarity | Carl Scarrott (U. of Canterbury, NZ) |
| Mon 24 Oct 2011 | Discussion of preprint Approximate Bayesian Computing for Spatial Extremes by R. J. Erhardt and R. L. Smith (link on arXiv) | Jenny Wadsworth and Dennis Prangle |
| Mon 26 Sep 2011 | Discussion of A Hierarchical Model for the Analysis of Spatial Rainfall Extremes by Carlo Gaetan and Matteo Grigoletto (link) | Ross Towe and Emma Eastoe |
| Tue 31 May 2011 | Downscaling | Ben Youngman (Sheffield) |
| Wed 30 March 2011 | Environmental extremes in practice (Visit to JBA Consulting, Skipton) | -- |
| Tue 8 March 2011 | Heffernan and Tawn Model: some extensions and discussion of recent findings --- Intro to the R package texmex | Ye LiuIoannis PapastathopoulosJon Tawn --- Harry Southworth (Astrazeneca) |
| Thu 27 Jan 2011 | Discussion of Spatial Extremes--- Extreme precipitation | Jon Tawn and Darmesah Gabda--- Simon Brown (Met Office Hadley Centre) |
| Mon 13 Dec 2010 | Extreme Value Modelling of Laboratory Variables: Drug induced Liver Injury--- An overview of dependence modelling in multivariate extremes--- Finance-related | Ioannis Papastathopoulos--- Jon Tawn and Jenny Wadsworth--- Fabrizio Laurini (U. of Parma) |
| Wed 27 Oct 2010 | Model selection for extremes of financial time series | Ye Liu |
| Wed 15 Sept 2010 | Discussion of Multivariate multiparameter Extreme Value models and Return Periods: a copula approach G. Salvadori and C. De Michele. | Caroline Keef |
| Tue 20 July 2010 | Forecasting Non-Stationary Time Series by Wavelet Process Modelling P. Fryzlewicz, S. van Bellegem, R. von Sachs. Ann. Inst. Statist. Math(55) 737-764, 2003. | Aimee Gott |
| Tue 8 June 2010 | Continuous Spatial Process Models for Spatial Extreme Values H. Sang and A.E. Gelfand, JABES, 15(1), 2010 |
Jenny Wadsworth |
| Tue 25 May 2010 | M-Estimation in GARCH Models | Kanchan Mukherjee | Tue 30 March 2010 | The distribution for the cluster maxima of exceedances of sub-asymptotic thresholds | Jonathan Tawn | Wed 24 March 2010 | Costationarity and stationarity tests for stock index returns. A. Cardinali and G.P. Nason. |
Sarah Taylor |
| December 2009 | Changepoints | Becki Killick | November 2009 | Mixture modelling with threshold estimation for extremes | Anna MacDonald / Carl Scarrott(U. of Canterbury, NZ) | October 2009 | Choice of measurement scale for extreme value modelling | Jenny Wadsworth | May 2009 | Janos Szabo (U. of Leeds) | May 2009 | Wavelet processes and adaptive estimation of the evolutionary wavelet spectrum G. Nason, R. von Sachs, G. Kroisandt. J. R. Statist. Soc. Series B, 62, 271-292 | Becki Killick |
| March 2009 | Wavelet Analysis and Its Statistical Applications. F. Abramovich, T. C. Bailey and T. Sapatinas. J. R. Statist. Soc. Series D, 49 (1), 1-29 |
Idris Eckley |