TIES Annual and Regional Meetings

TIES has held annual conferences since 1990. Topical focuses for past conferences include spatial-temporal models, uncertainty analysis, environmental decision analysis, monitoring design and analysis, quantitative methods for environmental sustainability, and more. The J. Stuart Hunter Lecture was established in 1996 to honor Prof. Hunter, who is now Professor Emeritus, School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. The President's Invited Lecture was introduced in 2001.
Regional TIES meetings and TIES sessions in related conferences have taken place since recent years.

Click Map of TIES Annual Meetings to display the world map of past and future annual TIES Conferences.

Upcoming Meetings

Date	Meeting	J. Stuart Hunter Lecture	President's Invited Lecture
2024 Dec 2-5	31st TIES Conference 2024 Location: Adelaide, Australia Organizers: Prof John Boland and A/Prof Belinda Chiera, University of Adelaide Website	Title TBD by Andrew Zammit-Mangion	Title TBD by Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick

 

Past Meetings

Date	Meeting	J. Stuart Hunter Lecture	President's Invited Lecture
2023 July 24-29	The 4th TIES North American Regional Meeting 2023 Location: Peterborough, Canada and online Organizer: Wesley Burr - Trent University Website	Systems Thinking to Break Down Barriers for Actionable Science and Technology by Christie Caudill
2022 Nov 17-18	30th TIES Conference 2022 Location: Virtual Organizer: Yulia R. Gel and Monica Pirani Website		Climate science and resilience with physics-guided informatics on big and small data by Auroop R. Ganguly
2021	29th TIES Conference 2021 Location: online in a diffuse format over September-December 2021 with short courses in July-September 2021 Organizer: Marta Blangiardo & Michela Cameletti twitter: @ties2021 facebook: Ties-Graspa2021 Website
2020 Dec 2-4	TIES 2020 Virtual Conference Location: Virtual Organizer: TIES Board members Link
2019 Aug 26-27	International Conference on Environmental Statistics: Air Pollution, Climate Change and Beyond (TIES Regional meeting) Location: Kunming, China Organizers: Song Xi Chen and Alessandro Fasso, Website
2019 Aug 18-23	62nd ISI World Statistics Congress Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Website		Atmospheric carbon and the statistical science of measuring, mapping, and uncertainty quantification by Noel Cressie
2019 July 15-16	GRASPA 2019 (TIES Regional meeting) Location: University G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Website
2018 Jul 16-21	28th Annual TIES Conference 2018 Location: Guanajuato, Mexico Organizers: Yulia Gel and Leticia Ramirez-Ramirez Website	Using "deep" models from machine learning for parsimonious and efficient implementation of multiscale spatio-temporal statistical models by Christopher Wikle	Nonstationary spatial data: think globally act locally by Douglas Nychka
2017 Jul 24-26	27th Annual TIES Conference joint with GRASPA 2017 Location: Bergamo, Italy Website	Modeling Temporally Evolving and Spatially Globally Dependent Data by Emilio Porcu	Future Climate Change Projections through Statistical Analysis of Multi-model Ensembles: Challenges and Opportunities by Claudia Tebaldi
2017 Jul 16-21	The 61st International Statistical Institute World Statistics Congress Location: Marrakech, Morocco Organizers: Fabrizio Ruggeri and Mohamed Taamouti Website
2016 Jul 18-22	The 26th Annual TIES Conference Location: Edinburgh, UK Organizers: Peter Craigmile and Ron Smith Website	Priors and Problems: Using one to inform about the other by Kerrie Mengersen	A progression in G: time series, spatial statistics, and the trajectories of ecological particles by Mevin Hooten
