This page provides the slides to various presentations I have given.

June 25, 2019. Talk on statistical and software tools for climate event attribution at the 2019 International Meeting on Statistical Climatology in Toulouse, France.

July 30, 2018. Talk on using the NIMBLE software platform in ecology at the 2018 JSM.

July 13, 2018. Imperial College seminar on the NIMBLE software system for fitting and programming with hierarchical models (with application to paleoecology).

June 29, 2018. Talk on using, programming, and sharing hierarchical modeling algorithms using NIMBLE at the 2018 ISBA meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland.

March 9, 2018. Talk on statistical and software tools for climate event attribution at the 2018 International Detection and Attribution Group (IDAG) workshop.

February 26, 2018. USC Biostatistics seminar on the NIMBLE software system for fitting and programming with hierarchical models (with application to paleoecology).

October 5, 2017. UC Santa Cruz CROSS Research Symposium talk on the NIMBLE software system as a probabilistic programming system.

August 16, 2017. NSF-CBMS Spatial Statistics Workshop (at UC Santa Cruz) talk on the implications of spatio-temporal dependence for computation and inference, illustrated with a compositional data example from paleoecology.

February 22, 2017. UCLA Biostatistics seminar on the NIMBLE software system for fitting and programming with hierarchical models (with application to paleoecology).

June 28, 2016. Talk on using the NIMBLE system to compile parts of R at the 2016 useR! meeting at Stanford.

June 15, 2016. Poster on enabling efficient MCMC sampling in NIMBLE at 2016 ISBA meeting in Sardinia, Italy.

April 26, 2016. Talk on statistical considerations in event attribution at NCAR IMAGE Theme of the Year workshop.

April 25, 2016. Colorado State Statistics seminar on the NIMBLE software system for fitting hierarchical models (with application to paleoecology).

April 1, 2016. Talk on the NIMBLE software system at 2016 Bayesian Environmetrics workshop in Columbus, Ohio.

February 22, 2016. UC Santa Cruz Applied Math and Statistics seminar on the NIMBLE software system for fitting hierarchical models (with application to paleoecology).

August 9, 2015. Talk on parallelizing Gaussian Process calculations in R at the 2015 JSM.

April 1, 2015. University of Minnesota Biostatistics seminar on the NIMBLE software system for fitting hierarchical models (with application to paleoecology).

July 18, 2014. Talk on the NIMBLE software system for fitting hierarchical models at the 2014 ISBA meeting in Cancun, Mexico.

July 1, 2014. Talk on the NIMBLE software system for fitting hierarchical models at the 2014 useR! meeting in Los Angeles.

January 6, 2014. Talk on the NIMBLE software system for fitting hierarchical models at the 2014 MCMSki meeting in Chamonix, France.

August 20, 2013. Talk on extreme value analysis of extreme precipitation in the U.S. at the US CLIVAR meeting in Berkeley.

January 17, 2013. Talk on statistical methods for paleoecology at 2013 DIMACS workshop on Geological Data Fusion.

July 29, 2012. Talk on measurement error in two-stage regression, with application to air pollution epidemiology at the 2012 JSM.

March 1, 2012. Talk on parallel extreme value analysis of climate data at Los Alamos-sponsored Conference on Data Analysis.

August 30, 2011. Poster on computationally-efficient spatial analysis of extremes using local likelihood at SAMSI climate uncertainty quantification workshop.

February 11, 2011. Talk on combining observations and computer model output at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Environmental Energy Technologies Division seminar.

February 3, 2011. Talk on using Markov random field models for both point and areal spatial data at the workshop on Bayesian inference for latent Gaussian models in Zurich.

December 8, 2010. Talk on estimating population trends in cardiometabolic risk factors at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center biostatistics group seminar.

October 5, 2010. Talk on the computational aspects of spatial statistics and the use of Markov random field models at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab computer science seminar.

August 10, 2010. Full talk on spatial latent variable modeling for proxy data with systematic discrepancy at Lawrence Livermore National Lab statistics group seminar.

June 5, 2010. Short talk on spatial latent variable modeling for proxy data with systematic discrepancy at the 2010 Valencia meeting on Bayesian Statistics.

April 14, 2010. Talk on spatial statistics and spatial scale in environmental health science at Berkeley Environmental Health Sciences seminar.

December 9, 2010; June 17, 2010; June 16, 2010; February 8, 2010, December 3, 2009; September 15, 2009. Talks on spatial-confounding bias and precision in spatial regression models at University of Washington Biostatistics seminar, USC Department of Preventative Medicine, RAND, UC-Santa Cruz Statistics seminar, UC-Davis Statistics seminar and the SAMSI Spatial Models opening workshop.

May 2, 2009. Poster on assessing systematic discrepancies between pollution observations and proxy (satellite or physical model) variables using statistical modeling at the 2009 HEI conference.

March 16, 2009. Talk on spatial-confounding bias and precision in spatial regression models at 2009 ENAR.

December 3 and November 22, 2008. Talks on spatial-confounding bias and precision in spatial regression models at Berkeley Statistics Neyman seminar and Harvard Biostatistics Racebrook retreat.

November 6, 2008. Emory Biostatistics seminar on spatial bias modeling with application to assessing remotely-sensed aerosol as a proxy for particulate matter.

October 23, 2008. Poster on spatial bias modeling with application to assessing remotely-sensed aerosol as a proxy for particulate matter at the 2008 ASA Environmetrics workshop at NCAR.

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 August 2015.