The First Portuguese-Galician Meeting on Ecological and Environmental Statistics (EES2014) will take place from 6th till 8th of November 2014, in the Department of Mathematics, at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) in Vila Real. The meeting is organized by the Portuguese Statistical Society (SPE) and by the Galician Society for the Advancement of Statistics and Operations Research (SGAPEIO).

These meetings are directed to professionals and statisticians, academics, researchers and students.

 

The main goals are:

1.To reinforce the projection of Statistics in the broad field of Ecology and Environment Sciences.
2.To enhance the action of the societies involved to new sectors of ecological and environmental sciences.
3.To promote the interchange and to intensify the relations within each community and between the two statistical societies.

 

The scientific program of the meetings includes a short course, plenary lectures by invited speakers, and refereed (oral and poster) communications.

The First Portuguese-Galician Meeting of Ecological Environment in Statistics are supported by Centre of Mathematics of the University of Minho (CMAT), Centre for Mathematics of UTAD (CM-UTAD), Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB), the Center of Statistics and Applications, University of Lisbon (CEAUL), National Statistical Institute of Portugal (INE), Town Council of Vila Real, PSE – Produtos e Serviços de Estatística, the Banco Portugués de Investimento, the Hotel Miracorgo and Seivacorgo Project.