Spatial Program Transition Workshop - October 11-13, 2010

Workshop Information

October 11, 2010 - 8:30am - October 13, 2010 - 5:00pm

It has been a very good year for the Space-Time Analysis for Environmental Mapping, Epidemiology and Climate Change program. From a very large opening workshop - more than 140 attendees, with the formulation of nine working groups which, in turn, splintered into subgroups, with a rich roster of visitors both Fall and Spring, the program was successful on all dimensions.

 

As is customary, it is now time for the transition workshop which signifies the formal end of the program under SAMSI but not the end of the research collaborations that have been established. We envision much more "product" to emerge from this program. The transition workshop is scheduled for 11-13 October, 2010 at SAMSI. The program includes two distinguished invited speakers, Noel Cressie from Ohio State University and Amy Herring from University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. In addition there will be 18 presentations, two from each of the working groups. The workshop will conclude with the working group leaders holding an open discussion regarding the major accomplishments of their groups and future work being explored by group members.

 

Application

 

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.

 

Please send questions to [email protected]

Monday, October 11, 2010

8:30-9:00 Registration and Welcoming Remarks
Richard Smith and Alan Gelfand
9:00-10:00 Invited Lecture
Noel Cressie, Ohio State University
Spatio-Temporal Statistical Modeling
10:00-10:20 Break
10:20-11:20 Paleoclimate
Martin Tingley, NCAR
Piecing Together the Past: Statistical Insights into Paleoclimatic Reconstructions

Elizabeth Mannshardt-Shamseldin, Duke University
Paleoclimate Extremes in Proxy Data
11:20-12:20 Spatial Health
Howard Chang, SAMSI and Duke University
Impact of Climate Change on Ambient Ozone Level and Mortality in Southeastern United States

Catherine Calder, Ohio State University
Bayesian Inference for Incomplete Marked Spatial Point Patters: Estimating Individual Activity Spaces
12:20-1:40 Lunch
1:40-2:40 Deterministic/Stochastic
Peter Kramer, Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute
Improving Statistical Components of Multi-scale Simulation Schemes

Emily Kang, SAMSI
Computational Strategies for Spatio-Temporal Filtering in Multiscale Systems
2:40-3:40 Computation and Visualization
Renato Assuncao, Minas Gerais
A Point Process Model for Clustering Including Covariates

Bruno Sanso, University of California-Santa Cruz
Comparing and Blending Regional Climate Model Predictions for the American Southwest
3:40-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Spatial Extremes
Raphael Huser, EPFL
Space-Time Modelling of Extreme Events and Inference for Max-Stable Processes

Ben Shaby, SAMSI
Approximate Bayesian Computation for Spatial Extremes via Open-faced Sandwich Adjustment

 

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

9:00-10:00 Invited Lecture
Amy Herring, UNC-Chapel Hill
Air Pollution and Reproductive Outcomes: Opportunities for Increased Research and Translation
10:00-11:00 Foundations
Marco Ferreira, University of Missouri
Dynamic Multiscale Spatio-Temporal Models for Areal Data

Garritt Page, Duke University
11:00-11:20 Break
11:20-12:20 Geostatistics
Jo Eidsvik, NTNU
Estimation and Prediction for Spatial Data using Composite Likelihood

Brian Reich, North Carolina State University
Nonparametric Spatial Models for Extremes
12:20-1:40 Lunch
1:40-2:40 Point Patterns
Athanasios Micheas, University of Missouri
Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Point Processes with Covariate Information using Mixtures

Avishek Chakraborty, Texas A&M University
Inclusion of Spatial Covariates in Point Pattern Modeling
2:40-3:40 NonGaussian/Nonstationary
Veronica Berrocal, University of Michigan
The Predictive Spatial Dirichlet Process with Application to Downscaling

Michele Guindani, University of New Mexico
A Class of Covariate-Dependent Spatiotemporal Covariance Functions for the Modeling of Ozone
3:40-4:00 Break
4:00-6:00 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.

 

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Summary and Future Work by Working Group Leaders

8:30-9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

Summary and Future Work by Working Group Leaders (with discussion)
9:00-10:40 Paleoclimate Reconstructions
Bala Rajaratnam, Stanford University

Spatial Exposures and Health Effects
Catherine Calder, Ohio State University

Interaction of Deterministic and Stochastic Models
Murali Haran, Pennsylvania State University

Computation and Visualization
Renato Assuncao, Minas Gerais

Spatial Extremes
Richard Smith, UNC-Chapel Hill
10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-12:20 Fundamentals
Dongchu Sun, University of Missouri

Geostatistics
Sudipto Banerjee, University of Minnesota

Spatial Point Processes
Alan Gelfand, Duke University

Non-Gaussian and Non-Stationary Spatial Models
David Dunson , Duke University
12:20-12:30 Closing Remarks
Montse Fuentes, North Carolina State University
12:30 Lunch