Programm

Table of contents

      1. 4 October 2015
      2. 5 October 2015
      3. 6 October 2015
      4. 7 October 2015
      5. 9 October 2015

4 October 2015

Time Event Place
18:00—20:00 Welcome and registration at the MPIPKS (incl. snacks and beverages) Foyer, Max Planck Institue for the Physics of Complex Systems MPIPKS, Nöthnitzer Straße 38, 01187 Dresden
19:20—21:30 Sightseeing tour ("Dresden by night")
See the famous sights of the historic city center and discover the vibrant so-called “New Town”		 Meeting point: MPIPKS main entrance (bus tour into town and back)

5 October 2015

Time Event Place
8:20 Bus transfer to SLUB (Saxon State and University Library Dresden) Meeting point: MPIPKS main entrance
09:00—10:00 Welcome address by the Rector of TU Dresden, Prof. Hans Müller-Steinhagen Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB),
Auditorium ("Vortragssaal"), 1st Floor
10:15 Bus transfer back to MPIPKS Meeting point: in front of SLUB
10:30—11:00 Coffee break Foyer, MPIPKS
11:00—12:30 Lecture course
N. Moloney: An introduction to extreme value statistics		 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
12:30—14:00 Lunch break Food Court, MPIPKS
14:00—15:30 Lecture course
G. Schehr: Record statistics of strongly corellated variables		 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
15:30—16:30 Talk on specific application
B. Malamud: Tails of natural hazards		 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
16:30—17:00 Coffee break Foyer, MPIPKS
17:00—18:00 3 short presentations by participants (Abstracts s. here)
  • Y. Duguet: Subcritical transition to turbulence occurs in hydrodynamical situations
  • L. Grigorio: Instantons in a Lagrangian model of turbulence
  • R. Paskauskas: Model-based assessment of aspects of user-satisfaction in bicycle sharing systems
 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
From 18:00 Poster session (+ pizza and beverages) Foyer, MPIPKS

6 October 2015

Time Event Place
09:00—10:30 Lecture course
A. Corral Cano: Power laws and criticality		 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
10:30—11:00 Coffee break Foyer, MPIPKS
11:00—12:30 Lecture course
N. Moloney: An introduction to extreme value statistics		 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
12:30—14:00 Lunch break Food Court, MPIPKS
14:00—15:00 Talk on specific application
C. Mudersbach: The probability of floods - What does data tell us?		 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
15:00—16:00 Talk on specific application
Y. Kuno: A challenge to discover new particle physics phenomena with extreme experimental sensitivity of 10^{-17}		 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
16:00—16:30 Coffee break Foyer, MPIPKS
16:30—17:30 3 short presentations by participants (Abstracts s. here)
  • F. Bernal: Tackling unlikely events in stochastic differential equations
  • with application to cancer diagnosis
  • V. Stolbova: Prediction of the Indian Summer Monsoon as a spatially organized critical transition
  • T. Tangarife: Large deviations of turbulent atmospheric jets
 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
18:00—22:00 “Night of Excellence”
Reception at the invitation of TU Dresden and the City of Dresden
  • Welcome address by the Vice-Rector of TU Dresden for Academic and International Affairs, Prof. Hans Georg Krauthäuser
  • Short presentations of international projects (institutions of TU Dresden and the City of Dresden)
 Festival room (“Festsaal”)
TU Dresden, Alte Mensa, Mommsenstraße 13 (entrance Dülferstraße)
Directions
From circa 19:00 Summer School party with buffet and live music (please note that alcoholic drinks are not free!)

7 October 2015

Time Event Place
09:00—10:30 Lecture course
J.M. Milhazes de Freitas: A short course on extreme events, recurrence, mixing and their dynamical relations		 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
10:30—11:00 Coffee break Foyer, MPIPKS
11:00—12:30 Lecture course
G. Schehr: Record statistics of strongly corellated variables		 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
12:30—13:30 Lunch break Food Court, MPIPKS
13:30—ca. 18:00 Excursion
Sächsische Schweiz (“Saxon Switzerland”) – mountainous area on the outskirts of Dresden, with coffee break at the “Bastei” (famous vantage point), sightseeing tour along the River Elbe (incl. Pillnitz Castle, Königstein, Bad Schandau) and transfer back to MPIPKS		 Meeting point: MPIPKS main entrance
09:00—10:30 Lecture course
J.M. Milhazes de Freitas: A short course on extreme events, recurrence, mixing and their dynamical relations		 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
10:30—11:00 Coffee break Foyer, MPIPKS
11:00—12:30 Lecture course
R. Fleischmann: Theory of branched flow and the statistics of extreme waves I + II		 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
12:30—14:00 Lunch break Food Court, MPIPKS
14:00—15:00 Talk on specific application
S. Tomsovic: Extreme events in random matrix theory		 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
15:00—16:00 Talk on specific application
M. Greiner: Renewable energy networks		 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
16:00—16:30 Coffee break Foyer, MPIPKS
16:30—18:00 Lecture course
A. Corral Cano: Power laws and criticality		 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
18:00—19:00 3 short presentations by participants (Abstracts s. here)
  • D. Azevedo: Clustering of extreme events created by multiple correlated maxima
  • M. Anvari: Disentangling the stochastic behavior of epileptic brain dynamics: Jump-Diffusion model
  • M. Cavallaro: Temporally correlated zero-range process: non-equilibrium stationary state and current fluctuations
 Lecture room I, MPIPKS

9 October 2015

Time Event Place
09:00—10:00 Talk on specific application
H. Kantz: Probabilistic predictions of extreme events and their validitation		 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
10:00—10:30 Coffee break Foyer, MPIPKS
10:30—12:00 Lecture course
R. Fleischmann: Theory of branched flow and the statistics of extreme waves I + II		 Lecture room I, MPIPKS
12:00—13:30 Lunch break Food Court, MPIPKS

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