2015 Nov. 22-25 Short courses on Nov. 21	The 25th Annual TIES Conference Location: Al Ain, United Arab Emirates Organizers: Abdel El Shaarawi and Ali Soliman Gargoum Website	River Blindness, Eyeworm and a Geostatistical Calibration Problem by Peter Diggle	How Geography helps in finite population inference by Daniela Cocchi
2015 July 26-31	The 60th International Statistical Institute World Statistics Congress Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Organizer: Francisco Samaniego and Nancy Lopes Garcia Website
2015 June 15-16	GRASPA 2015 Location: Bari, Italy Organizer: Alessandro Fassò Website
2014 December 15-18	The 24th Annual TIES Conference Location: Guangzhou, China Organizer: Quanxi Shao Website	Frequency Domain Methods for Modeling and Kriging of spatio-Temporal random processes with applications by Tata Suba Rao	Eco-environment Remote Sensing Monitoring: Technology and Application by Jixian Zhang
2014 September 10-12	Joint Meeting METMA VII – GRASPA14 Location: Torino, Italy Organizer: Alessandro Fassò Website
2013 August 25-30	The 59th International Statistical Institute World Statistics Congress Location: Hong Kong, China Organizer: Xuming He and Kai Ng Website
2013 June 10-14	The 23rd Annual TIES Conference Location: Anchorage, AK, USA Organizer: Don Stevens Website	Wildlife Diseases: Challenges and Opportunities for the Ecological Statistician by Jennifer Hoeting	I Never Met a Datum I Didn't Like by Barry Nussbaum
2012 September 11-14	METMA VI (a satellite TIES meeting) Location: Guimarães, Portugal Organizer: Raquel Menezes Website
2012 January 1-6	The 22nd Annual TIES Conference Location: Hyderabad, India Organizers: Tata Subba Rao and Venkata K. Jandhyala	Visualising the Environment: Data, Models and Graphics by Adrian Bowman	Demographic Analysis of Forest Dynamics Using Stochastic Integral Projection Models by Alan Gelfand
2011 September 1-2	SPATIAL 2/TIES European Regional Meeting Location: Puglia, Italy, Organizer: Barbara Cafarelli Website
2011 August 15-18	SARMA/TIES Workshop on Visualization of Climate Data Location: Reykjavík, Iceland Organizer: Birgir Hrafnkelsson Website
2011 June 18-20	The 3rd TIES North American Regional Meeting Location: La Crosse, WI, USA Organizer: Brian Gray Website Archive [PDF 1.5 Mb]
2010 June 20-25	The 21st Annual TIES Conference Location: Margarita Island, Venezuela Organizer: Lelys Guenni Info	Environmetrics for a Data-Rich World by Anders Grimvall	Hierarchical Ocean Models by Bruno Sansó
2009 July 5-9	The 20th Annual TIES Conference Location: Bologna, Italy Organizer: Daniela Cocchi Website	Spatial Statistics, Computer Models and Regional Climate Change by Douglas Nychka	Sustainable Economics: the Contribution of Official Statistics by Walter Radermacher
2009 June 16-18	The 2nd TIESNorth American Regional Meeting Location: Corvallis, OR, USA Organizer: Don Stevens Website
2008 December 16	The 1st TIES European Regional Meeting (held jointly with the RSS Environmental Statistics Section and the RSS panel on Statistics for Ecosystem Change) Location: London, UK Organizer: Ron Smith
2008 June 8-13	The 19th Annual TIES Conference Location: Kelowna, BC, Canada Organizers: David Brillinger and Sylvia Esterby Website	Change Point Analysis of Extreme Values by Jef Teugels	The Role of Statisticians in International Science Policy by Peter Guttorp
2007 August 16-20	The 18th Annual TIES Conference Location: Mikulov, Czech Republic Organizer: Ivana Horová Website	Global Change and Natural Variability by Peter Bloomfield	Environmetal Problems and Statistical Thinking by Abdel El-Shaarawi
2007 June 19-21	The 1st TIES North American Regional Meeting Location: Seattle, WA, USA Organizer: Peter Guttorp Website
