International Symposium on Advanced Environmental Statistics 2026
- 【Date】
- 24 March, 2026
- 【Venue】
- Auditorium @ The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
This symposium will be conducted face-to-face. However, the number of participants is limited to 50 or less. If the number of participants exceeds 50, we regret to inform you that registration will be closed. If you wish to attend, please register using the Google form below;
https://forms.gle/A6MxosSNeaDP9eWy5
Please note that only those who have registered will receive a PDF copy of the proceedings.
There is no registration fee.
https://forms.gle/A6MxosSNeaDP9eWy5
Please note that only those who have registered will receive a PDF copy of the proceedings.
There is no registration fee.
- 【Main Subjects】
- Statistical methods supporting environmental statistics,
・Spatial statistics
・Space-time modeling
・Model selection
・Bayesian inference
・Markov Chain Monte Carlo
・Directional Statistics
etc.
- 【Organizers】
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Alan H. Welsh (The Australian National University)
Daisuke Murakami (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics)
Koji Kanefuji (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics)
Shogo Kato (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics)
Yoshinori Kawasaki (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics)
- 【Invited Speakers】
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Alan H. Welsh (Australian National University, Australia)
Daisuke Murakami (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan)
Francis Hui (Australian National University, Australia)
Keiichi Fukaya (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan)
Linh Nghiem (University of Sydney, Australia)
Shogo Kato (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan)
Stephen Wu (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan)
Sungkyu Jung (Seoul National University, Korea)
Yi-Hsiu Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Yongwan Chun (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Program
| 10:00-10:05 | Opening Address Satoshi Yamashita (Director-General, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics) |
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| 10:05-10:45 | Huber means on Riemannian manifolds Jongmin Lee (Pusan National University) and Sungkyu Jung* (Seoul National University) |
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| 10:45-11:25 | A Clustered and Sparse Ising Regression Model for Multivariate Binary Data Francis KC Hui* (The Australian National University) and Ding Ding (The Australian National University) |
| 11:25-12:05 | Logistic Regression Model for Differentially-Private Matrix Masking Data Linh H. Nghiem*(University of Sydney, Australia), A. Ding (Northeastern University, USA), and S. Wu (University of South Florida, USA) |
| 12:05-12:45 | An Interpretable Family of Projected Normal Distributions and a Related Copula Model for Bayesian Analysis of Hypertoroidal Data Shogo Kato* (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics), Gianluca Mastrantonio (Polytechnic of Turin), and Masayuki Ishikawa (Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd.) |
| 12:45-13:30 | Lunch Break |
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| 13:30-14:10 | Statistical model and AI application in Geotechnical Engineering Stephen Wu* (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics), Yu Otake (Tohoku University), Taiga Saito (Tohoku University), and Kotaro Asano (Tohoku University) |
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| 14:10-14:50 | TBD Yongwan Chun (University of Texas at Dallas) |
| 14:50-15:30 | Coarse-to-fine spatial GLMMs for Large Samples Daisuke Murakami* (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics), Alexis Comber (Leeds University), Takahiro Yoshida (Tokyo University), Narumasa Tsutsumida (Saitama University), Chris Brunsdon (Maynooth University), Tomoki Nakaya (Tohoku University) |
| 15:30-15:45 | Coffee Break |
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| 15:45-16:25 | A Statistical Analysis of Rainfall Enhancement Ray Chambers (Australian National University), Zhi Yang Tho (Australian National University), Alan Welsh* (Australian National University) |
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| 16:25-17:05 | Limited Evidence for Range Shift–Driven Extinction in Mountain Biota Yi-Hsiu Chen* (National Taiwan University), Jonathan Lenoir (Université de Picardie Jules Verne), and I-Ching Chen (National Cheng Kung University) |
| 17:05-17:45 | Development and Aplication of Site Occupancy Modeling Methods for Environmental DNA Metabarcoding
Keiichi Fukaya (National Institute for Environmental Studies) |
| 17:45-17:50 | Closing Address Yoshinori Kawasaki (Vice Director-General, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics) |
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