Invited Talks

Presentations given in the last 5 years. Many of the recent talks are posted at http://www.image.ucar.edu/ nychka/talks.html

• ``Statistical Challenges of Geophysical Problems''
  University of Michigan, March 2000
  University of Wyoming, March 2000
  University Colorado/Denver, February 2000
  CO/WY Statistics Spring Meetings, April 2000
  International Bernoulli Society, Guanuato,Mexico, May 2000
  International Biometric Society Meetings, Berkeley, June 2000
  Joint Statistical Meetings, Indianapolis, August 2000
  

• ``Nonstationary Spatial Covariances and Multiresolution Models"
  North Carolina State University October 2000
  Duke University, October 2000
  Simon Laplace Institute, CRNS, Paris, April 2001
  Spatial Moving Average Workshop, Seattle, May 2001
  NSF-CBMS Environmental Statistics, June 2001
  University of Washington, June 2001
  Carnegie Mellon, February 2001
  University Colorado-Denver, January 2002
  University Colorado-Boulder, February 2002
  Joint Statistical Meetings, San Francisco, August 2003
  AAAS Seattle, February 2004
  Computational Environmetrics Workshop, Chicago, October 2004
  

• ``Statistics for Numerical Models"
  University of North Carolina , October 2000
  Statistics and Data Mining, Dallas, January 2001
  SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC February 2003
  SIAM Conference on the Geosciences, Austin,TX March 2003
  Stochastic Modeling of Geophysical Flows Workshop, NCAR, March 2003
  SIAM Data Mining Conference, San Francisco, CA May 2003
  METMA, Santiago de Compostella, Spain July 2003
  SIAM conference on geosciencs, Austin TX, May 2003

• ``Spatial Process Estimators and Splines"
  University of North Carolina , October 2000
  

• `` Weather Generators and Climate Change Impacts''
  Joint Statistical Meetings, Atlanta, August 2001
  Ohio State University, October 2001
  Pennsylvania State University, October 2001
  Duke University September 2002
  Colorado School of Mines January 2003
  

• `` Infilling of Irregular Precipitation Records''
  AGU, San Francisco, December 2001
  Interface 2002, Montreal, CA 2002
  

• ``Design of Monitoring Networks''
  US EPA workshop, Research Triangle Park, NC, December 2001
  Biometrics Spring Meeting, Arlington, March 2002
  Workshop American Statistical Association ENV section, Seattle, WA, October 2002
  

• ``A Filtering Problem for Forecasting the Weather''
  Statistics for Inverse Problems, Aarlborg, Denmark, March, 2001
  SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC, April, 2003
  IMS-ISBA meeting Puerto Rico, July 2003
  University Colorado-Denver, September 2003
  Spruce Workshop, Monte Estoril, Portugal, March 2004
  Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, RIPS program July 2004
  SAMSI Workshop on Data assimilation in the Geosciences, RTP North Carolina, January, 2005.

• ``Computations for Large Spatial Data Sets''
  UC, Santa-Cruz, CA October 2003
  SAMSI/GSP Workshop, Boulder, CO June 2003
  Computational Environmetrics Workshop, Chicago, October 2004
  

• `` Combining Multi-model climate experiments''
  METMA,Santiago de Compostella, Spain July 2003
  Stanford University, October 2003
  Columiba University, May 2004
  WEBCAST/Climate and Health Summer School, NCAR, July, 2004
  

• ``South Boulder guide to spatial statistics''
  ASP/DAI Summer workshop June 2003 Boulder, Colorado
  Columbia University May 2004
  CU-Boulder, February 2005.
  

• ``Statistical methods for relating mortality to temperature''
  WEBCAST/Climate and Health Summer School, NCAR, July, 2004
  

• ``Statistics for Extremes applied to geophysical data''
  Summer Institute at the Center on Global Change, Duke University, June 2004
  Greybill Conference, Fort Collins, June 2004
  Stanford University, November 2004
  University of California-Santa Cruz, November 2004
  Stanford Univ., November 2004
  Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, January 2005
  UCLA, Statistics undergraduate summer school, June 2005
  

• ``The Ensemble Kalman Filter: The movie''
  Texas A%M University, September 2006
  University of Washington, Seattle, November 2006
  Workshop on Env. and Env. Health Stats, Univ. Florida, Gainsville January 2007
  
• ``Statistics, Numerical Models and Ensembles''
  CAS2K5, Annecy, France, September 2005
  

• ``Some random matrix probelms in the geosciences'' SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC September, 2006
  

• ``Robust splines and robust wavelets''
  University Wisconsin NCAR, September 2006
  

• ``A framework to understand the asymptotic properties of Kriging and splines''
  Korean Statistical Society, Seoul, November 2006
  

• ``Parameter Estimation for Climate models''
  Joint Statistical Meetings 2006, Seattle, August 2006
  Simon Fraser U, Burnaby, BC, August 2006
  University Wisconsin NCAR, September 2006
  Trustee Meeting, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA March 2007
  

• ``The uncertain hockey stick: a statistical reconstruction of past temperatures''
  Junior Faculty Forum, NCAR, August 2006
  American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 2006
  IDAG, Duke University, Durham, NC March 2007
  American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Denver March 2007
  

• ``Statistics, data assimilation and estimating sources of carbon. (6 lectures)''
  MSRI Summer Graduate Workshop on Data Assimilation for the Carbon Cycle, MSRI, Berkeley California. July 2006
  
• ``Smoothing with applications to robustness and extremes. (4 lectures)''
  Ovoranaz, CH, September 2005
  Seoul National University, Seoul, November 2006