SAMSI-SAVI Workshop on Environmental Statistics - March 4-6, 2013

Workshop Information

When: March 4, 2013 - 8:00am - March 6, 2013 - 1:00pm

Registration for this workshop is currently closed.

This workshop will be held in Research Triangle Park, NC.

This will be the first workshop held at SAMSI under the SAMSI-SAVI program that is joint with several mathematical and statistical institutes in India. The invited speakers include researchers from both the United States and India. The objective of the workshop is to establish common research interests within the field of environmental statistics, and to discuss possible future directions of collaboration between the two countries. The workshop will last from the morning of March 4 until midday on March 6, and will include open discussions and a poster session.

APPLICATION

To begin the application process login and register, then click on "Apply for Workshop" button at the top of this page. When you have completed the form, be sure to click on the green "Complete Application" button.

This form also includes the application for financial support. You will be notified in a timely manner if your participation will be possible; regrettably, limited seating will preclude acceptance of all applications. New researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty in the early stages of their careers) and members of underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.

The application/registration deadline is February 8, 2013. Note, however, that capacity might be reached before this deadline. Also, any application that requests support for expenses should typically be submitted at least 6 weeks in advance of the workshop.

Please make reservations at the Radisson RTP as soon as possible. The SAMSI room block and rate ($91) is effective until February 8, 2013. After this date, there is no guarantee a room will be available. If you have a change in plans, individual room reservations must be cancelled 72 hours prior to arrival. Check-in is at 3:00 PM; check-out is 12:00 noon.

If you need further information please send an email to md@samsi.info.

Schedule

Monday, March 4, 2013
at SAMSI, Room 150

8:30-9:00 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15	Introduction and Welcome Richard Smith (SAMSI) and Bimal Roy (ISI)
	Session 1: Sampling Methods
9:15-10:00	Walter Piegorsch, University of Arizona Nonparametric Estimation of Benchmark Doses in Environmental Risk Assessment
10:00-10:45	Jayant V.Deshpande, IISER, Pune Ranked Set Sampling in Environmental Statistics
10:45-11:15	Break
11:15-12:00	Ashis Sengupta, ISI, Kolkata Renewable Energy and Hot Spot Geoinformatics: Challenges for Statistical Analysis of Data on Smooth Manifolds
12:00-1:30	Lunch
	Session 2: High-Dimensional Data
1:30-2:15	Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay, University of Calcutta Independent Component Analysis and Robust Clustering Related to Pollution and Astronomical Data
2:15-3:00	Amy Braverman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Massive Data Set Analysis for NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
3:00-3:30	Break
3:30-4:30	Breakout Session 1
4:30-6:30	Poster Session and Reception SAMSI will provide poster presentation boards and tape. The board dimensions are 4 ft. wide by 3 ft. high. They are tri-fold with each side being 1 ft. wide and the center 2 ft. wide. Please make sure your poster fits the board. The boards can accommodate up to 16 pages of paper measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013
at SAMSI, Room 150

8:30-9:00 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
	Session 3: Human Health Effects
9:00-9:45	Atanu Biswas, ISI, Kolkata Bayesian Non-linear Regression for the Air Pollution Effects on Daily Clinic Visits in Small Areas of Taiwan
9:45-10:30	Gopal Basak, ISI, Kolkata Effect of Noise Pollution on School Children in Kolkata
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-11:45	Montserrat Fuentes, North Carolina State University Bayesian Multivariate Spatial-temporal Model for Birth Defects and Ambient Air Pollution Risk Assessment
11:45-1:15	Lunch
	Session 4: Pollution
1:15-2:00	Kalyan Das, University of Calcutta Robust Inference for Generalized Partially Linear Mixed Models Subject to Censoring and Missing Covariates - An Application to Arctic Data Analysis
2:00-2:45	Petrutza Caragea, Iowa State University Modeling Space-Time Variation in the Satellite-Derived Chlorophyll Index Over Southern India
2:45-3:15	Sujit Sahu, University of Southampton Spatio-temporal modelling for air pollution
3:15-4:00	Bimal Roy, ISI, Kolkata Modelling Arsenic Contamination in Ground Water of West Bengal and Bangladesh
4:00-5:00	Breakout Session 2

Wednesday, March 6, 2013
at SAMSI, Room 150

8:30-9:00 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
	Session 5: Spatial Statistics and Bayesian Methods
9:00-9:45	Veronica Berrocal, University of Michigan Regional Climate Model Assessment Using Statistical Upscaling and Downscaling Techniques
9:45-10:30	Bo Li, Purdue University Defining Spatial Comparison Metrics for Evaluation of Paleoclimatic Field Reconstructions of the Common Era
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-11:45	Andrew Finley, Michigan State University Improving Crop Model Inference through Bayesian Melding with Spatially-Varying Parameters
11:45-12:00	Concluding Remarks
12:00-1:00	Lunch