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Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to
announce and invite you to the joint meeting METMA VII – GRASPA14 that will be hosted by the
Department of
Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis”, University of
Torino (IT) from
10th to 12th September 2014.
This is an opportunity
to bring together two communities with common research
interests, such as the
development and use of statistical methods in the environmental
sciences. These
research aims are at the cornerstone of TIES, for which the
meeting will also
be a TIES regional conference. METMA
VII will be the Seventh International Workshop on
Spatio-Temporal
Modelling, while GRASPA14
represents
the 2014 meeting of the Research Group for Statistical
Applications to
Environmental Problems (www.graspa.org).
This meeting will have plenary, invited and
contributed sessions. Note that there are no parallel sessions.
An extensive
poster session will be held as well.
Conference topics include:
-
development
and application of spatial and spatio-temporal statistical
methods in different
fields related to environmental and health sciences,
-
environmental
quality, safety and sustainability including air and water
quality,
epidemiology, earth science and ecology,
-
functional data
analysis, spatial and spatio-temporal sampling and extreme
values.
Important
Deadlines:
-
Extended abstract submission:
April 30, 2014
-
Registration (reduced
fee): May 30, 2014
-
Contribution
acceptance: June 30, 2014
The abstract will be 4 pages max. The latex
template
with the required format will be available soon at the
conference website:
http://meetings.sis-statistica.org/index.php/graspametma14
Location: Campus Luigi Einaudi, University of Torino (IT)
About the host department: http://www.unito.it/unitoWAR/page/dipartimenti4/D031_en/D031_EN_about_department1
Crowned by the majestic
Alps, Torino is packed with palaces and piazzas, great museums,
cafés and
restaurants. Torino also has an enviable food and wine
tradition! See www.turismotorino.org/torino/EN/home.
We take the opportunity to
send everyone our best
wishes for the coming year.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee,
Rosalba
Ignaccolo
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Rosalba Ignaccolo
Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica "Cognetti de Martiis"
Università degli Studi di Torino
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Web page on UniTO: http://www.unito.it/persone/Rosalba.Ignaccolo
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