Conferences and Workshops

Each QUICS fellow presented their work annually to at least one international-level technical conference, as well as presentations at national conferences and various other workshops.

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The presentations are listed below. Click on the presentation title for further information, and - where available - click on the conference/workshop name to go to its website.

Date Conference/Workshop Paper/Presentation Title Fellow(s) Location
September 2018 11th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling Parametric inference in large water quality river systems [Abstract] Antonio Moreno-Rodenas Palermo, IT
July 2018 13th International Conference on HydroInformatics Flood forecasting with uncertainty using a fully automated flood model chain: a case study for the City of Kulmbach [Paper] [Presentation] Md Nazmul Azim Beg Palermo, IT
June 2018 5th IAHR Europe Congress Flood prediction in a compound channel using machine learning techniques [Presentation] Vasilis Bellos Trento, IT
June 2018 5th IAHR Europe Congress Learning non-linearities from flow simulators [Presentation] Antonio M. Moreno-Rodenas Trento, IT
December 2017 2017 AGU Fall meeting Boosting flood warning schemes with fast emulator of detailed hydrodynamic models [Abstract] [Presentation] Vasilis Bellos New Orleans, USA
December 2017 2017 AGU Fall meeting Gaussian copula as a likelihood function for environmental models [Abstract] [Poster] Omar Wani New Orleans, USA
December 2017 2017 AGU Fall meeting Data-driven surrogate modelling for simplification of a complex urban drainage model [Abstract] [Presentation] Mahmood Mahmoodian, Jairo Arturo Torres-Matallana New Orleans, USA
October 2017 EMUmore Event #1 (Workshop) Surrogate Modelling for Simplification of Urban Drainage Simulators Mahmood Mahmoodian Dübendorf, CH
September 2017 EnviroInfo 2017 Merging and calibration of radar rain products for quantification of input uncertainty in urban drainage modelling for the Haute-Sûre catchment in Luxembourg [Paper] [Presentation] Arturo Torres-Matallan, Francesca Cecinati, Vasilis Bellos     Luxembourg, LU
September 2017 ICUD 2017 - 14th IWA/IAHR Conference on Urban Drainage Accounting for correlation in uncertainty propagation, a copula approach for water quality integrated catchment modelling [Extended Abstract] [Presentation] Antonio Moreno Rodenas Prague, CZ
September 2017 ICUD 2017 - 14th IWA/IAHR Conference on Urban Drainage Dealing with the propagation of uncertainties in integrated catchment studies [Extended Abstract] [Flash Presentation] [Poster] Franz Tscheikner-Gratl Prague, CZ
September 2017 ICUD 2017 - 14th IWA/IAHR Conference on Urban Drainage Effect of rainfall intensity, surface slope and sediment build-up on sediment wash-off process: An experimental study [Paper] [Presentation] Mano Muthusamy, Md Nazmul Azim Beg Prague, CZ
September 2017 ICUD 2017 - 14th IWA/IAHR Conference on Urban Drainage Comparison of manhole hydraulics using PIV and different RANS model [Paper] [Presentation] Md Nazmul Azim Beg Prague, CZ
September 2017 ICUD 2017 - 14th IWA/IAHR Conference on Urban Drainage Uncertainty based decision making for water quality failures caused by sewer overflows [Paper] [Presentation] Ambuj Sriwastava Prague, CZ
August 2017 IAHR World Congress 2017 Comparison of Flow Hydraulics in Different Manhole Types  [Paper] [Presentation] Md Nazmul Azim Beg Kuala Lumpur, MY
July 2017 12th OpenFOAM workshop Comparison of gully-manhole flow with different structural geometries [Presentation] Md Nazmul Azim Beg Exeter, UK
July 2017 M2D First Annual Conference on Decision Making Under Uncertainty Risk-based decision making for water quality failures caused by sewer overflows [Poster] Ambuj Sriwastava, Jairo Arturo Torres-Matallana Exeter, UK
July 2017 EWRA 2017 - 10th World Congress on Water Resources and Environment Multivariate autoregressive modelling and conditional simulation of precipitation time series for urban water models [Paper] [Presentation] Arturo Torres-Matallana Athens, GR
July 2017 EWRA 2017 - 10th World Congress on Water Resources and Environment Integration of rain gauge errors in radar-rain gauge merging techniques [Paper] Francesca Cecinati, Antonio Moreno Rodenas Athens, GR
July 2017 EWRA 2017 - 10th World Congress on Water Resources and Environment A simplified methodology for the flood simulation in urban catchments [Paper] [Presentation] Vasilis Bellos Athens, GR
July 2017 EWRA 2017 - 10th World Congress on Water Resources and Environment Influence of river routing methods in integrated catchment water quality modelling [Paper] [Presentation] Antonio Moreno Rodenas, Vasilis Bellos Athens, GR
July 2017 EWRA 2017 - 10th World Congress on Water Resources and Environment Effect of varying calibration scenarios on the performance of an hydrodynamic sewer model [Paper] [Presentation] Franz Tscheikner-Gratl Athens, GR
July 2017 EWRA 2017 - 10th World Congress on Water Resources and Environment Data-driven surrogate modelling for simplification of a complex urban drainage model [Paper] [Presentation] Mahmood Mahmoodian, Vasilis Bellos Athens, GR
