October 14, 2008. Short talk on PM exposure estimation and health effects at 2008 ISEA/ISEE conference, plus poster on integrating remote sensing and ground data for estimating PM (see next entry below).
April 26, 2008. Poster on integrating remote sensing and ground data for estimating PM at 2008 HEI conference.
March 18, 2008. Talk on integrating remote sensing and ground data for estimating PM at 2008 ENAR.
February 9, 2008. Talk on Bayesian mapping of ancient forests, with some perspectives on complicated Bayesian hierarchical models, at the Montreal universities statistics colloquium.
November 6 and November 14, 2007. Talks on bias in regression models with spatial confounding at the American Public Health Association meeting in DC and the Harvard Applied Statistics workshop.
October 19, 2007. Poster on integrating satellite and ground-level PM information using Bayesian hierarchical modeling at the 2007 Bayes workshop at CMU.
May 8, 2007. Talk on calibrating and integrating satellite and ground-level PM information using Bayesian space-time statistical modelling at NASA-sponsored workshop on Applications of Environmental Remote Sensing to Air Quality and Public Health.
April 16, 2007. Poster on integrating satellite and ground-level PM information using Bayesian space-time statistical modelling at the annual Health Effects Institute conference (also presented at annual HSPH poster day, May 3).
October 27, 2006. Poster on Bayesian inference for forest composition using the proxy pollen record at the University of Chicago CISES environmetrics workshop.
August 1, 2006. Overview talk on using statistics with deterministic models at the NCAR Junior Faculty Forum workshop on air quality.
June 3, 2006. Poster on Bayesian inference for forest composition using the proxy pollen record at the Valencia 2006 meeting.
May 4, 2006. Overview on combining disparate information (monitors, satellites, CMAQ) for estimating spatially-resolved PM for health analyses at HSPH Faculty lunch.
February 21, 2006. Overview talk on use of remote sensing data for environmental epidemiology at the Community Workshop on Air Quality Remote Sensing at NCAR.
November 10 and 18, 2005. Talk on Bayesian inference for forest composition using the proxy pollen record at CISES (the University of Chicago EPA center) and at Harvard Biostatistics.
September 16, 2005. Poster on Bayesian modeling of tree abundances based on fossil pollen data at the 2005 Bayes workshop at CMU.
August 9, 2005. Presentation on measurement error in predictive spatial modelling for environmental epidemiology at JSM 2005.
February, 2005. Job talk on Gaussian processes for spatial modelling in environmental health: parameterizing for flexibility vs. computational efficiency.
January 14, 2005. Talk on spatial statistics in public health research at the Bormio, Italy joint IMS-ISBA meeting.
October 23, 2004. Talk on fitting spatial terms in regression models with binary outcomes at the computational environmetrics workshop in Chicago hosted by the University of Chicago EPA center.
October 15, 2004. Harvard Biostatistics Environmental Statistics seminar on fitting spatial terms in regression models with binary outcomes.
August 9, 2004. Presentation on nonstationary Gaussian processes for spatial smoothing at 2004 JSM in Toronto. This talk was given in the session of finalists for the Bayesian section's Savage Award.
August 5, 2004. Presentation on using Gaussian processes for spatial smoothing at the New Researchers' Conference in York, Ontario.
March 19, 2004. HSPH GIS-Spatial Analysis working group talk on spatial statistics.
Februrary 23, 2004. Harvard Biostatistics computing working group talk on Latex tricks and tips.
January 16, 2004. Harvard Biostatistics Environmental Statistics seminar on nonstationary Gaussian processes for spatial data.
December 9, 2003. Neural Information Processing Systems conference poster on nonstationary Gaussian processes for regression data. Also, a ps version.
November 21, 2003. Duke Institute for Statistics and Decision Sciences seminar on nonstationary Gaussian processes for spatial data.
November 7, 2003. Panel discussion on spatial statistics and environmental health at the Harvard Biostatistics Environmental Statistics group retreat.
August 5, 2003. Presentation on nonstationary Gaussian processes for nonparametric regression at 2003 JSM in San Francisco.
June 6, 2003. Poster on a new generalized nonstationary covariance, presented at NCAR-SAMSI workshop on spatio-temporal modelling in Boulder, Colorado.
April 28, 2003. My PhD dissertation defense.
Last revised November 2007.