Presentation

Invited Presentations:

  • July 15, 2014, Model development in past temperature reconstruction, Summer program on The International Surface Temperature Initiative, Boulder, CO.
  • July 1, 2014, Nonparametric estimation of spatial covariance function, IMS Taiwan, China.
  • June 23, 2014, An Approach to Modeling Asymmetric Multivariate Spatial Covariance Structure, Buzios, Brazil.
  • Mar 22, 2014 Reconstructing Past Climate from Natural Proxies and Estimated Climate Forcings using Short and Long Memory Models, Midwest Statistical Conference, Chicago, IL.
  • Oct 3, 2013 Nonparametric estimation of spatial covariance function, Kansas State Uni- versity, Manhattan, KS.
  • August, 2013, Reconstructing past climate from natural proxies and estimated climate forcings using Long Memory models, JSM, Montreal, Canada.
  • July, 2013, Nonparametric estimation of spatial covariance function, The Second Taihu International Statistics Forum, Suzhou, China.
  • August 25-30, 2013, Discussant on paleoclimate session, The 59th World Statistics Congress, Hong Kong, China.
  • August 25-30, 2013, Defining spatial assessment metrics for evaluation of paleoclimatic field reconstructions of the Common Era, The 59th World Statistics Congress, Hong Kong, China.
  • March 6, 2013, Defining spatial assessment metrics for evaluation of paleoclimatic field reconstructions of the Common Era, SAMSI, NC.
  • October, 2012, Nonparametric estimation of spatial covariance function, Environmetrics workshop, Research Triangle Park, NC.
  • September, 2012, invited panel discussant, Massive Data workshop, SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC.
  • October 5-7, 2012, International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics, NC (Declined).
  • May 26-Jun 1, 2012, Invited panel discussant for the workshop of “Frontiers in the Detection and Attribution of Climate Change”, Banff, Canada.
  • July 28-Aug2, 2012, Discussion to “Clustering random curves under spatial interdependence with application to service accessibility” by H. Jiang and N. Serban, JSM, San Diego, CA.
  • July 28-Aug2, 2012, Nonparametric estimation of spatial covariance function, JSM, San Diego, CA.
  • July, 2012, The 2nd IMS Asia Paci?c Rim Meeting, Tokyo, Japan (Declined).
  • April, 2012, An Approach to Modeling Asymmetric Multivariate Spatial Covariance Structure, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN.
  • February 9, 2012, A Statistical Perspective on Climate Problems, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, Purdue University.
  • Oct 26, 2011, 2011, The Role of Statistics in Climate, Purdue graduate seminar.
  • September 28, 2011, An Approach to Modeling Asymmetric Multivariate Spatial Covariance Structure, UIC, Chicago.
  • August 2011, Spatial Data Analysis in Meteorology, China Meteorological Center, Beijing, China.
  • August 2011, Round table discussant for “The present and potential role of statistics in paleoclimate reconstruction for learning about climate change”, JSM, Miami, FL.
  • August 2011, An Approach to Modeling Asymmetric Multivariate Spatial Covariance
    Structure, JSM, Miami, FL.
  • April 2011, An Approach to Modeling Asymmetric Multivariate Spatial Covariance Structure, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
  • March 2011, Univariate and multivariate spatio-temporal covariance structure modeling, Paleoclimate workshop (with travel support), Boulder, CO.
  • February 2011, Bayesian analysis of spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal data, Bayesian Hierarchical Models (BHMs) for Climate Field Reconstruction (CFR) and Comparison to Existing CFR Methods (with travel support), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, NY.
  • February 2011, Practical advantages of Bayesian inference and hierarchical models for inferring past climate, Bayesian Hierarchical Models (BHMs) for Climate Field Reconstruction (CFR) and Comparison to Existing CFR Methods (with travel support), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, NY.
  • January 2011, The Value of Multi-proxy Reconstruction of Past Climate, Workshop on Statistical Methods for Meteorology and Climate Change (with travel support), University of Montreal, Canada.
  • November 2010, The Value of Multi-proxy Reconstruction of Past Climate, Joint Seminar between Department of Statistics and Department of Atmospheric Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
  • November 2010, Revisiting Climate Region Definitions via Clustering, US Department
    of Agriculture at the National Soil Erosion Research laboratory, West Lafayette, IN.
  • August 2010, The Value of Multi-proxy Reconstruction of Past Climate, JSM, Vancouver, Canada.
  • July 2010, The Value of Multi-proxy Reconstruction of Past Climate, International Conference on Statistics and Society, Beijing, China (could not go due to visa issue).
  • June 2010, An Approach to Modeling Asymmetric Multivariate Spatial Covariance Structure, 19th Applied Statistics Symposium of ICSA, Indianapolis, IN.
  • May 2010, Correcting for Signal Attenuation from Noise: Sharpening the Focus on Past Climate., NIST, MD.
  • April 2010, The Value of Multi-proxy Reconstruction of Past Climate, Indiana University, IN.
  • April 2010, The Impact of Heat Waves on Morbidity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Workshop on Statistical Aspects of Environmental Risk (with travel support), SAMSI, NC.
  • March 2010, The Value of Multi-proxy Reconstruction of Past Climate, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Wichita State University, KS.
  • February 2010, Leading discussant of Climate Change workshop (with travel support), SAMSI, NC.
  • December 2009, Statistics in Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Statistics, Purdue University.
  • August 2009, Understanding Past Temperature Reconstruction by Integrating Different Sources, JSM, Washington, DC.
  • August 2009, The 57th session of the International Statistical Institute, Durban, South Africa. (could not go due to visa issue)
  • June 2009, Statistics in Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences, China Meteorological Center, Beijing, China.
  • November 2008, Testing the Covariance Structure of Multivariate Random Fields, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Wichita State University, KS.
  • November 2008, Testing the Covariance Structure of Multivariate Random Fields (Joint Seminar between Purdue University and UIUC), Department of Statistics, UIUC, IL.
  • September 2008, Methods and Applications in Spatial Statistics, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, IN.
  • August 13, 2008, Reconstructions of Past Climate (presented by Doug Nychka), The International Graduate Summer School on Statistics and Climate Modeling, Boulder, CO.
  • August 8, 2008, Combining and Assessing Information from Different Sources — A New Application of Bayesian Hierarchical Models, CMG All Hands Meeting, Boulder, CO.
  • August 4, 2008, Health Impacts under Heat Waves in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, JSM, Denver, CO.
  • Jun 23-28, Invited participant and rapporteur of Studying Uncertainty in Paleoclimate Reconstruction: a network (SUPRA-net), Sheffield, UK.
  • June 10, 2008, Past Temperature Reconstruction Using a Bayesian Hierarchical Model, TIES, Kelowna, Canada.
  • June 1-4, 2008, The “Hockey Stick” and the 1990s: A Statistical Perspective on Reconstructing Hemispheric Temperatures (Poster), Methods and Applications in Modern Statistics, Keystone, CO.
  • April 9, 2008, Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-time Covariance Functions and its Applications in Paleoclimate Reconstruction, Department of Applied Math, University of Colorado-Boulder, CO.
  • February 21, 2008, Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-time Covariance Functions and its Applications in Paleoclimate Reconstruction, School of statistics, University of Minnesota, MN.
  • February 14, 2008, Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-time Covariance Functions and its Applications in Paleoclimate Reconstruction, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa, IA.
  • February 7, 2008, Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-time Covariance Functions and its Applications in Paleoclimate Reconstruction, University of Colorado, Denver, CO.
  • January 28, 2008, Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-time Covariance Functions and its Applications in Paleoclimate Reconstruction, Purdue University, IN.
  • January 25, 2008, Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-time Covariance Functions and its Applications in Paleoclimate Reconstruction, Florida State University, FL.
  • January 17, 2008, Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-time Covariance Functions and its Applications in Paleoclimate Reconstruction, Virginia Tech, VA.
  • January 15, 2008, Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-time Covariance Functions and its Applications in Paleoclimate Reconstruction, Clemson, SC.
  • January 8, 2008, Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-time Covariance Functions and its Applications in Paleoclimate Reconstruction, UC Davis, CA.
  • January 7, 2008, Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-time Covariance Functions and its Applications in Paleoclimate Reconstruction, UC Santa Barbara, CA.
  • November 5, 2007, Past Temperature Reconstruction Using Bayesian Hierarchical Model, Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, CO.
  • October 10, 2007, Innovative Statistical Analysis of Weather, Air Quality, and Health Data, Houston Advanced Research Center, Houston, TX.
  • October 8, 2007, Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-time Covariance Functions and its Applications, Department of Statistics, Rice University, TX.
  • July 31, 2007, Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-time Covariance Functions Associated with Wind Speed Data, JSM 2007, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • July 30, 2007, The “Hockey Stick” and the 1990s: A Statistical Perspective on Reconstructing Hemispheric Temperatures (Poster), JSM 2007, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • June 20, 2007, The “Hockey Stick” and the 1990s: A Statistical Perspective on Reconstructing Hemispheric Temperatures, TIES, Seattle, WA (supported by travel grant).
  • April 23, 2007, Modeling and Testing Properties of Space-time Covariance Functions, Department of Statistics, Colorado State Univeratiy, CO.
  • February 14, 2005, A Geostatistical Method for Texas Nexrad Data Calibration, SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC.

