Toledo, 17-21 of March 2010 
The international Summer School with the title Advances and Challenges in Space-time modelling of Natural Events will be held in Toledo (Spain) in March 2010. This Summer School addresses most of all to young researchers (Master students, PhD students, PostDoc researchers) in academics, extra-universitary research and industry, who are interested to learn about recent developments, new methods and applications in spatial statistics and related areas and to exchange their ideas and results with colleagues.
Motivation
In the last years there has been a great demand for models describing the evolution in space and time of environmental, biological, geological and epidemiological processes between many others. Particularly, there is a big need for models which are able to capture the simultaneous behavior of the spatial and temporal components. If we considered them separately, a large quantity of information would be lost.
The environment is composed of a very complex system of interactions between factors. In such scenario, every environment develops his proper life space, which continuously evolves in space and time, in accordance with the system of interactions which constitute the environment itself.
The methods
Given the motivations, this Summer School must be necessarily oriented to a wide spectrum, in order to catch a larger class of problems that can be faced by the natural scientist. Here we list (into alphabetical order) only some of the methodologies that may be used by scientists and practictioners in order to study this class of problems:
- Conditional Simulations of Random Fields
- Extreme Values Theory for Spatial Processes
- Markov Random Fields
- Model-Based Geostatistics
- Multivariate Random Fields
- Non Gaussian Random Fields
- Space-time Geostatistics
- Space-time point processes
- Spatial Design
For each of these subjects, there will be four hours lectures given by the most prominent scientists in the fields and with considerable expertise in both theory and application to real processes.
We look forward to see you in Toledo!
On behalf of the Organizing Committee,
Emilio Porcu
