TIES 2020 Virtual Conference
Frontiers in Statistics, Epidemiology and the Environment
Virtual Conference: December 2-4, 2020
With the COVID-19 pandemics outbreak at the beginning of year 2020, it is even more evident that human, animal and ecosystem health equilibrium disruptions, can occur as a consequence of several interacting factors including poor population lifestyles enhancing negative health pre-conditions; deforestation and removal of many animal species habitats as a consequence or urban and agricultural areas expansion; biodiversity decrease as a result of climate change and land use change; wildlife animals consumption and illegal trade easing animal viruses spillover onto humas; water scarcity and water quality degradation concomitant with poor sanitary conditions triggering water-borne diseases; poor air quality conditions enhancing mortality rate on more vulnerable population groups. These complex causal-effect interactions need to be unveiled, understood, quantified and modeled, in order to improve preparedness to overcome the huge social and economic impacts of infectious diseases in the future. Appropriate statistical methods and data science tools including machine learning methods, need to be made accessible to a wider scientific community in other areas, lying on the frontier between statistics, epidemiology and environmental sciences. In this conference, a highly qualified group of experts will attempt to bridge this gap, exposing the need to use appropriate data analysis and modelling tools to quantify the several causal-effect interactions that might alter human, animal and ecosystem health. The aim of the conference is to provide a space for networking among specialists in these fields and to open opportunities for young researches to understand the value of cross-disciplinary research in order to solve the most pressing problems of our society. Welcome to Frontiers in Statistics, Epidemiology and the Environment conference!
Detailed program available here
Organizing Committee
This conference is being organized by the TIES Board members.
Keynote Speakers
- Bo Li (Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
- Huikyo Lee (NASA JPL, USA)
- Elaine Nsoesie (School of Public Health, Boston University, USA)
Most recent TIES Award Winners
- Andrew Zammit-Mangion: Winner of the Abdel El-Shaarawi Early Investigator Award 2020 (University of Wollongong, Australia)
- Philip A. White: Winner of the Wiley-TIES 2019 Best paper award (Brigham Young University, USA)
Important dates:
TIES membership enrollment: Always open
Conference registration: Oct 15th – Nov 27th, 2020
Conference Dates: Dec 2-4, 2020.
Conference fees and registration
Admission to the conference will be granted after you pay the 2020 TIES membership fee. Once your TIES registration is confirmed you will be able to register in the conference site. Please go to http://www.environmetrics.org/join.html for more information on how to become a TIES member.
For conference registration click here. Go to Details and register in the event. Please note that you do not have to pay anything at this step.
Best student presentation award
Students will be competing for the TIES-Wiley Best student presentation award.
Conference e-mail contanct: vs2020@environmetrics.org