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9:00-10:15 Francis Zwiers, Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling<br />

Analysis of Extremes in Climate Science<br />

10:15-10:30 Break<br />

10:30-12:15 Pilar Munoz, Technical University of Catalonia<br />

Price, Volatility and Risk in the Electricity Markets<br />

12:15-1:30 Lunch<br />

Bas Werker, Tilburg University<br />

The Asymptotic Structure of Nearly Unstable Nonnegative Integer-Valued<br />

AR(1) Models<br />

1:30-2:00 New Researchers Session<br />

2:00-2:30 Break<br />

Dominik Lambrigger, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich<br />

Multivariate Extremes and the Aggregation of Dependent Risks: Examples and<br />

Counter-Examples<br />

2:30-4:15 Gennady Samorodnitsky, Cornell University<br />

Inverse Problems for Regular Variation of Linear Filters<br />

SPEAKER ABSTRACTS<br />

Laurens de Haan<br />

Erasmus University Rotterdam<br />

ldhaan@few.eur.nl<br />

John Nolan, American University<br />

Stable Laws and Extreme Value Laws<br />

“On Spatial Extremes: With Application to a Rainfall Problem”<br />

We consider daily rainfall observations at 32 stations in the province of North Holland (The<br />

Netherlands) during 30 years. Let Q be the total rainfall in this area on one day. An important<br />

question is: what is the amount of rainfall Q that is exceeded once in 100 years? This is clearly a<br />

problem belonging to extreme value theory. Also it is a genuinely spatial problem. Recently, a<br />

theory of extremes of continuous stochastic processes has been developed. Using the ideas of<br />

that theory and much computer power (simulations) we have been able to come up with a<br />

reasonable answer to the question above.<br />

Debbie Dupuis<br />

HEC Montréal<br />

debbie.dupuis@hec.ca

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