Invited Sessions

Last update: March 03, 2017

Session title Role Name Affiliation
Spatio-temporal disease mapping: models and applications Organizer Lola Ugarte Public University of Navarre, Spain
Speaker 1 Ying MacNab University of British Columbia, Canada
Speaker 2 Tomás Goicoa Public University of Navarre, Spain
Speaker 3 Danel Martinez University of Valencia, Spain
Spatio-temporal modeling of disease risk to quantify the changing nature of health inequalities Organizer Duncan Lee University of Glasgow, UK
Speaker 1 Gary Napier University of Glasgow, UK
Speaker 2 Aritz Adin Public University of Navarra, Spain
Speaker 3 Annibale Biggeri University of Florence, Italy
Environmental processes and human activities: capturing their interactions via statistical methods (EPHASTAT) Organizer Daniela Cocchi (PI of the PRIN 2015 EPHASTAT project) University of Bologna, Italy
Speaker 1 Haakon Christopher Bakka NTNU, Norway
Speaker 2 Angela Ferruzza ISTAT, Italy
Speaker 3 Kristian Meissner Finnish Environment Institute, Finland
Speaker 4 Bruno Sansò University of California, US
ISBA-EnviBayes: Computational statistics for large spatial data Organizer Montse Fuentes North Carolina State University, US
Speaker 1 Bo li University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
Speaker 2 Marc Genton KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Speaker 3 Marian Scott University of Glasgow,  UK
Some new developments in the R-INLA project Organizer Michela Cameletti and Marta Blangiardo University of Bergamo, Italy and Imperial College London, UK
Speaker 1 Havard Rue NTNU, Norway
Speaker 2 Fabian Bachl Edinburgh University, UK
Speaker 3 Anna Freni Sterrantino Imperial College London, UK
Understanding our environment Organizer Marian Scott University of Glasgow, UK
Speaker 1 Esther Jones University of St. Andrews, UK
Speaker 2 Ben Marchant British Geological Survey, UK
Speaker 3 Mark Cutler University of Dundee, UK
Recent Advances in Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Models Organizer Hsin-Cheng Huang Institute of Statistical Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Speaker 1 Hao Zhang  Purdue University, US
Speaker 2 Jun Zhu University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
Speaker 3 Nan-Jung Hsu  National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Spatial Methods in Geostatistics and Ecological Statistics Organizer Hsin-Cheng Huang Institute of Statistical Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Speaker 1 Wen-Han Hwang National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Speaker 2 Chun-Shu Chen National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan
Speaker 3 Guilherme Vieira Nunes Ludwig University of Campinas, Brazil
Speaker 4 Hsin-Cheng Huang Institute of Statistical Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Functional geostatistics Organizer Elvira Romano Second University of Naples, Italy
Speaker 1 Clair Miller University of Glasgow, UK
Speaker 2 Francisco J Rodríguez-Cortés Jaume I University, Spain
Speaker 3 Alicia Nieto Reyes University of Cantabria, Spain
Spatial modeling for epidemiological data Organizer Maria Franco Villoria and Massimo Ventrucci University of Torino, Italy; University of Bologna, Italy
Speaker 1 Alastair Rushworth University of Strathclyde, UK
Speaker 2 Dae-Jin Lee Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Spain
Speaker 3 Pasquale Valentini University of  Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Spatial statistics in climate and environmental studies Organizer Francesco Lagona and Carlo Gaetan University of Roma Tre, Italy;  Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Speaker 1 Stefano Castruccio Newcastle University, UK
Speaker 2 Reinhard Furrer University of Zurich, Switzerland
Speaker 3 Denis Allard INRA, France
Environmental directional statistics Organizer Francesco Lagona University of Roma Tre, Italy
Speaker 1 Marco di Marzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Speaker 2 Gianluca Mastrantonio Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Speaker 3 Rosa Crujeiras Casais University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Hidden Markov models in climate and environment Organizer Francesco Lagona University of Roma Tre, Italy
Speaker 1 Francesco Lagona University of Roma Tre, Italy
Speaker 2 Antonello Maruotti LUMSA, Italy
Speaker 3 Luigi Spezia BioSS, UK
Compositional Data Analysis Organizer Alessandra Menafoglio Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Speaker 1 Jennifer Mckinley Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Speaker 2 Karel Hron Palacký University, Czech Republic
Speaker 3 Peter Filzmoser Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Speaker 4 Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn University of Girona, Spain
