10 March - Keith Beven gave an invited talk at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland on 'How to make decisions about future water when there is still so much we do not know?'
10 March - Ralph Rayner led the organisation of a one-day conference '
Catch the Next Wave' at the Royal Academy of Engineering on future technologies and the fostering of cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral innovation. After the conference Ralph spoke at a Foundation for Science and Technology debate at the Royal Society, on the topic of 'turning knowledge into value - adding value to the marine sector from research and innovation'.
6 March - David Stainforth was on a panel at the '
Rhyme and Reason: reflections on climate change' event, LSE.
18 February - Leonard Smith was invited to attend a one-day meeting in Washington on the urgent problem of finding new ways to fund and implement long-term climate observations. The meeting was organised by Jim Baker (NOAA), Carl Wunsch (Harvard/MIT), Ray Schmitt (WHOI) and Ralph Keeling (SIO).
13-17 February - Leonard Smith spoke at the
AAAS Annual Meeting 2014 in Chicago. His talk was entitled: 'Confounding Solid Science and Uncertain Modelling: Improving Climate Policy Modelling'.
12 February - David Stainforth gave a seminar entitled 'Searching for Robust Information in Climate Change Science' at Imperial College.
6-7 February - Leonard Smith gave a talk entitled 'The User Made Me Do It: Seamless Forecasts, Higher Hemlines and Credible Computation' at the '
Climate Science Needed to Support Robust Adaptation Decisions' Workshop, GeorgiaTech, Atlanta, USA. David Stainforth gave a presentation entitled '
Getting More from Observations for Adaptation Planning'.
28-29 January - Leonard Smith took part in discussions with congressmen as part of the ASA Advisory Committee on Climate Change Policy (ACCCP) Climate Day 2014 meeting in Washington DC.
21 January - Keith Beven gave a talk at the NERC PURE CREDIBLE/RACER consortium meeting on 'Observational Uncertainties'.
19-25 January - Dr Ofer Engel and Professor Peter Abell's visit to Gothenburg as part of the CELSIUS project generated some local media attention:
The CELSIUS Insider and
Vårt Göteborg.
14 January - David Stainforth gave a talk entitled 'Risk in Climate Models' at a Grantham Research Institute workshop called 'Risk Management and Climate Change' held at the Law Society.
13 January - David Stainforth gave a short talk at an FCO organised meeting at the Royal Society, hosted by Sir Brian Hoskins, with a delegation of Chinese scientists from China's Expert Committee on Climate Change.
10 January - Roman Frigg gave an invited lecture on 'Chaos Beyond the Butterfly Effect: The Poison Pill of Structural Model Error', Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich.
9 January - Keith Beven gave an invited talk on 'Epistemic Uncertainty and Environmental Model' at the NERC workshop '
Statistics for Environmental Evaluation: Quantifying the environment', Glasgow.
9 January - David Stainforth was an invited participant in the CliMathNet policy group meeting which links this climate maths network with policy makers.
8-10 January - CATS held a three-day workshop on
Understanding Uncertainty in Environmental Modelling as part of NERC's Postgraduate and Professional Skills Development programme following a successful proposal by Dr Erica Thompson. The workshop was highly interactive and students came away with an overview of current debates in environmental modelling theory, implementation, inference, and communication of results. It was a great success and we hope to apply for further funding to run similar workshops again in future (to cater for some of the 100+ applications we had to turn down due to limited space!).
8 January - Roman Frigg gave an invited lecture on 'Laplace's Demon and the Adventures of His Apprentices', SimTech Colloquium, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
8 January - Nick Watkins gave a talk in Applied Mathematics Informal Seminar, Mathematics Department, UIT, Tromso, Norway, 'Some work in progress on bursts in complex systems'.
17 December 2013 - Nick Watkins gave an invited seminar at MPIPKS, Dresden, on 'The surprising robustness of the surplus run length ratio formula, & its application to bursts from natural complex systems'.
16-18 December 2013 - Leonard Smith and David Stainforth attended the '(Re)Thinking National Climate Scenarios' Workshop, Reading. Leonard Smith gave a talk entitled '(Pre)Thinking National Science Contracts which Request Science Beyond the Pale'. David Stainforth gave a talk entitled 'Painting Pictures of the Future'.
9-13 December 2013 - Leonard Smith gave the Charney Lecture at the
AGU Fall Meeting 2013, San Francisco. His lecture was entitled '
Predictability, Probability(s) and Physical Insight'. Other CATS talks and posters were also presented - see
CATS at AGU 2013.
19 November 2013 - David Stainforth was an invited panel member at the
Living With Environmental Change General Assembly 2013, Birmingham.
