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2009-10 Program on Space-time Analysis for Environmental Mapping, Epidemiology and Climate Change

Opening Tutorials & Workshop

September 13-16, 2009

General Information
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Schedule

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General Information

The Opening Workshop for the SAMSI program on Space-time Analysis for Environmental Mapping, Epidemiology and Climate Change will be held on Sunday-Wednesday, September 13-16, 2009, at the Radisson RTP in Research Triangle Park, NC.

On Sunday, September 13, tutorials will be presented. From Monday to Wednesday, invited speakers will give presentations. There will be a poster session and reception on Monday, September 14. Following the workshop, on Thursday and Friday, the research working groups will have initial meetings at SAMSI.

The workshop program will focus on problems encountered in dealing with random space - time fields, both those that arise in nature and those that are used as statistical representations of other processes. Specific focus will be on the sub-themes of environmental mapping, spatial epidemiology, and climate change, which are interrelated both in terms of key issues in underlying science and in the statistical and mathematical methodologies needed to address the science.

The workshop will build to the final formation of the research working groups in the afternoon of Wednesday, September 16, followed by initial discussions within the working groups. These working groups will then meet individually at SAMSI on Thursday and Friday to further address specific research objectives that will be taken up over the ensuing year. These meetings will also promote engagement in the working groups, via web or teleconference, for those not able to be resident at SAMSI during the ensuing year.

Program Committee: Noel Cressie (Ohio State University), Peter Diggle (Lancaster University), Montse Fuentes (North Carolina State University), Alan Gelfand (Duke University), Peter Guttorp (University of Washington), Richard Smith (University of North Carolina), Michael Stein (University of Chicago), Dongchu Sun (University of Missouri), Jim Zidek (Chair, University of British Columbia).

Application

Registration is closed. Capacity has been reached.

Please make reservations at the Radisson as soon as possible. The SAMSI room block and rate ($109) is effective until August 29, 2009. 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.

Schedule

Sunday, September 13, 2009
Radisson RTP

Overview Tutorials

8:00-8:55 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:55-9:00	Welcome
9:00-10:30	Tutorial Lecture 1: Alan Gelfand, Duke University Hierarchical Modeling for Analyzing Space and Space-time Data
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Tutorial Lecture 2: Jim Zidek, University of British Columbia Designing Monitoring Networks
12:30-1:45	Lunch
1:45-3:15	Tutorial Lecture 3: Michael Stein, University of Chicago Asymptotics for Spatial and Spatial-temporal Data
3:15-3:45	Coffee Break
3:45-5:15	Tutorial Lecture 4: Sylvia Richardson, Imperial College London Introduction to Spatial Epidemiology (list of references)

Monday, September 14, 2009
Radisson RTP

8:15-9:00 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15	Welcome
9:15-12:00	Session on Climate Change Chair: Michael Stein, University of Chicago Claudia Tebaldi, Climate Central/NCAR Climate Model Ensembles Lenny Smith, London School of Economics The Science of Impacts and the Impacts of Science: Bayesian Climate Forecasts and Adaptation in the United Kingdom Coffee Break Discussion Session Amy Braverman, California Institute of Technology Montse Fuentes, North Carolina State University Richard Smith, University of North Carolina
12:00-1:15	Lunch
1:15-3:30	Session on Random Fields and Applications Chair: Dongchu Sun, University of Missouri Chris Wikle, University of Missouri Don't Forget the Process!: Using Scientific Process Knowledge to Motivate Spatio-Temporal Models Håvard Rue, Norwegian Universitiy of Science and Technology Spatial Modeling and Inference using SPDEs Discussion Session Noel Cressie, Ohio State University Leo Held, University of Zurich Alexandra Schmidt, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
3:30-4:00	Coffee Break
4:00-5:00	New Researcher Session Chair: Alan Gelfand, Duke University Cari Kaufman, University of California, Berkeley Calibration and Prediction Problems in Catchment Scale Hydrology Mikyoung Jun, Texas A&M University Nonstationary Cross-covariance Models for Multivariate Processes on a Globe Anna Michalak, University of Michigan Geostatistical Inverse Modeling for Characterizing the Global Carbon Cycle
5:00-5:40	Poster Advertisement Session (2 minute ads each)
6:30-8:30	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, September 15, 2009
Radisson RTP

8:15-9:00 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-12:00	Session on Spatial Epidemiology Chair: Richard Smith, University of North Carolina Michelle Bell, Yale University Issues of Exposure Assessment for Human Health Studies of Air Pollution Lianne Sheppard, University of Washington Linking Exposures to Health: Ecological Effects and Measurement Error in Cohort Studies Coffee Break Discussion Session Kiros Berhane, University of Southern California Francesca Dominici, Johns Hopkins University Dongchu Sun, University of Missouri
12:00-1:15	Lunch
1:15-3:30	Session on Spatial and Time-space Point Processes Chair: Noel Cressie, Ohio State University Jesper Møller, University of Aalborg Spatial and Space-time Point Processes: Theory Lance Waller, Emory University Spatial and Space-time Point Processes: Applications Discussion Session Marie-Colette van Lieshout, CWI & Eindhoven University of Technology Charmaine Dean, Simon Fraser University Janine Illian, University of St. Andrews
3:30-4:00	Coffee Break
4:00-5:40	New Researcher Session Chair: Jim Zidek, University of British Columbia Ethan Anderes, University of California, Davis Estimating Nonstationarity using Local Likelihoods Dan Cooley, Colorado State University Modeling Precipitation Extremes from a Regional Climate Model Simulations Crystal Linkletter, Brown University Latent Socio-Spatial Process Model for Social Networks Chris Paciorek, University of California, Berkeley The Importance of Scale for Spatial-confounding Bias and Precision of Spatial Regression Estimators Hiuyan Sang, Texas A&M University Bayesian Modeling of Spatial Extreme Values

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Radisson RTP

8:15-9:00 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-12:00	Session on Interface of Deterministic Modeling and Space-time Statistics Chair: Montse Fuentes, North Carolina State University Mark Berliner, Ohio State University Combining Models and Observations: Bayesian Approaches Doug Nychka, NCAR Interpreting Geophysical Numerical Models using Spatial Statistics Coffee Break Discussion Session Susie Bayarri, University of Valencia Dave Higdon, Los Alamos National Laboratory Gardar Johannesson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
12:00-1:15	Lunch
1:15-2:45	Working Group Formation and Initial Meeting
2:45-3:30	Working Group Reports and Scheduling for Thursday and Friday

Thursday, September 17 and Friday, September 18
Individual Working Group meetings at SAMSI.

Presentations from Matt Menne and John Bates
(NOAA's National Climatic Data Center)

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