Conference Organization

Year

Description

October 2011 Program Co-Chair, GeoMedical Systems International Conference, Victoria, October 2011.
August 2011 Session Organizer, International Statistical Institute World Statistics Congress, Dublin, August 2011.
July 2011 Program Committee, International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Valencia, July 2011.
August 2010 Session Organizer and Chair, Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver, Ausust 2010.
July 2010 Program Chair, Spatial Statistics and Climate Modeling, MITACS and GEOIDE Summer School, Vancouver, July 2010.
June 2010 Session Organizer and Chair, The International Environmetrics Meeting, Venezuela, June 2010.
May 2010 Organizer, Panel Discussion on Challenges and Benefits of Interdisciplinary Research, Statistical Society of Canada annual meeting, Quebec City, May 2010.
May 2010 Organizer, Panel Discussion on the Benefits of Establishment of a National Statistics Institute, Statistical Society of Canada annual meeting, Quebec City, May 2010.
August 2009 Program Committee, Session Chair, Emerging Issues in the Analysis of Longitudinal Data, Banff International Research Station, August 2009.
June 2009 Program Committee, Mathematical and Statistical Descriptions of Forest Fire Spread, MITACS and GEOIDE Summer School, Hinton, Alberta, June 2009.
July 2009 Program Committee, International Symposium on Inference in Generalized Linear Longitudinal Mixed Models, St. John's, Newfoundland, July 2009.
June 2009 Session Co-Organizer and Chair, Memorial Session for Randy Sitter, Statistical Society of Canada annual meeting, Vancouver, BC, June 2009.
July 2008 Session Organizer and Chair, UBC Summer School: Perceiving, measuring and managing risk: illiquidity, long-term risk, natural resource, Vancouver, July 2008.
June 2008 Program Committee, Session Organizer, The International Environmetrics Conference, Kelowna, June 2008.
June 2008 Session Organizer, International Biometric Society Western North-American Meeting, Davis, CA, June 2008.
May 2008 Program Chair, Climate Change Impacts on Ecology and the Environment, Banff International Research Station, May 2008.
October 2007 Program Chair, CIHR Consensus Meeting on Priorities for the Development of Quantitative Methods, Toronto, October, 2007.
August 2007 Session Organizer, Invited Session, The International Environmetrics Conference, North-American Region, Seattle, August 2007.
June 2007 Session Organizer, CRM-SSC Invited Session, and President's Invited Session, Statistical Society of Canada annual meeting, St. John's, Newfoundland, June 2007.
April 2007 Co-Program Chair, Conference on Statistical Distributions and Models: Assessment and Applications, Simon Fraser University, April 2007.
April 2007 Program Committee, National Program on Complex Data Analysis Scientific Meeting, Banff International Research Station, April 2007.
January 2007 Program Committee, Environmetrics Conference, Semiahmoo, January 2007.
August 2006 Program Committee, Conference on Statistical Methods in Cancer Epidemiology, Seattle, August 2006.
June 2006 Session Organizer, CRM-SSC Invited Session, Statistical Society of Canada annual meeting, London, Ontario, June 2006.
June 2005 Session Organizer, CRM-SSC Invited Session, Statistical Society of Canada annual meeting, Saskatoon, June 2005.
June 2002 Program Committee, International Biometric Society Western North-American Meeting, Seattle, June 2002. Session Organizer and Chair, President's Invited Lecture. Session Co-Organizer, Short Course on `Molecular Phylogeny: Statistical Methods for Reconstructing and Interpreting Evolutionary Histories'.
June 2000 Program Committee, Statistical Society of Canada annual meeting, Ottawa, June 2000. Also organizer of the Biostatistics Section President's Invited Address, 4 invited sessions, the Biostatistics contributed sessions.
July 1999 Session Organizer, International Conference on Statistics in the 21st Century, Maine, July 1999.
June 1999 Program Chair, International Biometric Society Western North-American Meeting, Seattle, June 1999. This meeting drew approximately 350 attendees.
June 1999 Scientific Program Committee, Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis, Rochester, June 1999.
Summer 1999 Session organizer, Invited session, American Statistical Association Meeting, Baltimore, summer 1999.
June 1998 Session organizer, Invited Session, International Biometric Society Western North-American Meeting, June 1998.
May 1997 Program Chair, Workshop on Spatial Epidemiology, Vancouver, May, 1997.
1997 Session organizer, Invited session, annual meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1997.
1997 Organizer of the Public Lecture at the annual meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1997.
August 1994 Session Chair, American Statistical Association Meeting, August 1994, Toronto.
March 1994 Member of the organizing committee for a workshop on Water Quality Assessment, sponsored by the Water Quality Branch, Environment Canada, Victoria, March 1994.
1993 Representative of the Statistical Society of Canada on the organizing committee for the American Statistical Association's `Joint Statistical Meetings, 1993.'
Summer 1993 Organizer for the Statistical Society of Canada Invited sessions and one roundtable discussion at the American Statistical Association Meeting, summer 1993, San Francisco, California.
1992 Session organizer, annual meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, 1992, Edmonton, Alberta.