Past Conferences/Workshops

• Guest lecture for the Systems Thinking class at Leeds Business School at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Extreme Value Analysis, 8 March 2011 (pdf)

• Extreme events in climate and weather an interdisciplinary workshop (10w5016), Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, C anada, 22--27 August 2010.
  • Gilleland, E. Some extreme value problems in climatology (pdf)
• Industrial Mathematical and Statistical Modeling Workshop for Graduate Student, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 19--27 July 2010. Sponsored by the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and the Center for Research in Sci entific Computation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Served as a problem presenter from industry. The topic was Space-time forecast verification: generalizing the image warp method from the spatial domain to the space-time domain.
• 2010 Advanced Study Program (ASP) Forecast Verification Colloquium.
  • Gilleland, E., D. Ahijevych, B.G. Brown, B. Casati and E.E. Ebert, Spatial Forecast Verification. NCAR Fleishman Building, Boulder, Colorado 14 June 2010 (pdf).
  • Gilleland, E. Confidence Intervals: Giving meaning to your results. NCAR Damon Room, Boulder, Colorado, 9 June 2010 (presentation slides, pdf; practice exercises, pdf)
• 90th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 16-21 January 2010, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Gilleland, E, D Ahijevych, BG Brown, B Casati and EE Ebert. Spatial Forecast Verification. 20 January 2010 (pdf).

• 9th EMS Annual Meeting/9th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology (ECAM), 28 September - 02 October 2009, Toulouse, France.
  • Gilleland, E, A Ahijevych, BG Brown, B Casati and EE Ebert. Spatial Forecast Verification (pdf).
• Industrial Mathematical and Statistical Modeling Workshop for Graduate Students. Center for Research in Scientif ic Computation, Raleigh, North Carolina and the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 20-28 July 2009.
  • Gilleland E (problem presenter), E Mannshardt-Shamseldin and RL Smith (faculty mentors), M Heaton, M Katzfuβ, Y Li, K Pedings, and S Ramachandar ( students): Severe Weather Under a Changing Climate (final report by the students, pdf).
• Third Biannual NCAR Workshop on Climate and Health Effects of Heat Waves and Air Pollution. 15 July 2009, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.
  • Gilleland E. Extreme Value Theory, Extreme Temperatures, and demonstration of extRemes. (pdf)
• Graybill VIII/6th International Conference on Extreme Value Analysis. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. 22-26 June 2009.
  • Gilleland E and M Ribatet. Short course: An introduction to the analysis of extreme values using R and extRemes. (Presentation Slides (univariate), Practice Problems (univariate))
  • Gilleland E. Extreme behavior of large scale indicators for severe weather. (pdf)
• The Fourth International Verification Methods Workshop. Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Helsinki, Finland, 4-10 June 2009.
  • Gilleland E, J Lindström and F Lindgren. Spatial Forecast Verification: The Image Warp. (pdf)
• Interdisciplinary Workshop: Effects of climate change: coastal systems, policy implications , and the role of statistics Workshop. 18-20 March 2009, Preluna Hotel and Spa, Sliema, Malta.
  • Gilleland E. Intense course for young researchers on R Statistical software for climate research with an introduction to extreme value analysis, 16-17 March 2009 (Presentation Slides, Practice Problems, R scripts).

• 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) of the American Statistical Association (ASA): 3-7 August, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
  Large-scale indicators of severe weather: cape and shear (pdf)
• The 19th TIES Conference 8-13 June 2008 Kelowna, BC Canada.
  • Gilleland E. Spatial Extremes in Atmospheric Problems (invited talk, pdf, References pdf).
  • Lindström J, E Gilleland and F Lindgren. The Image Warp for Gridded Forecast Verification. (invited talk, ppt, pdf ).
• DTC Verification Workshop, NCAR Foothills Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado. 16-1 8 April 2008.
  • Gilleland, E. Resampling methods for statistical inference: Bootstrap methods (pdf)
• ICP Spring 2008 Workshop, NCAR Foot hills Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado. 14-15 April 2008 (Organizing Lead).
  • Lindström J., Gilleland E., and Lindgren F. Image warping for forecast verification (pdf)

