The Spatial Statistics 2013 conference will be held in the Ohio Union at The Ohio State University June 4-7. Researchers participating in this conference come from fields such as agriculture, geology, ecology, epidemiology, geography, hydrology, and spatial econometrics.

Keynote speakers include Robert Haining of the University of Cambridge, UK; Pierre Legendre of the University of Montréal, Canada; Jean Paelinck of George Mason University; Lance A. Waller of Emory University; and Jinfeng Wang of the Chinese Academy of Science at Beijing, China.

The plenary speakers are Sudipto Banerjee of the University of Minnesota; Montserrat Fuentes of North Carolina State University; Jorge Mateu of the University of Navarra, Spain; Ronny Vallejos of Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile; and Tonglin Zhang of Purdue University.

Abstracts should be submitted by February 25, 2013. Also, persons who are interested in organizing a session have until January 31, 2013, to submit a proposal. December 1 is the deadline for those interested in organizing a half- or full-day workshop, which will be held on June 4, immediately prior to the main meeting.

Selected papers from the conference will be eligible for publication in a special issue of Spatial Statistics, and, given sufficient interest and appropriate topics, special issues of Geographical Analysis and Computers & Geosciences.

Visit the conference website for more information or to submit individual paper abstracts, session proposals, and workshop proposals.