The Nordic-Baltic chapter of Society of Risk Analysis proudly presents the call for the second Nordic chapter meeting.

The theme of the conference is “Where are we and where are we going: New insights into risk analysis in the Nordic countries”

Deadline for submission of both individual presentations and symposia is Monday 29 August.

The conference brings together individuals and organisations interested in risk assessment, risk management and risk communication in Europe. The Society of Risk Analysis Europe: Nordic Chapter promotes specifically Nordic and Baltic issues in the field of risk, and aims to facilitate debate and exchanges of information and opinion between professionals in industry, government, universities, research institutes, and consultancies. It has the ambition to convene and promote scientific and educational meetings on risk research, risk analysis and risk management in the Nordic and Baltic countries.

Themes for presentations may include:

• risk communication and uncertainty
• environmental governance
• new technologies and innovation
• risk framing
• evidence-based policy making
• new perspectives on risk assessment
• risk and ethics
• organizing in the face of risk
• emerging risk issues in the Nordic and Baltic countries

The conference is hosted by Gothenburg Research Institute at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg.

The conference is sponsored by the Partner Program at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg.

Take the opportunity to arrange a session on a topic you think deserves to be in the spotlight or where you would like to engage in discussion and learn more.

A symposium is a topical session organized by two individuals who identifies the presenters for that session and their presentation titles, rather than relying on the conference organizers to assemble a topical session from individual abstracts.

A PhD-course on Risk is under development. The plan is to have it in Lund in October and in Gothenburg in association to the conference.

Sign up on the nordic chapter of sra newsletter to get information on what is going on.

^Ullrika

Treating risk with high uncertainty occurs at many levels of political decision making. What do researchers and risk assessors say about how to understand and treat uncertain risks? Is there a way to take better responsibility for treating uncertainty at political decision making?

We did it!

Thank you all for making this a successful conference.

We cover the conference in our December newsletter from the Nordic Chapter of SRA-Europe.

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Homepage of the conference

Check out who attended the conference

It is possible to sign up for future newsletters on the nordic chapter pages on www.sraeurope.org or by clicking on this link.

The conference got attention in local media

Take the opportunity to go over the keynote presentations again:

Science and Proven Experience by Johannes Persson, Professor in Philosophy at Lund University, Sweden

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Risk Management in Practice: Lessons and Findings  by Åsa Boholm, Professor in social anthropology at Gothenburg University, Sweden

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Socio-economic analysis in chemicals risk management  by Tomas Öberg, European CHemical Agency (ECHA), Finland

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What is risk science?  by Terje Aven, Professor in Risk Analysis and Safety Management at the University of Stavanger, Norway

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How can Risk Assessment embrace the real world of Multiple Stressors, Accumulative Harm, and the Dearth of Data?  by David Gee, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Environment, Health and Societies, Brunel University, Retired Senior Adviser on Science, Policy, Emerging Issues, European Environment Agency, Denmark

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Risk risk tradeoffs: What should we do in Europe? by Ragnar Löfstedt, Professor of Risk Management and Director of King’s Centre for Risk Management, King’s College Londond, UK

Ragnar had an excellent talk without any slides.

After the conference we had a Business meeting of the SRA-E: NORDIC. We elected the board and made some decisions. Minutes are found here.

Bayes@Lund 2016 – a Mini-conference on Bayesian Methods at Lund University, 5th of February, 2016

Close to 100 people attended the conference and it was highly appreciated. Access to the contributing presentations and photos can be found at the conference web page. See you next year…

Researchers and students are welcome to participate in the third edition of Bayes@Lund! The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers working with or interested in Bayesian methods. Bayes@Lund aims at being accessible to researchers with little experience of Bayesian methods while still being relevant to experienced practitioners. The focus is on how Bayesian methods are used in research, what advantages Bayesian methods have over classical alternatives, and how the use and teaching of Bayesian methods can be encouraged.

The conference is free to attend but we ask you to register in advance here: http://www.lucs.lu.se/bayes-at-lund-2016/

Keynote speaker: Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

This year we are happy to announce that the keynote speaker is Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, professor in the Psychological Methods unit at the University of Amsterdam. His keynote presentation is titled Bayesian Benefits for the Pragmatic Researcher touching upon the concrete ways in which Bayesian inference can improve the scientific process.

Important Dates

• Final date for presentations submission: 20th of December
• Notifications to presenters: 24th of December
• Final date for registration: 29th of January
• Tutorial seminar on Bayesian inference with E.J. Wagenmakers: 4th of February
• The conference: 5th of February

Call for Presentations

To contribute a presentation for Bayes@Lund please send in the title of your talk with an abstract (not more than 100 words) to rasmus.baath@lucs.lu.se. Final date for presentations submission is the 20th of December. Any topic related to Bayesian methods is relevant including, but not restricted to:

• Case studies. Have you used Bayesian methods in your research? Describe what you did, and how it worked out.
• Tutorial style talks. Want to share your favourite tool or modeling technique? This does not have to be novel research, just a useful tool for research!
• Method development. Are you developing novel Bayesian methods that you want to share?
• Teaching Bayes. Do you have experiences teaching Bayesian methods. What was the challenges, and do you have any useful tips?

Each accepted speaker is given 20 minutes and, as the audience will be highly heterogeneous, the talk is expected to be accessible and engaging for a multidisciplinary audience.

Pre-conference tutorial on Bayesian inference

The day before the conference there will be a tutorial seminar on Bayesian inference by Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, a great opportunity to learn or brush up the basics of Bayes! More information here: www.lucs.lu.se/bayes-at-lund-2016/#pre-conference-tutorial-on-bayesian-inference

Program, Info & registration

Please see the conference web page: www.lucs.lu.se/bayes-at-lund-2016/ or contact us at:

• Rasmus Bååth, Lund University Cognitive Science, Department of Philosophy: rasmus.baath [at] lucs.lu.se
• Ullrika Sahlin, Lund University Centre of Environmental and Climate Research: ullrika.sahlin [at] cec.lu.se

If you want to get notified of other events at Lund University that relates to Bayesian methods consider subscribing to the Bayes@Lund mailing list at http://www.lucs.lu.se/bayes/ .

All best,
Rasmus & Ullrika