Schedule for: 16w2669 - Big Data Tsunami at the Interface of Statistics, Environmental Sciences and Beyond
Beginning on Friday, March 11 and ending Sunday March 13, 2016
All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).
| Friday, March 11 | |
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| 16:00 - 19:30 |
Check-in begins (Front Desk – Professional Development Centre - open 24 hours) ↓ Note: the Lecture rooms are available after 16:00. (Front Desk – Professional Development Centre) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Buffet Dinner Available (Sally Borden Building, Vistas Dining Room) |
| 20:00 - 22:30 |
Informal gathering in 2nd floor lounge, Corbett Hall ↓ Beverages and a small assortment of snacks are available in the lounge on a cash honor system. (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110)) |
| Saturday, March 12 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ A buffet breakfast is served daily between 7:00am and 9:00am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. Note that BIRS does not pay for meals for 2-day workshops. (Sally Borden Building, Vistas Dining Room) |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Station Manager (TCPL 201) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Imme Ebert-Uphoff: Applying Causal Discovery Methods in the Geosciences --- Challenges and Opportunities (TCPL 201) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Dorit Hammerling: A distributed implementation of the multi-resolution approximation for very large spatial data (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Joe Guinness: Statistical Compression of Climate Model Output (TCPL 201) |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Daniel Griffith: Big Data, Statistics, and Environmental Sciences (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ A buffet lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. Note that BIRS does not pay for meals for 2-day workshops. (Sally Borden Building, Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Teresa Yamana: Ensemble Prediction of Infectious Disease (TCPL 201) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Lilia Leticia Ramirez Ramirez: Probabilistic Forecasting of Influenza (TCPL 201) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Chris McMahan: Forecasting Various Companion Vector-borne Diseases within the Conterminous United States (TCPL 201) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Ola Haug: Modelling and Predicting Residential Water Damage Insurance Claims via a Calibrated Dynamical Downscaling (TCPL 201) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Andrew Finley: Computational Considerations for Applying Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Processes to Large Spatial Data Sets: A Case Study from Forest Biomass Prediction across Alaska (TCPL 201) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Elizabeth Martinez-Gomez: The Role of Statistics in Data-rich Astronomy (TCPL 201) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Robert Lund: Multiple Changepoint Detection: A Big Data Problem (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. Note that BIRS does not pay for meals for 2-day workshops. (Sally Borden Building, Vistas Dining Room) |
| Sunday, March 13 | |
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| 07:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast (Sally Borden Building, Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Group Photo (Meet in TCPL foyer (photograph will be taken outdoors so a jacket might be required)) |
| 09:15 - 10:15 | Informal discussions in smaller groups (TCPL 201) |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | Informal discussions in smaller groups (TCPL 201) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Check out Time (PDC Front Desk) |
