January 12-13, 2007
The Department of Statistics at the University of Florida will host its Ninth Annual Winter Workshop: Workshop on Environmental and Environmental Health Statistics. The workshop is dedicated to exploring emerging statistical methods for analyzing and interpreting data related to pressing environmental problems. There will be twelve invited talks by leading statistical researchers. Tentative topics include extreme value theory as applied to hurricane winds; point process modeling of fire outbreaks; spatial modeling of environmental health data; causal inference in studies of disease risk; and, using dirichlet processes to model precipitation.
2007 Conference Program (PDF)
Invited Speakers – abstracts & Talks
Francesca Dominici, Johns Hopkins University – Abstract
James Elsner, Florida State University – Abstract
Alan Gelfand, Duke University – Abstract
Marc Genton, Texas A&M University – Abstract
Peter Guttorp, University of Washington – Abstract
Tom Lumley, University of Washington – Abstract
Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research – Abstract
Walt Piegorsch, University of Arizona – Abstract
Richard Smith, University of North Carolina – Abstract
Paul Switzer, Stanford University – Abstract
Mark van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley – Abstract
Organizers
Mary Christman, Babette Brumback, Mike Daniels, Yongsung Joo, and Xueli Liu
Conference Photo
