Tuesday, August 24

8:30 - 9:00    Registration                                           Antoniadou Hall, AUEB

9:00-10:30   Session 7:  Special Lectures         Antoniadou Theater, AUEB
                    Chair: Sylvia Esterby

 Lawrence H. Cox
 "Estimation of Regional Trends in Sulfur Dioxide over the Eastern United States"

  Clifford H. Spiegelman,
J. F. Bennett, M. Vannucci, M. J. McShane, and G. L. Cote
"The Parallel Calibration Method"

10:30-11:00    Coffee Break                                         Antoniadou Hall, AUEB

11:00-12:30   Session 8:                                            Antoniadou Theater, AUEB
                 Statistical Research on Ambient Particulate Matter Pollution
                        Organiser and Chair: Lawrence H. Cox

Merlise Clyde
"Model Uncertainty in Health Effect Studies"

Mark S. Kaiser and M. J. Daniels
"Assessing Sources of Variability in Measurements of Ambient Particulate Matter"

  Lianne Sheppard
"Modelling Short-Term Air Pollution Health Effects Using Surrogate Exposure Measurements from Ambient Monitors"

 11:00-12:30   Session 9:                                          Antoniadou Room 21, AUEB
                      Diffusion and Transport
                         Organiser and Chair: Philip Chatwin
Anastasios Antypas
"Modelling and Predicting Concentration and Dosage of Gases Dispersing in the Atmosphere with the Use of Empirical Orthogonal Functions"

Philip Chatwin
"A New Closure Hypothesis for the PDF of Dispersing Scalars in Turbulent Flows"

P.  Chatwin, N. Mole, and Rick Munro
"The High Concentration Tails of the PDF of a Dispersing Scalar in the Atmosphere"

12:30 -2:00    Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:30   Session 10:  Precipitation                              Antoniadou Theater, AUEB
                    Organizers: Harry Pavlopoulos and Vijay K. Gupta
                      Chair: Edward C. Waymire

Richard E. Chandler and H. S. Wheater
"Modelling Changing Rainfall Patterns using Generalised Linear Models:
A Case Study from the West of Ireland"

Thomas M. Over and V. K. Gupta
"Properties of Time Series from a Causal Space-Time Multifractal Rainfall Model"

Harry Pavlopoulos and V. K. Gupta
"On the Intermittence of Rainfields: A Space - Time Approach"

2:00 - 3:30   Session 11:                                                  Antoniadou Room 21, AUEB
                    Environmental Regulations
                      Chair: Abdel H. El-Shaarawi
  An Carbonez, J. L. Teugels, and A. H. El-Shaarawi
  "Maximum Microbiological Contaminant Levels"

  Abdel H. El-Shaarawi, J. L. Teugels, and A. Carbonez
  "Estimation of Environmental Control Limits and Probabilities"

  Mara Lee McLaren
  "The Setting of International Aviation Emission Standards:
  A Case Study of the International Community at Work"

3:30 - 4:00    Coffee Break                                                      Antoniadou Hall, AUEB

4:00 - 6:00   Session 12:                                                     Antoniadou Theater, AUEB
                 River Networks and Flows
                    Organizers: Harry Pavlopoulos and Vijay K. Gupta
                      Chair: Harry Pavlopoulos

Brent M. Troutman
"River Network Models, Mass Exponents, and Flow"

Edward C. Waymire
"Some Recent Scaling/Self-Similarity Results for Rain and River Models"

Carlo De Michele and R. Rosso
"Uncertainty Assessment of Regionalized Flood Frequency Estimates"

Carlo De Michele, R. Rosso, and G. Salvadori
"Searching for the Physical Basis of the Generalized Extreme Value Distribution of Maximum Annual Flow in Flashy Streams"

4:00 - 6:00    Session 13:                                                          Antoniadou Room 21, AUEB
                  Change-Point and Sequential Analysis
                       Chair:  Armand Maul
  Mokhtar Abdullah and N. Husain
  "On the Application of Change-Point Detection to Environmental Data"

  V. K. Jandhyala, S. B. Fotopoulos and N. E. Evaggelopoulos
  "Change-Point Analysis of Nitrogen Monoxide Levels at Mace Head, Ireland"

  S. Bordignon and Michele Scagliarini
  "Monitoring Algorithms for Detecting Changes in Ozone Concentrations"

  Maria Schipper
  "Towards a Sequential Analysis of Environmental Monitoring Data:
  Simplification of the Covariance Matrix Structure"

6:00 - 7:00    General Meeting of The International Environmetrics Society
                                                                                             Antoniadou Theater, AUEB
 
 

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