Committee & Speakers

Conference Chairs

Alfred Stein, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Christopher K. Wikle, University of Missouri (MU), USA

Scientific Co-Chairs & Local Organizing Committee:

Mevin B. Hooten, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Will Kleiber, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Douglas Nychka, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA

Scientific Committee:

Denis Allard, France José Miguel Angulo, Spain Peter Atkinson, UK Liliane Bel, France  Candace Berrett, USA Patrick Bogaert, Belgium Pinar Bostan, Turkey William Christensen, USA Carlos Comas, Spain Gerald Augusto Corzo Perez, The Netherlands  Rosa Crujeiras, Spain Sandra De Iaco, Italy Victor  De Oliveira, USA Mahmoud Reza Delavar, Iran Juan Du, USA Inger Fabris-Rotelli, South Africa Reinhard Furrer, Switzerland Edith Gabriel, France Yong Ge, China  Alan Gelfand, USA Wenceslao González-Manteiga, Spain  Pierre Goovaerts, USA  Daniel Griffith, USA Nicholas Hamm, China Ephraim Hanks, USA Murali Haran, USA Gerard B.M. Heuvelink, Netherlands Dionisis Hristopulos, Greece Phaedon Kyriakidis, USA Murray Lark, UK  Bo Li, USA  Gregoire Mariethoz, Switzerland Jorge Mateu, Spain Raquel Menezes, Portugal Francisco Montes, Spain Werner G. Mueller, Austria Gerhard Navratil, Austria Thomas Opitz, France Frank Osei, Netherlands  Edzer Pabesma, University of Münster Maria Dolores Ruiz Medina, Spain Marc Saez, Spain Sujit Sahu Sahu, UK Steve Sain, USA Huiyan Sang, USA Aila Särkkä, Sweden Erin Schliep, USA  Marian Scott, UK Wenzhong Shi, China  Radu Stoica, France Christien Thiart, South Africa Gwladys Toulemonde, France Maria Dolores Ugarte, Spain Marie-Colette van Lieshout, Netherlands Emmanouil Varouchakis, Greece Lance Waller, USA Xi Zhao, China

Invited Speakers

Noel Cressie, Centre for Environmental Informatics, NIASRA, University of Wollongong, Australia

Mevin B. Hooten, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Mikyoung Jun, University of Houston and Texas A&M University, USA

Will Kleiber,University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Finn Lindgren, The University of Edinburgh, UK

Douglas Nychka, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA

Thomas Opitz, INRAE, France

Laura Sangalli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Erin Schliep, North Carolina State University, USA

Alexandra Schmidt, McGill University, Canada

Lily Wang, Department of Statistics, George Mason University, USA

Christopher K. Wikle, University of Missouri (MU), USA

Andrew Zammit-Mangion, University of Wollongong, Australia