Spatial analysis of Complex and Object data I Organizer Piercesare Secchi and Laura Sangalli Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Speaker 1 Thomas Romary MINES ParisTech, France
Speaker 2 Davide Pigoli Cambridge University, UK
Speaker 3 Shahin Tavakoli Cambridge University, UK
Speaker 4 Alessandra Menafoglio Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Spatial analysis of Complex and Object data II Organizer Piercesare Secchi and Laura Sangalli Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Speaker 1 Sara De Luna Umea University, Sweden
Speaker 2 Luigi Ippoliti University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Speaker 3 Rosalba Ignaccolo University of Torino, Italy
Smart Statistics: cities, mobility, and society Organizer Simone Vantini Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Speaker 1 TBA Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Speaker 2 Giovanni Azzone Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Speaker 3 Jacopo di Iorio Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Speaker 4 Matteo Fontana Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Spatial data analysis and partial differential equations Organizer Laura Sangalli Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Speaker 1 Ming-Jun Lai University of Georgia, US
Speaker 2 Ateljevich Eli California Department of Water Resources, US
Speaker 3 Guannan Wange College of Willam & Mary, US
Speaker 4 Finn Lindgren University of Edinburgh, UK
Spatial data analysis on spheres and other bidimensional manifolds Organizer Laura Sangalli Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Speaker 1 TBA  
Speaker 2 Daniel Simpson University of Bath, UK
Speaker 3 Mikyoung Jun Texas A&M University, US
Speaker 4    
Functional Data Analysis for Space-time Sensor data Organizer Claire Miller and Surajit Ray University of Glasgow, UK
Speaker 1 Amira El Ayouty Cairo University, Egypt and University of Glasgow, UK
Speaker 2 Ruth O'Donnel University of Glasgow, UK
Speaker 3 Laura Sangalli Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Space-time and functional approaches for partially observed data Organizer Laura Sangalli and Claire Miller Politecnico di Milano, Italy; University of Glasgow, UK
Speaker 1 Surajit Ray University of Glasgow, UK
Speaker 2  Johan Strandberg Umea University, Sweden
Speaker 3 Francesca Di Salvo University of Palermo, Italy
Stochastic weather generators and stochastic downscaling of climate variables Organizer Denis Allard INRA, France
Speaker 1 Anastasia Baxevani Univeristy of Cyprus, Cyprus
Speaker 2 Lionel Benoit University of Lausanne, Swizterland
Speaker 3 Mathieu Vrac CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Spatio-temporal modelling for environment Organizer Liliane Bel AgroParisTech, France
Speaker 1 Maxime Beauchamp INERIS, France
Speaker 2 Nicolas Desassis Mines Paris Tech, France
Speaker 3 Stephane Girard INRIA, France
Advances in weather forecasting Organizer Orietta Nicolis University of Valparaiso, Chile
Speaker 1 Omar Cuevas  University of Valparaiso, Chile
Speaker 2 Sándor Baran University of Debrecen, Hungary
Speaker 3 Carlos Diaz National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Advances in Ecological Modelling Organizer Grace Chiu and Hideyasu Shmidazu Australian National University, Australia; Loughborough University,UK
Speaker 1 Yuan (Joyce) Yuan  University of St. Andrews  UK
Speaker 2 Scott Foster CSIRO, Australia
Speaker 3 Eric Fu University of British Coloumbia, Canada
Statistics and Data Mining for Sustainable Energy Modeling and Prediction Organizer Yulia Gel University of Texas at Dallas, US
Speaker 1 John Boland University of Southern Australia, Australia
Speaker 2 Carlo Lucheroni University of Camerino, Italy
Speaker 3 Fabrizio Sossan EPFL, Switzerland
Advances in time series analysis for environmental monitoring Organizer Wyacheslav Lyubchich University of Maryland, US
Speaker 1 Abdel El-Shaarawi Cairo University, Egypt
Speaker 2 Wyacheslav Lyubchich University of Maryland, US
Speaker 3 Weslwy Burr Trent University, Canada
Cancer mapping Organizer Behzad Mahaki Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Speaker 1 Volker J Schmid Ludwig Maximilans University, Germany
Speaker 2 Shadi Ghasemi Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Speaker 3 Yaghoub Hajizadeh Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Speaker 4 Behzad Mahaki Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Inference on Gauss Markov Random Fields Organizer Luigi Ippoliti University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Speaker 1 Mattia Molinaro  University of Zurich, Switzerland
Speaker 2 Luca Romagnoli University of Molise, Italy
Speaker 3 Fedele Greco University of Bologna, Italy
Studies on Air Pollution in China Organizer Song Xi Chen Peking and Iowa State Universities
