Workshop on Spatial Statistics

The Spatial Statistics Workshop is over and registration is now closed.

 

January 29-31 at Rudder Tower, Texas A&M University

If you would like to attend the workshop and present a poster, please email Mikyoung Jun.

 

Speakers include:

 

Organizers:

 

Local Information:

To get to College Station, you can fly College Station Easterwood Airport (CLL). Alternatively, you can fly to George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) or Hobby Airport (HOU) in Houston, or to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS), and drive to College Station with a rental car. There is also a shuttle service to and from the Houston airports.

A list of College Station hotels can be found here.

 

Sponsors:

The workshop is sponsored by TAMU Department of Statistics, the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (IAMCS) and the Research Network for Statistical Methods for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (STATMOS).

 

 

Program

 

All abstracts can be viewed here.

 

Thursday, Jan 29, 2015 (Rudder 301)

8:20 – 8:50    Registration/Breakfast

Tutorial 1:  “R-INLA” — Havard Rue (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

9:00 – 10:30    Lectures 1 & 2

10:30 – 10:45   Break

10:45 – 12:15   Lectures 3 & 4

12:15 – 1:15     Lunch

1:15 – 2:00      Lecture 5

2:00 – 2:30      Break

Tutorial 2: “An overview of Gaussian processes: Theory, applications and computations” — Michael Stein (University of Chicago)

2:30 – 4:00      Lecture 1

4:00 – 4:15       Break

4:15 – 5:45       Lecture 2

 

Friday, Jan 30, 2015 (Rudder 701)

8:20 – 8:50       Registration/Breakfast

8:50 – 9:00      Welcome

9:00 – 10:00      Michael Stein (University of Chicago): “The screening effect in kriging: When it holds, when it doesn’t, and why it matters”

10:00 – 10:30    Huiyan Sang (TAMU): “Multivariate Max-Stable Spatial Processes”

10:30 – 10:45    Break

10:45 – 11:45    Sudipto Banerjee (UCLA): “Bayesian Modeling and Inference for Large Geographically Referenced Data Sets”

11:45 – 12:15    Chiwoo Park (FSU): “Domain Decomposition Approach for Fast Gaussian Process Regression of Large Spatial Data Sets”

12:15 – 1:30     Lunch

1:30 – 2:30        Chris Wikle (University of Missouri): “Quantifying Spatial Aggregation Error Using Weighted Eigenfunctions”

2:30 – 3:00        Matthias Katzfuss (TAMU): “Multi-resolution approximations for big spatial data”

3:00 – 3:15         Break

3:15 – 4:15        Brian Reich (NCSU):  “Policy optimization for dynamic spatiotemporal systems”

4:15 – 4:45          Karl Gebhardt (UT-Austin): “Correlating the Largest Map of the Universe with HETDEX”

5:00 – 7:00          Poster Session/Reception at the University Club (11th floor of Rudder Tower)

 

 Saturday, Jan 31, 2015 (Rudder 701)

8:30 – 9:00       Breakfast

9:00 – 10:00    Havard Rue (NTNU): “Penalising model component complexity: A principled practical approach to constructing priors”

10:00 – 10:30    Victor DeOliveira (UT-San Antonio): “Hierarchical Poisson Models for Geostatistical Count Data: Properties, Fitting and Model Checking”

10:30 – 10:45    Break

10:45 – 11:15    Oksana Chkrebtii (OSU): “Inference for differential equation models with spatio-temporal discretization uncertainty”

11:15 – 11:45    Elizabeth Mannshardt (NCSU): “Dynamic Spatial Evaluation of Deterministic Air Quality Models using Monitoring Station Observations”

11:45 – 12:00     Closing Remarks

12:00 – 01:00       Lunch

4:00  –  6:00    Reception at Dr. Raymond Carroll’s house