Organisers:
Tingjin Chu (University of Melbourne), Davide Ferrari (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), Wei Lin (Peking University), Aihua Xia (University of Melbourne), Sanming Zhou (University of Melbourne), Lawrence Reeves (University of Melbourne).

Program Description:
The aim of this workshop is to bring together internationally recognised experts in spatial statistics as well as early researcher to discuss statistical modelling and applications. Scholars from fields outside of statistics will also be invited, and interdisciplinary research will also be conducted. The focus of workshop is to explore new spatial statistical methodologies and stochastic models, enabling us to tackle problems in spatial statistics that are currently not tractable by available methods.

Keynote Speakers:
Noel Cressie University of Wollongong
Erin Peterson Queensland University of Technology
Jun Zhu University of Wisconsin-Madison

Program Structure: 
Below is the draft of Program Structure. Please click to enlarge.
Note: actual times may differ slightly and things may change as the workshop approaches

Registration:

• Deadline: 15 May 2019
• Registration is by invitation only

Participant List:
Tingjin Chu (University of Melbourne)
Pavel Krupskiy (University of Melbourne)
Guoqi Qian (University of Melbourne)
Noel Cressie (University of Wollongong)
Jun Zhu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Erin Peterson (Queensland University of Technology)
Le Chang (The Australian National University)
Andriy Olenko (La Trobe University)
Yan Wang (RMIT University)
Wei Lin (Peking University, China)
Wenlin Dai (Renmin University of China)
Xianbin Cao (University of Melbourne)
Illia Donhauzer (La Trobe University)
Ravindi Nanayakkara (La Trobe University)
Nan Zheng (Monash University)
Jianzhong Qi (University of Melbourne)
Jiabao Li (Leon) (University of Melbourne)
Benjamin Hines (University of Melbourne)
Manling Qian (University of Melbourne)
Paul Keeler (University of Melbourne)
Alan Pearse (Queensland University of Technology)

ASSOCIATED EVENTS

MATRIX Wine and Cheese Afternoon 16 July 2019
On the first Tuesday of each program, MATRIX provides a pre-dinner wine and cheese afternoon. Produce is locally-sourced to showcase delicacies from the region.