Workshop - May 27, 2026
Learning Spatio-Temporal Climate Extremes
A one-day workshop at Universite catholique de Louvain bringing together researchers from statistics and climate to discuss recent methodological advances and open challenges in modelling spatial and temporal patterns of climate extremes.
Practical Information
We are pleased to announce the workshop "Learning Spatio-Temporal Climate Extremes" on May 27, 2026 at Universite catholique de Louvain.
The workshop brings together researchers from statistics and climate to discuss recent methodological advances and open challenges in modelling spatial and temporal patterns of climate extremes.
Invited talks will be given by Sebastian Engelke (University of Geneva), Hans Van de Vyver (Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium), Ben Youngman (University of Exeter), Melinda Galfi (VU Amsterdam), Daniela Castro-Camilo (University of Glasgow), and Alexis Boulin (Ruhr University Bochum).
Schedule
Talk titles will be added as they come in. Titles currently confirmed by speakers are included below.
| Time | Speaker | Talk title |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | - | Welcome |
| 09:10 | Sebastian Engelke (University of Geneva) | TBA |
| 09:50 | Hans Van de Vyver (Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium) | Beyond the Observed: A Stochastic Simulation Approach for Impact-Based Storylines |
| 10:30 | - | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | Ben Youngman (University of Exeter) | TBA |
| 11:40 | Melinda Galfi (VU Amsterdam) | A Large-Deviation View on Persistent Extremes |
| 12:20 | - | Lunch |
| 13:50 | Alexandre Tytgat (UC Louvain) | Detecting Regional Changes in Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Annual Minima |
| 14:10 | Paolo Besana (UC Louvain) | Bayesian POT Analysis of Drought Extremes: Quantifying the Impact of Drought Index Definition |
| 14:30 | Kamal Gasser (UC Louvain) | A spatio-temporal statistical framework for heatwave attribution under climate change |
| 14:50 | Robert Paulus (UC Louvain) | Adaptive regionalization for extreme precipitation: A neural network-weighted independence likelihood approach |
| 15:10 | - | Coffee break |
| 15:40 | Daniela Castro-Camilo (University of Glasgow) | Attributing changes in extreme events: a causal approach to the tails |
| 16:20 | Alexis Boulin (Ruhr University Bochum) | Linear Factor Models for Tail Dependence in High Dimensions with Applications to Wind Turbine Cut-In Risk |
| 17:00 - 18:30 | - | Wrap-up & drinks |