Workshop on recent advances in modelling spatio-temporal data

University of Southampton, UK

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

See the details for roundtable meetings. The abstract book is now online.
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.
Each preesenter will be given an A0 size poster board. (A0 size = 2 times A1 size = 84.1 cm by 118.9 cm = 33.11" by 46.81").
Posters are to be hanged during the lunchtime (or before) on Wednesday.
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