• 2007-08 Program on Risk Analysis, Extreme Events and Decision Theory, Opening workshop, 16-19 September, 2007, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Gilleland E. Extremes and Atmospheric Data (invited talk, pdf)
• 8^th WRF Users' Workshop. 11 - 15 June 2007, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
  • Gilleland E et al. Using WRF output in the Spatial Forecast Verification Methods Inter-Comparison Project (ICP). (pdf)
• Workshop on Weather Extremes Impacts on Infrastructure, La Fonda on the Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 27-28 February, 2007.
• 2007 WRF Verification Toolkit Workshop, 21 - 23 February, 2007, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
• Planning Meeting for the Spatial Forecast Verification Methods Inter-Comparison Project (ICP), NCAR Foothills Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, 20 February, 2007.
• Third International Verification Methods Workshop, 29 January - 2 February, 2007, Reading, U.K.
• Gilleland E et al.. Spatial forecast verification inter-comparison project (ICP) (pdf)
• American Meteorological Society (AMS) 87-th Annual Meeting, 14-18 January, 2007, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
  • Gilleland E, M Pocernich, BG Brown and HE Brooks. 4.7 Extreme Value Analysis of global reanalysis data, 16th Conference on Applied Climatology (pdf)

• 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) of the American Statistical Association (ASA): Statistics for an uncertain world: Meeting global challenges, 6-10 August, 2006, Seattle, Washington.
  • Analyzing the extreme behavior of large-scale meteorlogical variables found to have influence on severe storms and tornadic events using global reanalysis data. (pdf)
• 4th Annual UCAR/NCAR Early Career Scientists Assembly (ECSA) Junior Faculty Forum on Future Scientific Directions , 1-3 August 2006, Boulder, CO (organizing chair).
• 86th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, 29 January - 2 February, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Gilleland, Eric and Katz, Richard W. "Analyzing seasonal to interannual extreme weather and climate variability with the extremes toolkit (extRemes)", 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change (contributed poster).
  • "Evaluating spatial quantitative precipitation forecasts in the form of binary images", 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences (contributed talk).

• 4th Conference on Extreme Value Analysis: Probabilistic and Statistical Models and their Applications, 15 - 19 August, 2005, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • Gilleland, Eric and Katz, Richard W. The Extremes Toolkit: Weather and Climate Applications of Extreme Value Statistics (invited talk).
• 2005 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Using Our Discipline to Enhance Human Welfare, 7 - 11 August, 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Schneider, Uli, Nychka, Douglas, Cooley, Daniel, and Gilleland, Eric. Statistical Methods for Spatial Data (invited session).
  • Brown, Barbara, Bullock, Randy G., Davis, Christopher, Gilleland, Eric. Diagnostic Evaluation of Spatial Weather Forecasts Using an Object-based Approach.

• International Verification Methods Workshop, 15 - 17 Sep., 2004, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
  • Lee, Thomas C.M., Gilleland, Eric, Brown, Barbara, and Bullock, Randy. Verification of quantitative precipitation forecasts using Baddeley's delta metric (contributed talk).
  • Gilleland, Eric. Optimizing METAR network design to remove potential bias in verification of cloud ceiling height and visibility forecasts (contributed talk).
• 2004 joint meeting of The Fifteenth Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society and The Sixth International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, 28 June - 1 July, 2004, Portland, Maine.
  • Gilleland, Eric. Optimizing METAR Network Design for Verification of Cloud Ceiling Height and Visibility Forecasts (contributed talk/paper).
• Graybill Conference 2004, Spatial Statistics: Agricultural, Ecological, and Environmental Applications, 16 - 18 June, 2004, Fort Collins, Colorado.
  • Gilleland, Eric, Nychka, Douglas and Schneider, Uli. Spatial models for the distribution of extremes (contributed talk).
• R users conference (useR!2004), 20 - 22 May, 2004, Vienna, Austria.
  • Gilleland, Eric, Katz, Rick, and Young, Greg. extRemes (contributed talk).
• 17th Conference on Probablity and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, 84th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), 10 - 15 January, 2004, Seattle, Washington.
  • Gilleland, Eric. Improving forecast verification through network design 2.5 (contributed talk/paper).

• 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Statistics: A bridge to discovery and knowledge, 3 - 7 August, 2003, San Francisco, California.
• 1st Intl. Conf. on Environmental Statistics and Health., 16 - 18 July 2003, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
  • Gilleland, Eric. Statistical Models for Monitoring and Regulating Ground-level Ozone (contributed poster).