2006 June 18-22	The 17th Annual TIES Conference Location: Kalmar, Sweden Organizers: Anders Grimvall and Claudia Libiseller	Environmental Change and Statistical Trends by Marian Scott	Understanding the human made systems means more than identifying the "polluter": How quantitative system analysis helps to find better solutions by Susanne Kytzia
2005 August 21-26	The 16th Annual TIES Conference Location: Beijing, China Organizer: Ray Correll Website	Wandering Through Space-Time by Michael Stein	Integration Frameworks and Methods for Water Resource Management by Tony Jakeman
2004 June 28-July 1	The 15th Annual TIES Conference (held jointly with ACCURACY 2004, the Sixth International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences) Location: Portland, ME, USA Organizer: Ronald McRoberts Website	Bayesian Kriging and Bayesian Network Design by Richard Smith	The Role of Quantitative and Precautionary Analysis in Environmental Decision Making by Alison Cullen
2003 November 3-7	The 14th Annual TIES Conference (held jointly with the 50th Anniversary meeting of the South African Statistical Association) Location: Johannesburg, South Africa Organizers: Ray Correll and Jacky Galpin Website	Modelling Environmental Space-Time Series by Jim Zidek	Making Environmental Statistics Useful: A Third World Perspective by Thomas Polfeldt
2002 June 18-22	The 13th Annual TIES Conference Location: Genoa, Italy Organizers: Vincenzo Dovi (ISTIC, Universita de Genova), D. Cocchi, and S.R. Esterby Website	The Ozone Hole: Spatial Trend in a Massive, Global Data Set by Noel Cressie	Is the Earth's Climate Changing? by Lennart Bengtsson
2001 August 13-17	The 12th Annual TIES Conference Location: Portland, Oregon, USA Organizer: A.R. Olsen.	Can Statistical Science Meet the Demands of Environmental Protection? by Paul Switzer	Statistics, Science and Public Policy by Agnes Herzberg
2000 September 4-8	The 11th Annual TIES Conference (held jointly with SPRUCE) Location: University of Sheffield, UK Organizers: P.C. Chatwin and C.W. Anderson	Distance Sampling: Recent Advances and Future Directions by Steve Buckland	N/A
1999 August 23-27	The 10th Annual TIES Conference Location: Athens, Greece Organizers: H. Pavlopoulos and A.H. El-Shaarawi Website	Picture the Future: Graphical Innovation in Environmental Statistics by Peter Guttorp	N/A
1998	The 9th Annual TIES Conference Location: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Organizers: A.H. El-Shaarawi and R. Correll	Hybrid Neural Networks for Environmental Process Control by Richard DeVeaux	N/A
1997	The 8th Annual TIES Conference Location: Innsbruck, Austria Organizers: A.H. El-Shaarawi and R. Viertl	A Unified Approach to Multivariate Outliers, Multivariate Transformations, and Discriminant Analysis by Anthony Atkinson	N/A
1996 July 22-26	The 7th Annual TIES Conference Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Organizers: A.H. El-Shaarawi and C. Pereira	Random Process Methods and Environmental Data by David Brillinger	N/A
1995 December 6-9	The 6th Annual TIES Conference Location: Bangi, Malaysia Organizers: A.H. El-Shaarawi and M. Abdullah	N/A	N/A
1994 August 12-15	The 5th Annual TIES Conference Location: Burlington, ON, Canada Organizers: A.H. El-Shaarawi and S.R.Esterby	N/A	N/A
1992 August 17-21	The 4th Annual TIES Conference Location: Espoo, Finland Organizers: A.H. El-Shaarawi and J. Walden	N/A	N/A
1991 October 7-10	The 3rd Annual TIES Conference Location: Madison, WI, USA Organizers: A.H. El-Shaarawi and P.M. Berthouex	N/A	N/A
1990 September 27-30	The 2nd Annual TIES Conference Location: Tremezzo, Italy Organizers: A.H. El-Shaarawi and I.B. MacNeill	N/A	N/A
1989 April 4-7	The 1st TIES Conference Location: Cairo, Egypt Organizers: A.H. El-Shaarawi and I.B. MacNeill	N/A	N/A