List of Selected Talks

1. Stochastic Modeling of Rain Rate Processes: A Diffusion Model.
   NASA Seminar, Goddard Space Flight Center, 
   Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, 20 November 1991.
    
2. Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Optimal Thresholds of Rainfall Intensity.
   Second Euroconference in Statistics: "Likelihood, Time Series, with Econometric and other Applications",
   Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 12-17 December 1994.
    
3. Stochastic Budget of Moisture and Rainfall Estimates.
   International Conference on "Environmental Statistics and Earth Sciences",
   Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 20-24 August 1996.
    
4. On some Scaling Properties of Spatially Averaged Rain Rate.
   Eighth International Conference on "Quantitative Methods for the Environmental Sciences",
   Innsbruck, Austria, 4-8 August 1997.
    
5. Scaling Properties of Spatially Averaged Rain Rate Fields with respect to Spatial Scale and their Time Dependence.
   First Workshop of the EU-TMR Network on "Statistical and Computational Methods for the Analysis of Spatial Data",
   Aussois, France, 19-23 January 1998.
    
6. Scaling Properties of Rain Fields.
   Hydrological Sciences Seminar, CIRES,
   University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 30 October 1998.
    
7. Scaling Properties of Rain Fields.
   Statistics Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
   McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 27 January 1999.
    
8. Scale-Invariant Statistics: A Key to Space-Time Variability of Rain Fields.
   Statistics Seminar, Department of Mathematical Sciences,
   Aalborg University, Denmark, 30 March 2000.
    
9. On the Intermittence of Rainfields: A Space-Time Approach.
   7th International Conference on Precipitation: Observation, Estimation, and Prediction of Precipitation Variability at All Scales,
   Rockport, Maine, USA, 30 June - 3 July, 2001.
    
10. Scale Invariance of Regional Wet and Dry Durations of Rainfields: A Diagnostic Study.
    Annual International Conference on Environmetrics-TIES 2002,
    University of Genova, Genova, Italy, 18-22 June 2002.
     
11. Statistical Diagnosis of Multiscaling Properties of Space-Time Intermittence of Rainfields.
    EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly: Section on Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
    Nice, France, 6-11 April 2003.
     
12. Statistical Challenges in Measuring-Modeling-Predicting Rainfall at Multiple Scales of Space-Time.
    Statistics Seminar, Department of Statistical Science,
    University College London (UCL), London, U.K., 13 January 2005.
     
13. Modelling Time Series of Counts of Threshold Ecxeedance in Marked Regular Lattices.
    Statistics Seminar, Department of Probability & Mathematical Statistics,
    Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 30 March 2005.
     
14. Modelling Over-dispersed Time Series of Counts.
    25th European Meeting of Statisticians
    University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 24-28 July 2005.
     
15. Spectral multi-scaling of spatially averaged rain rate processes and its potential for applications in spatial downscaling.
    2nd RAINMAP Workshop: Broad-Scale Spatial-Temporal Models of Rain Rate Variation
    Oxford City Hall, St. Aldates, Oxford, U.K., 27 September 2005.
     
16. Spectral Multiscaling: A Route to Spatial Downscaling.
    3rd RAINMAP Workshop: Broad-Scale Spatial-Temporal Models of Rain Rate Variation
    Department of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K., 15 June 2006.
     
17. On Time Series of Overdispersed Counts: Modelling, Inference and Prediction.
    The International Environmetrics Society Meeting (TIES-2007), Mikulov, Czech Republic, 16-20 August 2007.
     
18. How Heavy are Probability Tails of Wet and Dry Durations in Regionally Averaged Rain Fields?
    International Workshop on Robust and Nonparametric Inference, Hejnice, Czech Republic, 1-6 September 2007.
     
19. Spectral Multiscaling for Downscaling Processes of Regional Averages with a Diagnostic Study.
    European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly 2008: Section NP3.03 - Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
    Vienna, Austria, 13-18 April 2008.
     
20. Introducing a Fractional INAR Model for Time Series of Counts.
    Advances in Statistics and Applied Probability: Unified Approaches, A Symposium in Honor of Benjamin Kedem
    Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, 30-31 July 2009.
     
21. Introducing a Fractional INAR Model for Time Series of Counts.
    International Workshop on Integer-Valued Time Series Modelling (WINTS-09)
    Department of Mathematics, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, 3-5 September 2009.
     
22. Stochastic downscaling of processes of spatial averages, based on the postulate of spectral multiscaling, with diagnostic studies on spatio-temporal rainfall fields.
    Hydroscience and Engineering Seminar, IIHR-Iowa Flood Center,
    University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA, 29 October 2010.
     
23. A stochastic framework for spatial downscaling of processes of regional averages, based on their spectral multiscaling property, and diagnostic studies on spatio-temporal rainfall fields.
    Statistics Seminar, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science,
    University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA, 3 March 2011.
     
24. Introducing a linear fractional log-stable noise model with intermittency for rainfall processes.
    International Conference KLIMATEXT: Precipitation Extremes in a Changing Climate
    Hejnice, Czech Republic, 24-26 September 2013.
     

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