https://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~mercadier/
Title: Understanding environmental risks through extreme value theory
Abstract: This project brings together a group of students to explore mathematical and statistical methods for assessing risks for environmental extreme events (floods, storms, heatwaves) or for explaining human life span (taking into account environmental covariates). Participants will learn how extreme value theory can be applied to extrapolate phenomena until their extremal behavior. The project will combine theoretical concepts with data analysis and modeling techniques, providing practical experience in understanding and predicting environmental extremes or taking environmental information into account. This collaborative research effort aims to introduce students to cutting-edge tools at the intersection of modeling, statistics and environmental science.
Prerequisites:
· Knowledge of probability and statistics is preferred (population, sample, estimator, expectation, law of large numbers, central limit theorem),
· No prior experience in extreme value analysis is required,
· Interest in environmental sciences with no prior experience required,
· Basic programming skills (R or Python),
· Optional contribution upstream of the project: Could you provide any interesting demographic data from YOUR country covering several locations (age of the person at death, place of residence) and for which we could also have some environmental data (pollution, temperature, density, city or countryside)? If not, I will provide some, but I find it more interesting to look at the problem in South East Asia.
Group members
Jocell CALMA
Miftahul JANNAH
Bhubess NIEMNUM
Dian ANGGRAINI
Supavit KIATTEERARAT
Angelo MARASIGAN