Workshops, conferences and symposia before 2017

Imprecision Friday

Irregularly scheduled, Setauket, New York

A series of occasional lectures on uncertainty analysis, held mostly at Applied Biomathematics

Monte Carlo and probability bounds analysis in R with hardly any data

6 and 10 December 2016, San Diego, California

Tutorial workshop held in conjunction with the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting

workshop website

Uncertainty in risk analysis training

12-14 December 2016, Setauket, New York

Training held for NRC staff at Applied Biomathematics

Monte Carlo and probability bounds analysis in R with hardly any data

6 and 10 December 2015, Arlington, Virginia

Tutorial workshop held in conjunction with the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting

workshop website

Validation of uncertain ecological models with imprecise data

15-19 September 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland

Mathematical Ecology Semester, Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Speakers: N. Ben Abdallah, K. Beven, J. Chesson, J. Dambacher, S. Ferson, A. Hart, C. Lobry, S. Schreiber

workshop website, CIB webpage

Probabilistic risk analysis with hardly any data

8 and 12 December 2013, Baltimore, Maryland

Society for Risk Analysis continuing education program

Probabilistic risk analysis with hardly any data

9 and 13 December 2012, San Francisco, California

Tutorial workshop held in conjunction with the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting

workshop webpage

Getting beyond the statistician’s bag of marbles: how sampling binary data informs us when we can’t make the usual assumptions

5 December 2011, North Charleston, South Carolina

Panel Discussion for the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting

Speakers: M. Balch, W. Huber, D. Rozell , K. Sentz,

Probabilistic risk analysis with hardly any data

4 and 8 December 2011, North Charleston, South Carolina

Tutorial workshop held in conjunction with the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting

Probabilistic risk analysis with hardly any information

5 and 9 December 2010, Salt Lake City, Utah

Tutorial workshop held in conjunction with the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting

Probabilistic risk analysis with hardly any data

6 December 2009, Baltimore, Maryland

Tutorial workshop held in conjunction with the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting

What Monte Carlo cannot do: introduction to imprecise probabilities

3 December 2006, Baltimore, Maryland

Tutorial workshop held in conjunction with the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting

Strategies for risk communication: evolution, evidence, experience

15-17 May 2006, Montauk, New York

Symposium sponsored by the Society for Risk Analysis and the National Science Foundation

conference website, proceedings

Risks from technology

4-6 May 2006, Murray Hill, New Jersey

German-American Frontiers of Engineering

Speakers: E. Atkins, R. Bock, B. Montag, C. Paredis

Probabilistic modeling

24-25 October 2005, Washington, D.C.

Short course sponsored by the PRA Center of CNY

Speakers: S. Ferson, P.E. Goodrum

What Monte Carlo cannot do: introduction to imprecise probabilities

5 December 2004, Palm Springs, California

Workshop held with the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting

Speakers: S. Ferson, D.S. Myers, W.T. Tucker

Beyond Monte Carlo: introduction to imprecise probabilities

22 June 2003, Brussels, Belgium

Workshop held with the World Congress on Risk

Speakers: G. de Cooman, S. Ferson

Epistemic uncertainty

6-7 August 2002, Alburquerque, New Mexico

Conference sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories

Speakers: B.M Ayyub, Y. Ben-Haim, V. Bier, R.M. Cooke, G. de Cooman, S. Ferson, J. Helton, M. Hyman, G. Klir, V. Kreinovich, J.R. Red-Horse, B. Rutherford, R.R. Yager

Spatial patterns of an processes in risk assessments

Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting symposium

Speakers: H. Reagan, S. Bartell, C. Mackay, D. Nielson

<<workshop abstract>>, <<speaker abstracts>>

Beyond point estimates: risk assessment using interval, fuzzy and probabilistic arithmetic

3 December 2000, Washington, D.C.

Workshop held with the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting

Speakers: S. Ferson, J.A. Cooper, D. Myers, D.R.J. Moore

Uncertainty: its nature, analytical treatment, and interpretation

10-11 February 2000, Arlington Virginia

A forum sponsored by the Society for Risk Analysis, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Engineer Research and Development Center, and the Electric Power Research Institute

Speakers: V. Bier, R. Bierbaum, T. Bridges, A. Finkel, K. Blackmond Laskey, R. Neapolitan, T. Seidenfeld, P.T. Wade, R. Yager

The balance of nature: can toxicologists and ecologists come to a consensus?

December 1998, Phoenix, Arizona

Symposium for the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting

Speakers: T.S. Bridges, B. McGee, S. Hoover, B.K. Hope

<<workshop abstract>>, <<speaker abstracts>>

Wrangling variability and uncertainty: how risk analysis draws quantitative conclusions from sparse, incomplete and qualitative information

9–10 November 1998, Arlington, Virginia

Conference sponsored by the Society for Risk Analysis

Speakers: T. Barry, I. Bogardi, L. Duckstein, S. Ferson, C. Frey, L. Wolfson

Tools for ecological risk analysis

25-26 August 1993, Stony Brook, New York

Conference sponsored by Applied Biomathematics and the Electric Power Research Institute

The use of exemplar species in ecological studies

15-16 October 1992, Stony Brook, New York

Conference sponsored by Applied Biomathematics and the Electric Power Research Institute

Speakers: C. Barber, S. Feson, S. Pimm, L. Slobodkin, Y.

Ecological risk analysis at the population level

15-17 October 1991, Stony Brook, New York

Conference sponsored by Applied Biomathematics

This list of events organized or co-organized by Ferson is incomplete. Several other entries for AIBS, ESA (ecot.), IOT (A.J.), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (AB, else), SRA and SETAC should be included.