Reinhard Furrer's Posters, Contributed and Informal Talks

[ 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 1998-2000 ]

2013

Multivariate modelling and efficient estimation of Gaussian random fields with application to roller data. Presentation at Spatial Statistics 2013, June 4--7, Ohio, USA.

2012

Toward robust bias correction of regional precipitation simulations for hydrological modeling. Poster presentation joint with N. Addor and J. Seibert, 11th International NCCR Climate Summer School 9--14 September 2012, Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verita, Ticino, CH.

Dimension reduction for multivariate lattice data. Presentation at The Second Workshop on Bayesian Inference for Latent Gaussian Models with Applications, May 30--June 1, 2012, Trondheim, Norway.

2010

Ice Shelf Modeling: A Cross-Polar Bayesian Statistical Approach Poster presentation joint with N. Kirchner, M. Jakobsson and H. J. Zwally at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, USA.  -   Dec.. 16.

2008

Bayesian Multiscale Analysis of Images and Random Fields. Poster presentation joint with L. Pasanen, L. Holmstrom and S. R. Sain at the Workshop on Environmetrics, 2008, Boulder, USA.   -   Oct. 23.

Workshop/Short Course: Analysis of spatially correlated environmental data. Sponsored by ENVR, Boulder, USA.   -   Oct. 22.

Workshop/Short Course: The International Graduate Summer School on Statistics and Climate Modeling. Sponsored by PIMS/NCAR, Boulder, USA.   -   Aug. 9--13.

2007

Experiments on the Earth: Smoothing and spatial statistics for geophysical applications using fields. Poster presentation joint with S. R. Sain and D. Nychka for Joint Statistical Meetings, July 29-August 2. Salt Lake City, UT, USA.   -   July 30. (invited)

Probabilistic projections of climate change fields from a multivariate Bayesian analysis of climate model data. Poster presentation joint with R. Knutti at the CAD, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA.   -   April 19-20.

2006

An Efficient Cokriging Approach Based on Canonical Correlation Analysis and Tapering. Poster presentations joint with M. G. Genton at the conference Multivariate Methods in Environmetrics, Chicago, USA.   -   October 26 - 28

Estimation of High-dimensional Prior and Posterior Covariance Matrices in Kalman Filter Variants. Poster presentations joint with T. Bengtsson at the conference Multivariate Methods in Environmetrics, Chicago, USA.  -   October 26 - 28

Spatial Patterns of Global Climate Change Fields.   Joint Statistical Meeting, August 6-10. Seattle, USA.   -   August 8.    (Transparencies pdf)

Probabilistic projections of climate change fields from a multivariate Bayesian analysis of climate model data. Poster presentation joint with R. Knutti at the EGU General Assembly 2006, Vienna, Austria.   -   April 4.

Covariance tapering for Interpolation of Large Spatial Datasets. In contributed session `Advances in Spatial and Temporal Modeling'.  2006 ENAR Spring Meeting, March 26-29, Tampa, FL, USA.   -   March 27.

2005

Optimal Estimation of Cloud Drop Effective Radius.  Special Symposium: Combining Multiple Data Sources and Models to Create an Accurate, Global Scale Aerosol Picture at the "24th Annual AAAR Conference", Austin, USA.   -    October 18.    (Transparencies pdf)

Overview of Two GSP Projects: `Multivariate Bayesian Analysis of Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Models' and `KriSp: a Package for Interpolation of Large Datasets Using Covariance Tapering'   GSP/NCAR, external advisory panel meeting, Boulder, USA.   -    May 2.    (Transparencies pdf)

2004

Spatial Hierarchical Bayes Model for AOGCM Climate Projections.   Joint Statistical Meeting, August 8-12. Toronto, Canada.   -   August 12.    (Transparencies pdf)

Spatial Hierarchical Bayes Model for AOGCM Climate Projections.   Graybill Conference, CSU, Fort Collins, USA.   -   June 18.    (Transparencies pdf)

2003

Off-line transport models and the carbon cycle.  Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA.  -   November 17.     (Transparencies pdf)

Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation of Covariance Tapering in Large Kriging Problems.   GSP/NCAR, external advisory panel meeting, Boulder, USA.   -    September.    (Transparencies pdf)

Inverse problems for sources and sinks of CO₂: Sensitivity analysis of the transport model.   GSP/NCAR, external advisory panel meeting, Boulder, USA.   -    September.    (Transparencies pdf)

Approximation of Forecast Covariances in the Ensemble Kalman Filter.  GSP/NCAR, informal Seminar, Boulder, USA.   - April.     (Transparencies pdf gz)

U-Statistics and PWM in Modeling Extremes.  Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.   - April.     (Transparencies pdf gz)

Ensemble Kalman Filter - Tapering and Kriging - Estimating CO₂ Fluxes.  GSP/NCAR, for NSF visit, Boulder, USA.   - March.     (Transparencies pdf gz)

2002

Aspekte moderner Geostatistik: Nichtstationarität, Kovarianzschätzung und Zustandsraumzerlegungen/Aspects of Modern Geostatistics: Nonstationarity, Covariance Estimation and State-Space Decompositions. Public thesis defense, IMA-SB, EPFL.   - Mai 1.

Aspects of Modern Geostatistics: Nonstationarity, Covariance Estimation and State-Space Decompositions, Private thesis defense, IMA-SB, EPFL (thèse no 2562, faculté SB section de mathématiques). Supervisor Prof. Stephan Morgenthaler, Ph.D. Jury members: Prof. Anthony C. Davison, Ph.D., EPFL, Prof. Dr. Jürg Hüsler, Universität Bern, Dr. Richard Webster, Rothamsted Experimental Station.   - April.

Aspects of Modern Geostatistics: Nonstationarity, Covariance Estimation and State-Space Decompositions. 3e cycle romand de statistique et probabilités appliquées, Champéry, Switzerland.   - March 4.

2001

Observation-State Representation of Non Stationary Spatial Processes. Presentation at 12th European Young Statisticians Meeting, Jánska Dolina, Slovakia. September 4.

Non Parametric Estimation within Decomposed Spatial Processes. Presentation at International Conference of the RSS, Glasgow, Scotland.    - July 5.

1998-2000

Principal Component Analysis of Lake Geveva Sediments. Swiss Research Students Meeting, Bern, Switzerland.   - November 3 2000.

On the Decomposition of Spatial Processes. Presentation at the Interface 2000, New Orleans, USA.    - April 6 2000.

Covariance Estimation under Spatial Dependence. Poster presentation at the 18th LASR Workshop, Leeds, England.    - July 1999.

Principal Component Analysis of Lake Geneva Sediments. Poster presentation at the Fourth Annual Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geology, Ischia, Italy.    - October 1998.