July 2017 Spatial Statistics Conference Sampling optimisation for rainfall mapping [Abstract] [Poster] Alexandre Wadoux Wageningen, NL
June 2017 International SWAT Conference How uncertainty of simulating water resources is affected by different input data content [Abstract] [Poster] Carla Camargos Warsaw, PL
June 2017 Pedometrics Wageningen Mapping with a non-stationary variance geostatistical model [Presentation] Alexandre Wadoux Wageningen, NL
June 2017 LESAM 2017 (Leading Edge Sustainable Asset Management) On the potential of integrated multi-utility asset management in urban water management [Paper]  [Presentation] Franz Tscheikner-Gratl Trondheim, Norway
June 2017 2nd FOAM@PT and 1st Iberian workshop Effect of surcharge on gully and manhole flow [Presentation] Md Nazmul Azim Beg Coimbra, PT
April 2017 EGU 2017 (European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017) Effects of input data information content on the uncertainty of simulating water resources [Abstract]  [Flash Presentation]  [Poster] Carla Camargos Vienna, Austria
April 2017 EGU 2017 (European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017) HOW TO JUMP in ensemble based MCMC samplers [Abstract]  [Poster] Sanda Dejanic Vienna, Austria
April 2017 EGU 2017 (European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017) Geostatistical upscaling of rain gauge data to support uncertainty analysis of lumped urban hydrological models [Abstract]  [Poster] Mano Muthusamy Vienna, Austria
April 2017 EGU 2017 (European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017) spup - an R package for uncertainty propagation analysis in spatial environmental modelling [Abstract]  [Presentation] Kasia Sawicka Vienna, Austria
April 2017 Weather Radar and Hydrology 2017 Optimal temporal resolution of merged radar – gauge rainfall for urban applications
[Abstract]  [Poster]
Francesca Cecinati (Presenter), Kasia Sawicka (co-author) Seoul, South Korea
April 2017 Weather Radar and Hydrology 2017 Rainfall estimation using a non-stationary geostatistical model and uncertain measurements
[Abstract]  [Presentation]
**Winner of Best Paper**
Francesca Cecinati (Presenter), Alexandre Wadoux (co-author) Seoul, South Korea
December 2016 AGU Fall Meeting Evaluation and correction of uncertainty due to Gaussian approximation in radar – rain gauge merging using kriging with external drift [Abstract] [Presentation] Francesca Cecinati and Omar Wani San Francisco, USA
November 2016 WWEM 2016 - Water, Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring Benchmark of outlier detection methods for spectral data [Extended Abstract] Mathieu Lepot, Alma Mašić, Jean-Baptiste Aubin, François H.L.R. Clemens Telford, UK
November 2016 CIWEM Urban Drainage Group Autumn Conference 2016 Workshop: Understanding Uncertainty in Urban Drainage Modelling [Full Details] Ambuj Sriwastava, Arturo Torres-Matallana and Vasilis Bellos Blackpool, UK
October 2016 eRad 2016 - Conference on Radar in Meteorology Sampling optimisation for rainfall mapping [Abstract] [Presentation] Alexandre Wadoux, Dick Brus, Miguel A. Rico-Ramirez, Gerard B.M. Heuvelink Antalya, Turkey
August 2016 8th International Conference on Sewer Processes & Networks (SPN8) Simulation of sewer overflow volume in Flanders using a global sensitivity analysis [Paper] [Presentation] Ambuj Sriwastava Rotterdam, NL
August 2016 8th International Conference on Sewer Processes & Networks (SPN8) Influence of acquisition and record time steps on estimation of cumulated values (volumes, pollutant fluxes) [Paper] [Poster] Mathieu Lepot Rotterdam, NL
August 2016 8th International Conference on Sewer Processes & Networks (SPN8) 3d printed pills to investigate mis-connections [Paper] [Presentation] Mathieu Lepot Rotterdam, NL
August 2016 8th International Conference on Sewer Processes & Networks (SPN8) Methods to identify outliers in repetitions of UV/Vis spectra [Paper] [Presentation] Mathieu Lepot Rotterdam, NL
August 2016 8th International Conference on Sewer Processes & Networks (SPN8) Effect of spatiotemporal variation of rainfall on dissolved oxygen depletion in integrated catchment studiesEffect of spatiotemporal variation of rainfall on dissolved oxygen depletion in integrated catchment studies [Paper] [Presentation] Antonio Manuel Moreno Ródenas Rotterdam, NL
August 2016 12th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2016) Comparison of different configurations of quantile regression in estimating predictive hydrological uncertainty [Paper] [Presentation] Manoranjan Muthusamy Incheon, KR
July 2016 Marie Slodowska-Curie Actions EuroScience Open Forum Satellite Event 'Research and Society' Uncertainty analysis in spatial environmental modelling [Poster] Kasia Sawicka Manchester, UK
July 2016 Marie Slodowska-Curie Actions EuroScience Open Forum Satellite Event 'Research and Society' Uncertainty in rainfall data [Poster] Francesca Cecinati Manchester, UK
July 2016 12th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