Speaker 1 Bin Guo Southwestern University of  Finance and Economics, China
Speaker 2 Hui Huang Peking University, China
Speaker 3 Wei Lin Peking University, China
Speaker 4 Song Xi Chen Peking and Iowa State Universities
Bayesian ecological modelling and biodiversity assessment Organizer Alessio Pollice University of Bari, Italy
Speaker 1 David Valentin Conesa Guillén University of Valencia,  Spain
Speaker 2 Crescenza Calculli University of Foggia, Italy
Speaker 3 Fabio Divino University of Molise, Italy
Speaker 4 Giovanna Jona Lasinio Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Demographic behaviors and environmental aspects Organizer Daniele Vignoli and Filomena Racioppi University of Firenze Italy; Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Speaker 1 Giulia Cesaroni National Health Institute, Italy
Speaker 2 Elena Ambrosetti Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Speaker 3 Laura Grisotto University of Florence, Italy
Interaction between population and environment Organizer Daniela Cocchi University of Bologna, Italy
Speaker 1 Carlo Giovanni Camarda French Institute for Demographic Studies, France
Speaker 2 Irene Mosca Trinity college, UK
Speaker 3 Raya Muttarak International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
Speaker 4 Alessandra Petrucci University of Florence, Italy
Modelling environmental and health data Organizer Marta Blangiardo Imperial College London, UK
Speaker 1 Duncan Lee University of Glasgow, UK
Speaker 2 Veronica Berrocal University of Michigan, US
Speaker 3 Virgilio Gomez-Rubio University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Complex space-time modeling and functional analysis for probabilistic forecast of seismic events Organizer Renata Rotondi and Giada Adelfio CNR Imati and University of Palermo, Italy
Speaker 1 Giada Adelfio University of Palermo, Italy
Speaker 2 Jorge Mateu Jaume I University, Spain
Speaker 3 Ilaria Spassiani INGV, Italy
Speaker 4 Elvira Romano Second University of Naples, Italy
Recent advances in temporal analysis of environment related changes Organizer Renjun Ma University of New Brunswick, Canada
Speaker 1 Lang Wu University of British Colombia, Canada
Speaker 2 Yuehua (Amy) Wu York University, Canada
Speaker 3 Ying Zhang Acadia University, Canada
New Developments in Methods for Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Organizer Murali Haran Penn State University, US
Speaker 1 Erin Schliep University of Missouri, US
Speaker 2 Murali Haran Penn State University, US
Speaker 3 Jon Stroud Georgetown University, US
Speaker 4 Gabriel Huerta University of New Mexico, US
Inference and modelling of complex systems Organizer Leticia Ramirez-Ramirez CIMAT, Mexico
Speaker 1 Heikki Haario   Lappeeranta University of Technology, Finland
Speaker 2 Anna Shcherbacheva  Lappeeranta University of Technology, Finland
Speaker 3 Aleksandr Bibov     Lappeeranta University of Technology, Finland
Speaker 4 L. Leticia Ramirez-Ramirez Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas
Advances in Spatial and Temporal Statistics Organizer Marc Genton KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Speaker 1 David Bolin Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Speaker 2 Ying Sun KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Speaker 3 TBA  
Understanding network structure and diversity: Traits, Space, Time Organizer Ayesha Ali University of Guelph, Canada
Speaker 1 Catherine Crea University of Guelph, Canada
Speaker 2 TBA  
Speaker 3 TBA  
Precipitation microphysical retrievals and analysis using weather radar observations Organizer Michela Cameletti and Stefania Ghigo University of Bergamo, Italy and Arpa Piemonte, Italy
Speaker 1 Luca Baldini ISAC-CNR, Italy
Speaker 2 Renzo Bechini Arpa Piemonte, Italy
Speaker 3 Orietta Cazzuli Arpa Lombardia, Italy
Spatio-temporal analysis of ground-based and satellite observations - I Organizer Fabio Madonna CNR-IMAA, Italy
Speaker 1 Birgit Hassler Bodeker Scientific, New Zealand
Speaker 2 Betsy Weatherhead NOAA, US
Speaker 3 Francesco Finazzi University of Bergamo, Italy
Spatio-temporal analysis of ground-based and satellite observations - II Organizer Fabio Madonna CNR-IMAA, Italy
Speaker 1 Andrea Merlone INRIM, Italy
Speaker 2 Fabio Madonna CNR-IMAA, Italy
Speaker 3 Ilia Negri University of Bergamo, Italy
Methods for assessing and modeling climate change effects Organizer Marzia Marcheselli University of Siena, Italy
Speaker 1 Roberto Benedetti University of  Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Speaker 2 Caterina Pisani University of Siena, Italy
Speaker 3 Piermaria Corona CREA-SEL, Italy
Citizen science in ecology Organizer Pascal Monestiez INRA, France
Speaker 1 Joel Chadoeuf INRA, France
Speaker 2 Christophe Botella CIRAD, France
Speaker 3 Nick Isaac CEH, UK