Listed, downloadable talks start in 2001. Please find them as pdf or ppt files, either zipped or not.

Note: some more talks may be found under Publications.

Climate Risk and Climate Change.
Invited Lecture, International Workshop "Recent Achievements in the Study of Extreme Events”, PIK and MPI-PKS, Potsdam, Germany, September 2010.

Predictability in the hydrological system.
Invited conference talk, Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz, Germany, June 2008. [in German]

Time series analysis: A casual trip from the Pliocene to the present climate.
Seminar talk, AWI, Bremerhaven, Germany, November 2007.

Error bounds in extreme weather analyses.
Invited lecture, Workshop "Change of Vulnerability and Climate", DKKV and ARL, Hannover, Germany, November 2006.

The bootstrap approach to analyse trends and extremes in hydrological time series.
Invited keynote lecture, Workshop "New Developments in Trend and Extreme Value Analysis of Hydrometeorological Time Series", PIK, Potsdam, Germany, December 2005.

Milankovitch theory and time series analysis.
Invited keynote lecture, Milankovitch Anniversary Symposium "Paleoclimate and the Earth Climate System", Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia, August–September 2004.

Trends in the risk of extreme events: Floods during the past centuries.
Seminar talk, Institute for Atmosphere Physics, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, July 2004.

Trends in the occurrence of extreme events: An example from the North Sea.
Invited talk, Risk Prediction Initiative Research Update 2003, Hamilton, Bermuda, October 2003.

Extreme Hochwasser in Zentraleuropa seit AD 1000.
Invited talk, 54. Deutscher Geographentag, Bern, Switzerland, October 2003.

Trends in the occurrence of extreme floods in central Europe since A.D. 1000.
EGS–AGU–EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, April 2003.

Bootstrap confidence intervals—a statistical tool for experiments in agronomoy and biology.
Seminar talk, Institute for Agronomy and Crop Science, University Halle–Wittenberg, Germany, April 2002.

The leads and lags of CO₂.
Seminar talk, Geological Institute, University of Berne, Switzerland, February 2001.