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Workshop on recent advances in modelling spatio-temporal data

University of Southampton, UK

Wednesday, May 25 and Thursday, May 26, 2005.

The Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI) has organised this two day workshop. The central theme of the workshop is statistical modelling of data covarying in space and time. There are no limits on the application areas as long as the data are spatio-temporal and the model includes elements that accommodate both spatial and temporal dependencies.
Post-workshop News:

  1. Upcoming similar workshops/conferences elsewhere in 2006: (1) 6th French-Danish Workshop on Spatial Statistics and Image Analysis in Biology, May 14--18, 2006. (2) International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Modelling (METMA3), to be held in Pamplona, Spain, the 27th, 28th and 29th of September 2006.
  2. The abstract book is online.
  3. You can read a review paper: Recent Trends in Modeling Spatio-Temporal Data written by Sujit Sahu and Kanti Mardia.
  4. Peter Diggle has provided these notes from the roundtable meetings he chaired.
  5. Chris Glasbey and Paul Blackwell have provided these notes from the roundtable meetings they chaired.

Some selected comments:

  • A very strong speaker list and a nice range of modelling and application presentations re last question not really my area, but useful later on. Attended to learn about a new area.
  • The workshop was really good and I think small focussed workshops of this kind are much better places to exchange ideas that big conferences, where some people (specially PhD students and younger staff) may find it harder to interact with others. I think it's very important that this kind of events continue to happen and receive funding. Many thanks to all the organisers for a brilliant job.
  • Ideally workshop meeting like this should include more opportunities for informal discussion. But this is just a minor comment on what was overall a very well organised and interesting meeting.
    • Programme and Posters
    Wednesday 25 May
    8:30-9:15 REGISTRATION
    9:15-9:20 Welcome
    9:20-9:30 Prof W Wakeham (Vice Chancellor)

    		SESSION I

    		Chair: Peter Diggle
    9:30-10:30 Multivariate spatial process modelling

    		      Alan Gelfand
    10:30-11:00 Spatio-temporal modelling of ocean temperature and salinity

    		      Peter Challenor and Sujit Sahu
    11:00-11:30 COFFEE

    		SESSION II

    		Chair: Alan Gelfand
    11:30-12:00 Multivariate analysis of spatial-temporal variation in cancer mortality in Greece

    		      Nicky Best
    12:00-12:30 Bayesian modelling of spatially correlated survival data

    		      Dipak Dey
    12:30-1:00 Modelling the UK 2001 foot-and-mouth epidemic.

    		      Rob Deardon
    1:00-2:00 LUNCH

    		SESSION III

    		Chair: Dipak Dey
    2:00-2:30 Seeking solutions to problems that exhibit uncertainty in both time and space

    		      Caitlin Buck
    2:30-3:00 Bayesian palaeoclimate reconstruction

    		      John Haslett
    3:00-4:00 Roundtable meetings with TEA

    		SESSION IV

    		Chair: Chris Glasbey
    4:00-4:30 Bayesian radio-tracking: inference for diffusions in heterogeneous environments

    		      Paul Blackwell
    4:30-5:00 Inference for state-space models for wild animal populations

    		      Carmen Fernandez
    5:00-7:00 SESSION V: Posters
    7:00- Workshop Dinner
    Thursday 26 May

    		SESSION VI

    		Chair: Nicky Best
    9:00-10:00 Spatio-temporal point processes: methods and application

    		      Peter Diggle
    10:00-10:30 Space-time modelling of soil moisture

    		      Valerie Isham
    10:30-11:00 Space-time multitype log Gaussian Cox processes with a view to modelling weeds

    		      Jesper Moller
    11:00-11:30 COFFEE

    		SESSION VII

    		Chair: Ron Smith
    11:30-12:00 A STARMA model for solar radiation in a microclimate

    		      Chris Glasbey
    12:00-12:30 Non-stationary spatio-temporal analysis of karst water levels

    		      Ian Dryden
    12:30-1:00 Applications of independence estimating equations to large space-time datasets.

    		      Richard Chandler
    1:00-2:00 LUNCH
    2:00-2:30 Roundtable Meetings

    		SESSION VIII

    		Chair: Valerie Isham
    2:30-3:00 A common framework for constructing non-stationary covariance functions

    		      Chris Holmes
    3:00-3:30 Modelling rainfall data from rain seeding experiments.

    		      Giovanna Jona Lasinio
    3:30-4:00 Applying generalised additive mixed models to the estimation of spatial and temporal trends in tree defoliation.

    		      Nicole Augustin
    4:00-4:30 TEA

    		SESSION IX
    4:30-5:30 Report from the Roundtable meetings and closing remarks including comments from:

    		      Peter Diggle, Alan Gelfand and Kanti Mardia.
    Poster Session
    This will be by the bar between 5--7PM on Wednesday, May 25.
    List of presenters and posters
    Renato Assuanccao Identifying space-time clusters in point processes
    Monica Casado Defining Spatial and Temporal hydromorphological sampling strategies for the Leigh Brook river site
    Lieven Clement Spatio-temporal river monitoring network modelling
    Alexander Dolia Novelty detection and Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis of brain activities in fMRI images
    Peter Gething Optimising the utility of national malaria data for health system planning in Kenya using spatiotemporal analysis
    Marco Giannitrapani Fitting and Testing Spatiotemporal Additive Models
    Keith Harris Statistical Modelling and Inference for Radio-Tracking
    Janine Illian Biodiversity of ecosystems - complex interactions and complex modelling
    Jorge Mendes A Bayesian hierarchical model for local precipitation by downscaling atmospheric circulation patterns
    Wolfgang Polasek Spatial interaction of crime incidents in Japan
    Volker Schmid Bayesian extrapolation of space-time trend in cancer registry data
    Verena Trenkel Spatial and temporal structure of predator-prey relationships in the Celtic Sea fish community
    Kamila Zychaluk Modelling evolution of coral reefs
    Pre-workshop News:

    1. Speakers preparing using latex can use this example to produce slides in landscape format. Here is the output pdf file.
    2. See the details for roundtable meetings.
    3. The abstract book is now online.
    4. A laptop with Microsoft office, acrobat reader, ghostview will be available for speakers to present their talks.
    5. Several computers with internet access will be available at the workshop venue.
    6. Wireless internet connection will be available free of charge at the workshop venue.
    7. The vice-chancellor Prof Bill Wakeham has agreed to give the opening address to the delegates on Wednesday, May 25.
    8. Six Royal Statistical Society Bursaries have been awarded to participants.
    9. Prof Tim Holt has agreed to be the after dinner speaker.
    10. The final programme is now online.
    Scientific advisory committee:

    Professor Vic Barnett, Professor Jon Forster, Professor Susan Lewis, Professor Kanti Mardia and Dr Sujit Sahu.
    Local organising committee:

    Dr Sujit Sahu, Professor Susan Lewis, Dr Dave Woods, Mrs. Christina Thompson, Dr J. W. Mac McDonald, Professor Jon Forster, and Dr Anna Vine.
    Contact Us:
    Dr. Sujit K. Sahu and Prof Sue Lewis
    School of Mathematics
    University of Southampton
    Highfield,  SO17 1BJ, UK.


    Phone: +44-(0)23-8059-5123
    Fax  :   +44-(0)23-8059-5147
    S.K.Sahu@maths.soton.ac.uk