On 30 July, Prof Noel Cressie is coming to visit ITC. Prof. Cressie is distinguished Professor of Statistics in the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, at the University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia and Director of the Centre for Environmental Informatics (CEI) in the National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA).
His visit will consist of an event where we start with introductions on spatial statistics at ITC, and key contributions of Noel Cressie to spatial statistics. This is followed by a presentation from his side. In the afternoon, presentations from PhD candidates and senior researchers are organized, highlighting spatial statistical aspects of their research (±10 minutes), followed by a discussion with Noel and others.
Prelimanary programme:
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Word of welcome – Spatial statistics at ITC
Prof Freek van der Meer, Dean Faculty ITC
11.15 Prof. Cressie’s contributions to spatial statistics.
Prof Alfred Stein, Professor of Mathematical and statistical methods for geodata
11.30 Downscaling climate data for biodiversity modelling on the Antarctic continent
Prof Noel Cressie, Professor of Statistics in the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics
12.30 Lunch
Research presentations:
13.30 Poisson cokriging - David Payares Garcia
14.15 Urban flood susceptibility mapping - Sofia Li
15.00 Break
15.30 Spatial Sampling for Environmental Modelling and Mapping - Jon Wang
16.15 Covid modeling in Ghana - Ernest Akyereko
17.00 Closing