Other Presentations:

  • October 14-16, 2010, An Approach to Modeling Asymmetric Multivariate Spatial Covariance Structure (Poster), Environmetrics workshop, Boulder, CO.
  • Feburary 15, 2010 Statistics in Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences, Qianlai Zhuang’s research lab, Purdue University.
  • October 1, 2009, The “Hockey Stick” and the 1990s: A Statistical Perspective on Reconstructing Hemispheric Temperatures (online), SAMSI, NC.
  • October 23, 2008, Correcting for signal attenuation from noise: Sharpening the focus on past climate, Environmetrics 2008, Boulder, CO.
  • November 10, 2007, Paleoclimate Reconstruction Using Bayesian Hierarchical Model (BHM), University of Wyoming/NCAR workshop, Steamboat Springs, CO.
  • October 4, 2007, Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-time Covariance Functions and its Applications, NCAR, CO.
  • August 24, 2007, The “Hockey Stick” and the 1990s: A Statistical Perspective on Reconstructing Hemispheric Temperatures, 10th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, Beijing, China.
  • July 25, 2007, A Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-Time Covariance Functions, Ninth Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • April 20, 2007, The “Hockey Stick” and the 1990s: A Statistical Perspective on Reconstructing Hemispheric Temperatures, The Colorado-Wyoming Chapter meeting of ASA, Boulder, CO.
  • October 2006, A Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-Time Covariance Functions (Poster), Multivariate Methods in Environmetrics, Chicago, IL.
  • August 2006, A Geostatistical Method for Texas Nexrad Data Calibration, NCAR, Boulder, CO.
  • August 2006, A Geostatistical Method for Texas Nexrad Data Calibration, JSM 2006, Seattle, WA.
  • March 2005, A Geostatistical Method for Texas Nexrad Data Calibration, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M Universtiy, College Station, TX.
  • August 2005, Texas NexRad Data Calibration, JSM 2005, Minneapolis, MN.