Since 2001 the University of Naples Federico II and the IRPI Research Institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) have been cooperating by organizing national/international workshops and conferences which have involved numerous students and researchers from different fields. This group of researchers, with the University of Rome “La Sapienza” , the Center H2CU and the University of Tuscia , has  now promoted the School of Statistical Hydrology with the aim of teaching short courses on statistical topics useful for hydrological applications.

The short course consists of theoretical lectures (3 hours per day in the morning) and practical training sessions in a computer room (3 hours per day in the afternoon). It is aimed at providing students with an occasion to learn the theoretical background of time series analysis and to carry out empirical applications using two packages: S-plus and R. At the end of the week, the students will present their own analyses on real data sets which summarize all the activities developed during the course. They will, finally, receive the   collection of programs and routines (written in R) used for the empirical applications together with a selection of the teaching material and data sets.

The short course is mainly for PhD students, but graduate students, post-doctoral students, young researchers and whoever is interested in the proposed topic are welcome. A limited number of students can be admitted to the course (30-35 people).

Directors

• Domenico Piccolo         University of Naples Federico II
• Lucio Ubertini                University of Rome “La Sapienza"

Scientific Committee

• Daniele Bocchiola         Polytechnic of Milan
• Antonino Cancelliere      University of Catania
• Marcella Cannarozzo     University of Palermo
• Pierluigi Claps               Polytechnic of Turin ,
• Marcella Corduas          University of Naples Federico II
• Roberto Deidda             University of Cagliari
• Carlo De Michele           Polytechnic of Milan
• Pierluigi Furcolo             University of Salerno
• Orazio Giustolisi           Polytechnic of Bari
• Salvatore Grimaldi         University of Tuscia
• Pierre Hubert                Ecole des Mines de Paris
• Demetris Koutsoyiannis National Technical  University of Athens
• Francesco Laio             Polytechnic of Turin
• Radko Mesiar               Slovak University of Technology
• Alberto Montanari          University of Bologna
• Francesco Napolitano    University of Rome “La Sapienza”
• Domenico Piccolo         University of Naples Federico II
• Antonello Provenzale     ISAC-CNR, National Research Council
• Francesco Serinaldi       University of Rome “La Sapienza”
• Lucio Ubertini                University of Rome “La Sapienza”

Scientific Secretary

• Salvatore Grimaldi         University of Tuscia
• Francesco Napolitano    University of Rome “La Sapienza”