Uncertainty propagation in urban hydrology water quality modelling (paper not available) [Presentation]

Arturo Torres-Matallana Montpellier, FR
July 2016 12th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences ‘spup’ – an R package for uncertainty propagation in spatial environmental modelling [Paper] [Presentation] Kasia Sawicka Montpellier, FR
July 2016 GeoEnv 2016 Sampling design optimization for rainfall prediction using a non-stationary geostatistical model [Presentation] Alexandre Wadoux Lisbon, PT
June 2016 Urban Water 2016 (3rd International Conference on the Design, Construction, Maintenance, Monitoring and Control of Urban Water Systems) Pollution-based model predictive control of combined sewer networks, considering uncertainty propagation [Presentation] (Paper to be published in International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning) Mahmood Mahmoodian San Servolo, Venice, IT
June 2016 9th International Conference of Novatech Use of numbered and coloured 3d printed pills as a new, low-cost, robust and easy method to inspect mis-, cross and illicit connections in separate sewers [Paper] [Poster]
*Winner of the Conference Poster Prize*
Mathieu Lepot Lyon, FR
June 2016 6th International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures Numerical Investigation of the Flow Field inside a Manhole-Pipe Drainage System [Paper] [Presentation] Nazmul Beg Portland, USA
June 2016 6th IAHR International Junior Researcher and Engineer Workshop on Hydraulic Structures Investigation of the Flow Field inside a Drainage System: Gully – Pipe - Manhole [Abstracts (all)] [Paper] [Presentation] Nazmul Beg Lübeck, Germany
June 2016 HOBE young hydrologist workshop Integration of rain gauge measurement errors with the overall rainfall uncertainty estimation using kriging methods [Abstract] [Poster] Francesca Cecinati Salten Skov, DK
April 2016 European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016 spup' - an R package for uncertainty propagation in spatial environmental modelling [Abstract] [Poster] Kasia Sawicka Vienna, AT
April 2016 European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016 Effects of model input data uncertainty in simulating water resources of a transnational catchment [Abstract] [Poster] Carla Camargos Vienna, AT
April 2016 European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016 Integration of rain gauge measurement errors with the overall rainfall uncertainty estimation using kriging methods [Abstract] [Poster] Francesca Cecinati Vienna, AT
April 2016 European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016 Effect of the spatiotemporal variability of rainfall inputs in water quality integrated catchment modelling for dissolved oxygen concentrations [Abstract] [Poster] Antonio Moreno Vienna, AT
December 2015 Production Ecology and Resource Conservation Geostatistics Course / Workshop Uncertainty propagation in Integrated Catchment Models for water quality evaluation [Presentation] Antonio Moreno Wageningen, NL
September 2015 10th International Urban Drainage Modelling Conference (UDM 2015) Towards an uncertainty propagation framework in urban drainage system modelling [Paper] [Presentation] Arturo Torres Quebec, Canada
September 2015 10th International Urban Drainage Modelling Conference (UDM 2015) Laser Profiling: A Promising Technique To Accurately Assess Pipe State And Roughness Mathieu Lepot Quebec, Canada
September 2015 10th International Urban Drainage Modelling Conference (UDM 2015) Analysis of sub-kilometre variability of rainfall in the context of urban runoff modelling [Paper] [Presentation] Mano Muthusamy Quebec, Canada
September 2015 10th International Urban Drainage Modelling Conference (UDM 2015) Parameter Estimation Of Urban Drainage Models Using Binary Observations From Low-cost Sensors [Presentation] [Paper] Omar Wani Quebec, Canada
September 2015 10th International Urban Drainage Modelling Conference (UDM 2015) Analysis of Structural Uncertainty in the Analytical Solution of ADE in River Impacted By CSOs [Paper] [Poster] Vivian Camacho Quebec, Canada
September 2015 Uncertainty Analysis Methodologies workshop at UDM 2015 Uncertainty analysis frameworks linked to asset management decisions inn integrated catchment modelling Ambuj Sriwastava Quebec, Canada
September 2015 37th Conference on Radar Meteorology – American Meteorology Society Modelling radar rainfall residual errors for hydrological applications Francesca Cecinati Oklahoma, USA
May 2015 European Junior Scientist Workshop: 'Monitoring Urban Drainage Systems' Co-organiser of the workshop Mathieu Lepot Chichilianne, France
May 2015 European Junior Scientist Workshop: 'Monitoring Urban Drainage Systems' Merging methods rain gauge - radar for high spatiotemporal resolution precipitation fields Antonio Moreno Chichilianne, France
May 2015 European Junior Scientist Workshop: 'Monitoring Urban Drainage Systems' Comparing two different methods to describe radar precipitation uncertainty Francesca Cecinati Chichilianne, France
April 2015 7th World Water Forum Quantifying Uncertainty in Integrated Catchment Studies Vivian Camacho South Korea
March 2015 NERC workshop: Understanding Uncertainty in Environmental Modelling Comparing two different methods to describe radar precipitation uncertainty Francesca Cecinati London, UK

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