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Cabot Institute/CREDIBLE summer school - Risk and uncertainty in natural hazards

Organizer(s) Cabot Institute University of Bristol National Environment Research Council
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Format
In person
Venue
Engineers House, The Promenade, Clifton Down
Date
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The school will provide advanced training in risk and uncertainty in natural hazards from the Cabot Institute's leading academics plus some special guest lecturers.

Programme

  • Introduction - Professor Thorsten Wagener
  • Forward propagation of uncertainty - Dr Tamsin Edwards
  • Sensitivity analysis - Professor Thorsten Wagener
  • Expert elicitation - Professor Willy Aspinall

There will also be guest lectures from:

  • Professor Steve Sparks FRS, CBE - Hazard and risk assessment for aviation safety from volcanic ash
  • Dr Jonty Rougier - Assessing the value of information in hazard assessment
  • Ken Mylne (Met Office) - Improving decision-making with uncertain forecasts
Source
http://www.bris.ac.uk/cabot/events/2013/244.html

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Hazards Volcano
Themes Risk identification and assessment Disaster risk management
Country and region United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Europe

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