TALKS BY RICHARD L. SMITH

How low can the women's marathon record go? (Abigail Mabe and Richard L. Smith). Forthcoming for Joint Statistical Meetings, Boston, MA, August 1-6, 2026.

A Bayesian Factor Analysis for Temperature Projections (Shaleni Kovach and Richard L. Smith). EnviBayes Workshop on Complex Environmental Data, Texas A&M University, October 29-31, 2025. Slides.

An Overview of Extreme Event Attribution. Joint Statistical Meetings, Nashville, TN, August 7, 2025. Slides

Discussion of talks by of talks by Ben Lee, Noel Cressie and Raphael Huser. Interdisciplinary Workshop on Weather and Climate Extremes,University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, June 30-July 2, 2025. Slides

The Marathon world record of Ruth Chepngetich: Was it legitimate, and how can data and analytics help us decide? Public Lecture sponsored by UNC's Sports Analytics Intelligence Laboratory, February 5, 2025. Slides and Video.

A Conditional Approach to Extreme Event Attribution. Cardiff University, July 6, 2023. Slides.

A Conditional Approach to Extreme Event Attribution. One World Extremes seminar, December 12, 2022. Slides and Video.

A Conditional Approach to Extreme Event Attribution. Presented at IMSI, October 18, 2022. Slides and Video.

Discussion of Royal Statistical Society meeting on Statistical Aspects of Climate Change. Presented remotely, September 14, 2022. Slides.... Paper.

Evaluation of extreme events and reliability in the context of the Mars Sample Return mission (with Dawn Sanderson). Invited talk at Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, D.C., August 11, 2022. Slides.

Discussion of session on "Confronting Global Climate Change": Invited discussion at Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, D.C., August 10, 2022. Slides.

Modeling Trends in Spatial Extremes and their Causal Determination. Invited talk organized by the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) held at the University of British Columbia Okanagan campus, Kelowna, British Columbia, June 27-July 1, 2022; workshop on "Combining Causal Inference and Extreme Value Theory in the Study of Climate Extremes and their Causes (22w5079)". Slides. Video. Report on workshop venue..

Spatio-temporal Prediction and Validation of Home Radon Exposures and Their Uncertainties. Invited talk at the Women's Health Initiative Investigators' Meeting, Washington DC, May 4--6 2022 Slides.

Public Comment to the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Particulate Matter (PM) Panel. Slides.

Climate Change, Extreme, and Risks. ASA Risk Analysis Section Webinar, September 29, 2021 Slides. Video.

Detection and Attribution for Spatial Extremes. IMSI workshop on Confronting Climate Change, March 1-5, 2021. Slides. Link to Workshop Including Videos.

Fair Qualifying Times across Age and Gender Categories for the Boston Marathon. Presentation at JSM 2020. Slides. Video.

Discussion at Atlantic Causal Inference Conference 2017

International Detection and Attribution Group meeting 2017

Invited talk at ENV-Visions conference 2016

Climate Extremes: Attributions and Future Projections. Invited talk at EVA 2015: Ninth International Conference on Extreme Value Analysis and Applications. Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 19, 2015.

Talks given by Richard L. Smith at the VI-MSS Workshop on Environmental Statistics, held at the International Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, March 2-4, 2015.

Two lectures on Hierarchical Models in Extreme Value Theory given as part of Dr. Elizabeth Mannshardt's course on Extreme Value Theory, North Carolina State University, Department of Statistics, February 19 and March 31, 2015.

A HIERARCHICAL MODEL FOR REGRESSION-BASED CLIMATE CHANGE DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTION. Joint Statistical Meetings, Montreal, August 7, 2013.

Influence of Climate Change on Extreme Weather Events. Given at the CANSSI annual meeting in Edmonton, May 25 2013, and several other meetings.

Attribution of Extreme Climatic Events. Wierman Lecture, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, December 6, 2012.

Extreme Precipitation Trends over the Continental United States. Workshop on Climate Change and Extreme Value Theory, Eurandom and KNMI, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 11-13, 2009.

EXTREME VALUE THEORY. Presentation for the American Meteorological Society workshop on Statistics of Extreme Events , Phoenix, January 9 2009. (Final version.)

CLIMATE EXTREMES AND GLOBAL WARMING: A STATISTICIAN'S PERSPECTIVE. 136th APHA Annual Meeting, San Diego, October 27 2008.

RISK AND EXTREMES: ASSESSING THE PROBABILITIES OF VERY RARE EVENTS. Fourteenth Army Conference on Applied Statistics, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA, October 22 2008.

MULTIVARIATE EXTREMES AND RISK. Interface 2008, Durham, May 22 2008.

(Related talk by Xiao Qin at the accompanying SAMSI workshop)

RISK ANALYSIS AND EXTREMES. Tutorial lecture given at the Opening Workshop of the SAMSI program on Risk Analysis, Extreme Events and Decision Theory. Research Triangle Park, September 16 2007.

BAYES HIERARCHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EEAWHI. Seminar at NIEHS Biostatistics Group, May 15 2007.

Trends in observational and model-generated precipitation extremes: are they compatible? IDAG Meeting, Duke University, March 14, 2007.

EXTREME PRECIPITATION TRENDS OVER THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES. 15th `Aha Huliko'a Hawaiian Winter Workshop, Honolulu, January 24, 2007

EXTREME PRECIPITATION TRENDS OVER THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES. Ninth Annual Winter Workshop, Environmental and Environmental Health Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Florida, January 12, 2007.

THE CCSP REPORT ON TEMPERATURE TRENDS IN THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE. Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, August 9 2006.

A TRANSFORMED, THRESHOLDED GAUSSIAN MODEL FOR PRECIPITATION EXTREMES. Seminar presented to NCAR Extreme Values Reading Group, March 30, 2006.

DISCUSSION OF PAPER BY HEFFERNAN AND TAWN Seminar presented to NCAR Extreme Values Reading Group, February 23, 2006.

BAYESIAN MODELING OF UNCERTAINTY IN ENSEMBLES OF CLIMATE MODELS. Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields. January 18 2006.

KRIGING WITH ESTIMATED PARAMETERS. Iowa State University, September 12 2005.

BAYESIAN KRIGING AND BAYESIAN NETWORK DESIGN. OBayes 5 Workshop, Branson, Missouri, June 6 2005.

KRIGING WITH ESTIMATED PARAMETERS. U.C. Santa Barbara, May 10 2005.

AN OVERVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS
Presented at ISI "Environmental Statistics Theme Day". 55th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Sydney, Australia, April 6 2005.

KRIGING WITH ESTIMATED PARAMETERS. UNC Statistics/OR Colloquium, January 10, 2005.

SPATIAL INTERPOLATION OF AIRBORNE PARTICULATES AND ITS APPLICATION TO EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES. Spatial Structures in Social Sciences Colloquium, Brown University, October 8 2004.

THE DESIGN OF SPATIAL MONITOR NETWORKS. Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, August 10 2004.
Formula sheet to accompany JSM talk
Technical paper (preliminary version) to accompany JSM talk

BAYESIAN KRIGING AND BAYESIAN NETWORK DESIGN. The J. Stuart Hunter Lecture, TIES 2004, ACCURACY 2004 Joint Conference, Portland, Maine, June 30 2004.

ESTIMATING THE MEAN LEVEL OF FINE PARTICULATE MATTER: AN APPLICATION OF SPATIAL STATISTICS. Boston University, April 16 2004.

Multivariate Extremes, Max-stable Processes and the Analysis of Financial Risk. Workshop on Statistics in Finance, Mathematical Institute, Oberwolfach, January 14 2004.

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