[Statlist] Workshop on Risk Quantification and Extreme Values in Applications 2017, EPFL

[Sebastian Engelke]

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Workshop on “Risk Quantification and Extreme Values in Applications”
and Winter School on "Recent Advances in Extremes"

Date: 13-17 February 2017
Location: Bernoulli Center, EPFL, Switzerland
Website: http://extremes.epfl.ch

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Dear colleagues,

We are organizing a workshop on “Risk Quantification and Extreme Values 
in Applications” from 15-17 February 2017 at the Bernoulli Center at 
EPFL. Prior to this main event, from 13-14 February 2017, we are 
organizing a winter school on "Recent Advances in Extremes" at EPFL with 
lectures by Jonathan Tawn and Clément Dombry. More information can be 
found on the website.

Invited speakers:
Valérie Chavez-Demoulin, Paul Embrechts, Anne-Catherine Favre, Raphaël 
Huser, Philippe Naveau, Marco Oesting, Anne Sabourin, Martin Schlather, 
Jenny Wadsworth, Stefan Wager, Dirk Tasche, Chen Zhou

We strongly encourage young researchers to participate in the winter 
school and workshop. Limited funding is available for external PhD 
students to attend both events who register before **October 31st**.

Best regards,
The Program Committee (Valérie Chavez-Demoulin, Anthony Davison, 
Sebastian Engelke)

We apologize for any cross-posting.