Dear SIPTA colleagues,

Durham is organising a workshop on simulation and decision making - see announcement below. Contributions linking imprecise probability to simulation are obviously also very welcome. Registration is not open yet, but if you are interested, please drop me an email.

Cheers, Matthias

[Apologies for cross-posting]

http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/simride2013/

The Department of Mathematical Sciences and the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Durham University, organise a workshop on uncertainty quantification and data assimilation in numerical simulation of physical systems for risk-informed decision making; in short, simulation for risk-informed decisions, or SIMRIDE. The workshop will run from Monday 18 March until Thursday 21 March 2013.

Key to solving many large industrial scale problems is assimilation of data along with real-time simulation of a physical system, combined with uncertainty quantification to allow risk-informed decisions to be made. Often these systems are highly non-linear and require vast computing power, which presents a serious challenge to assimilation of data in real-time, and to quantify uncertainty bounds resulting from model uncertainty and measurement error.

A major aim of SIMRIDE is to facilitate the link between industry and academia. The workshop will consist of talks by people from both camps, with ample time for discussion in a relaxed environment. The themes of each day are as follows:

• Monday: Risk & Decision (keynote by Simon Blake, ECS, UK)
• Tuesday: Extreme Events (keynote by David Randell, Shell, UK)
• Wednesday: Simulation (keynote by Michael Goldstein, Maths, Durham)
• Thursday: Energy (keynote by Robert Jeffers, Idaho National Laboratory, US)

A list of currently confirmed speakers and titles of talks is at:

http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/simride2013/programme.htm...

There will be a formal workshop dinner on Tuesday 19 March.

Everyone, including PhD students, is welcome to participate and/or to present their views.

Registration for the first 25 places on this workshop is free, as these places are funded by an EPSRC grant. Once these places have been used up, a fee of around 150 GBP will be charged. Registration covers coffee & biscuits during breaks, buffet lunch, the workshop dinner and conference materials.

If you require any further information, then please do not hesitate to contact one of the organisers.

Best wishes,

Matthias Troffaes (matthias.troffaes(a)gmail.com) Grant Ingram (grant.ingram(a)durham.ac.uk)