One-day Workshop on Spatial-Temporal Models in Epidemiology and Health

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Call for papers for the One-day Workshop on Spatial-Temporal Models in  
Epidemiology and Health
Lisbon (Portugal), June 20th, 2014
http://spatialtemporalepihealth.weebly.com/

The Centre of Statistics and its Applications of the University of  
Lisbon (CEAUL) kindly invites to participate in the One-day Workshop  
on Spatial-temporal Models in Epidemiology and Health, taking place in  
Lisbon on June 20th, 2014, under the ambit of the projects Statistical  
Methods in Environmental and Epidemiological Processes FCT:  
PTDC/MAT/118335/2010 and FCT: PEst-OE/MAT/UI0006/2014.

The workshop aims to i) bring together researchers who work with  
epidemiology and health sciences; ii) promote a fruitful discussion on  
the role of statistical methods, such as time series analysis and  
spatial statistics.

The invited speakers will present their methodological advancements  
with a heavy emphasis on applications. A poster session with  
contributed papers will complement the scientific program. The  
official language of the Workshop is English. The two/three best  
posters presented in the Workshop will be invited to submit/publish  
their (refereed) articles in an issue of RevStat: Statistical Journal.

Invited Speakers:
Andrea Riebler (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Daniela Cocchi (University of Bologna, Italy)
David Conesa (University of Valencia, Spain)
Ines Sousa (University of Minho, Portugal)
Lola Ugarte (Public University of Navarra, Spain)
Sujit K. Sahu (Univeristy of Southampton, UK)

Important dates:
24 March 2014 - Early Bird Registration Opens & Call for Abstract  
Submission Opens
07 May 2014 - Abstract Submission Deadline
20 May 2014 - Notification of Acceptance
31 May 2014 - Early Bird Registration Closes
15 June 2014 - General Registration Closes

For further information, http://spatialtemporalepihealth.weebly.com/

The Organizing Committee