Seminar Program





Sunday, October 22

19:00 Welcome Banquet at the cafeteria




Monday, October 23

08:00 - 09:50 Registration
09:30 - 09:50 Coffee Break
09:50 - 10:00 Opening
  Organizers
10:00 - 12:00 Richard S. Ellis
  Part I: The Theory of large deviations and applications to statistical mechanics
12:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Reinhard Mahnke
  Stochastic Processes I: Introduction, Basic equations (SDE, ME, FPE), First passage time distribution, Breakdown phenomena
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
18:30 Dinner




Tuesday, October 24

09:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 - 12:00 Richard S. Ellis
  Part II: The Theory of large deviations and applications to statistical mechanics
12:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Reinhard Mahnke
  Stochastic Processes II: Drift-diffusion process with absorbing boundary, Application to traffic breakdown, Summary
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
18:30 Dinner




Wednesday, October 25

09:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 - 12:00 Richard S. Ellis
  Part III: The Theory of large deviations and applications to statistical mechanics
12:00 Lunch Break
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00 Joachim Peinke
  Part I: Turbulence
18:30 Dinner
19:00 - 20:00 Short talks by participants




Thursday, October 26

09:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:30 Joachim Peinke
  Part II: Turbulence
11:30 Group Photo
12:00 Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00 Joachim Peinke
  Part III: Turbulence
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
19:00 Public evening lecture (in German)
  Michael Lehning
  Vorhersage von extremen Naturereignissen und Umgang mit dem Risiko
18:30 Dinner




Friday, October 27

09:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 - 12:00 Richard S. Ellis
  Part IV: The Theory of large deviations and applications to statistical mechanics
12:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00 Michael Ghil
  Extreme events in the geosciences: Climate shifts, earthquakes and their economic impacts
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30 Michael Lehning
  Spatial extremes and natural hazards prediction
18:30 Dinner

Workshop Program





Sunday, October 29

18:00 Registration
19:00 Welcome Banquet at the cafeteria




Monday, October 30

09:00 - 09:20 Opening
  Frank Jülicher and Organizers
09:20 - 10:00 Leonid Bogachev
  Extreme value theory for random exponentials
10:00 - 10:40 Peter Talkner
  Transition times and synchronization in time dependent driven bistable systems
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:50 Peter Imkeller
  Transitions between meta-stable states induced by Levy noise
11:50 - 12:30 Igor Sokolov
  Extreme events and anomalous diffusion
12:30 - 12:50

Christophe Deroulers

  Large deviations of stochastic processes and lifetime of metastable states in high space dimensions
12:50 Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:10 Armin Bunde
  Extreme Events in Long-Term correlated records
15:10 - 15:50 Cecilia Pennetta
  Distribution of return intervals of extreme values in time series with intermediate-term correlations
15:50 - 16:10 Piero Olla
  Return times for Gaussian processes with power-law scaling
16:10 - 16:40 Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:20 Josef Steinebach
  Detecting changes in time series
17:20 - 17:40 Salvatore Micciche
  Characterization of power-law correlated stationary markovian stochastic processes in terms of multiscale ones
17:40 - 18:00 Nicholas Moloney
  Extreme value statistics in $1/f^{\alpha}$ signals
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Poster Session with wine




Tuesday, October 31

09:00 - 09:40 John Casti
  Socionomics and the science of surprise
09:40 - 10:20 Lenny Smith
  What is a climate extreme? And how might it change?
10:20 - 10:40 Ferdinando Semboloni
  The multi-agent simulation of the extreme events (earthquake, strafing, and (maybe) flooding) in the urban dynamics
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:50 Joachim Peinke
  Extreme events in wind fields and their consequences for the wind energy and the electric network
11:50 - 12:10 Petra Friederichs
  Extreme precipitation events: Analysis and forecasting
12:10 - 12:30 Sarah Hallerberg
  When are extreme events the better predictable the more extreme they are?
12:30 - 12:50 Henning Rust
  Confidence intervals for flood return level estimates using a bootstrap approach
12:50 Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:10 Kai Nagel
  Network breakdown in traffic simulations
15:10 - 15:30 Reinhard Mahnke
  Traffic Breakdowns as extreme event
15:30 - 15:50 Jevgenijs Kaupuzs
  Zero-range model with application in traffic
15:50 - 16:10 Brunello Tirozzi
  Perturbative expansion applied to the run-up problem
16:10 - 16:40 Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:20 Matteo Marsili
  Lessons from market crashes and instabilities
17:20 - 18:00 Rosario Mantegna
  Extreme events in correlation based clustering procedures
18:30 Dinner






Wednesday, November 1

09:00 - 09:40 Dirk Helbing
  Crowd turbulence: The physics of crowd disasters
09:40 - 10:20 Didier Sornette
  Generic Multifractality in Exponentials of Long Memory Processes: A mechanism for extreme events based on long-range correlations and applications to finance, material rupture and earthquakes
10:20 - 10:40 Imre Janosi
  Pitfalls of extreme value statistics on global daily temperature records
10:40 - 11:10 Group Photo and Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:50 Stefan Hergarten
  Extreme events in earth sciences
11:50 - 12:10 Stephen Miller
  The dynamical influence of fluids in the earthquake process: From Gutenberg-Richter to Omori's Law
12:10 - 12:30 Fernando Manuel Ramos
  Extreme event dynamics in methane ebullition fluxes from tropical reservoirs
12:30 - 12:50 Sandra Dias
  Max-semistable laws - properties and statistical inference
12:50 Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:10 Klaus Lehnertz
  Epilepsy: Extreme events in the human brain
15:10 - 15:30 Danuta Makowiec
  Multifractality of heart rate signal
15:30 - 16:10 Juval Portugali
  Self-organized integration and disintegration
16:10 - 16:40 Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:20 Sorin Tanase-Nicola
  Fluctuations in biochemical networks
17:20 - 18:00 Sergey Dobrokhotov
  Localized asymptotic solutions and tsunami waves
18:30 Conference Dinner in the restaurant "Julius Kost"






Thursday, November 2

09:00 - 09:40 Peter Holdsworth
  Global fluctuations in correlated systems and extreme value statistics
09:40 - 10:20 Zoltan Racz
  Finite-size scaling functions in extreme statistics
10:20 - 10:40 Nico Stollenwerk
  River scaling analysis and the BHP universality hypothesis
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:50 Gunter Schütz
  Large current fluctuations in the zero-range process
11:50 - 12:10 Rosemary Harris
  Large deviations, fluctuation theorems and the Zero-Range process
12:10 - 12:30 Closing remarks
  Organizers
12:30 Lunch