Windows to Complexity 2010

Extreme Events

June 10. - 11., Münster

Extreme events such as floods, financial crisis, epileptic seizures, or material rupture have a big impact on the human society. To understand their underlying mechanisms and the development of tools to predict such events is on of the major challenges in the field of nonlinear science.

The intention of this workshop is to give an overwiev over recent developements in this in this field. The talks cover topics from such diverse fields as finance, metrology or medicine.

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Invited Speakers

Didier Sornette ETH, Zürich
Black Swans, Dragon-Kings and Predictions: Diagnostics and Forecasts for the World Financial Crisis

John Dudley  University of Franche-Comté
Extreme Events in Optics - Challenges and Questions

Illés Farkas Eötvös University, Budapest
Extreme events in the collective behavior of humans

Petra Friederichs Universität Bonn, Bonn
Extreme weather and probabilistic forecast approaches

Sarah Hallerberg TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz
Prediction of Extreme Events in Time Series

Holger Kantz MPIKS, Dresden
The coarse grained versus the detailed approach in prediction: Recurrence times, decision variables, and extreme weather forecasts

Mohammed Reza Rahimi Tabar University of Theran, Theran
Anomalous Fluctuations of Vertical Velocity of Earth and Their Implications for Earthquakes

Jorgen Vitting Andersen Institut NonLinéaire de Nice, Nizza
Predicting Crisis in Physics and Finance

Björn Schelter Freiburg Center for Data Analysis and Modeling, Freiburg
Seizure Prediction in Epilepsy: Concepts, Questions and Recent Advances

Dirk Helbing ETH, Zürich
Systemic instabilities and disaster spreading

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