TIES2005 General Information

General Information

Organisation is underway for the 13th International Conference on Quantitative Methods for the Environmental Sciences. The meeting will be held on 21-26 August 2005 at the Friendship Hotel in Beijing, China. Mark the dates in your diaries now!

Background

The main purposes of this international conference are to promote the development and application of quantitative methods in environmental assessment, and to devise a mechanism for maintaining regular contacts among statisticians, mathematicians and environmental scientists.

Scope

The scope of the meeting includes quantitative (statistical and mathematical) methods and their applications for the understanding, assessment, and solution of environmental problems in areas such as:

Air quality monitoring and assessment	Environmental transport and mixing processes
Chemometrics	Environmetrics in meteorology and climatology
Cleaner Production Methods	Global Environmental Problems
Ecological monitoring	Integrating remote sensing in monitoring
Energy and Environment	International environmental statistics
Environmental Economics	Modeling environmental systems
Environmental human health statistics	National environmental statistics
Environmental Management Systems	Remediation Techniques
Environmental monitoring	Statistical modeling of spatial data in ecology
Environmental risk assessment	Training in environmental statistics
Environmental standards	Water quality monitoring and assessment
Environmental sustainability and environmetrics

Visas

An official invitation letter will be issued to those who have returned the final Registration Form. With this letter, you can go to the nearest Chinese Embassy or Consulate to apply for entry visa(s). To allow ample time for a successful visa application, you are kindly requested to return the final Registration Form before July 10th. We can not guarantee registration and visa applications will be processed if registrations are received after 10th July. If any problem arises, please contact the Conference Secretariat for assistance.

We encourage all participants to register for the conference as EARLY as possible to avoid disappointment.

Currency Exchange

In China, only RMB is used. However, exchange centers can be found at airports, most hotels and large shopping centers. When exchanging money, please keep your receipt by which you can change any remaining RMB back to foreign currency when leaving China. Visa, Master, American Express, Diners Club, JCB, and other credit cards are accepted in many department stores and hotels. But it might be difficult to draw cash with credit cards. The Bank of China and most hotels can cash travelers cheques issued by any foreign bank or financial institution. Participants will need to show a passport and pay a 0.75 percent commission. Travelers cheques signed over to a third party cannot be cashed in China, but can be presented for collection through the Bank of China.

Last updated by Candace.Culyer@csiro.au 14/10/2004