[Forum SIS] TIES 26th conference in Edinburgh, Scotland . 18th - 22nd July 2016.

[giovanna jona lasinio]

Sorry for crossposting:

The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) will hold its 26th
conference in Edinburgh, Scotland from 18th - 22nd July 2016.

**** Submission of abstracts for contributed sessions and registration for
the meeting and short courses is now open. ****

The conference website at
http://www.ed.ac.uk/maths/international-environmetrics-society, where more
details about the meeting are available. This website will be updated
regularly as the conference programme is finalised.

TIES aims to foster the development and use of statistical and quantitative
methods in the environmental sciences, and emphasises the role of
collaboration between statisticians, mathematicians, scientists and
engineers in finding solutions to problems in environmental monitoring,
engineering and protection.

The conference will have a number of plenary and invited sessions.

The confirmed plenary speakers are

Prof Montse Fuentes, North Carolina State University, USA
Dr Mevin Hooten, Colorado State University, USA
Prof Kerrie Mengerson, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Prof Andrew Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina, USA

The current list of invited sessions includes:

Biodiversity measures and modelling
Change-point methods and their applications to environmental data
Circular data in Environmental sciences
Environment and health
Environmental criminology
Environmental Official Statistics
Environmental Risk
Extremes for climate and environment
Functional data
Models for Dependent Data with Environmental Time Series Applications
Sensors and the environment
Spatial and/or spatio-temporal modelling of environmental processes
Spatio-temporal modelling of disease risk
Statistical Climatology
Statistical ecology
Statistical learning for environmental and geoscience prediction problems
and uncertainty quantification
Statistics for massive environmental data
Uncertainty Quantification in Environmental Prediction
Understanding of High Dimensional Environmental Data
Vector-borne disease mapping
Contributed papers/posters on any aspect of TIES activity are welcome.

We are also accepting a limited number of invited sessions proposals.
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